As the fall film festival whirligig draws to a close, the co-directors of the Telluride Film Festival must feel vindicated by the plaudits being heaped on many of their picks, including the technical tour de force and blockbuster-in-the-making, "Gravity." Here's the Rappler's spin, by KD...
The Telluride Horror Show is in its fourth year, and it has proven itself as a serious film festival that explores the genre of horror movies. This year is no exception, with guest director Frank Henenlotter, who helped to sculpt the genre with his 1982...
And the beat goes on. At the close of the fall film festival season, I came upon yet another article about a Telluride Film Festival favorite, the documentary "Tim's Vermeer," this one from The Hollywood Reporter. [caption id="attachment_35247" align="alignright" width="199"] "Tim's Vermeer," The Hollywood Reporter[/caption] "THR's awards...
One thing is for sure about horror movies: someone is going to get whacked. But who? Most cinema critics and film buffs agree that the modern horror film genre has Marxist elements, the classic socioeconomic warfare between the rich and the poor, the upper crust...
[caption id="attachment_35148" align="alignright" width="300"] Bruce Dern in "Nebraska," from "Thompson on Hollywood"[/caption] I do it all the time. Browse the Internet for interesting stories about Telluride and the Telluride lifestyle, a delightful balance of indoors and outdoors, mind and body, and adventures of all kinds, including...
The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library are excited to announce the 2013-14 Cinematheque lineup. The series, entitled "They Came to Telluride: Women Behind the Lens" and programmed by Telluride Film Festival co-artistic director Gary Meyer, explores influential women filmmakers from an international stage, all of...
The Telluride Film Festival’s Sunday at the Palm series presents a film from Goro Miyazaki and his father, animation great Hayao Miyazaki, who just announced this month that he will retire from filmmaking after a long and influential career. This father-son collaboration, "From Up On...
[caption id="attachment_34514" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bruce Dern, Alexander Payne, Jason Reitman[/caption] It all started with a little red truck, the one Bruce Dern sent to director and Telluride favorite Alexander Payne after reading the script for the Everyman tale, "Nebraska." The truck came with a note: "I...
"It's ironic: after creating Sundance (1980) no one asked ME to be in a film...
The Telluride Film Festival just ended, with the 40th year producing one of the most successful (read robust, no clunkers) weekends in the history of the event. What exactly do we mean? Our review will be up on Wednesday, but yes, there is already Oscar...
