Editor's Note: "Bidder 70," made by Telluride locals George and Beth Gage, premiered last May at Mountainfilm in Telluride. Last spring, the documentary was featured at New York City’s Human Rights Watch Festival. When Michael Moore invited the Gages to screen "Bidder 70" at his...
When I think of the 80’s, three things come to mind: peg-leg jeans, Michael Jackson, and Ghostbusters. The film Ghostbusters was the first movie that I ever went to without my parents. Sitting in the dark theater beside my best friend, Brad, I tried to...
Telluride has long been a hub for cinema, with world renowned film festivals like Telluride Film Festival and Mountainfilm in Telluride, but the newest film festival—Telluride Horror Show—is starting to steal the show. Telluride Horror Show celebrates the scary movie genre and is in its...
The Telluride Film Festival is thrilled to launch its free Sunday at the Palm Series with a remastered version of the Beatles’ celebrated animated adventure, "Yellow Submarine." The screening takes place Sunday, September 30, 4 p.m. at the Michael D. Palm Theatre for the Performing...
"How about these numbers," exclaimed Mountainfilm in Telluride in its 2010 program. "Americans spent $165 billion on consumer electronics in 2010, and we bought more than 260,000 computers a day. E-waste is the fastest-growing stream of waste in the world (there are approximately 40 million...
Every year the Wilkinson Public Library provides free screenings of documentaries produced by the Emmy Award-winning PBS series "Independent Lens." The program known as "ITVS Community Cinema" first came to the library in Fall 2010 thanks Sharon Shuteran, a major supporter of the Wilkinson and the former...
Add to the list of the many ways the Telluride Film Festival gives back to the Telluride community, the AfterFest. Passes which cost $50 for non locals are discounted to $35 for locals. ($15 ticket for individual shows for everyone.) Program as follows: Tuesday 7 p.m. -...
"(Telluride) is actually one of the few film festivals that really is about seeing movies instead of just walking around and talking about them." (Ben Affleck at the world premiere of "Argo") The 39th annual Telluride Film Festival began with a crude knock-knock joke. Here goes: Knock,...
[caption id="attachment_22557" align="alignright" width="225"] Telluride Film Fest 2012 poster by Dave Eggers[/caption] Lights! Camera! Action! The 39th annual Telluride Film Festival officially begins with the start of Labor Day weekend, Friday, 8/31 – Monday, 9/3,when the legacy of Georges Melies parades all over town. For those unfamiliar about...
[caption id="attachment_22470" align="alignleft" width="236"] Leni Riefenstahl[/caption] The choice was somewhat controversial, but 39 years ago in 1974, the year the Telluride Film Festival opened for business, Leni Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003), was among the original tributees. (The other two were Gloria Swanson and Francis Ford Coppola.) Telluride...
