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by Jim Bedford

078165H1 Sourcecode_smallposter The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride shows movies every night of the year and features three films this week.

Playing Friday, April 22 through Thursday, April 28, 2011, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan dodge a stitch in time in SOURCE CODE (PG-13). It's a quirky thriller will a romantic soul that has lots of GROUNDHOG DAY-like surprises.

Also playing all week is HOP (PG), which mixes state-of-the-art animation with real action. It's a funny, feel-good film for the whole family.

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On Thursday, April 28 only, the Telluride Film Festival Presents CEDAR RAPIDS (R),  a witty comedy from the people who brought you THE VISITOR. No Nugget passes please.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.

 

 

21 April, 2011 /

BERKELEY, CA, April 15, 2011 – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2011), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films. Submission period begins April 15, 2011. Telluride Film Festival 2011 Film Entry Form...

20 April, 2011 /

A.little.princess poster-flyer The Telluride Film Festival's “Sunday at the Palm” series presents "A Little Princess" (1995). The FREE event takes place Sunday, April 24, 4 p.m. at the Michael D. Palm Theatre. The movie is rated G and the running time is 97 minutes.

Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett ("The Secret Garden") and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, "A Little Princess" is sure to inspire the very young and young-at-heart.

Nominated for two Academy Awards, "A Little Princess" tells the tale of Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews), a girl who uses imagination and a positive attitude to escape the demands of a difficult headmistress in the cloistered world of a new boarding school.

19 April, 2011 /

Timmy, leading the faithful
Timmy O'Neill leads the faithful, 2010

After record attendance and extraordinary critical acclaim last year, Mountainfilm in Telluride is poised for yet another bumper year. Even prior to the announcement of officially accepted films, the festival is garnering more interest, inquiries, support and sales than ever, according to Executive Director Peter Kenworthy. He predicts that the Memorial Day weekend event will sell out this year and attributes the event’s growing popularity, in large part, to the programming prowess of Mountainfilm’s festival director, David Holbrooke.

“David has an unusually extensive network of connections in diverse worlds – those of independent
filmmakers, writers and artists, foreign policy experts, media personalities, activists and athletes – that
he draws on," explains Kenworthy. "And he has a great eye both for compelling films and for mixing and matching guest presenters so that they fully engage and complement each other. It’s a winning combination and we’re definitely seeing the benefit.”

10 April, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

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The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride stays open each and every off-season and shows movies every night of the year.

Playing Friday, April 8 through Thursday, April 14, 2011 is Matthew McConaughey, starring in THE LINCOLN LAWYER. It's the engaging story of a counselor who conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing high-profile clients in Beverly Hills.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.

06 April, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Brandt Garber's conversation with Susan]

 

 

Cinematheque poster "It's A Gift" to Telluride. And there are lots of folks to thank.

Cinematheque, a free film club, is an ongoing collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the Wilkinson Public Library. The series is programmed by Telluride Film Festival co-director/historian Gary Meyer.

The current series, covering films from the Great Depression, explored the ways in which cinema served as a valuable medium for social commentary, as well as an emotional release during an extremely trying (and historically relevant) chapter in U.S. history. The fourth and final installment of Films of the Great Depression for Winter 2011 is a double feature: "It's A Gift" (1934,68 min.) and "Duck Soup" (1933, 68 min.) The event takes place in the Program Room of the Library on Monday, April 4, starting at 5:30 p.m. for the pre-SHOW reception. Telluride Film Festival Production Manager and film buff Brandt Garber is Ringmaster.

01 April, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

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RANGO (PG), although it's an animation, is for anyone who is looking for a surprise. Johnny Depp lends his voice to the lizard Rango and believe me, everyone laughs.

Bradley Cooper (THE HANGOVER) proves he's not a one-shot wonder with LIMITLESS (PG-13) about a man who achieves his maximum potential, but at a price. With Robert de Niro and Abbie Cornish.

See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.

30 March, 2011 /

[click "Play" to hear Susan's interview with Beth and George Gage]

 

Tim DeChristopher He was a guest at the 30th and 31st annual Mountainfilm in Telluride in 2008 and 2009. We are talking about Tim DeChristopher, who not only draws outside the lines, he steps over them. He is the man who came to be known as "Bidder 70."

While at Mountainfilm, journalist Alex Chadwick conducted one of his 50-cent interviews with Tim. In those four minutes, Tim recounted the events leading up to and through his arrest. (You can find the interview at: http://player.vimeo.com/video/20626810?title=0&amp%3Bbyline=0&amp%3Bportrait=0&amp%3Bcolor=ffffff.)  Now Telluride locals and award-winning filmmakers George and Beth Gage are telling Tim DeChristopher's full story, a jumping off point for the larger stories of civil disobedience and climate change.

20 March, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Erika Gordon's conversation with Susan]

 

Food.inc poster-flyer “Eating can be one dangerous business. Don’t take another bite till you see Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc.,” wrote Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, “If the way to an audience’s heart is through its stomach, ‘Food, Inc.’ is a movie you’re going to love.”

The film being shown this Sunday, March 20, 4 p.m., as part of the Telluride Film Festival's 2011 Sunday at the Palm series received a an average rating 8 on a scale of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes, pure poetry since this movie is all about food, the good, the bad, mostly rotten.

 

19 March, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

Gnomeoandjuliet_smallteaser Blackswan_smallposter2 In this post-Ides of March week, the Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has three great movies on the bill for Friday, March 18 through Thursday, March 24.

THE BLACK SWAN (R), with Oscar winning Natalie Portman, continues through Wednesday and is surprising, stirring and unpredictable.

For families and the younger set, GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) adds to the Disney canon of great animations, and runs through Tuesday.

127hours_smallposter And on Wednesday and Thursday only, the Telluride Film Festival Presents 127 HOURS (R), a hit at last year's festival with James Franco being directed by Danny Boyle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE).

Click here for the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.

 

 

16 March, 2011 /