I ran across this copy of a painting by old-time local Birdi Boyd of the Sheridan Opera House - before it was "renovated" - and was stunned by the memories it invoked. How quaint and quiet Telluride was in "back in the...
Telluride Inside... and Out witnessed two outstanding films to open the 2010 Telluride Film Festival: first, "Carlos," Olivier Assaya's 5 1/2 hour epic, the first film pick by Festival directors Gary Meyer, Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger. And then this morning, "Precious Life," written and directed by Shlomi Eldar.
Suzan Beraza
Telluride triumphed in Monterey's BLUE Ocean Film Festival when the homegrown documentary "Bag It" by Reel Thing – director Suzan Beraza and her team – won in the category of Ocean Issues and Conservation. "Bag It" profiles a self-proclaimed “average guy” – Telluride local Jeb Berrier – who undertakes a global pilgrimage to explore our plastic world and understand our addiction to the supposedly disposable items. As we are learning everyday, plastic is amphibious, polluting our waters and lands with equal vigor and effectiveness.
37th Telluride Film Festival feature line-up (Titles in bold are also scheduled to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival where a few are slated to be World or North American Premiere screenings):
A LETTER TO ELIA (Scorsese and Jones, U.S., 2010)
ANOTHER YEAR (Leigh, U.K., 2010)
BIUTIFUL (Iñárritu, Mexico, 2010)
CARLOS (Assayas, France, 2010)
CHICO AND RITA (Trueba, Mariscal Spain-Cuba, 2010) North American premiere ahead of Toronto
THE FIRST GRADER (Chadwick, U.K., 2010) World premiere ahead of Toronto
The great sucking sound you hear is the air going out of the Telluride's Film Festival's competition. Among the world's film festivals – and there are about 1,700 similar events – "The SHOW" is in a league of its own and bulletproof.
Every year, since the event got off the ground in 1974, the Telluride Film Festival, known locally as The SHOW, has paid tribute to artists whose contributions resonate throughout the medium.
Thirty-seven years ago, the first tributees were Gloria Swanson, Francis Ford Coppola, and Leni Riefenstahl.
The list of Telluride Film Festival honored actors swelled over the years to include Jack Nicholson, Gerard Depardieu, Clint Eastwood, Isabelle Huppert, Jodie Foster, Klaus Kinski, Shirley MacLaine, Toni Collette, Daniel Day Lewis, and part-time local (she met her husband Marc Schauer, her V.I.P host, when she was honored in 2004), Laura Linney.
[click "Play" to hear Gary Meyer's conversation with Susan] Monsoon season in Telluride appears to have ended. The grass is green, the sun is shining bright yellow and the sky is Colorado blue. But this weekend, people who like watching...
Breaking news: The Telluride Film Festival features 3-D throughout the weekend, September 3 – September 6. But attendees may not need a big pair of red and green glasses to see the images. And they will not just be on the silver screen. They will be walking down the streets.
The Schedule for Telluride's Nugget Theatre for September 3-9 is all about the Telluride Film Festival. The Film Festival website will have the program. See you next week, or at a Telluride Film Festival screening....
