TFF #45 Lineup Announced / Useful Info for Some of the Films Announced Today / Who's # 1?

TFF #45 LINEUP ANNOUNCED

45th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program:

·       ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT (d. James Longley, U.S.-Denmark-Norway, 2018)

·       BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (d. Pamela E. Green, U.S., 2018)

·       BIRDS OF PASSAGE (d. Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, Colombia-Denmark-Mexico, 2018)

·       BORDER (d. Ali Abbasi, Sweden, 2018)

·       BOY ERASED (d. Joel Edgerton, U.S., 2018)

·       CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (d. Marielle Heller, U.S., 2018)

·       COLD WAR (d. Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland-France-U.K., 2018)

·       DESTROYER (d. Karyn Kusama, U.S., 2018)

·       DOGMAN (d. Matteo Garrone, Italy-France, 2018)

·       DOVLATOV (d. Aleksei German, Russia-Poland-Serbia, 2018)

·       FIRST MAN (d. Damien Chazelle, U.S., 2018)

·       FISTFUL OF DIRT (d. Sebastián Silva, U.S., 2018)

·       FREE SOLO (d. Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, U.S., 2018)

·       GHOST FLEET (d. Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, U.S., 2018)

·       GIRL (d. Lukas Dhont, Belgium-Netherlands, 2018)

·       GRAVES WITHOUT A NAME (d. Rithy Panh, France-Cambodia, 2018)

·       MEETING GORBACHEV (d. Werner Herzog and André Singer, U.K.-U.S.-Germany, 2018)

·       NON FICTION (d. Olivier Assayas, France, 2018)

·       PETERLOO (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2018)

·       REVERSING ROE (d. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, U.S., 2018)

·       ROMA (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.S.-Mexico, 2018)

·       SHOPLIFTERS (d. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2018)

·       THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM (d. John and Molly Chester, U.S., 2018)

·       THE FAVOURITE (d. Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland-U.K.-U.S., 2018)

·       THE FRONT RUNNER (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2018)

·       THE GREAT BUSTER (d. Peter Bogdanovich, U.S., 2018)

·       THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (d. David Lowery, U.S., 2018)

·       THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (d. Orson Welles, U.S., 1976/2018)

·       THE WHITE CROW (d. Ralph Fiennes, U.K., 2018)

·       THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD (d. Morgan Neville, U.S., 2018)

·       TRIAL BY FIRE (d. Ed Zwick, U.S., 2018)

·       WATERGATE – OR, HOW WE LEARNED TO STOP AN OUT-OF-CONTROL PRESIDENT (d. Charles Ferguson, U.S., 2018)

·       WHITE BOY RICK (d. Yann Demange, U.S., 2018)

USEFUL INFO FOR SOME OF THE FILMS ANNOUNCED TODAY


Here's a partial list of films announced this morning as part of the TFF #45 lineup with a trailer and an IMDb link (in alphabetical order):

BOY ERASED

Dir: Joel Edgerton
Main Cast: Lukas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton
Release date: Nov. 2
Distrib: Focus Features

Trailer:

Boy Erased IMDb link

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Dir: Marielle Heller

Main Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant

Release date: Oct. 19

Distrib: Fox Searchlight

Trailer: 

Can You Ever Forgive Me? IMDb link


COLD WAR

Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski
Main Cast:Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot
Release date: Dec. 21
Distrib: Amazon
Trailer:

Cold War IMDb link


DESTROYER

Dir: Karyn Kuwasa
Main Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan
Release date: Dec. 25
Distrib: Annapurna
Trailer: Unavailable

Destroyer IMDb link


THE FAVOURITE

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Main Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Wiesz, Emma Stone
Release date: Nov. 23
Distrib: Fox Searchlight
Trailer:

The Favourite IMDb link

FIRST MAN

Dir: Damien Chazelle

Main Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy

Release date: Oct. 12

Distrib: Universal 

Original Trailer:

New Trailer as of yesterday:

First Man IMDb link

THE FRONT RUNNER

Dir: Jason Reitman

Main Cast: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga

Release date: Nov. 21

Distrib: Columba/Stage 6

Trailer:Unavailable

The Front Runner IMDb link

GIRL

Dir: Lukas Dhont

Main cast: Victor Polster

Release date: Nov. 16

Distrib: Netflix

Trailer:  

Girl IMDb link

NON-FICTION

Dir: Olivier Assayas

Main Cast: Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet

Release date: TBD

Distrib: Sundance Selects

Trailer: Unavailable

THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN

Dir: David Lowery

Main Cast: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck

Release date: Sept. 28

Distrib: Fox Searchlight

Trailer:

The Old Man & the Gun IMDb link


THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

Dir: Orson Welles
Main Cast: John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich
Release date: Nov. 2
Distrib: Netflix
Trailer:

The Other Side of the Wind IMDb link


PETERLOO

Dir: Mike Leigh
Main cast: Rory Kinnear
Release date: Nov. 9
Distrib: Amazon
Trailer:

Peterloo IMDb link

ROMA

Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

Main cast: Yalitza Aparicio

Release date: Oct. 5

Distrib: Netflix

Trialer: 

Roma IMDb link


SHOPLIFTERS

Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Main cast: Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki
Release date: Nov. 23
Distrib: Magnolia
Trailer:

Shoplifters IMDb link


WHITE BOY RICK

Dir: Yann Demange
Main cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Release date: Sept. 14
Distrib: Columbia
Trailer:

White Boy Rick IMDb link


WHO'S #1?

You may or may not have seen a post from Awards Circuit yesterday that linked to their YouTube account.  If you did not, they rank the world's most important film festivals in as far as awards season is concerned.

No spoilers but...

Here's that video:

I'm out...almost literally...we hit the road to T-ride in about two hours... Hoping to see some of you tonight.

Next post will be Friday morning with a view toward what I'll be planning to see and do...

Then check back throughout the weekend for TBAs and reactions to the films that I see.

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

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