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15 Jan Telluride & the Oscars: Nominees Announced
True to form an impressive number of films on Oscars’ hit list found the limelight at the Telluride Film Festival, among them, “Birdman,” “The Imitation Game,””Foxcatcher,””Wild,” Salt of the Earth,” “Virunga,” “Wild Tales,” “Leviathan,” and “Mr. Turner.” Here’s the full list from HuffPost Entertainment assembled by Matthew Jacobs. Take that Toronto! “Birdman” and “The...
01 Jan Telluride Foundation: 2015 Grants Announced
The Telluride Foundation has granted over $35 million since its inception. This year, 79 regional organizations received money. Seventy-nine nonprofits will ring in the new year with the news they received a Community Grant from the Telluride Foundation. In its 13th year of giving Community Grants, the...
08 Dec Telluride Choral Society: WinterSing This Weekend
The very thought of it make some people shiver in anticipation; others shiver with angst and cold. Whichever your camp, in America you still own it: whatever its origins – pagan, connected with the winter solstice or Christian, based on the birth stories about Christ...
02 Sep Telluride Film Fest #41: We Lava-ed You
It’s a bird. It’s a plane – not. It’s “Birdman,” a winged version of Superman and all the other hollow comic book super heroes at the center of pow!, wow!, bang, snap, crackle and pop orgies, the “toxic crap” (according to “Birdman’s” fictive New York Times...
28 Aug 41st Annual Telluride Film Festival Announces Program Line-Up
41st edition plays host to 25 new feature films in its main program. Tribute programs honoring Volker Schlöndorff, Hilary Swank and the 35th Anniversary of “Apocalypse Now.” The people who make the popcorn seem to know what they are doing. Let’s give them a hand. And so do...
26 Aug Telluride vs. Toronto: The Battle for Oscar Supremacy
For months now, the kerfuffle between the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival has filled the airwaves and social media outlets. With Labor Day weekend around the corner speculation about which films will screen at our notoriously close-mouthed event is running hot and...
25 Aug Telluride Film Festival 2014: No Pass? Don’t Pass
“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 41st annual Telluride Film Festival officially begins with the start of Labor Day weekend,...
21 Aug Telluride vs. Toronto: The Battle for Oscar Supremacy
Justin Chang, Chief Film Critic at Variety, weighs in on how “Toronto’s divisive new strategy has put Telluride on the defensive as the 2014 fall Film Festival season gets underway.” Healthy, even heated competition between film festivals is nothing new. Cannes was founded in the...