Author: Susan Viebrock

“With daring accompaniment, penetrating lyrics and a combined sound that bleeds triumph and lovesickness all at once, Fields and co. stand solidly apart.” – NPR Music [caption id="attachment_44889" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Lee Fields[/caption] He came of age in the era of be-ins and psychedelics. Of flower children, “Hair,”...

It was meant to be a remix of the David & Goliath story, with the Telluride Film Fest being the underdog and Toronto the towering giant. And so far the outcome fits the outcome of the story, however dubious: Telluride #41 was a critical and popular success, with...

Not only is the Telluride Film Festival done and gone, so is the After the Telluride Film Fest, but the reviews keep rolling in. We think one from The Wall Street Journal online is particularly good. The very first thing I saw at this year's Telluride Film...

In the second decade of the 20th century old-fashioned realism made way for abstraction, which became the Holy Grail of modern art. Cezanne and Cubism were two of the triggers that motivated painters and sculptors to stop copying what is and instead find the essence of what is. Commune...

It’s a bird. It’s a plane – not. It’s “Birdman,” a winged version of Superman and all the other hollow comic book super heroes at the center of pow!, wow!, bang, snap, crackle and pop orgies, the “toxic crap” (according to “Birdman’s” fictive New York Times critic) at...

The cat is out of the bag. The Telluride Film Fest’s lineup was published hours ago. Now the speculation about the movies that are actually here is heating up. Take this story by Pete Hammond from deadline.com. The 41st Telluride Film Festival, which has become a...

41st edition plays host to 25 new feature films in its main program. Tribute programs honoring Volker Schlöndorff, Hilary Swank and the 35th Anniversary of "Apocalypse Now." The people who make the popcorn seem to know what they are doing. Let’s give them a hand. And so do the...