The next few mornings of predawn skies gift early risers with the graceful, delicate pairing of a slender crescent Moon with the dazzling planet Venus - it’s a magnificent sight to see and one this dedicated stargazer looks forward to whenever Venus does her...
In this context, From Russia with Love is not the second film in the James Bond series. From Russia with Love describes a partnership between the Telluride Film Festival and CEC ArtsLink to co-host a group of emerging filmmakers from Russia for a residency that brought them first to Telluride over the long Labor Day festival weekend. Last year, the young Russian directors screened their films at the Telluride Film Festival. This year they came as observers. (New projects will be screened in Boulder, Colorado and New York.) Participants were selected for their cinematic accomplishments in a competitive nomination process.
Telluride's SquidShow Theatre, in support of Black Bear Awareness Week, presents an original play by Sasha Cucciniello and Colin Sullivan: "Bear It! – Bear Safety for the 21st Century." The FREE event is one night only,Tuesday, September 15, 8 p.m., Fly Me to the...
Anne Thompson, George
Gittoes, Nicholas Cage,
and Jason Reitman
at Labor Day seminar
The Telluride Film Festival invented downsizing: for 36 years, the directors of the event have selected just 20 – 30 movies from among the hundreds submitted to them each year, which explains why the celluloid celebration appeals to discriminating cinephiles. Elitist? Unapologetically. This year as every year, the Telluride Film Festival shunned the usual suspects, going out on a limb to inspire and educate.
The Telluride Film Festival is also about making connections. Over the long Labor Day weekend, the tail end of moviedom's so-called popcorn season (Memorial Day – Labor Day), actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, distributers, and buffs chat like long lost friends on Main Street, the Gondola, and in lines, about what gladdened, saddened and maddened.
Dateline Telluride: KOTO Guest DJ Day got Fall Fundraising '09 off to a fine start on Friday, September 11. The Mayors of Telluride and the Mt. Village were featured. Stu Fraser took 3rd place with $2,240. Coming in 2nd was Davis Fansler at $2,945....
I celebrated my 50th birthday in Chicago with friends and family before heading on a two week trek in France and Switzerland. I have been saving for this trip since 2002 and I can't believe I am really here in Chamonix staring at Mont Blanc. ...
"District 9" is this week's movie at Telluride's Nugget Theatre. The aliens came to Earth 30 years ago. As it turned out, they were survivors of a dying world, and brought neither the threat of interplanetary war nor wonderful technological advances, so they were consigned to a refugee camp in South Africa while the world decided what to do with them.
Impatience with this situation comes to a head as a multi-national company with no reason except profit to care about the creatures under its control, looks for ways to profit from the responsibility it has undertaken.
The movie is rated R for violience and language. Check the Nugget website for reviews and trailers. See below for movie times.
September 10 to 17, 2009
Visible Planets: Morning: Venus and Mars Evening: Jupiter
Well, it’s Virgo time and time for me to do the Virgo thing – seriously! – clean and organize my messes and piles. “Stuff” that this Libra Sun, Gemini Rising, Cancer Moon moonchild has so lovingly and craftily collected over a lifetime. Right!
Columns and stories I’ve written over the years, magazines with amazing authors and articles, beautiful photographs and pieces of artwork, leather for making vests and chaps, fabrics for clothing, quilts and pillows, crystals, family memorabilia, cards to and from my Mother, wedding presents I’ve never used, shoes and sports gear…things like that.
Some people are better than others at cleansing and purging, discerning and discarding, prioritizing and criticizing. Not me! I hang on to things from Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, friends and lovers, etc. Sound like an emotionally attached Cancer Moon?
Telluride's community radio station, KOTO, is holding it Fall fundraiser on Friday, September 11. The guest DJ theme is "Mayors." See schedule is listed below. The on-air event is another fun Telluride tradition, another way Telluriders connect. In the interest of full disclosure, I was one of the guest DJs last Spring, and I can say first hand it is a great event. Call in and support your favorite guest DJ.
