V.F. Camera

MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Over Labor Day weekend, celebrities and film fanatics headed for the picturesque San Juan Mountains for the 25th annual Telluride Film Festival—transforming a small Colorado ski town into a glittering showcase of blockbuster Hollywood talent and rising stars. Silver Medallion recipient Meryl Streep delighted a captive audience at an opening night Q&A; guest director Peter Bogdanovich joined fellowauteurs Bob Rafelson, John Boorman, Michael Ritchie, and Monte Hellman for a survey of their works from 1967 to 1974; Welcome to the Dollhouse director Todd Solondz, who was a member of V.F.'s newdirectors panel, screened his latest film. Happiness; and award-winning documentarian Ken Burns presented his latest effort. Frank Lloyd Wright. Meanwhile, the continuous party on Telluride's main strip— where critics and creators such as Roger Ebert, Rosanna Arquette, Leonard Maltin, Stan Brakhage, Barbet Schroeder, Buck Henry, and Stanley Kauffmann mingled under the stars—assured the former silvermining boomtown's legendary festival a memorable silver anniversary.

KRISTA SMITH