While in New York, we visited the Museum of Natural History not just for the dinosaur room, but this time specifically for a show entitled “Life at the Limits: Extreme Creatures,” about gaining an understanding about how and why weird and astonishing species evolve. For example the tardigrade,...
Telluride Film Festival’s “Sunday at the Palm” series presents Bears (2014). “With its touching story, beautiful scenery, and stunning camerawork, ‘Bears’ becomes another worthwhile documentary in the Disneynature library," Examiner.com Celebrate Earth Week with Disneynature’s Bears documentary, narrated by John C. Reilly. “In an epic story of breathtaking scale,...
Telluride Film Festival (September 4-7, 2015), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films. Submission period begins April 15, 2015. Film Entry Form is available for download at www.telluridefilmfestival.org. Shorts and student film submissions...
Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2015 Guest Director, Rachel Kushner. The award-winning author is set to select a series of films to present at the 42nd Telluride Film Festival running over Labor Day Weekend, September 4-7,...
The Telluride Film Festival’s Sunday at the Palm series is pleased to present classic, five-time Oscar winner (including Best Director and Best Director), THE SOUND OF MUSIC, on the big screen. "It's like a breath of fresh air every time you see it," said actress...
Pinhead Scholar hosting stop-motion animated features, with Q&A, at the Steaming Bean Thanks to a guest from the non-profit organization’s “Scholars in the Schools” program, the Pinhead Institute is able to offer the community two special animated features: “ParaNorman” and “The Boxtrolls." The films come courtesy of LAIKA, a stop-motion animation...
"Animal Kingdom is an art house crime saga that will put your heart in your mouth,” wrote Kenneth Turan of the LA Times, “(It’s) a moody, brooding, modern-day film noir that marks the impressive debut of an Australian writer-director who knows how to make a...
Since we are talking Oscars and “Birdman” in the same sentence, I gotta crow. Here’s the lead to my review of the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival. 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...
Google the Oscars. The same story pops up everywhere: Best guess it’s Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” versus Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Birdman,” which opened in North America to raves at the 41st Telluride Film Festival.” Does it all really come down to heart verus heady? The New York Times'...
Very special SPARKfilms presentations Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, February 24 – 26. [caption id="attachment_48664" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Director Francois Truffaut[/caption] Next week SPARKy is hosting three big screen events. The National Theatre of Great Britain’s NT LIVE series presents a new production of the classic, “Treasure Island.” The screening...
