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Festivals 

Telluride Film Festival 2026 Overview (Part One) – Diane Carson reports

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Familiar issues of cultural and national politics with the accompanying struggle for personal freedom and identity dominated the outstanding films showcased at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival, always held Labor Day weekend in Telluride, Colorado. Nonfiction and fiction, American and international, historical and contemporary—all the selections offered strong presentations of themes and concerns relevant to the current ideological environment.

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Reviews 

RIVER – Review by Liz Braun

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Mother was right — you really can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. It certainly works for River, a visually spectacular documentary about the earth’s waterways that delivers a powerful environmental message by leading with positive images. River introduces the absolute magnificence of the rivers of this world, seducing a viewer with remarkable footage and inspiring an appreciation of the natural world before bringing down the hammer.

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Movie of the Week Reviews 

MOUNTAIN — Review by Diane Carson

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Mountain is a visual exploration of gorgeous landscapes with the pervasive presence of people. As such, it provides more a visceral experience than any kind of analytical or narrative work, beyond the musings provided in excerpts of British mountaineer Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind. Mountain will appeal primarily to those who love adventure and aren’t looking for a character-driven story—there is none. In a most apt observation, Dafoe says, The mountains we climb are not made only of rock and ice, but also dreams and desire. I can’t help but wonder what some of these men and women pursue, but these locations offer a gorgeous place to do it.

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Movie of the Week Reviews 

MOVIE OF THE WEEK May 11, 2018: MOUNTAIN

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The word “majestic” doesn’t do justice to the stunning visuals in Jennifer Peedom’s documentary “Mountain” — but it’s quite possible that no word is up to the task of capturing this film’s sweeping, monumental imagery. When combined with the gravitas of Willem Dafoe’s narration and the power of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s score (composed by Richard Tognetti), the result is a movie that begs to be seen on the largest, highest-definition screen available.

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MOUNTAIN – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

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Documentarian Jennifer Peedom follows up her marvelous 2015 film Sherpa with another, and very different, perspective on the most soaring elements of our planet’s geography. Mountain is a meditative contemplation on the allure and the mystery, the provocation and the danger of the world’s highest peaks, as places but also as ideas. The perceptive and poetic narration, written by Peedom and Robert Macfarlane and voiced by Willem Dafoe, is full of beauty.

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