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“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…

“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…

MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE: 2012 FILM SELECTIONS

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Editor’s Note: Telluride Inside… and Out covered the following films in detail. Watch for our upcoming coverage of “Bidder 70,” “Chasing Ice,” “Big in Bollywood,” and “Darwin.” Mountainfilm in Telluride holds its 34th annual festival over Memorial Day Weekend, May 25- May 28, with a program of roughly 70 films and, as always, an eclectic roster of…

MOUNTAIN FILM: LOCAL AVY DOGS TO HIT THE BIG SCREEN

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“Lady B’s First Winter”  is scheduled to screen at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday May 26th at High Camp and Monday May 28th at the Michael D. Palm Theater as part of the Kidz Kino beginning at 11a.m. Locals and visitors alike love Telluride MountainFilm Festival because it allows us to explore critical issues and faraway places right…

DAY TRIP TO A WORLD CULTURAL TREASURE

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“The world’s best documented case of the Neolithic Revolution, is in our own backyard: southwestern Colorado’s Mesa Verde region!” said Erica Kinias, Telluride Historical Museum executive director. Mesa Verde is part of the homeland of the Pueblo Indians who continue to live in New Mexico and Arizona today. The region in southwestern Colorado is also…

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…