Up Where He Belongs: Joe Cocker at Telluride Blues & Brews
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Blues, the ultimate roots music, still has legs, very long legs, and singer/songwriter/troubadour/storyteller Otis Taylor is one reason why.
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Telluride's Nugget Theatre is screening four movies in the week of September 8-24. The beginning of the week features "Julie and Julia" and "Aliens in the Attic" with a Saturday matinee showing of "Aliens in the Attic."
Starting Sunday, September 20 "The Time Traveler's Wife" is paired with "Julie and Julia" then a program change on Thursday, with two showings of "The Hurt Locker."
"Julie and Julia" is Nora Ephron's adaptation of two books, one the story of Julia Childs (Meryl Streep) and the other by Julie Powell (Amy Adams), who got a book contract by taking one year to cook every recipe in Julia Childs' famous Mastering the Art of French Cooking. (Rated PG-13 mostly for some profanity.)
Natalya Govorina's "Sanatorium," was named Best Narrative Film at the 2008 Moscow Festival of Short Film.
The 16th annual Telluride Blues and Brews Festival takes place September 18- 20 on the Fred Shellman Memorial Stage in Telluride's Town Park. The Lee Boys, out of Miami, have been given the revered opening spot for Sunday’s musical lineup. Out to prove there is no resting on Sunday, The Lee Boys guarantee to have the soulful crowd on their feet within moments of hearing their sacred steel musical styling. Rooted in gospel, The Lee Boys' music is infused with rhythm & blues, jazz, rock, funk, hip-hop and country as well as influences from the world music scene.
In this context, From Russia with Love is not the second film in the James Bond series. From Russia with Love describes a partnership between the Telluride Film Festival and CEC ArtsLink to co-host a group of emerging filmmakers from Russia for a residency that brought them first to Telluride over the long Labor Day festival weekend. Last year, the young Russian directors screened their films at the Telluride Film Festival. This year they came as observers. (New projects will be screened in Boulder, Colorado and New York.) Participants were selected for their cinematic accomplishments in a competitive nomination process.
Telluride's SquidShow Theatre, in support of Black Bear Awareness Week, presents an original play by Sasha Cucciniello and Colin Sullivan: "Bear It! – Bear Safety for the 21st Century." The FREE event is one night only,Tuesday, September 15, 8 p.m., Fly Me to the...
Anne Thompson, George
Gittoes, Nicholas Cage,
and Jason Reitman
at Labor Day seminar
The Telluride Film Festival invented downsizing: for 36 years, the directors of the event have selected just 20 – 30 movies from among the hundreds submitted to them each year, which explains why the celluloid celebration appeals to discriminating cinephiles. Elitist? Unapologetically. This year as every year, the Telluride Film Festival shunned the usual suspects, going out on a limb to inspire and educate.
The Telluride Film Festival is also about making connections. Over the long Labor Day weekend, the tail end of moviedom's so-called popcorn season (Memorial Day – Labor Day), actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, distributers, and buffs chat like long lost friends on Main Street, the Gondola, and in lines, about what gladdened, saddened and maddened.
"District 9" is this week's movie at Telluride's Nugget Theatre. The aliens came to Earth 30 years ago. As it turned out, they were survivors of a dying world, and brought neither the threat of interplanetary war nor wonderful technological advances, so they were consigned to a refugee camp in South Africa while the world decided what to do with them.
Impatience with this situation comes to a head as a multi-national company with no reason except profit to care about the creatures under its control, looks for ways to profit from the responsibility it has undertaken.
The movie is rated R for violience and language. Check the Nugget website for reviews and trailers. See below for movie times.