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...
At last year's film festival I was able to see "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" on the big screen and was as mesmerized by this film as I had been when I saw it, and the performance of Klaus Kinski, the first time. Well, here...
Justin Chang, Chief Film Critic at Variety, weighs in on how "Toronto's divisive new strategy has put Telluride on the defensive as the 2014 fall Film Festival season gets underway." Healthy, even heated competition between film festivals is nothing new. Cannes was founded in the late...
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...
“(Ken) Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films, he...
EatDrinkFilms! is a wonderful e-zine I recently discovered thanks to Gary Meyer, yes, the very same who was co-director of the Telluride Film Festival (this year, August 29 - September 1) and is now serving as the event’s Senior Curator. The 15th issue, for example, includes a story by chef Patricia Unterman...
30 years ago this weekend, Black music merged into the world of "Rock" thanks to the amazing talent and showmanship of Prince. Prince's semi-autobiographical film, Purple Rain, hit theaters 30 years ago this weekend. Many people went to see it multiple times, often clad in ...
“It’s a cultural travesty that the women of early jazz...
