Movies

September, 1998

"If you screen it, they will come." That slogan might well describe the success of the Telluride Film Festival, the hippest and most enjoyable event of its kind in the country. But it was hardly a sure bet when Bill and Stella Pence (with Tom Luddy) launched this cinematic get-together near their remote Colorado home 25 years ago. Telluride had not yet been discovered by Oprah and Tom Cruise, it didn't have an airstrip and the nearest airport was 67 miles away--125 miles if you refused...