TELLURIDE TALKS: Morten Tyldum, director of “The Imitation Game”
Earlier this year, I had the distinct pleasure to attend the Student Symposium at the Telluride Film Festival. As a part of this program, I had the privilege to partake in small group discussions with...
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Telluride Film Festival On the page, Cheryl Strayed’s memoir “Wild” is nothing particularly noteworthy. While she tells her story of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with raw honesty, the book is often...
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Telluride Film Festival It is fairly common for a director to choose a protagonist that they identify with to some degree – after all, why devote years of your life to telling someone’s story if you...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Imitation Game
Telluride Film Festival As if the subject of “The Imitation Game” – a tender British soul misunderstood as an incompetent and bumbling fool – weren’t enough to draw comparisons to “The King’s Speech,”...
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Telluride Film Festival When I was in eighth grade, I had the remarkable opportunity to hear a Holocaust survivor recount his experiences surviving the cruelty of the Nazis. After his speech was over...
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Telluride Film Festival When I spent last fall in London, I often found myself wandering the halls of art museums (largely since they boasted free admission). Quite often, I would walk past a painting...
View ArticleTelluride Film Festival Diary, Day 4
9:30 A.M.: Nothing says “Happy Monday morning!” quite like a film on genocide in Indonesia! Time for Josh Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence,” his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Act...
View ArticleTelluride Film Festival Diary, Day 3
8:30 A.M.: Up early to talk with Mike Leigh and then hit up one of my most anticipated films of the festival – the Marion Cotillard-starring “Two Days, One Night.” 11:30 A.M.: Floored by “Two Days,...
View ArticleTelluride Film Festival Diary, Day 2
9:15 A.M. Good morning from Telluride! Looks like today is going to be an action-packed day of moviegoing and talking with filmmakers. I had to be up for a discussion at the ripe hour of 7:15 A.M....
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Telluride Film Festival Fascination with portraying a particular kind of relationship on screen is not necessarily a bad thing – just look at how many compelling films Martin Scorsese has turned out...
View ArticleTelluride Film Festival Diary, Day 1
12:45 P.M.: TGIF, everyone! I’m headed into a packed day that will have me at some incredible events. For all those who are really dying to know, here’s the schedule I’ve been given for the...
View ArticleTelluride Film Festival Diary, Day -1
1:39 P.M.: Hello everyone! I’m typing this on my phone in a limo (read: dinky beat up van that calls itself a limo) somewhere in southwest Colorado on my way to the Telluride Film Festival! For those...
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