Wisdom of Nuggets

It is Memorial Day Monday noon and the festival is winding down. The festival will move to Town Park to eat a feast and hear the winning films (which I am sure will be posted at Mountainfilm.org very shortly). Everyone I talked to said it was a really good festival with high quality movies. The Nugget highlights included “Dalai Lama Renaissance” on Saturday morning and Beth and George Gage’s “Our Land, Our Life”. They both had to be repeated this morning in bigger theaters! “The Eiger Sanction” starring Clint Eastwood also sold out at High Camp Cinema at the Mountain Village Conference Center as well as David Breashears “Remnants of Everest”, where, in his introduction, David thanked Jim Bedford for first bringing him to Telluride! From my perspective, behind the Nugget concessions stand, the most popular purchase was “popcorn and bottled water”;)
Summer has started.

This blog is, of course, my thoughts on the movie business. I know what I like and want in the movie experience. But I would like to make the experience better for everyone. So tell me what you like, what have been your favorite movie experiences, how I can improve the Nugget experience. It never hurts to tell me again if something bothered you last year or if the popcorn wasn’t to your taste…anything! For instance the Monday night manager, Sherry, wants me to have Junior Caramels in the cconcessions stand. I’m tempted but I’m afraid I will love them so much I will become addicted. But if she bugs me enough I will give them a try.

What is on your list?

I just saw The Queen again and liked it even more the second time. Helen Mirren deserves every bit of her Oscar for this role. I was captivated. Go see The Queen if you are an anglophile and want to see an inside look at the Royals. Steven Frears sure is getting to be a more accessible director with Mrs. Henderson Presents and now this. What’s not to love?