It's producer Travis Julia's annual stocking stuffer for the town. Thanks to Julia, Warren Miller's latest film is scheduled to be screened in its annual pre-Xmas slot, December 23, at the Sheridan Opera House. Show times are 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. It's a must-see event...
Could the latest matinee idol be tall, chestnut, and handsome, with soft, intelligent eyes, very buff and high strung with a jones for sugar ? Ads about the movie featuring the horse Joey shout: "Warhorse: The Greatest Journey Is The One That Leads You Home." Then,...
The film rates an average 8 on a scale of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes. "Big Deal on Madonna Street," (1958, 106 minutes), is the pick by Telluride Film Festival's Gary Meyer for the next gathering of Cinematheque, a film club and collaboration between the Film...
Telluride talent Suzan Beraza has never let any grass grow under her feet. Just after arriving in town, she co-founded the Telluride Repertory Theatre Company. (Recently merged with SquidShow to form Telluride Theatre.) Today, as a filmmaker and founder of her own production company, Reel...
Ben Stookesberry is a 33-years-old gonzo kayaker, who makes his home in Chico, CA. Ben was baptized into Mountainfilm in Telluride's extended family of adventurers when the film he directed, "Kadoma," premiered at the festival in May. Festival director David Holbrooke chose to feature "Kadoma" when Mountainfilm on Tour headlines at the Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, this weekend, Friday, October 21 – Sunday, October 23. 
"The Apple Pushers," kicks off the weekend, when Mountainfilm in Telluride returns to the Big Apple, October 21 – October 23, for an encore program at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre.
"Apple Pushers" is not about the friendly folks who sell bites out of the technological magic "The magician" (The Economist, October 8 – 14), Steven Jobs conjured. The documentary features a whole other category of vendors.
"The Apple Pushers," written and directed by Mary Mazzio, narrated by Edward Norton, and underwritten by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, follows immigrant street vendors who roll fresh fruits and vegetables into the inner cities of New York, where finding a fresh red ripe apple can be a serious challenge. These pushcart vendors, who have immigrated here from all parts of the world are now part of a new experiment in New York to help solve the food crisis and skyrocketing obesity rates, particularly in the inner city.
by Peter Kenworthy, Executive Director
Editor's note: Mountainfilm in Telluride is the festival that keeps on giving. Earlier this month, on October 5, Mountainfilm in Telluride awarded $25,000 in grants. This coming weekend, Mountainfilm on Tour hits the Big Apple with a weekend program, October 21 – October 23, at New York's prestigious Lincoln Center. Look for Telluride Inside… and Out's coverage of that event in a series of posts this week. Below is the skinny on the grants.
Representing a highly diverse scope of projects – from a biographical film about a living legend of Himalayan mountaineering to a photographic exploration of art and activism in the aftermath of Japan’s recent tsunami, Mountainfilm Commitment grantees will receive $5,000, each, as well as a new MacBook Pro. The winning applicants were chosen from a field of over 100 contenders. Mountainfilm introduced its granting initiative last year as a means to help ensure that important stories are told – and heard.
I guess I recognized I was different at my first Halloween party in college. There I stood, white-chalked face and spiked black hair, with eight pairs of scissors taped to my fingers, a ghoulish version of Edward Scissorhands; I was surrounded by a bunch of sexy kittens, lingerie-clad angels and Playboy bunnies. Needless to say, I didn’t reel in any dates that night.
It was then that I realized there are two types of people in the world: People who like horror movies and people who don’t. Not everyone likes to be scared, so if you find yourself in the latter camp, you might want to skip to the next article or go shop online for a cute Halloween costume, something with ears or a thong. If you belong to the cloister of us who revere ghost stories, scary movies and spooky urban myths, read on. We’ve got a festival for you: the second annual Telluride Horror Show, October 14-16.
The Telluride Film Festival is not just one long weekend that happens to be the high-water mark of Telluride's summer festival season. The "Festival" is really shorthand for creative movie events it hosts throughout the year. Sunday at the Palm takes place once a month at the Michael D. Palm Theatre and focuses on family entertainment. Cinematheque, a joint venture between Film Festival and Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library, is a film club and vehicle for cinephiles in the region to watch and discuss great film. Like Sunday at the Palm, Cinematheque is free.
The 2011/2012 Cinematheque program is a six-part series programmed by Telluride Film Festival co-director and film scholar Gary Meyer, who created "Ciao Cinema" as an inspiring journey through the evolution of Italian film, including a look at the work of iconic directors such as Vittorio de Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and others.
The Telluride Film Festival, in collaboration with The Telluride Foundation and the Telluride R1 School District, launches the 2011/2012 program of its ongoing series, Sunday at The Palm.
The first screening takes place Sunday, September 25, 4 p.m. and is FREE to all. The featured film is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Special guest, local Jeff Price, the film's screenwriter, plans to be on hand to discuss his film-noiresque mystery and answer questions.
In Bon Temps, Louisiana, it's vampires. In this 1988 film, a collaboration between Disney Studios and Steven Speilberg, it's Toons and humans who co-exist in a 1947 Hollywood world. The story centers around Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer) who has been framed for the murder of gag-gift king Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye). Acme was photographed playing patty cake with Roger’s wife Jessica Rabbit (voice of Kathleen Turner), and so Roger appears to have clear motive for the dastardly deed.
