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30/8/2001

Telluride Film Festival

Harold Lloyd’s Rogues’ Gallery, Portsmouth

The Telluride Film Festival will celebrate its’ 28th event over the 2001 Labor Day weekend, Friday August 31 through Monday, September 3. The Festival will feature a special exhibition of the rarely seen Harold lloyd’s Rogues’ Gallery; a collection of photographs which belonged to the legendary comic actor. In addition, a new 500 seat state-of-the-art theater in Telluride will be unveiled, bringing the total number of venues to eight.

28TH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL WILL FEATURE HAROLD LLOYD’S ROGUES’ GALLERY

NEW STATE OF THE ART THEATER WILL BE CHRISTENED

The Telluride Film Festival will celebrate its’ 28th event over the 2001 Labor Day weekend, Friday August 31 through Monday, September 3. The Festival will feature a special exhibition of the rarely seen Harold lloyd’s Rogues’ Gallery; a collection of photographs which belonged to the legendary comic actor. In addition, a new 500 seat state-of-the-art theater in Telluride will be unveiled, bringing the total number of venues to eight.

According to Festival Director Bill Pence, "the story of Harold Lloyd’s Rogues’ Gallery is as unique as the actor himself." Harold Lloyd is ranked alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as a master of silent comedy. Emerging from an impoverished childhood, Lloyd was the most popular comedian in the world by the 1920’s. His distinctive character with the round black-rimmed glasses and straw hat changed the nature of comedy and is beloved to this day. As part of a lavish Christmas party in 1937, Lloyd’s wife Mildred Davis and her friend Marion Davies invited scores of the actor’s prominent friends to send him their favorite portrait of themselves, personally autographed. Nearly 300 arrived, including inscribed photographs of movie stars, sports heroes, U.S. Presidents and numerous celebrities. The portraits were hung in an underground tunnel that led to a gameroom at the couples’ estate Greenacres and were christened "The Rogue’s Gallery"

From Friday, August 30 - Sunday September 16, sixty of these photographs as well as posters and lobby cards from Lloyd’s films will be on exhibit at the Telluride Historical Museum. Included will be photos of such screen stars as Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, Gloria Swanson, and Barbara Stanwyck as well as other renowned figures including Thomas Edison and Walt Disney. Selections from this collection have only been on display to the public once before. The exhibit will be free to the public and will kick off with a champagne opening reception on Friday afternoon from 3-5 pm. Harold Lloyd’s Rogues’ Gallery is sponsored by John Hardy and Mumm Cuvee Napa with additional support from the Telluride Historical Museum and Telluride Gallery of Fine Art.

As always, the program of films and seminars for the Festival will be kept a closely guarded secret until opening day.

The Festival will also unveil a new venue in the town of Telluride "The Galaxy". Featuring state-of-the-art presentation with Digital Projection and full Dolby Stereo Sound, the theater will accommodate nearly 500 passholders with partial stadium seating. "We are pleased to open a new theater in Telluride that will increase the Festival’s seating by a third," said Pence. "This theater will be ‘where the stars shine’".

Last year, the 27th Festival’s widely praised program of new films, retrospectives and foreign films included many Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated performances and productions including SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON as well as two Academy Award nominated short films, BY COURIER and ONE DAY CROSSING plus tributes to Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated director Ang Lee, critically acclaimed Korean director Im Kwon Taek and actor Stellan Skarsgard The program also included the entire twenty hours of Ken Burns’ JAZZ, Liv Ullmann’s much talked about directorial offering FAITHLESS, Al Pacino personally presenting his CHINESE COFFEE and participating in a once-in-a-lifetime seminar with fellow actors Willem Dafoe, Angela Bassett, Stellan Skarsgard, and Lena Andre held outdoors and open to the public.

Every year, the Telluride Film Festival, which takes place in a beautiful old mining town high in the Colorado Rockies, attracts a very sympathetic gathering of film lovers and filmmakers, and has become known as the world’s most intimate and "special" film festival. The hallmark of the Festival is its unique program which incorporates premieres of new motion pictures, restored treasures rescued from film vaults, foreign films that may never be shown again in this country and breakthrough shorts and feature length films. At the heart of the Festival each year are Tributes presented to distinguished talents of the art of film. In addition, festival goers are offered numerous opportunities to interact with filmmakers through conversation, panel discussions, and question and answer sessions.

The 2001 Festival Pass is $500 and allows access to all screenings and festival events. The Silver Patron Pass is available for $2500 and admits the bearer to attend all of the films, tributes, parties and events of the festival, with priority seating privileges at the festival’s four largest theatres. The Acme Pass can be purchased for $250 and provides admission to all film programs in Chuck Jones’ Cinema plus two films in town and one of the Festival’s two major eating events.

To purchase tickets or for more information telephone (603)433-9202, fax (603)433-9206 or e-mail tellufilm@aol.com. For assistance with air travel, lodging, and information on the Los Angeles-Montrose charter, contact Telluride & Mountain Village Visitor Services at (888)871-3646.

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