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...
The Telluride Film Festival presents a not-to-be-missed Japanese animated masterpiece at this month’s free community "Sunday at the Palm” screening. Hiroyuki Okiura’s "A LETTER TO MOMO" was hailed as “stunning!” by Variety, and is made possible in part by New York-based distributors, GKids, who work with the Telluride...
The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are proud to present BOY (New Zealand, 2010, 87 minutes, Unrated), nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and directed by Taiki Waititi. The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand...
True to form an impressive number of films on Oscars’ hit list found the limelight at the Telluride Film Festival, among them, “Birdman,” “The Imitation Game,””Foxcatcher,””Wild,” Salt of the Earth,” “Virunga,” “Wild Tales,” "Leviathan,” and “Mr. Turner.” Here’s the full list from HuffPost Entertainment assembled by Matthew Jacobs. Take that Toronto! "Birdman" and "The Grand...
Here’s what see in our 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 at the center of pow!, wow!, bang, snap, crackle and pop orgies,...
Warren Miller Entertainment (WME) and Travis Julia Presents Warren Miller’s 65th film "No Turning Back.” The screening takes place Tuesday, December 23, at the Historic Sheridan Opera House. The newest installment from WME pays homage to the 65 years of mountain culture and adventure filmmaking that has led...
SCOTT COHEN is an artist and director now based in New York, who used to call Telluride home. His photographic works, primarily derived from his own documentary footage, can be found in numerous collections around the world and collectively make up the parts of a poetic narrative...
In our review of Telluride Film Fest #41 feature (and now Oscar contender) “The Imitation Game,” we described a film that found its way to the top of everyone’s must-see list over Labor Day weekend. The epicenter of the story is Alan Turing, played by superstar Benedict Cumberbatch,...
