Pence, along with his fellow co-founders, created a world-class film festival that helped put Telluride on the map. He has died at age 82.
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A movie about politics, lies, corruption and greed still resonates 80 years later
Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is an election-season reminder that democracy matters
Posted inSunLit Interviews
Teow Lim Goh’s “Western Journeys” grew from her earliest attempts at writing
It took Teow Lim Goh 15 years of trial and error before she settled on the collection of pieces that chronicled her self-discovery.
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SunLit Interview: In Bruce Lee, author Daryl Maeda found a “badass dude” he could embrace
Daryl Joji Maeda is dean and vice provost of undergraduate education and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of “Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee,” as well as “Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America” and “Rethinking the Asian American Movement.” A sansei (third-generation […]
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Telluride’s Original Thinkers festival is aimed at allowing us to “move forward in this confounding world”
It’s been a hard year everywhere. That weighed heavily on David Holbrooke as he mapped out a plan for the fourth annual Original Thinkers festival, which returns to Telluride Sept. 30 – Oct. 3 after a year of virtual offerings. “Yes we look at some serious issues, but this is meant to be a festival […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Silverman: A fond farewell to Charles Grodin, forever the Heartbreak Kid
Manhattan-based accountant Allen Weisselberg must be a wreck. Weisselberg and his family’s welfare are threatened. As bookkeeper for Fred Trump and then his wayward son, Weisselberg knows Trump’s financial shenanigans. Law enforcement encourages accountants to turn on crooked clients. Mobsters hate that. In the entertaining movie, “Midnight Run” (1990), accountant Jonathan “the Duke” Mardukas turned […]
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Movshovitz: The coronavirus pandemic will inspire filmmakers, but we’ll have to wait a while to see
Movies are not a popular art for nuthin’. They may not appear to take on serious aspects of our lives at the moment they hit the screens, but what’s going on in the world registers in all sorts of ways, both obvious and opaque. Great and traumatic events — hot world wars, cold wars, financial […]
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Original Thinkers plans “an ingenious heist of people’s brains”
Not long ago, a friend observed David Holbrooke, founder of Telluride’s Original Thinkers Festival, at his post — leading troops and extinguishing assorted fires. Impressed by Holbrooke’s multitasking, the friend praised him as the “ringmaster” of his festival’s circus. Holbrooke replied that he prefers a similar, yet not-identical title: “Yeah, OK,” he said. “But think […]
Posted inArts, COVID, Culture, News
Telluride Film Festival canceled due to coronavirus
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press NEW YORK — The Telluride Film Festival, the annual film retreat held in the Colorado mountains and one of the fall movie season’s top launching pads, has been canceled. Organizers said Tuesday that the festival’s 47th edition, scheduled for Labor Day weekend, was scuttled entirely due to the coronavirus […]
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Opinion: Nazi tactics? In these coronavirus times, find inspiration from an era when fear and uncertainty fell from the skies
Coloradans, like others around the country, are growing restless amid the stay-at-home orders across the state. Gov. Jared Polis — the state’s first Jewish governor — delivered an emotional response this week to a prominent Republican who accused officials of using Nazi tactics to shut down the state. President Donald Trump has compared the struggle […]