Just like Vegas, Telluride Film Festival has an unspoken ethos: “What happens in — stays in —.” While part of me wants to keep all of its secrets to myself, I can’t help but become an open book when it comes to talking about Telluride and its infamously exclusive film festival. In both 2022 and … Read more
The last time I went to the Telluride Film Festival it was under vastly different circumstances. Back in 2021, the film world (along with the rest of the planet) was still grappling with the effects of the pandemic’s worst stretches. To attend that year, you needed to be vaccinated and have a negative COVID test. … Read more
The Telluride Film Festival historically incorporates a fair number of documentary features and shorts alongside the main attraction, narrative features. This year, the documentary programming was thoughtfully political, and the selections thematically aligned well with the narrative features. This permitted my personal programming to have its own common thread and for synchronicities to shine. The … Read more
I don’t want to say that this Telluride Film Festival has been more “political” this year than in the past, if only because political is such a broad term, but there have been more pictures aware of the effect we have on each other and on the world at this 51st edition of the festival … Read more
There is always abundant suspense in the Telluride Film Festival (TFF) lineup; it’s kept secret until the Thursday before the festival. This year, for its 51st edition, TFF’s programming has a heavy emphasis on exposing and exploring some of the extreme realities we’re experiencing politically and socially. Telluride’s curation is extraordinary. I find that the … Read more
Being an avid cinephile, attending a film festival has always been a gift of epic proportions. That gift is amplified by being able to share that love of cinema with thousands of fans in the mountains of Colorado at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. As someone who grew up fairly close to the Ozark Mountains … Read more
Both the Venice Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival has been host to a number of well-received films. As the 51st Telluride Film Festival winds down and the 81st Venice Film Festival kicks off, both have been – as expected – host to a number of highly anticipated films, a good chunk of which … Read more
Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night — which depicts the events leading up to the first episode of SNL — is earning raves out of Telluride. Live from Telluride, it’s Saturday Night! Appropriately enough, Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night debuted on, well, Saturday Night at the Telluride Film Festival. For fans of SNL, this is one of the … Read more
“A Tribute to Wim Wenders” was held in the Chuck Jones Theater and began with a retrospective short film of his work. His photography and unique filming style were presented in a series of films, “Paris Texas” (1984), “Wings of Desire” (1987), “Pina” (2011) and “Buena Vista Social Club” (1989), and “Salt of the Earth” … Read more
Jeff Nichols’ latest, The Bikeriders, is earning a lot of acclaim following its debut at the Telluride Film Festival. The 50th Telluride Film Festival is underway, with Jeff Nichols’ latest, The Bikeriders, setting the pace with rave reviews all around, with some even saying it is now officially part of the Oscar discussion. Now, where’s … Read more