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Brazilian musician to curate special program of films for the four-day Festival

Caetano+Veloso+126751636_f537753b33_o Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2011 Guest Director, Caetano Veloso. The beloved artist has been invited to select a series of films to present at the 38th Telluride Film Festival.  The Guest Director program is sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
 
Festival directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride.

 

03 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Josh Aronson and Adam Neiman]

 

Playinfg for Real poster Now in its 9th season, the Telluride Musicfest adds two new events to its 2011 lineup, a wine and dessert concert for all subscribers and sponsors to thank everyone for helping to ensure the Musicfest tradition of chamber music concerts in a private home continues – and a movie night.

Movie night takes place Wednesday, June 29, 6:00 at the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The event features a screening of producer/director Josh Aronson's inspiring one-hour documentary, "Playing for Real," (2000), an intimate look at building careers in big-time classical music. The film showcases the extraordinary talents of 14-year-old Japanese violin prodigy Mayuko Kamio and 2011 Musicfest guest pianist Adam Neiman – when he was 22 and already one of the finest pianists in the world.

26 June, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

MV5BMTg4MTQ3NTI3Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzEzODQ2NA@@._V1._SY317_ Caveofforgottendreams_smallposter The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and screens three films this coming week.

Friday through Thursday, June 24-30, the animated KUNG FU PANDA II plays at the Nugget for the whole family. Friday through Wednesday, the pre-wedding hijinks of the HANGOVER II continue its R rated laughs.

On Thursday, June 30 only, Telluride favorite Werner Herzog brings the amazing CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS to this month's Telluride Film Festival Presents, a unique view of prehistoric art long forgotten ,now remembered for all time.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movie times.

23 June, 2011 /

Prudence

By Tracy Shaffer

Sunday afternoons at the Mercury Café are always an eclectic mix with swing dance, poetry slams and tarot readings on the calendar. But last week the place levitated to a place even the Tibetan meditation class would envy. The occasion was a concert by the brilliant jazz band, Zuri, featuring the angelic voice of Prudence Mabhena, to benefit the Cunningham Foundation.

Hosted by Zuri cellist James Bailey, the event opened with some “world-inspired, improvisational, high-energy jazz”, as vibes playing percussionist Greg Tanner Harris describes the Zuri sound (I’d have gone with “jaw-dropping, eye-popping” myself), while artist Laurie Maves painted the scene on canvas for auction. Soon Prudence rolled in gracefully; the most grounded human being I’ve ever seen, with a soul that emanates from her brown/black eyes. She is pure spirit and a set of pipes that will make you believe in God.

17 June, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

Thehangoverpart2_smallteaser The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and screens a hot new film this coming week. Bluegrass Festival is in town and the weather's beautiful, but find time for a little movie fun.

Friday through Thursday, June 17-22, the Nugget heads to Thailand for some pre-wedding hijinks with the HANGOVER II crowd. Our old pals from last year, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha are careful not to make the same mistakes twice, so they make a bunch of hilarious new ones. Along the way they meet up with Paul Giamatti and of course, Mike Tyson again.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movie times.

15 June, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan speaks with Mark Meatto and Michael Bohlmann]

 


How to Grow a Band It takes a lot more than water. To grow a band requires blood, sweat, and tears. Also, you need to find someone to do your laundry. The Western premiere of the show-all, tell-all feature-length documentary, "How To Grow A Band," takes place during Telluride Bluegrass. The FREE screening is scheduled for Saturday, June 18. 2011, 11 a.m. at The Nugget. (Seating is limited, so reserve your ticket in advance at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/181677)

"This film documents the beginnings of Chris Thile's grand vision for a truly modern stringband and the struggles to realize this vision," explained Brian Eyster of Planet Bluegrass. "Personally I am very excited to see the results of the filmmakers' efforts. They will be on-hand for the screening and the band may join them."

 “…A gripping look at the nature of creativity and performance art," raved The Tennessean.

14 June, 2011 /

May 31, 2011
 
TFF38_Poster_Kalman BERKELEY, CA – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., proudly announces famed New York artist Maira Kalman as the 38th Telluride Film Festival poster artist.
  
Maira Kalman has worked as a designer, author, illustrator and artist for more than 30 years. She has written and illustrated thirteen children’s books including Ooh-la-la-Max in Love, What Pete Ate, and most recently, 13 WORDS in collaboration with Lemony Snicket. Kalman is a regular illustrator for The New Yorker magazine, one of her most notable works being the 2001 “New Yorkistan” cover in collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz.
 

04 June, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

Wiigapatow_poster MV5BMTQzMDU3NDEwN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTI3MDU0NA@@._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_ The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies all year long and screens two films all this coming week. Spring has sprung in Telluride.

Friday through Thursday, June 3-9, the Nugget stays literary with Sara Gruen's wonderful WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz. We also get girls-behaving-badly all week with BRIDESMAIDS, as Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph show the ladies can HANGOVER as well as the guys.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movie times.

02 June, 2011 /

By J James McTigue

The Baffin Babes are four rad chics with whom it would be fun to have a beer, go dancing, or ski tour 1200 kilometers in the Canadian Arctic over 80 days. Except you weren’t invited on the ski trip; they chose to do it all on their own.

Babes Swedish sisters Vera and Emma Simonson, along with Norwegian friends Inga Tollefson and Kristin F. Olsen spent 80 days traveling along the eastern coast of Baffin Island, the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world.

At Mountainfilm in Telluride they will be presenting their trip, the glacial scenery, and remote Inuit villages they visited, as well as the fun they had, in a multimedia presentation at 6:45 Friday night at the Sheridan Opera House and 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Palm. (Palm showing is free to the public).

26 May, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Judith and Richard]

 

kicker: trash to treasure

MickysMonkeyWeb October 5, 2010, the Town of Telluride passed an ordinance against single-use plastic shopping bags, making Telluride the first community in the state of Colorado to pass such a ban. 

The ordinance followed the popularity of the film "Bag It," made by Telluride local Suzan Beraza. "Bag It," which screened on National Public Television in April and garnered awards  at film festivals across the country, became as much a call-to-action as a documentary, not just locally, but nationally.

"Bag It" is  just one of a number of populist responses to another film, the Sixties pop phenomenon "The Graduate," a movie that predicted a future of plastics. Artists Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang's work represents another kind of response. They make "found art."

25 May, 2011 /