Here's the link for the lineup of films announced for the 40th Telluride Film Festival today:
http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/
40th
Anniversary Program Line-up
We are proud to announce official
program selections for the 40th anniversary edition of Telluride Film Festival.
TFF’s annual celebration of artistic excellence brings together, cinema
enthusiasts, filmmakers and artists to discover the best in world cinema in the
beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. TFF will screen more than 100
feature films, short films and revivals representing twenty-five countries,
along with special artist Tributes, Conversations, Panels, Education Programs
and Festivities.
In honor of its 40th anniversary,
the usual four-day Telluride Film Festival has an additional day of programming
and takes place Thursday, August 29 - Monday, September 2,
2013.
In celebration of their
contributions to Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and the
40th anniversary of Telluride Film Festival, Punch Brothers will
perform. The performance will include songs featured in several of T Bone
Burnett and the Coen Brothers’ collaborations, including songs from the
soundtrack of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. The concert will be tonight, Wednesday,
August 28 at 5:00 pm in Telluride Town Park.
Telluride Film Festival is honored
to present the Werner Herzog Theatre, the fourth
cineaste for whom the Festival has named a theatre. Situated in Telluride’s
Town Park Pavilion, the Werner Herzog Theatre is the Festival’s most
technologically advanced theatre accommodating 650 pass holders. Chuck Jones,
Abel Gance and Pierre Rissient also share this tribute.
The past 40 years have seen
Telluride Film Festival mixing highly anticipated award hopefuls with the films
of talented emerging filmmakers and auteurs from around the globe. First-time
filmmakers discovered at TFF include Terry Zwigoff, Jim Jarmusch, Billy Bob
Thornton, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Moore, Doug Liman, Jon Favreau, Andrea
Arnold, Lodge Kerrigan, Robert Luketic and Sarah Gavron. In addition, TFF has previewed
numerous films that have generated wins at the Oscars® in recent years,
including FOG OF WAR, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, THE LIVES OF OTHERS, BABEL, THE LAST
KING OF SCOTLAND, JUNO, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, UP IN THE AIR, THE KING’S SPEECH,
BLACK SWAN, A SEPARATION, THE ARTIST, THE DESCENDANTS and ARGO.
“This year’s 40th anniversary is a
celebration of what Telluride Film Festival has accomplished over the past four
decades, as well as what we are doing now and forty years from now” said
Telluride Film Festival Executive Director Julie Huntsinger. We are committed
to presenting groundbreaking films with the world’s most preeminent talent in
technologically advanced, state-of the art facilities including the brand new
Werner Herzog Theatre. We look forward to continuing to explore the future in
cinema through current masters of the art form and breakthrough talents.”
40th Telluride Film Festival is
proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program,
the ‘SHOW’:
• ALL IS LOST (d. J.C.
Chandor, U.S., 2013)
• BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL (d. Philippe
Claudel, France, 2013)
• BETHLEHEM (d. Yuval
Adler, Israel, 2013)
• BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (d.
Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 2013)
• BURNING BUSH (d.
Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic, 2013)
• DEATH ROW: BLAINE MILAM + ROBERT
FRATTA (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2013)
• FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS (d. Mitra
Farahani, U.S., 2013)
• THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME
TO EDEN (d. Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, U.S., 2013)
• GLORIA (d.
Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2013)
• GRAVITY (d. Alfonso
Cuarón, U.S./U.K., 2013)
• IDA (d. Pawel
Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013)
• INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (d. Joel and
Ethan Coen, U.S., 2013)
• THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (d. Ralph
Fiennes, U.K., 2013)
• LABOR DAY (d. Jason
Reitman, U.S., 2013)
• THE LUNCHBOX (d. Ritesh
Batra, India, 2013)
• LA MAISON DE LA RADIO (d. Nicolas
Philibert, France, 2013)
• MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN (d. Mohammad
Rasoulof, Iran, 2013)
• THE MISSING PICTURE (d. Rithy
Panh, Cambodia/France, 2013)
• NEBRASKA (d.
Alexander Payne, U.S., 2013)
• PALO ALTO (d. Gia
Coppola, U.S., 2013)
• THE PAST (d. Asghar
Farhadi, France/Italy, 2013)
• SLOW FOOD STORY (d. Stefano
Sardo, Italy, 2013)
• STARRED UP (d. David
Mackenzie, U.K., 2013)
• TIM’S VERMEER (d. Teller,
U.S., 2013)
• TRACKS (d. John
Curran, Australia, 2013)
• UNDER THE SKIN (d. Jonathan
Glazer, U.K., 2013)
• THE UNKNOWN KNOWN (d. Errol
Morris, U.S., 2013)
Additional Sneak Previews may play
outside the main program and will be announced over the course of the five-day
weekend.
“During its 40 years Telluride has
brought together established filmmakers and those about to be discovered to
celebrate together the joys of great cinema,” commented Festival Artistic
Director Gary Meyer. “This year is especially exciting because of the many
wonderful movies we were able to consider and then program, and also
frustrating given the amount we could not fit into the program. Our
selection of classics this year is truly rich as we celebrate the past, present
and future of the art.”
Since its inception in 1974,
Telluride Film Festival has paid tribute to numerous influential filmmakers and
artists. Gloria Swanson, Francis Ford Coppola and Leni Riefenstahl were the
first to be honored, and forty years later the prestigious list has grown to include
Pedro Almodovar, Claudia Cardinale, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Daniel
Day-Lewis, Catherine Deneuve, Laura Linney, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Jodie
Foster, Stephen Frears, Werner Herzog, Isabelle Huppert, Jack Nicholson, Jean
Simmons, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Agnes Varda to name
a few.
Joining that list, the 2013 Silver
Medallion Awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant
contribution to the world of cinema, go to Grammy and Oscar-winning music
producer T Bone Burnett and
Oscar-winning filmmakers the Coen Brothers, whose four
collaborations together include THE BIG LEBOWSKI, LADYKILLERS, O BROTHER, WHERE
ART THOU? and INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS with a
90-minute program featuring a musical performance by the Americans, a clip reel
with scenes from the collaborations and an onstage interview; Iranian director Mohammad
Rasoulof (THE TWILIGHT, THE WHITE MEADOWS, GOODYBE) presenting
his latest film, MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN. The
program includes a selection of clips followed by the presentation of the
Silver Medallion and onstage interview; and Oscar-winning director, actor,
producer Robert Redford (ALL THE
PRESIDENT’S MEN, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID) who stars in the TFF
selection ALL IS LOST. The program includes a selection
of clips showcasing the range of performances during his career, followed by
the presentation of the Silver Medallion and an onstage interview.
“When I joined James Card and Bill
Pence to start the Telluride Film Festival, we wanted to make tributes,
retrospectives and revivals central to the Festival” said Co-founding Artistic
Director Tom Luddy. “40 years later, Julie, Gary and I are still able to
present a show which focuses on film artistry and preservation. This is
something I’m very proud of. The fact that there is still a large audience for
it makes me believe in the future of the cinema.”
For each of the past 25 years,
Telluride Film Festival directors have selected a Guest Director to serve as a
key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas
and overlooked films to light. Donald Richie, to whom the Festival is
dedicated, had the first honor in 1988 and has been followed by many notable
collaborators including Laurie Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, John Boorman, J.P.
Gorin, Edith Kramer, Errol Morris, Alexander Payne, Peter Sellars, Stephen
Sondheim, Bertrand Tavernier and Slavoj Zizek, among others.
This year, Telluride Film Festival
invites six past Guest Directors to return with new programs: novelist Don
Delillo (TFF 2006) presents LA MORTE ROUGE (d. Victor Erice, Spain, 2006) and
analyzes the 26-second ZAPRUDER film; screenwriter, director Buck Henry (TFF
2005) presents the “director’s cut” of THE TERMINAL MAN (d. Mike Hodge, U.S.,
1972); writer Phillip Lopate (TFF 1995) presents NAKED CHILDHOOD (d. Maurice
Pialat, France, 1969) with Pialat’s short, LOVE EXISTS (France, 1960); novelist
Michael Ondaatje (TFF 2010) presents short films LA JETÉE (d. Chris Marker,
France, 1962) and ELEPHANT (d. Alan Clarke, U.K., 1989); film scholar, curator
and author B. Ruby Rich (TFF 1996) presents ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (d. Sara Gómez,
Cuba, 1974); writer Salman Rushdie (TFF 2004) presents MAHANAGAR (d. Satyajit
Ray, India, 1963).
Additional film revivals include
Pierre Rissient’s selections, short MUSCLE BEACH (d. Irving Lerner, Joseph
Strick, U.S., 1948) and TV episode A PIECE OF THE ACTION (d. Bernard Girard,
U.S., 1962); “Pordenone Presents” has two selections: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED with
The Alloy Orchestra performing their brand new score, and A SIMPLE CASE (d.
Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR, 1930) with a live musical performance by Gabriel
Thibaudeau both presented by Paolo Cherchi Usai; PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (d. William
Dieterle, U.S., 1948) presented by David Thomson; LE JOLI MAI (d. Chris Marker,
Pierre Lhomme, France, 1963) presented by Colin MacCabe; LA POISON (d. Sacha
Guitry, France, 1951) presented by Monique Montgomery; AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF
GOD (d. Werner Herzog, Germany, 1972); and Michael Barker presents DEATH RIDES
A HORSE (d. Giulio Petroni, Italy, 1967).
Backlot, Telluride’s intimate
screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists,
musicians and filmmakers, will screen the following programs, five of which are
preceded by short films:
• DIOR AND I (d. Frédéric Tcheng,
U.S., 2013)
• HERE BE DRAGONS (d. Mark Cousins,
U.K., 2013)
• JODOROWSKY’S DUNE (d. Frank Pavich,
U.S./France, 2013)
• LOCATIONS: LOOKING FOR RUSTY JAMES
(d. Alberto Fuguet, Chile, 2013) select screening will be followed by Francis Ford
Coppola’s RUMBLE FISH (U.S., 1983)
• NATAN (d. David Cairns, Paul Duane,
Ireland, 2013)
• MILIUS (d. Zak Knutson, Joey
Figueroa, U.S., 2013)
• MULTIPLE VISIONS, THE CRAZY MACHINE
(d. Emilio Maille, Mexico, 2012)
• MUSIDORA, THE TENTH MUSE (d. Patrick
Cazals, France, 2013)
• PARTICLE FEVER (d. Mark Levinson,
U.S., 2013)
• REMEMBRANCE – A SMALL MOVIE ABOUT
OUUL IN THE 1950s (d. Peter Von Bagh, Finland, 2013)
• ROAD MOVIE: A PORTRAIT OF JOHN ADAMS
(d. Mark Kidel, U.K., 2013)
• A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM (d.
Mark Cousins, U.K., 2013)
Telluride Film Festival annually
celebrates a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies.
This year’s Special Medallion award goes to Alejandro Ramirez who runs
Cinepolis, the fourth-largest chain of movie theatres in the world, with a
focus on how movies can address poverty and social change. Past recipients
include C. Chapin Cutler Jr. and Boston Light & Sound, Criterion
Collection, HBO, Ninon Sevilla, Ted Turner, Stanley Kauffman, Manny Farber, Pierre
Rissient, Leonard Maltin, Serge Bromberg and UCLA Film & Television
Archive.
Telluride Film Festival’s SHOWcase
for Shorts features eleven short films chosen to precede select feature films;
Filmmakers of Tomorrow includes four programs: Student Prints, Great
Expectations – narrative and non-fiction, and Calling Cards from twenty-one
emerging filmmakers.
Telluride Film Festival’s Education
Programs present students the opportunity to experience film as an art and
expand participants’ worldview through film screenings and filmmaker
discussions. Celebrating its 25th year, the Student Symposium provides 50
graduate and undergraduate college students a weekend-long immersion in cinema.
In honor of its anniversary, 25 new students and 25 alumni will make up the
2013 Symposium. The City Lights Project, now in its 14th year, brings fifteen
high school students and five teachers from three divergent schools the
opportunity to participate in a concentrated program of screenings and
discussions. In 2011, TFF and UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television
(UCLA-TFT) launched FilmLAB, an extraordinary new program giving ten
outstanding graduate film students from UCLA/TFT the opportunity to attend the
festival and learn from the greatest filmmakers in the world in a workshop/lab
setting: and For The Love Of Movies, a Los Angeles High School Screening
Program focusing on the most creatively promising and under-served young talent
featuring the “Best” of Telluride Film Festival, managed by UCLA-TFT graduate
students and with the participation of selected filmmakers and TFT faculty.
Telluride Film Festival’s Talking
Heads programs allow attendees to go behind the scenes with the Festival’s
special guests. Eight Conversations take place between Festival guests and the
audience about cinema and culture, and three outdoor Noon Seminars feature a
panel of Festival guests discussing a wide range of film topics. These programs
are free and open to the public. A special seminar, Alice & Friends, with
panelists Alice Waters, Michael Pollan and Dieter Kosslick will focus on the
issues at the intersection of food sustainability, consumption and art and will
be followed by the presentation of Participant Media’s inaugural FOOD, INC.
Movement Award to Alice Waters.
Various Festivities take place
throughout the Festival including Book Signings with Don DeLillo signing Libra
and Underworld; Robyn Davidson signing Tracks; David Thomson signing Moments
that Made the Movies; and Joyce Maynard signing Labor Day. Other festivities
include Story Night in Brigadoon; Disney’s never-seen-before short GET A HORSE;
and 40 Years of THE SHOW, presented by AMPAS featuring two 40th anniversary
exhibitions from the Academy’s Telluride Film Collection, a photography display
and clip reels highlighting TFF’s history from the Academy Film Archive to
precede film screenings.
Corporate support at Telluride Film
Festival plays an essential role in the life of the Festival and underscores
the Festival’s commitment to quality, adventure and distinction in the art of
cinema. TFF is privileged to collaborate with some of the world’s most renowned
consumer and entertainment brands, including Land Rover North America, Turner
Classic Movies, Audible.com, Meyer Sound, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Pine Ridge Vineyards and Universal
Studios; and excited to welcome new partners Bombardier Business Aircraft, EY,
Film Finances, Inc. and Participant Media-- each of which are aligned with a
unique feature of the festival. Equally, Telluride Film Festival is extremely
proud of its committed relationships with Americas Film Conservancy, The London
Hotels, Teatulia, The Hollywood Reporter, Cinedigm, Dolby, New Sheridan Hotel,
Telluride Alpine Lodging, and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
The 40th Telluride Film Festival’s
program will be posted here in its entirety on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at
noon.
Here are summaries for select films announced today:
“All is Lost”- Directed
by J.C. Chandor. The second feature
effort from Chandor (Margin Call) stars Robert Redford, a boat and the Indian
Ocean. This film played out of
competition at Cannes to very good reviews and started some serious buzz for a
possible Best Actor nomination for the 70 year old Redford. Reportedly it has very little dialogue. Lionsgate is distributing and the release
date is also Oct. 18. The film is being presented in conjunction with a
Festival Tribute of Redford. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/?ref_=ttco_co_tt
“Blue is the Warmest Color”-Directed by Abdellatif
Kechiche. The film that won the Palme
d’Or at Cannes and the Steven Spielberg led jury took the unusual step of
specifically recognizing the two lead actresses (Lea Seydoux and Adele
Exarcopoulos) in addition to director Kechiche.
The film explores an intense relationship between two young women. “Blue” is set to be released in the U.S. on
Oct. 25. Oddly, because of its release
date in France and Academy rules, it will not be France’s entry for the Foreign
Language Oscar. “Blue’s” domestic
distribution will be handled by Sundance Selects. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/?ref_=ttco_co_tt
“Gloria” – Directed by Sebastien Lelio. Paulina Garcia took the Best actress prize at
the Berlin International Film Festival as the title character in this film
about a woman of a certain age who has a whirlwind romance. “Gloria” will also play the New York Fest in
October. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2425486/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt
“Gravity”- Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. The film stars Sandra Bullock and George
Clooney. As Cuaron returns to feature film directing for the first time since
his outstanding 2006 film “Children of Men”.
We’ve heard a couple of things about this highly anticipated film:
Clooney’s screen time is limited and it’s reportedly beautifully shot (and in
3D). There has been quite a bit of buzz
that this could return Bullock to the Oscar race. “Gravity” is from Warner Brothers and is set
for release on Oct. 4. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt
“Inside Llewyn Davis”- Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen and
starring Oscar Issac (as the title character), Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, F.
Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake.
The Coen’s dive into the world of the Greenwich Village folk music scene
in the early 1960’s in a film based loosely on Dave Van Ronk’s memoir of the
period, “The Mayor of McDougal Street”.
“Llewyn” won the Grand Prix Award at Cannes in May (the unofficial
second place award). The film features a
soundtrack of traditional folk music under the guidance of T. Bone Burnett
repeating the job he did for the Coen’s “O Brother Where Art Thou?” “Llewyn” is set for release on Dec. 6 and is
being distributed by CBS Films. The film
is being screened as a part of a Festival Tribute of the Coen Brothers. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042568/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt
“The Invisible Woman” -Directed by and starring Ralph
Fiennes. It also stars Felicity Jones as
the title character. Another true story,
this film centers on the secret relationship British literary legend Charles
Dickens had with a much younger woman.
Kristin Scott Thomas and Tom Hollander co-star. Sony Pictures Classics is distributing and
have set a U.S. release for Christmas Day.
IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1700845/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt
“Labor Day”-Directed by Jason Reitman. Reitman returns to Telluride where both
“Juno” and “Up in the Air” showed with this film starring Kate Winslet and Josh
Brolin. Winslet is a single mother and
Brolin is a con on the lamb whose paths cross with unexpected
consequences. Tobey Maguire and James
Van Der Beek co-star. The script was
written by Reitman and bases on a novel by Joyce Maynard. I have a buddy who
has seen it and says it is Reitman’s most mature work. Distribution is under the direction of
Paramount who will issue it in limited release on Dec. 25. IMDb:
The Lunchbox- Directed by Ritesh Batra. Irrfan Kahn stars in this film set in Mumbai
and focused on the relationships that are changed as the result of a mix up in
the delivery of a lunchbox. This was a
selection to the Cannes Critics Week.
Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called it “an ingenious tale of
romance by correspondence” IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2350496/?ref_=sr_1
“Nebraska” –Directed by Alexander Payne. Payne returns to Telluride after the success
of “The Descendants” in 2011. “Nebraska”
(which will be presented in the U.S. in black and white) stars Bruce Dern and
Will Forte as an estranged father/son duo who make a cross country trip to
claim a big money prize. Dern was named
Best Actor at Cannes for his portrayal of the alcoholic father. Stacy Keach and June Squibb also appear.
Paramount is distributing and the film is due in theaters on Nov. 22. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821549/
“Palo Alto”-Directed by Gia Coppola. The first thing you notice is the
relationship of the director and the star, Emma Roberts, to other, more famous
people. Coppola is Francis Ford
Coppola’s grand-daughter and Roberts is the daughter of Eric Roberts and niece
to Julia. The film is based on stories
by James Franco who also appears in the film as does Val Kilmer. The story is described a “dark drama” focused
on a group of teenagers. The film does
not currently have a U.S. release date.
IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2479800/?ref_=sr_1
“The Past” –Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Farhadi returns to Telluride as well with
this follow up to his Oscar winning “A Separation”. Berenice Bejo won the Best actress prize at
Cannes for her portrayal of a young wife caught between two men, one of them
her past the other her possible future.
Sony Pictures Classics has the distribution for the film which is set
for U.S. release on Dec. 20. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404461/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt
“Tim’s Vermeer”- Directed by Teller (of Penn and Teller…Penn
Jillette is one of the films producers).
Martin Mull is featured in this story about an American inventor, Tim
Jenison, and his attempt to understand the intricacies of the paintings of
Johannes Vermeer. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
“Tracks”-Directed by John Curran. Mia Wasikowska stars in this true story of a
young Australian woman who goes on a lengthy journey of self discovery through
the Outback. “Tracks" also stars
Adam Driver and has yet to establish a U.S. release date. IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2167266/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt
“Under the
Skin”-Directed by Jonathan Glazer.
Scarlett Johansson stars in this film about an alien in human form
traveling through Scotland. The film is
playing both Venice and Toronto as well.
Currently, it has no announced U.S. release date. Glazer returns to direct a feature film for
the first time since 2004’s “Birth”.
IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441395/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
