Author Archives: Susan Viebrock

“EB” BRINGS “TRUE DELTA” BLUES TO MOUNTAIN FILM

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Editor’s note: Multi-media happening includes documentary, music and musicians, and an  exhibit of still photography by Mike Scanlan. “True Delta” screens Friday, May 25, 9:15 p.m., Nugget Theatre and again on Sunday, May 27, 4 p.m., Masons Hall. Photos on display at the Kamruz Gallery during Mountainfilm’s Gallery Walk, Friday, May 25, starting at 3:30…

“DARWIN,” THE FILM, FEATURED AT MOUNTAINFILM

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Editor’s Note: Nick Brandestini’s  “Darwin” screens twice at Mountainfilm in Telluride: Saturday, May 26, 12 p.m., The Nugget Theatre and Sunday, May 27, 10 a.m., Masons Hall Are these folks really the fittest? Start with Monty, a salty old miner, who, with the help of his firecracker wife, Nancy, emerges from a violent history to…

TELLURIDE ARTS: TWENTY (BY) TELLURIDE, 5/23

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Twenty(by)Telluride is a fun and creative gathering produced by Telluride Arts and held throughout the year at venues around town and in Mountain Village. Twenty(by)Telluride is designed to showcase the innovation, knowledge and ideas of members of our community through very short, fast-paced presentations: presenters are asked to adhere to a strict format of 20…

ROCKEFELLER’S “MISSION OF MERMAIDS” AT MOUNTAINFILM

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Editor’s Note: “Mission of Mermaids is scheduled to screen twice: Saturday, May 26, Nugget Theatre and Sunday, May 27, High Camp (Telluride Conference Center), 9:30 a.m. “Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that…

CHASING BALOG “CHASING ICE,” AT MOUNTAINFILM 2012

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Editor’s Note: James Balog is everywhere you want to be at Mountainfilm in Telluride. In-person appearances include the following: Images from Extreme Ice Survey at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art during the weekend kick-off, Gallery Walk, 3:30 – 6:30 p.m., Friday, May 25. Balog takes part in a Coffee Talk at Honga’s Lotus Petal,…

“PLASTIKI” FEATURED AT MOUNTAIN FILM

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“Plastiki” screens Saturday, May 26, 9.pm. and Sunday, May 27, 12 p.m., Sheridan Opera House In a way, David de Rothschild’s “Plastiki,” the documentary, is a response to to a Sixties pop phenomenon, another film, “The Graduate.” In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate, gets cornered at a party by a…

NEW KEN BURNS FILM FEATURED AT MOUNTAINFILM 2012

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Editor’s note: “The Dust Bowl,” 120 minutes, Part 1, The Palm, Saturday, May 26, 9:30 a.m., Wilkinson Public LIbrary, Saturday, May 26, 8:30 p.m. Part 2, The Nugget, Sunday, 11:45 a.m., Monday, May 28, Masons, 9:15 a.m. Co-producer Julie Dunfey of Ken Burns’s team is in town with the film. Telluride boasts two film festivals…

MOUNTAIN FILM: “CRITICAL MASS” FEATURED

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Editor’s Note: Documentary’s theme, population explosion, the subject of a Mountainfilm Moving Mountains Symposium, Friday, May 25 We like to put “mental” back in “environmental”: John B. Calhoun Mountainfilm in Telluride 2012 opens with a bang. That would be the sound of the population bomb exploding. Among the celebrated guests at the Moving Mountains Symposium…

TELLURIDE AUTHOR WINS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

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The Independent Publishers Association awarded Telluride-based author R.J. (Bob) Rubadeau the Bronze Medal for Fiction in the Mountain West Region of the United States for his recently published (Beacon Hill, 2012) “The Fat Man: A Telluride Murder Mystery.” The prestigious international competition celebrates the Best Fiction and Best Non-Fiction books submitted by independent publishers from…

TIO DENVER: SAFE BET(TS) & “SIGHTLINE” 

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Public events of epic proportions orchestrated by Plus Gallery Want to know who’s helping to light the fuse in Denver’s exploding art world? Follow the breadcrumbs. They will take you directly to the door of the Plus Gallery, 2501 Larimer, where director Ivar Zeile works his magic. Burgeoning powerhouse William Betts is featured at Plus…