Film

How  does the Telluride Film Festival give back to its host community, Telluride? Let us count the many and varied ways, including putting its heavy thumb on the scale to advance the education of young people. (Scroll down for details.) For starters, the Telluride Film Fest creates...

Presented by National Film Preserve LTD., the Telluride Film Festival, is proud to announce its 2018 Guest Director, Jonathan Lethem. The award-winning novelist, essayist and short story writer is set to select a series of films to present at the 45th Telluride Film Festival, which runs over...

The Telluride Film Festival's Cinematheque at the Telluride Library presents another installment of its Contemporary Japanese Cinema series. The feature on Monday, April 9, 6 p.m., is THE TASTE OF TEA/CHA NO AJI, (2004, unrated, 143 minutes).  Please scroll down to watch the trailer.   From Hayao Miyazaki...

Is three really the charm? If yes, Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water," a favorite of the Telluride Film Fest 2017, should be in like Flynn for a golden statue. Del Toro won Best Director for the movie at the Golden Globes. At the Critics'...

The self-professed failed Catholic Guillermo del Toro chatted easily and breezily with his fans on the steps of the Telluride Elementary School following a screening of his latest, perhaps greatest project at the Telluride Film Festival: “If it is a sin, I am in.” In our...

Before the spiel about the awards, how about Telluride homegirl Oprah? (Ok, soon to be part-time homegirl.) President Oprah? The superstar's buzzworthy speech upon accepting the Cecile B.DeMille Award for lifetime achievement generated speculation about 2020. (Read the full speech in Time here.) And how did Telluride...

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation & BootDoctors present Matchstick Productions' "Drop Everything." The screenings take place Thursday, December 21, 6 & 9 p.m. Tickets $15 per show for adults; $7 kids 18 and under at 6 p.m. show only. Tickets and additional event information are available...