[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...
Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger, a winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. She is nothing if not arch and, like painter Edward Hopper, a keen observer of our solitude, for better or for worse, always pregnant...
[caption id="attachment_34316" align="alignright" width="100"] Philip Kaufman[/caption] We love assembling a bunch of smartypants for a sidewalk event – especially around a wonderful celebration like Telluride Film Festival's 40th anniversary. This weekend, specifically Sunday, September 1,1:15 p.m., we’ll have the literary celebritati in town for the Big Event...
Werner Herzog and Telluride Film Fest's newest venue: Telluride Film Festival co-director Gary Meyer, who became a director seven years ago after #33 remembers when he first came to the annual celebration of film and filmmakers. "I sadly missed the first year of the Telluride Film Festival,...
[caption id="attachment_34358" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Clint Viebrock[/caption] Telluride has its fair share of star-laden premieres, but the SHOW has a strong tradition of non-fiction, which has equal footing with features. Hands down, the one with the loudest Internet chatter among the docs in the 2013 Telluride...
Please note: Whenever available, posts contain links to trailers for the films for your previewing pleasure. [caption id="attachment_34355" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo Credit: Clint viebrock[/caption] In Telluride, as regulars know, the full list of films, filmmakers and tributes are not released until the first day of the long...
[caption id="attachment_34351" align="alignleft" width="300"] photo credit: Pamela Gentile[/caption] "The first time I came to Telluride there were three wonderful tributes, a selection of discoveries from around the world and classic films presented with such love that I felt this was my new home. Thirty-nine years later, I...
The leaves are starting to change. That means that the Telluride Film Festival is upon us. In the run-up to the Big Event, 37-year Telluride Film Festival veteran Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter raps in retrospect. [caption id="attachment_34296" align="alignright" width="300"] Todd McCarthy writes about his...
