by Shannon Mitchell
Passes to the 37th Telluride Film Festival (September 3-6, 2010) are now available to the public.
The audience at the 36th annual Telluride Film Festival was the first in the world to view a number of Academy Award-nominated films including Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," "Bright Star," "The White Ribbon" and "The Last Station."
Purchasing a pass allows the moviegoer complete flexibility throughout the four-day Festival. Pass-holders are able to move from theatre to theatre, event to event at their leisure while taking in the beauty of the Telluride surroundings.
Telluride local Julee Hutchison paints in oils on canvas with loose, open brushstrokes. Her focus is almost always the Big Picture, as she creates valentines to broad, open vistas and little corners of the world, although her landscapes are unmistakably American. Even in her portraits, the artist remains at one cool remove to take in and reflect the whole package, mining poetry from a smile or the tilt of a shoulder. Hutchison, however, is not strictly speaking a realist. She takes liberties with color to add punch or direct the eye of her viewer.
Cinematheque, the highly successful collaboration between the Telluride Film Festival and the Wilkinson Public Library, continues its "All About Food" series Monday, March 8. The pre-SHOW reception starts at 5:30 p.m. Curtain up at 6 p.m.
Will Thompson's Telluride Gallery of Fine Art features a higgledy-piggledy mix of artists with one theme in common: They march to their own drum.
Malcolm Liepke was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the unabridged honesty that comes with Midwestern roots shows up in his work. Liepke is an unapologetic realist, who paints with a smoking brush. His images, these freshly minted portraits of women, have evolved into a patented cocktail of sensuality and draftsmanly stylishness: definitely PG-13, as much for what comes through the surface as what's on the surface.
Telluride's First Thursday Art Walk, produced by the Telluride Council for the Arts & Humanities, is a celebration of the local art scene, when galleries, studios and stores around Main Street stay open late until 8 p.m. In March Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine, celebrates the work of artists Michele Scrivner and her partner/assistant Brian Billow, which in turn celebrates nature.
The 2010 First Thursday Telluride Art Walk continues Thursday, March 4, 5-8p.m. at galleries around town.
Sponsored by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Art Walk is a day-long showcase of our local fine arts scene, galleries, studios and arts organizations staying open “late ‘til 8” the First Thursday of every month. The event, which kicked off three years ago, includes galleries located in and around Colorado Avenue (Main Street), all within walking distance of one another. Stop by after work, après ski, or on your way to dinner and add a little art to your life.
The free Art Walk brochures, available at any participating venue (and our hotels and coffee shops), offer a self-guided map of the participating establishments.
The Nugget Theatre in beautiful downtown Telluride has three movies on the schedule for the week of Friday, March 5-Thursday, March 11.
"Youth in Revolt" (Rated R) features a laid back Nick Twist (Michael Cera) whose parents have split, each having taken up with a differently inappropriate partner. On a trailer park vacation, his mother and her crude boyfriend flaunt their sexuality and Nick meets Sheeni (Portia Doubleday). Nick is on a mission to lose his virginity... Then the fun begins.
An all-star ensemble cast pairs up, or not, on one day, "Valentine's Day." The movie is rated PG-13. Many people who saw "Valentine's Day" loved it. The critics, not so much. So go, and make up your own mind.
Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Rated PG-13) has a great cast and an intriguing, if confusing story. And real life intervened to make this movie even more of a house of mirrors: during the filming Heath Ledger, one of the principals, died. The solution: bring in Johnny Depp and others as alter egos. Should be interesting.
See below for movietimes, and the Nugget website for trailers and reviews.
In March, the Daniel Tucker Gallery at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts features the work of sculptor Adam Field. The opening of the show coincides with the First Thursday Art Walk, when galleries and retail outlets around Telluride stay open late until 8 p.m. Field will be in town for the reception at the school, 300 South Townsend, 5 – 8 p.m., which includes an artist's talk/ slideshow scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
In a case of aesthetic whiplash, in Adam Field's ceramic work crosses boundaries as it simultaneously looks back in time and into the future: past meets present, East meets West.
On Wednesday, March 3, starting at 6 p.m., Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library hosts two back to back writing events chock-a-block with thrills and spills. Promise.
