SHORTS AND STUDENT FILMS DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2010FEATURES DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2010Telluride Film Festival, a four-day international event celebrating the art of film, plays host to a selection of feature length and short films. Considered one of the world’s leading showcases for foreign and domestic...
The Nugget Theatre in Telluride is showing two movies during the week of Friday, June 25 through Thursday, July 1.
The early movie each evening is "Marmaduke" when the kiddies are still up. Adults can probably have a good time too if they can get their heads around computer-generated mouth movements to illustrate the animals' talking. The movie is rated PG, probably for the inclusion of bodily function gags on the part of the dogs.
The title "Get Him to the Greek" refers to the task a nerd has to make sure a down-spiraling rock star gets to L.A.'s Greek Theatre for his comeback concert. Naturally there are substance abuse, rock 'n' roll groupies, the normal things a rock star gofer is likely to encounter. Roger Ebert says the level of humour recalls "Hangover" and there probably are reasons the movie gets an R rating.
See below for movietimes and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival may be over, but the beat goes on at Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library. Monday, June 21, 6 p.m. Back for an encore performance, Raina Rose. This young vivacious songwriter from Austin will be performing original songs that speak to life, love and the human condition.
Tuesday, June 22, 6 p.m.,The Telluride Music Lover’s Film Festival brings a feature and a short. Rachel Liebling, a student of Ken Burns, created a classic of Americana: “High Lonesome” the Story of Bluegrass (95 minutes). The music is perfectly synced with its images as in Bill Monroe's seamless walk from concert stage to his old front porch. Ralph Stanley singing "Man of Constant Sorrow". A young Alison Krauss at about the time she won the national fiddling contest. The film is not a complete compendium, a chronological survey, or a definitive look at Bill Monroe, or any of the individual artists, but it is an impassioned portrait of a true American musical art form.
The Nugget Theatre in the heart of beautiful downtown Telluride is showing two films for the week of Friday, June 18-Thursday, June 24, plus a Telluride Film Festival presentation of "City Island" on Thursday.
"Shrek" is back in another version of the old "be careful of what you wish for" we've heard all of our lives. Shrek is tired, tired of being king, so when he is offered a deal to just be an ogre again, well... How was he to know that history is about to be re-written? Rated PG.
If you can accept the concept of our four favorite New York friends striding across the desert in the United Arab Emirates in their Manolos, "Sex and the City 2" (rated R) may be for you. Hard to say, but make mine Manhattan.
"City Island" has one big secret: Everyone has secrets. Andy Garcia's Vince Rizzo is a corrections officer with a yen to be an actor. He would rather have his wife believe he is having an affair than admit he is taking acting classes. Audiences have loved the movie. This Telluride Film Festival presentation is rated PG-13.
See below for movietimes, and the Nugget website for reviews and trailers.
Telluride, Colorado (June 8th, 2010) – Mountainfilm in Telluride enjoyed record attendance this year with more than 15,000 seatings in theaters, up some 25% from 2009. Despite sunshine and warm temperatures, often deterrents to theater-goers, Mountainfilm venues operated at or near capacity throughout the Memorial Day weekend. “We benefited from several factors,” said Mountainfilm Executive Director Peter Kenworthy. “We received very favorable regional press leading up to the event. The weather lured a lot of people within driving range who might otherwise not have come. And, word-of-mouth momentum has been building steadily the past three years.”
Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing two movies the week of Friday, June 11- Thursday, June 17.
"Robin Hood" is a holdover from last week and is an updated version of the old story. Don't expect a lot of merry doings in the forest with his Merry Men, and Maid Marian has morphed into the "Widow Marion." "Robin Hood" is rated PG-13.
The setting is Verona, the home of Juliet Capulet, and people still write to Shakespeare's timeless heroine for advice about their lovelives. These are answered by modern day Dear Abbies, including a young American woman who finds a letter from 1951 and takes it upon herself to have the letter's author return to Italy to see if she can find the object of her long-ago passion. Rated PG. Bring your own history and see if the film moves you.
See the Nugget website for trailers and reviews, and below for movietimes.
After a busy Mountainfilm weekend, Telluride's Nugget Theatre is back on a regular schedule, with three movies on tap for the week of Friday, June 4 to Thursday, June 10.
"Ironman 2" continues its run this week. Rated PG-13, "Ironman" is a superhero with a secret, though it's not about his identity. He is known, and the government wants his power as a national asset. And of course there are bad guys to deal with. Sounds like standard superhero fare, but the cast is led by Robert Downey, jr.
"Babies" (rated PG) is a documentary about, you guessed it, babies. Babies of diferent colors, from different places, from rich places, babies from poor places, babies just being babies. Mostly there isn't a lot of voiceover, no explanation, babies doing what babies do.
This isn't "Robin Hood" with a band of merry men, and Maid Marion has become the Widow Marion; don't go expecting to see Robin having a jolly time with Friar Tuck. Things are rough in Sherwood Forest: Richard the Lionhearted has died, leaving the weak but venal John in charge, and the Sheriff of Notingham is still a baddie. "Robin Hood" is rated PG-13 for violence and sexual situations.
See below for movietimes, and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
By D. Dion
Greg Stump’s “Blizzard of Aahhh’s” (1988) is perhaps the most beloved movie ever made about skiing. (Skiing Magazine ranked it #1 in its Top Ten Ski Movies of All Times, and a VHS recording of the film sits on the shelf of every self-respecting ski bum over the age of 30.) The movie also holds a special place in the heart of Telluriders, because it features lots of local footage from the 80s, from powder runs down Mammoth in neon-colored, one-piece ski suits to dreadlocked reggae musician Rasta Stevie waxing philosophical about his stint in Telluride politics and the vibe of the ski town.
It’s fitting, then, that the preeminent filmmaker would preview his newest work in progress, the ski flick “Legend of Aahhh’s,” here in his old Stump-ing grounds, at Telluride’s Mountainfilm festival this Memorial Day weekend. “I spent every winter from 1983 through 1988 in Telluride, with my brother Geoff. I really like it there,” says Stump.
Telluride's Nugget Theatre is one of the venues for Mountainfilm in Telluride from Friday, May 28 through Monday morning. Check http://www.mountainfilm.org/festival/2010/online-schedule/index.html for the Festival lineup. The Nugget's regular schedule resumes Monday evening with Iron Man 2 (PG-13). Note there is a "TBA" on the schedule for Thursday evening at 8:30 pm.
Shhh, don't tell: Iron Man is dying. The public knows who he is, and there are pressures to share his secrets with the US government. Naturally there are bad guys, but in this case the level of acting should make Iron Man an interesting evening at the cinema.
See below for movietimes, and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
