lowe's Up Hig
A Detroit native has ascended to the top — at the Telluride Film Festival.
LYNNE KONSTANTIN STAFF WRITER
ohn Waters says you've got to have a in 1972 (two years before the first Telluride
hook. We have one," says Lynn Rae Film Festival), then moved back to Col-
orado. This time, though, she headed for
Lowe.
Lowe is one of five directors of events Telluride.
She spent 17 years there, raising her
and design at the Telluride Film Festival,
held in Telluride, Colo., a small south- , children and working as events coordina-
western town nestled between the moun- for for the city of Telluride. "When my el-
tains , which means you have to take a dest son, Bradley, was 18, he said he didn't
helicopter to get there. And, Lowe is a De- want to go to college in a small town. He
grew up in one; he wanted a broader ex-
troit native:.
Beginning her illustrious career at Hamp- perience." So Lowe andther family headed
ton Elementary School in Detroit, the for- to Tucson, Ariz.
"I thought it would be easy to find a job
mer Lynn Rae Cohn, the daughter of Sidney
and
an Beverly Cohn of West Bloomfield, also similar to the one I had in Telluride, one
attended Mumford High School, then went involved in the arts," says Lowe. But it
on to the University of Colorado in Denver. wasn't. So Lowe decided to go back to school
and finish her bachelor of fine arts in mixed
"I majored in marriage," she laughs.
She left school before graduating, mar- media, which she received cum laude.
But Lowe kept up her contacts with the
ried her high-school sweetheart in Detroit
j
Jodie Foster takes a break at the Telluride Film
Festival's Labor Day picnic, one of the events
planned by Lynn Rae Lowe.
with festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, star-
Venice, attendees of Montreal have included ring Ian Holm. North American premiere
Laura Dern, Robert Altman, Alain Delon, ofLA. Confidential, starring Kevin Spacey,
Gerard Depardieu, Clint Eastwood, Jeanne Kim Basinger; Vera Belmont's Marquise,
Moreau, Marcello Mastroniani, Liv Ull- starring Sophie Marceau. World premiere'
mann, Jennifer Jason Leigh. 1996's Career of Marleen Gorris'Mrs. Dalloway, starring
Excellence Award went to Nicolas Cage. Vanessa Redgrave. National Cinema pro-
Premieres have included Japan's Sleeping gram, a festival mainstay since the mid-
'80s.
Man, Intimate Relations, Citizen Ruth.
Tickets: Festival passes range from
Festival future: Not yet released.
$219.35 for up to 50 films to $9.63 for in-
Tickets: Not yet available.
Box office: 1432 Bleury St., Montreal, Que- dividual films. Cumberland Terrace, Main
Box office:
bec, Canada H3A 2J1
Level, 2 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario
Contact: (514) 848-3883; fax, (514) 848-
M4W 3E2
3886
Contact: (416) 967-7371; fax, (416) 967-
Web site: http://www.ffm-montreal.org
1595
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What it is: 24TH TELLURIDE FILM Web site: http://www.bell.ca/toronto/film
fest/
FESTIVAL
When it is: Aug. 29-Sept. 1
What it is: 17TH ANNUAL BRECK-
Festivals past: Located in southwestern ENRIDGE FESTIVAL OF FILM
Colorado, at an altitude of 8,745 feet. Pre- When it is: Sept. 18-21, 1997
mieres and attendees have included Trevor
Festivals past: Located in a 130-year-old
Nunn and Helena Bonham Carter with Victorian
town 90 miles west of Denver in
Secrets
and
Twelfth Night, Mike Leigh with
the Rocky Mountains. Last year's festival
Lies, Breaking the Waves, Kolya, The Pi- included premieres of Charles Matthau's
ano, The Crying Game, My Left Foot. Past The Grass Harp; Infinity, directed by and
attending honorees have included Gloria starring Matthew Broderick; When I Was
Swanson, Werner Herzog, Harvey Keitel. 14: A Survivor Remembers; Some Mother's
Festival future: Kept secret until Open- Son.
ing Day.
Festival future: Carroll Baker, star of Elia
Tickets: Ranging from Patron's Pass, Kazan's Baby Doll, will be this year's Hon-
$1,875, to Festival Pass, $450.
ored Guest. Honorary Board of Directors
Box office: National Film Preserve Ltd., include Jeffrey Lyons, Alan Arkin, James
Box 1156, Hanover, NH 03755
Earl Jones, Eva Marie-Saint.
Contact: (603) 643-1255; fax (603) 643- Tickets: Range from $110 for VIP Pass to
5938
$6 for general admission tickets.
Web site: http:/telluridemm.com/film - Box office: P.O. Box 718, Breckenridge,
fest.html
CO 80424; or-festival headquarters: River-
walk Center.
What it is: TORONTO INTERNA- Contact: (970) 453-6200; fax, (970) 453-
TIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1997
2692
When it is: Sept. 4-13, 1997
Web
site: httpi/www.brecknet.com/
Festivals past: World premieres have in- bff/home.html
cluded That Thing You Do! , Shine, Leav-
ing Las Vegas, The Crying Game. Guests
have included Tom Hanks, Whoopie Gold- What it is: 34TH NEW YORK FILM
FESTIVAL
berg, Hugh Grant, Albert Brooks.
Festival future: Canadian premiere of When it is: Sept. 26-Oct. 12, 1997
city of Telluride. Spending winters in Ari-
zona and summers in Colorado, LoWe, as
director of events and design for the Tel-
luride Film Festival, is responsible for the
visual aspects of what makes the festival
unique.
"Any event happening outside the the-
ater is my responsibility," she says. "I think
I've done a good job and I'm proud of that.
We have fantastic programming, a won-
derful staff and the festival has a look that
is unique.
"You can walk down the street and bump
into this great Chinese director whose work
influenced your life. And he's right there,
walking down the street," explains Lowe.
"There is a magic, and that's why we're
different than most of the small-town fes-
tivals. It is unique in its existence." ❑
Festivals past: Premieres and attendees
have included Catherine Deneuve and
Daniel Auteuil's Les Voleurs, Mike Leigh,
Richard Linklater.
Festival future: Opening night will fea-
ture Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, starring
Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver,
Elijah Wood.
Tickets: Available to the public in Sep-
tember. ,
Box office:Alice Tully Hall, Broadway and
56th Street, New York, NY
Contact: (212) 875-5050
Web site: http://www.filmlinc.com/
nyffhtm
What it is: 33RD CHICAGO INTER-
NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
When it is: Oct. 9-19, 1997
Festivals past: Premieres and attendees
have included Jennifer Beals, Garry Mar-
shall and Jon Tenney with Twilight of the
Golds, Daniel Auteuil with The Eighth
Day, Scott Hicks and Geoffrey Rush with
Shine, Billy Bob Thornton'and Dwight
Yoakam with Sling Blade, director Judit
Elek with To Speak the Unspeakable: The
Message of Elie Wiesel, Tom Cruise, Oliv-
er Stone, Jodie Foster, Kim Novak, Blake
Edwards.
Festival future: Net yet available.
Tickets: Ranging from the Tour the Fest
Pass, $250, to individual tickets, $8.
Box office: 32 W. Randolph St., Ste. 600,
Chicago, IL 60601.
Contact: (312) 332-FILM; fax, (312) 425-
0944
Web site: http://www.chicago. ddbn.com/
filmfest/
On our JN Arts & Entertainment cov-
er: Sabrina Boudot stars in Nick and
Rachel, playing at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival. Written and di-
rected by Zalisa Rabin, the film depicts
a Chasidic girl and her friendship with
a gentile boy who conies to work in her
father's shop,
A Gathering Of
Jewish Film Festivals
What Toronto Jewish Film Festival
When: May 7-14, 1998
Contact: (416) 324-8600
Web site: www.web-sights.com/tjff
What: 14th Israel Film Festival: New
York and Los Angeles
When: LA: Nov. 5-20; N.Y.: Dec. 9-23,
1997
Contact: (213) 966-4166
Web site: http://www.bway.netilsrael/
What: Boston Jewil Film Festival
When: Nov. 6-16, 1997
Contact: (617) 899-3834
Web site: bjff.cyways.com
What: Portland Jewish Film Festival ,
When: Jan. 9-Feb. 9, 1998
Contact: (503) 221 1156
Web site: www.nwfilm/—nwfihn
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