Film

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...

Telluride Film Festival announces its schedule for AFTER TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL (ATFF) running Tuesday, September 1 – Thursday, September 4, 2014. ATFF will take place at the Palm and Nugget theatres. Single tickets and passes will be sold at both venues starting Tuesday. Single tickets...

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...

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...

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...