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[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

MV5BMTY3NjczNzc5Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzA2MzQyNA@@._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_ Rango_smallposter This week, the Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two great movies on the bill for Friday, April 1 through Thursday, April 7, 2011.

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 /
[click "Play" to listen to David Oyster's discussion of Depression films]

 

 

Telluride Film poster,3:7 Monday, March 7, the Telluride Film Festival's Cinematheque, a club for cinephiles showing FREE films the first Monday of the month, continues its winter series with two more "Films of the Great Depression": "Of Mice and Men" (1939, 106 min.) and "Grapes of Wrath," both based on novels by John Steinbeck. The evening is hosted by Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library and includes food and a lively discussion hosted by Ringmaster David Oyster. The programming is thanks to Telluride Film Fest co-director Gary Meyer, who knows how to pick them. (See the Oscars 2011.)

Published in 1937,  "Of Mice and Men" is the touching, tragic story of a friendship set against the backdrop of America during the Great Depression. The story is based on Steinbeck's experiences as a hobo in the 1920s.

06 March, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

Justgowithit_smallposter The-kings-speech-poster-2 The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two great movies on the bill for the week of Friday, March 4 through Thursday, March 10, 2011.

How about THE KING'S SPEECH (R) winning all those Academy Awards last Sunday? And most of those guys were here in Telluride for the film festival last September!

Joining the KING this week at the Nugget will be JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13), with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman.

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

02 March, 2011 /

TFF's Gary Meyer at TFF,2010
Gary Meyer, TFF 2010

What happens in Telluride does not necessarily stay in Telluride. Buzz from the Telluride Film Festival is one great example. And buzz from the Telluride Film Festival generally winds up on the stage of Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, the scene of the biggest glam slam on the winter season in Tinseltown. We are talking, of course, about the 83rd annual Academy Awards. The golden boy. Oscar.

The moment of truth is Sunday evening, February 27.

In one incarnation or another, we have covered the Telluride Film Festival every year since 1993. In every review, we have predicted which films, which actors, etc. should take home a statue. And we've rolled sevens almost every year.

27 February, 2011 /

by Jim Bedford

The-kings-speech-poster-2 True-grit-poster-coen-brothers-1 The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has two great movies on the bill for the week of Friday, February 25 through Thursday, March 3, 2011.

Yes, it's a rarity at the Nugget, but both the brilliance of THE KING'S SPEECH (R) and the continuing popularity of TRUE GRIT (PG13) have convinced us to keep them around for another week. Look for two new films next week but here's your last chance to catch these great Oscar contenders in Telluride.

Don't forget the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 27 with Anne Hathaway and James Franco as MCs.

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

23 February, 2011 /
[click "Play", Susan speaks with James Anaquad-Kleinert and Dr. Susannah Smith]

 

 

kicker: filmmaker James Anaquad-Kleinert in Telluride for the event

Horse-bigger “I adopted a wild horse named Voodoo, who had been rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management and adopted out to a killer buyer. The man like many or most killer buyers, played a cruel game of acquiring horses and betting that he could sell them to slaughter before he has to feed them. But the problem did not begin with the killer buyer. It began with the Bureau of Land Management,” said Willie Nelson, now part of the production team for "Wild Horses & Renegades."

The American mustang crisis makes headlines around the world. On Tuesday, February 22, award-winning filmmaker James Anaquad-Kleinert brings his star-studded environmental documentary, "Wild Horses & Renegades," to Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. A reception with the filmmaker starts at 5:30 p.m. The screening follows, including a sneak peak of the call-to-action music video, cut to U2's hit song "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses."

20 February, 2011 /