For months now, the kerfuffle between the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival has filled the airwaves and social media outlets. With Labor Day weekend around the corner speculation about which films will screen at our notoriously close-mouthed event is running hot and...
Affiliates of Northview Hotel Group (“Northview”), in partnership with a fund (the “Partnership”) managed by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE:APO) today announced the acquisition of Hotel Madeline Telluride (the “Property”), Telluride’s premier hotel and residences. Terms of the transaction have not been...
Many years ago, Telluride Film Festival director and co-founder Bill Pence proclaimed his on-going allegiance to the town. “There would be no Telluride Film Festival without Telluride,” he said, “We try to thank the community in ways that count.” Pence’s truth, routinely acknowledged by the two current...
“No matter what kind of year I have had, if I come to Telluride, it’s been a good year,” Werner Herzog, honored by Film Fest’s newest venue Lights! Camera! Action! The 41st annual Telluride Film Festival officially begins with the start of Labor Day weekend, Friday, 8/29...
Editor’s note: I am reminded of the man every day. A talented sculptor, one of his mobiles sits on the coffee table in our living room. But I had not seen or heard from Oleh Lysiak for over 20 years. Ah, the wonders of social media. We rediscovered each...
A long time ago and far away, say, in the halcyon (not really) days of the 1950s and 1960s, summer meant road trips, day camp, and ice cream. Labor Day is fast approaching and with the long weekend (that includes the Telluride Film Festival), the start...
Khrisnamacharya was the renowned Indian yoga teacher, Ayurvedic healer and scholar widely regarded as the father of modern yoga. He is responsible for bringing yoga to the West, but did so largely through his disciples: K.Pattabhi Jois, his son T.K.V. Desikachar, and his brother-in-law, B.K.S. Iyengar....
Let’s play a game of free association. If I say “birds,” what do you say? Hitchcock? Audobon Society? Geeks with binoculars and sore necks? Ted Floyd would be a great answer. Hot on the heels of the dearly departed Telluride Mushroom Festival, Daiva Chesonis was as much in demand as boletus...
He was Mork. He was a madcap. He was Robin McLaurin Williams, beloved American actor, comedian, film producer and screenwriter. And on August 11, 2014, he died of an apparent suicide by hanging in his home in Paradise Cay, California. Why? Why tens of thousands of...
Mushroom Festival has come and gone– just behind the imminent flowering of the local mycelia. Now we are heading for the finish line, the apex of the summer season, the Telluride Film Festival, August 29 – September 1. It is easy to lose the essence of the Film Fest in...
