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...
The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable and educational non-profit organization founded by filmmaker and local resident Michael Moore, also a regular at the Telluride Film Festival. [caption id="attachment_21674" align="alignright" width="300"] Michael Moore with George & Beth Gage following a softball game. (Their team won.)[/caption] The...
Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque at Wilkinson Public Library: A Summer of Screwball Comedy The Wilkinson Public Library and the Telluride Film Festival invite all community members to experience Cinematheque, a free local film club for film lovers and aficionados who crave cinematic exploration, lively discussion and...
Now in its second year, Lawn Chair Classics, a film series sponsored by the Wilkinson Public Library, shows classic films from the 1970s and 1980s. Screenings take place at the Telluride Conference Center, Mountain Village, every Tuesday at dusk through September 11, 2012. Many of...
Program Sponsor, Wags and Menace Foundation of Denver, brings warm-hearted film to the Palm on Friday, June 29, a benefit for Second Chance Humane Society The Palm Theatre partners with the Wags and Menace Foundation of Denver and the Second Chance Humane Society to screen the...
"A gorgeous, moving, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting story, the kind of film that opens the mind and heart so wide they can never close as tightly again," Martha Beck, Oprah magazine columnist and bestselling author. May and June are turning out to be big months for...
Saturday, June 9, after Heritage Fest wraps up, inner-city youth from Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in town for the 21st annual Wild West Fest, head on over to the Sheridan Opera House for a back-to-back sneak-peak screening of the independent film “The Last...
