Trio Solisti is the founding ensemble of the Telluride Musicfest, this year June 25 – July 5, and featuring world renowned composer Philip Glass as Composer-in-Residence. "Telluride Inside...
Telluride's Nugget Theatre will show "Coraline" and "Fast and Furious" for the week of April 24-April 30. "Coraline" is a 3D animated movie about a young girl who turns to a fantasy world to compensate for loving, benign neglect by her parents. "Fast and...
BERKELEY, CA – Telluride Film Festival (September 4-7, 2009), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its call for entries.Student film submissions must be received no later than 5:00 pm, July 1, 2009. Short and Feature film submissions must be received no later than 5:00...
Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "I Love You, Man" (Rated R, Language, sexual situations), Friday, April 17 through Thursday, April 23. Nightly at 7:30 pm, except Thursday, April 23 at 6:00 pm. There is a Telluride Film Festival presentation of "The Wrestler" at 8:30...
Telluride local Mark Berenson will be performing at the Wilkinson Public Library in a free concert Wednesday, April 15 at 6:00 pm. Mark's performance is another in an ongoing series of public events in the program room hosted by Scott Doser, Program Director at...
[click "Play" button to listen to Susan's conversation with film MC Seth Cagin]
Telluride Film Festival and Wilkinson Public Library: Chabrol's "Les Bonnes Femmes"
Though less famous than sidekicks Godard and Truffaut, Claude Chabrol may be the most prolific of the French New Wave directors, having averaged almost one film a year since 1958.
"Les Bonnes Femmes" is early Chabrol. The film is a biting social drama with a Hitchcockian ending that presages the director's reputation as a master of mystery thrillers . (Chabrol co-authored with colleague Eric Rohmer a book on their film idol/mentor Alfred Hitchcock.)
"Femmes" covers three days in the lives of four Parisian shopgirls doing their best to escape their likely fate: marital ennui and tedious work lives. One is a party girl; another a mouse ready to sacrifice her hazy identity to secure a mate; an aspiring singer so insecure she hides her ambitions from her hanging buddies; and a day-dreamer yearning for a Prince Charming to rescue her from a vacant existence.
Bottom line: "Femmes" is a valentine to working class women – written with a poison pen
Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "Knowing" (Rated PG-13), Friday, April 10 through Thursday, April 16. Nightly at 7:00 pm.In 1958, a girl's submission to a time capsule, a set of apparently random numbers, turns out to predict all the major disasters of the next...
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Ralph] Sometimes life in Telluride is such a drag – especially when dragster extraordinaire Ralph Dinosaur takes to the stage. The cross-dressing Ralph and his band of renown headline KOTO's end-of-season...
Telluride's Nugget Theatre is showing "Duplicity" (Rated PG-13), Friday, April 3 through Thursday, April 9. Friday screenings are at 8:30 pm, the rest of the week at 7:00 pm.Claire (Julia Roberts), ex CIA, and Ray (Clive Owen), ex MI6, are re-united as rivals in industrial...
[Click the "play" button and listen to Telluride Film Fest's education coordinator/local liaison Erika Gordon discussing the importance of "The Real Dirt"]
The image on the cover of his cookbook, "The Real Dirt on Vegetables," says it all: Farmer John Peterson is posed with a pitchfork like the man in Grant Wood's signature portrait "American Gothic" – only Farmer John is also wearing a bright red boa.
Farmer John, who, by his own admission, is also Farmer " Elton" John, is a wise and wacky human being working to change the world one seed at a time with Angelic Organics, his Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in rural Illinois.
Filmmaker Taggert Siegel's award-winning docudrama (over 30 festival honors), "The Real Dirt on Farmer John," spans 55 years, beginning with Farmer John's childhood, and then covering the failure of his conventional farming operation, the dark period that followed, and finally the farm's – and farmer's – rebirth.
