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[caption id="attachment_34358" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Clint Viebrock[/caption] Telluride has its fair share of star-laden premieres, but the SHOW has a strong tradition of non-fiction, which has equal footing with features. Hands down, the one with the loudest Internet chatter among the docs in the 2013 Telluride...

Please note: Whenever available, posts contain links to trailers for the films for your previewing pleasure. [caption id="attachment_34355" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo Credit: Clint viebrock[/caption] In Telluride, as regulars know, the full list of films, filmmakers and tributes are not released until the first day of the long...

[caption id="attachment_34351" align="alignleft" width="300"] photo credit: Pamela Gentile[/caption] "The first time I came to Telluride there were three wonderful tributes, a selection of discoveries from around the world and classic films presented with such love that I felt this was my new home. Thirty-nine years later, I...

The leaves are starting to change. That means that the Telluride Film Festival is upon us. In the run-up to the Big Event, 37-year Telluride Film Festival veteran Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter raps in retrospect. [caption id="attachment_34296" align="alignright" width="300"] Todd McCarthy writes about his...

[caption id="attachment_31094" align="alignright" width="223"] TFF #40 by Dean Tavoularis[/caption] Many years ago, Telluride Film Festival director and co-founder Bill Pence proclaimed his on-going allegiance to the town. “There would be no Telluride Film Festival without Telluride,” he said, “We try to thank the community in ways that...

[caption id="attachment_34300" align="alignleft" width="300"] Beryl Jupiter & friends[/caption] Dr. Beryl Jupiter has a unique approach to dieting: Raise a puppy. Though it may not be quite as simple as it sounds, Jupiter elaborates on the idea in a lighthearted book titled, “The Puppy Diet.” The author will be...

[caption id="attachment_31094" align="alignright" width="223"] TFF #40 by Dean Tavoularis[/caption] "No matter what kind of year I have had, if I come to Telluride, it’s been a good year," Werner Herzog, honored by Film Fest's newest venue Lights! Camera! Action! The 40th annual Telluride Film Festival officially begins with...

The Telluride Foundation Community Grant Applications are now available on the Foundation's website. http://www.telluridefoundation.org/index.php?page=community-grants   Grants and Progress Reports are due October 28 at 5 p.m. On the website you will also the 2013 Guidelines, all the attachments, including Progress Report Forms, and a link to sign...

[caption id="attachment_34213" align="alignright" width="300"] Julia Crockett[/caption] What happens in Telluride does not stay in Telluride – and that is a good thing. And a natural thing, the way of the world, if the subject is the young people who grow up in the region and are...

In the second decade of the 20th century, on the heels of Cubism and other detours from dusty old realism, abstraction became the "ism" du jour and the Holy Grail of modern art. By the time the center of gravity in the art world shifted...