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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the chef, adventurer, and provocateur.

record their 10th album. Once in the house, singer Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the band members’ lives. “That the Foo Fighters don’t take themselves seriously makes for an infectiously fun, if uneven, time full of gleefully deranged horror moments, surprise cameos, and a new appreciation for the band.” (Bloody Disgusting) Horror/music, rated R, 108 minutes, Violet Crown. Review Page 28

UNCHARTED

Trailer youtu.be/4wCH1K-ckZw Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous quest to find the greatest treasure never found while also tracking clues that may lead to Nate’s long-lost brother. What transpires is part heist flick, part Mission: Impossible-lite, with a dollop of Dan Brown (for the puzzles), the DNA of Nicolas Cage in National Treasure, and mildly zingy buddy-banter dressed up with a bit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre‘s existential darkness. (Michael O’Sullivan/The Washington Post) Action/adventure, rated PG-13, 116 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place, Violet Crown

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Trailer youtu.be/TDLptdrP-74 A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path. “The Worst Person in the World, Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s latest film, hits on a universal truth: None of us know what the hell we’re doing.” (Observer) Romance/drama, rated R, 128 minutes, CCAC, Violet Crown

Center for Contemporary Arts Cinema (1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, ext.105, ccasantafe.org), Regal Santa Fe Place (4250 Cerrillos Road, 505-484-6109, showtimes.com/ movie-theaters/regal-santa-fe-13482), and Violet Crown (106 Alcaldesa St., 505-216-5678, santafe.violetcrown.com)

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AFTER YANG

Trailer youtu.be/Kwp32zLc08c When his daughter’s beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn’t know was there. “After Yang moves slowly and quietly and then comes in like a tidal wave, exploring grief and love and memory with aching poignance.” (Rolling Stone) Drama/science fiction, rated PG, 101 minutes, Showtime

FRESH

Trailer youtu.be/wKk5VAK1GZQ Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) meets the alluring Steve (Sebastian Stan) at a grocery store and, given her frustration with dating apps, takes a chance and gives him her number. After their first date, Noa is smitten and accepts Steve’s invitation to a romantic weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites. “Writing about Fresh without giving away its secrets is pretty much impossible, so let’s leave it at this: See it. Have fun. And maybe don’t eat first.” (Fox 10 Phoenix) Comedy/horror, rated R, 114 minutes, Hulu

HUDA’S SALON

Trailer youtu.be/3xsJRrlqGKA Reem (Maisa Abd Elhadi), a young mother married to a jealous man, goes to Huda’s salon in Bethlehem. But this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda (Manal Awad), after having put Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers and thus betray her people. “Huda’s Salon is a humble offering to the existing, and incredibly diverse, tradition of art that understands that the garden of liberation will not thrive without eradicating its patriarchal weeds.” (Hollywood Reporter) Thriller, rated R, 91 minutes, in Arabic with subtitles

NIGHTRIDE

Trailer youtu.be/04EMi4TrVHY This wry, real-time, one-shot thriller is set on the midnight streets of Belfast. Budge (Moe Dunford), a smalltime dealer, tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down. Crime/ drama/thriller, not rated, 97 minutes

ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Trailer youtu.be/ihEEjwRlghQ Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) directs this intimate, behind-the-scenes look at chef, adventurer, and provocateur Anthony Bourdain, revealing how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. The film takes an unflinching look at Bourdain, who committed suicide in 2018, shocking his many fans, and it reverberates with his presence and impact on the world around him. “If you miss Anthony Bourdain — and for many, the celebrity chef’s death in 2018 felt like the loss of a close and troubled friend — Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is a salve.” (Boston Globe) Available on Sunday, March 6. Documentary, rated R, 119 minutes, CNN — Streaming items compiled by Michael Abatemarco

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YOU might think that whiskey makes up the largest percentage of spirit sales by volume in the United States, but that honor actually belongs to vodka. In February 2020, Forbes reported that vodka, at 31 percent of sales by volume, was the spirits sector’s reigning champion. So it’s no surprise that Santa Fe newest distillery, Altar Spirits, would roll out its Ritual Vodka last fall as the first of its new line of spirits.

But vodka’s popularity with consumers is only one side of the equation that prompted master distiller and Altar Spirits owner Caley Shoemaker to introduce it in the distillery.

“Vodka, as a first spirit, makes a lot of sense for us for the fact that it doesn’t require years and years aging in a barrel,” says the former head distiller at California’s Hangar 1, which is known for their award-winning vodkas. “I can distill it in a day or two, cut it to proof, and be ready to go.”

Shoemaker developed Altar Spirits, which opened in late December, with innovation in mind. Previously, she worked for a Colorado-based company that only made whiskey and then was making vodkas and brandies in California, which provided more opportunities to try new recipes.

“There’s a lot of things I wanted to make over the years,” she says. “But working for a really large company like Hangar 1, you can’t just go, ‘Hey, we want to release this.’ You have to talk to somebody in an office and get approvals and all this other stuff.”

It was only a matter of time before starting a distillery became the most practical avenue for creating her own artisan spirits.

Altar Spirits (545 Camino de la Familia, 505-9168596, altarspirits.com) has a spacious, comfortable tasting room that’s open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, offering seasonal cocktails and gift items for sale. Shoemaker offers tours of the distillery, which is located on the site of the former Santa Fe Clay. The tours include a tasting and a behind-the-scenes look at the production facilities, including the state-of-the-art still that — with its bulbous copper-topped boilers and vapor assembly — looks like a steampunk apparatus straight out of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. A large window behind the bar in the cocktail lounge allows guests to view the distilling process in action. The whole operation occupies a 10,000-square-foot space.

“The still was custom built, designed for our operation by a company out of British Columbia that I’ve worked with before,” says Shoemaker, who co-founded the operation with her husband, Altar Spirits’ Sales Director Jeff Gust. “Our vodka is based off of malted barley that comes from Colorado. Bosque Brewing brings it in for us and mashes it and turns it into a fermented wash that we can distill here.”

Part of the allure of starting her own distillery was the opportunity for community engagement. Shoemaker and Gust wanted to invest their products with a sense of place, relying on locally and regionally sourced ingredients.

“That’s absolutely our goal,” she says. “I started my career in Denver, working with Rocky Mountain malted barley and then spent a lot of time in California, sourcing things from the farmers market. It’s super fun to be able to collaborate with community members that way.”

And the newest addition to their spirits lineup, Sigil Gin, which premiered in February, is no exception.

“We’re using piñon, sage, juniper, all the things that grow here in New Mexico, to really try to create that sense of New Mexico in a bottle,” she says of the gin. “We have American single-malt whiskey coming up. We’ve actually been distilling it for a while. We’re just waiting for our first barrel delivery. There’s a little bit of a barrel shortage in the U.S. right now.”

Altar Spirits also has a digestif in the works, a bitter amaro, and they plan a series of small batch liqueurs.

“I’d love to distill the apricots that we get bumper crops of every summer and make an apricot brandy, which is really lovely. Next time we have one of those big crops, I think we’re going to be driving around with a delivery pick-up truck, just loading the back of it as much as we can from people’s houses.”

Shoemaker and Gust moved to Santa Fe a little over two years ago. She’d been a frequent visitor since her days in art school at the University of Denver. But for much of that time, there were no distilleries in

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Altar Spirits owner Caley Shoemaker at the bar of Santa Fe’s newest distillery; all photos Gabriela Campos/The New Mexican

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