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...
We keep capturing the rapture, the limelight, surrounding Telluride Film Festival regular and student alum Barry Jenkins’ latest project. His “Moonlight” screened at the 43rd annual gathering of cinephiles over Labor Day weekend. It opened in general release on November 4. Wherever the movie was screened, critics have tripped over...
At the screening of Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight" – a love fest – the rapt Telluride audience learned the writer-director had come up through the ranks of the Telluride Film Festival, doing everything he could to keep his hand in the game after his days attending the Student Symposium ended: he popped popcorn, cleaned bathrooms, spilled...
Sunday, October 30, 4 p.m. Telluride’s Michael D. Palm Theatre for the Performing Arts. “Clash of the Titans.” Presented by the Telluride Film Festival. Rated PG. Free to all. Running time, 118 minutes. The Telluride Film Festival is pleased to present the Sunday at the Palm series in collaboration with...
Two of the must-see films from the Toronto Film Fest on Matthew Jacobs’ list in his Huff Post blog launched at the Telluride Film Festival: ”La La Land” and “Aliens.” My review of TFF here. Attending the Toronto Film Festival is like stepping into a la-la land where bloated summer...
The Telluride Film Fest, in collaboration with the Telluride Library, launches the next Cinematheque series, “Music & Film,” on Monday, October 10, 6 p.m. in the Program Room. Free to all. The 17th edition of the Telluride Film fest's Cinematheque is a four-part series that explores the relationship between motion pictures and the beloved soundtracks...
The Telluride Film Festival presents “Sunday at the Palm, "April and the Extraordinary World," (2015). Sunday, September 25, 4 p.m. Michael D. Palm Theatre for the Performing Arts. Rated PG. FREE TO ALL. Running time 105 minutes. “It feels somewhat clichéd to call an animated adventure film a ‘delight,’ but it’s...
On the surface, the protagonists in the two films featured at The Nugget that night have nothing in common beyond the photochemical medium used to tell their stories: one was a painter from a small town who stayed small town; the other was a jazz musician who came...
At the screening of Barry Jenkins’ sophomore project and masterpiece, “Moonlight – a love fest – the rapt audience learned the writer-director had come up through the ranks at the Telluride Film Festival, doing everything to remain involved after his days attending the Student Symposium ended: popping popcorn, cleaning bathrooms, spilling...
“This has to be the coolest festival,” actress Emma Stone of “La La Land." “Telluride is the best film festival in the world," 2016 tributee Pablo Larrain. 1549, 155, 208, 3.95 Painting the picture by the numbers, they are respectively the flight number, the headcount of the passengers on board,...
