Telluride Film Festival

Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce its 2017 Guest Director, Joshua Oppenheimer. The award-winning documentarian is set to select a series of films to present at the 44th Telluride Film Festival running over Labor Day Weekend, September 1-4,...

Tuesdays at the Palm are presented by The Telluride Film Festival, Palm Arts, and the Telluride R1 School District. Chicago International Children’s Film Festival takes place Tuesday, May 9 at 2:15 p.m. Appropriate for the whole family! FREE TO ALL Running time is 73 minutes. The Telluride Film Festival,...

Telluride Film Festival Cinematheque is collaboration between The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library. On Monday, April 3, 6 p.m., the featured film is FIVE EASY PIECES (1970), part of the "Road Trip" series. Free to all. Scroll down to watch a trailer. The Telluride Film...

Telluride Film Festival's Cinematheque is collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the Wilkinson Public Library. The new series, Road Trip, begins with Ingmar Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries,” (1957, 91 minutes). Program at the Library takes place Monday, March 6, 6 p.m. Scroll down to watch the trailer. Spring...

Was the award for Oscar's Best Picture really a surprise (after ugh, the other surprise)? The drum beat started right after the Telluride Film Fest ended: “Moonlight” was immediately in the limelight, critics on their knees over the film. In a recent think piece in the Huff Post, critic...

Guess which film festival premiered (or featured the North American premiere) four of the nine movies nominated for Best Picture. Yes, of course, the Telluride Film Festival, which screened “La La Land,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonlight” and “Arrival.” The following is the list of the 2017 Oscar...

I know, I know. The directors of the Telluride Film Festival are all about the art, not the business, of filmmaking. The event celebrates the finest ribbons of dreams; it is not a horse race, where the goal is to pick a winner. But historically and with uncanny consistency...

Telluride Film Festival's Cinematheque is collaboration between 
The Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library. BUENTA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB  (1997) screens Monday, January 2, 6 p.m. at the Wilkinson Public Library. Rated G, 105 minutes. FREE TO ALL. Scroll down for trailer. The Telluride Film Festival and...

Over Labor Day weekend, the Telluride Film Festival did its thing, celebrating the art, not the business, of filmmaking in grand style. But the business of films inevitably rears its head, especially in the run-up to Oscar season. Among the buzziest festival films of 2016...