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[click "Play", Nancy Landau talks about Friends of the Library and Funday Sunday]

 

12-12 Dinner Why does Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library need Friends?

The Wilkinson is a five-star book mecca in part because it attracts a steady stream of traffic. Locals and guests love the place and use it as a regular hang-out, a kind of safe haven. The kids' section is always alive with activity. And Scott Doser's programs attract regular weekly crowds.

December 12 is Funday Sunday at Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The all-day event begins with a brief annual meeting of the Friends of the Library, 1 p.m., to explain the role of the Friends.

The meeting is followed by a High Def/Blu-Ray screening of "The Wizard of Oz." (The High Definition Blu-Ray format projector was gifted to the Library by the Friends.)

10 December, 2010 /

Thenextthreedays_smallteaser Burlesque_smallposter Telluride's Nugget Theatre has three feature films on tap for the week of December 10-16. In addition, there is the opportunity to see Ben Clark's "Ski the Himalayas" and support a worthy not-for-profit organization, the Horizon Program on Saturday, December 11 at 8:00 pm.

The week starts with "Burlesque" (rated PG-13) with the never-aging Cher; and Russell Crowe whose task is to spring from prison his wife who maybe didn't kill anyone in "The Next Three Days" (rated PG-13).

Legendoftheguardians_smallposter Ski_The_Himalayas_LARGEIMAGE All the programs on Wednesday and Thursday are showing "Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole" (PG), an animated feature about good owls and bad ones.

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

 

08 December, 2010 /

[click "Play" to hear Lance Waring's conversation with Susan]

 

Ski_The_Himalayas_LARGEIMAGE Telluride Inside... and Out recently announced the availability of an adventure documentary by local filmmaker/mountaineer Ben Clark on Dish Network Pay Per View.

The 90-minute "Ski the Himalayas" chronicles three climbers' attempts at climbing and skiing 23,390' Baruntse. Local mountaineers Ben Clark, Josh Butson, and Jon Miller spent 750 days attempting to climb one mountain in a way that had never been done before just to ski one run. A twist of fate sent the adventure into overdrive as the explorers met scenarios that forced them to ask; What is it really worth? They pushed forward anyway...

The catch: you need a dish and a Dish subscription to view "Ski the Himalayas." At least you did until now. On Saturday, December 11, 8 p.m., The Nugget Theater sponsors a special screening of Clark's film. The event is a fundraiser for Telluride's Horizon Program.

07 December, 2010 /

The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride will be showing "Due Date" and "Unstoppable" as the two movies for the week of December 3-9, 2010.

"Due Date" (rated R) pairs an unlikely duo, Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis ( the doofus brother in "Hangover") in an improbable cross-country road trip so Downey's character can be there for the C-section birth of his child. As in "Hangover" there is plenty of teen-boy humour of the low sort.

Denzel Washington has another impossible task in "Unstoppable" (PG13)- this time he must stop a runaway train. What's your bet?

See below for showtimes and the Nugget website for more information.

01 December, 2010 /

Ski The Himalayas, a film chronicling three climbers' 2009 and 2010 attempts at climbing and skiing 23,390' Baruntse is now available on Dish Network Pay per View in HD and SD today through April 14,  2011.  In the 90-minute documentary, ski mountaineers Ben Clark,...

27 November, 2010 /

Megamind_smallfinal Thegirlwhokickedthehornetsnest_smallposter Telluride's Nugget Theatre holds over "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" (rated R) this week. Lisbeth Salander is back in the series by Stieg Larsson.

The early movie all week is "Megamind" (rated PG), an animated feature starring a brilliant failure of an arch villain. When he defeats his super-hero nemesis, chaos reigns.

For movietimes, see below. For reviews and trailers, see the Nugget website.

24 November, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Erika Gordon]

 

Fly.away The Telluride Film Festival's Sunday at The Palm series continues this weekend with Carroll Ballard's ("The Black Stallion," "Never Cry Wolf') family classic "Fly Away Home" (1996).

"Fly Away Home" is based on the true story of William Lishman's and Joseph Duff's experiments on migrating birds. The pair provided real-life "imprinted" birds for the making of the film, as well as the aircraft, although release of "Fly Away Home" was delayed after a young girl, her father and flight instructor were killed at the controls of a similar small plane that crashed amid a highly publicized transcontinental flight attempt.

23 November, 2010 /

Awareness into Action: Galamsey     Telluride locals David Byars and Jenny Jacobi left last year's Mountainfilm with the same inspiration and desire to do good that many take away from Telluride's film and philanthropy festival. Not wanting to lose this feeling, they began a serious...

20 November, 2010 /

Thegirlwiththedragontattoo_smallposter Countdowntozero_smallposter For the week of Friday, November 19 through Thursday, November 25 (Thanksgiving), Telluride's Nugget Theatre is "all Salander, all the time." The week starts out with a Sheep Mountain Alliance sponsored film about nuclear danger in the post-Cold War period, "Countdown to Zero." The rest of the week is devoted to Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy and his counter-culture heroine, Lisbeth Salander. Should be an interesting week.

For showtimes, see below and for reviews and trailers, see the Nugget website.

 

17 November, 2010 /
[click "Play" to hear Scott Doser talk about this new Community Cinema sreies]

 

11-17 Film Deep Down Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library has partnered with ITVS, co-presenter of the Emmy-winning Independent Lens PBS TV series, to present Community Cinema. The FREE monthly series begins Wednesday, November 17, 6 p.m. with "Deep Down," a film by Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin about a community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine.

Independent Lens is an indie film fest designed to be delivered into the comfort of your home via PBS. Films come in all flavors: feature-length documentaries, comic shorts, highly experimental. The thread that binds is the spirit that drives the filmmakers, relentless visionaries who tend to ignore conventional rules of the road in pursuit of stories about people not normally seen on TV and little-known worlds. It's a whole different spin on the notion of reality TV.
 

15 November, 2010 /