Mother’s Day: Kids and kids-at-heart are invited to attend the 5th Annual Children’s Film Festival. Show time is Sunday, May 13, 4 p.m., at the Michael D. Palm Theatre. The program, produced by the Telluride Film Festival, is FREE and the running time is 90 minutes. This year’s presentation includes short films from the Chicago…
“Sunday at the Palm” presents “Earth” (2007). “This ‘earth’ is beautiful and worthwhile,” wrote Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times about Disney’s “Earth,” a high definition documentary that is essentially a compilation of the best footage from the breathtaking Discovery Channel series “Planet Earth.” Narrated by James Earl Jones, who can’t help but lend…
Telluride Film Festival (August 31 – September 3, 2012), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries in all categories including student, short and feature length films. Submission period begins April 15, 2012. Telluride Film Festival 2012 Film Entry Form is available for download at www.telluridefilmfestival.org. Shorts and student film submissions must…
TIO contributor Mark Stevens discusses and compares two documentary films, The Hobart Shakespearians and The Wild Parrot of Telegraph Hill. From: The Department of Nourishment for the Soul To: All Fans of Inspiring Documentaries Re: Rafe Esquith & Mark Bittner Outliers and oddities both, two documentary films, The Hobart Shakespearians and The Wild Parrots of…
“Gorgeous to watch! Go for the fantasy, stay for the art,” Los Angeles Times Created from a gobsmacking 500,000 hand-painted frames of animated wonder inspired by Van Gogh, Monet and Cezanne, the second feature from director Jacques-Remy Girard, “Mia and the Migoo,” (2008), is in itself a work of art. The story focuses on a…
Event is a double-header, Monday and Tuesday nights, 5:30 p.m. Drumroll please. This is the grand finale of the Ciao Cinema! segment of Cinematheque, a cinema club and joint venture between the Telluride Film Festival and the five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The six-part Italian series, programmed by Telluride Film Festival Director Gary Meyer, has been…
Regardless of who goes home with the gold at this year’s Oscars tomorrow night, the winner is the buzzmeister extraordinaire: the Telluride Film Festival. The directors of the Telluride Film Festival, first founders Bill and Stella Pence, and now Tom Luddy, also a co-founder, with Gary Meyer and Julia Huntsinger are renowned for sticking cotton…
Sunday at The Palm features award-winning animation Academy-Award-nominated French animator Dominque Monfery celebrates the joy of reading in his animated adventure, “Eleanor’s Secret,” (2009). The story centers around Nat, a young boy who discovers he has inherited a magical library from his beloved but eccentric Aunt Eleanor. Nat has lovely memories of his aunt reading…
It’s complicated. Just how complicated? A plot summary would require many too many marks on the page. Besides, cineaste and critic Roger Ebert did a yeoman job of same in a Sunday New York Times review from 2008. Google it if you want the whole story. In essence, what Ebert describes is an epic film…
“Sunday at the Palm” presents “Make Believe” Documentary (2010) with Live Magician The first Telluride Film Festival Sunday at the Palm SHOW of 2012 has a little something special for filmgoers who love all things magic. Before this month’s screening of “Make Believe” (2010, 88 min.), a critically acclaimed film hailed by Roger Ebert as…
