At last check, the official Telluride Film Festival website continues to provide access to programs from the festival from 2006 to the present. Those program links are here.
For a number of years I have had a page on this platform labeled "Selected TFF History" which has provided a thumbnail sketch of each of the fests. In April of 2017, I began a project of expanding that information periodically in posts. Now, I am collecting those expanded pieces and archiving them here. Hopefully, it will serve as a touchstone for any and all that want to dive into TFF's past a little more deeply.
THE FIRST TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 30-September 2, 1974
Tributes: Francis Ford Coppola, Gloria Swanson, Leni Riefenstahl
SHOWS:
BBC Interview with Leni Riefenstahl
The Blue Light
The Chinese in Paris
The Conversation
Das Stahltier
Don't Touch the White Woman
Finian's Rainbow
Olympia
Peau Danne
Queen Kelly
The Rain People
Rivers of Sand
Sadie Thompson
Solaris
Stage Struck
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Movie
The Thief of Baghdad
Triumph of the Will
White Hell of Pitz Palu
Why Change Your Wife
You're a Big Boy Now
In addition to the tribute recipients, British actress Julie Christie was reported to have attended the festival.
THE 2ND TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 29-September 1, 1975
Tributes: Jack Nicholson. Werner Herzog and Henry King
SHOWS:
Ace Up My Sleeve
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Alexander's Ragtime Bad
Carnal Knowledge
The Cockfighter
Drive, He Said
Dupont Lajoie
Easy Rider
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Fata Morgana
Five Easy Pieces
Funny Face
Garden of Allah
General Idi Amin Dada
The Gunfighter
Happiness
Hester Street
Jesse James
Karl May
King of Marvin Gardens
The Last Detail
Leap Year
Legacy
Les Ordres
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Man, Woman and Sin
Ride in the Whirlwind
Song of Bernadette
State Fair
Sweethearts
Taking Off
Tol'able David
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
12 O'Clock High
The White Moth
White Sister
Guests:
Shelley Duvall
Louise Fletcher
Milos Forman
Monte Hellman
Buck Henry
Anjelica Huston
Carol Kane
Mary Kay Place
Joan Silver
It's crazy how many of Jack Nicholson's films they programmed to coincide with his tribute: Carnal Knowledge, Drive He Said, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, King of Marvin Gardens, The Last Detail and Ride in the Whirlwind.
Here's what's even crazier...Jack, Louise Fletcher and Milos Forman were all in town and there's no record of any screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which would open on Nov. 19th of that year.
THE THIRD TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 3-6, 1976
TRIBUTES:
Chuck Jones, King Vidor and King Kong
SHOWS:
The Big Parade
Billy the Kid
Blue Jeans
Chulas Fronteras
The Crowd
Dersu Uzala
The Fire Within
Greaser's Palace
Heart of Glass
King Kong
La Marquise D'o
The Lost World
Lumiere
Maitresse
Most Dangerous Game
Music and People of the Northeast
Pastoral Hide and Seek
Phantom Tollbooth
Signs of Life
Spirit of the Beehive
Stories from the Jungle Book
Street Scene
The Thief
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
The Wedding March
A Well Spent Life
Wild Horse Mesa
Wild Oranges
GUESTS:
Robert Downey
Werner Herzog
Ed Lachman
Louis Malle
Barbet Schroeder
Fay Wray
THE FOURTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 2-5, 1977
Tributes: Michael Powell, Agnes Varda, Ben Carre
SHOWS:
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Ascent
Black Narcissus
The Bluebird
Cleo from 5 to 7
Coup de Grace
Dagguerotypes
The Devil's Playground
A Geisha
I Know Where I'm Going
It Happened Here
La Pointe Courte
La Roi des Champs Elysees
Le Bonheur
The Light in the Dark
Lion's Love
The Magician
A Matter of Life and Death
Nine Months
Old San Francisco
Picture Show Man
Primary
Queen of Apollo
The Red Dance
Rudd Family Goes to Town
Scaramouche
The Spy in Black
The Squatter's Daughter
The Volunteer
Voyage to the Grand Tartary
Wake and Fright
Winstanley
A Woman's Face
GUESTS:
Werner Herzog
Ed Lachman
Martin Scorsese
THE FIFTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 1-4, 1978.
TRIBUTES: Hal Roach, Sterling Hayden, The Czech New Wave: Jaromil Jires, Pavel Juracek, Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer.
SHOWS:
Always for Pleasure
American Friend
Camouflage
Case for a Rookie Hangman
China 9, Liberty 37
Cooley High
The Devil's Reporter
Diamonds of the Night
Doctoring
El Capitan
Hellgate
Intimate Lighting
Johnny Guitar
The Killing
Koko, The Talking Gorilla
Martyrs of Love
The Messiah
Miss Mend
My Love to the Swallows
North Avenue Irregulars
Of Mice and Men
On the Yard
Perils of the Yukon
Pinocchio
Roger Corman-Hollywood's Wild Angel
Siringo
The Star
Topper Takes a Trip
Valerie
Way Out West
The Wicker Man
Windjammer
GUESTS:
Carroll Ballard
Robert DeNiro
Milos Forman
Monte Hellman
Harvey Keitel
Robbie Robertson
Isabella Rossellini
Barbet Schroeder
Martin Scorsese
Joan Micklin Silver
Wim Wenders
THE SIXTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 31-September 3, 1979
My plan (fingers crossed) is have this series completed prior to the start of TFF #45 and the new Expanded Telluride History page on this blog up and accessible by that time as well. We'll see if that actually happens.
Here's the re-cap of TFF #6:
TRIBUTES: Klaus Kinski, Robert Wise, Abel Gance
SHOWS:
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Born to Kill
Bulldog Drummond
Charm of Dynamite
Closely Watched
Executive Suite
For a Few Dollars More
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Gates of Heaven
The Haunting
The Informer
J'Accuse
La Salamandre
The Last Tasmanian
La Soufriere
Loves of Beethoven
Lucrece Borgia
The Mango Tree
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Messidor
Andrei Rublev
Napoleon
No Maps on My Taps
Nosferatu
Que Viva Mexico
Redskin
Rosie Radiator and the Push Rods
The Sand Pebbles
Servant of a Good God
The Set-Up
Ship of Lost Men
Stroheim: The Man You Love to Hate
Those Wonderful Men with a Crank
Tooth and Claw
Woyzeck
Young Girls of Rochefort
Notable short film: The King of the Z's...which has a very specific place in Telluride Film Fest history.
Guests:
Joe Dante
Jacques Demy
Chuck Jones
Werner Herzog
Errol Morris
THE SEVENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 29-September 1, 1980
Tributes: Robert Altman, Maurice Pialat, Karl Struss
SHOWS:
Afternoon of War
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big Combo
Brewster McCloud
Bye Bye Brazil
The Cheat
Contempt
Courage of the West
Death of a Guide
Devil to Pay
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Every Man for Himself
Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill
Final Accord
The First Teacher
Gun Crazy
Health
Here's Lookin' at You Kid
It Always Rains on Sunday
Journey into Fear
L'enfance Nue
LouLou
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Mirror
The Mouth Agape
Mudhoney
My Life to Live
Night World
The Perfumed Nightmare
Plan of a 19 Year Old
A Slave of Love
The Story of Temple Drake
Sunrise
Thieves Like Us
Thunder Trail
Vertigo
We Will Not Grow Old Together
Which Way to the Front
Guests:
Lew Ayres
Ronee Blakley
Keith Carradine
Shelley Duvall
Jean-Luc Goddard
Joan Hackett
Werner Herzog
Russ Meyer
Volker Schlondorff
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
THE EIGHTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 4-7, 1981
Tributes:
The Character Actor: Margaret Hamilton, Elisha Cook, John Carradine, Woody Strode
Carlos Diegues
Dusan Makavejev
Special Medallions : Stan Brakhage and Kevin Brownlow
SHOWS:
Age of the Earth
The Big City
Catherine
Charm of Dynamite
The Circus
Daddy Long Legs
Dark Water
Eight Minutes to Midnight
False Witness
Fear Not Jacob
Fruits of Passion
Ganga Zumba
Hollywood
Love Affair or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Montenegro
My Dinner With Andre
Mysteries of the Organism
The Paper Chase
Paradise Not Yet Lost
Pearl Row
Pickup on South Street
Prisoner of Shark Island
Sergeant Rutledge
Sherlock Holmes
Silver Dollar
Soldier Girls
Stages: John Houseman Directs Lear
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Three Brothers
Ticket to Heaven
Trapped
The Trouble with Harry
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Vernon Florida
A Very Curious Girl
The Wizard of Oz
Xica Da Silva
Guests:
Susan Anspach
Keith Carradine
Robert Carradine
Shelley Duvall
Sam Fuller
Andre Gregory
John Houseman
Leonard Maltin
Errol Morris
Volker Schlondorff
Wallace Shawn
THE NINTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 3-6, 1982
TRIBUTES:
Joel McCrea
Pierre Braunberger
Athol Fugard
SHOWS:
Arruza
Boseman and Lena
Bona
Broken Blossoms
Burden of Dreams
City of Lovers
Coaster
Country Lovers
Endangered Species
Fire on the Water
Fitzcarraldo
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Moment
The Grey Fox
The Guest
Koyaanisqatsi
La Chienne
Longshot
Marigolds in August
Mules of Smiles, Years of Struggles
Money and the Woman
Mr. Dynamite
My Life to Live
Night of the Shooting Stars
Padre Padrone
Painted Boats
The Palm Beach Story
Paris
Parsifal
Ride Lonesome
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Rope
Say Amen, Somebody
Smithereens
The Thirteenth Chair
Veronika Voss
Victor Sjostrom: A Film Portrait
We of the Never Never
The Wind
Yol
GUESTS:
Joe Dante
Richard Farnsworth
Lillian Gish
Philip Glass
Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
JoBeth Williams
Robert Wise
THE TENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 2-5, 1983
Tributes:
Richard Widmark, Andrei Tarkovsky and Luis Trenker. Irwin Young was rewarded with a Special Medallion. Additionally, the fest included a homage to David Niven.
SHOWS:
Alambrista
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Boat People
Booker
Carmen
The Challenge
Chan Is Missing
Danton
Detour
Dung Aw
El Norte
Entre Nous
The Eyes, The Mouth
Forbidden Relations
In Heaven There Is No Beer
In the Name of the Father
Insiang
The Kaiser from California
Last Night at the Alamo
The Lost Son
My Name Is Ivan
Night and the City
Nostalghia
Pitfall
The Plague Dogs
Play Dirty
Rings on the Water
Seeing Red
Signal
The Simple Minded Murder
Sli
Testament
Turumba
The Way Ahead
White Shadows on the South Sea
GUESTS:
William Devane
Taylor Hackford
Leonard Maltin
Edward James Olmos
Wayne Wang
THE ELEVENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 31-September 2, 1984
Tribute Recipients were: Henry Hathaway, Janet Leigh and Andrzej Wajda.
SHOWS:
Act of Violence
Almonds and Raisins
America and Lewis Hine
Camila
Cheaters
Coup De Torchon
Everything for Sale
Full Moon in Paris
Go Masters
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Holy Innocents
L'Hirondelle et la Mesange
The Last Campaign
Lonely Hearts
Love in Germany
Maidstone
Man of Flowers
Milky Way
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
My First Wife
Paris, Texas
Peter Ibbetson
A Poet in the Cinema: Andrey Tarkovsky
Providence
Raw Deal
Reign of Terror
Repo Man
Slightly Scarlett
Steaming
Stranger than Paradise
Sunday in the Country
The Times of Harvey Milk
To the Last Man
Where the Green Ants Dream
Wooden Crosses
Participants (partial list):
Ry Cooder
Athol Fugard
Werner Herzog
Jim Jarmusch
Klaus Kinski
Jessica Lange
Norman Mailer
Sam Sheperd
Dean Stockwell
Bertrand Travernier
Harry Dean Stanton
Wim Wenders
THE TWELFTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 30-September 2, 1985
TRIBUTES:
Alexander Trauner
Emilio Fernandez
Hanna Schygulla
SHOWS:
All the King's Men
Bliss
Chaos
Colonel Redl
Derborence
Desert Hearts
Drums Across the Sea
Dracula
Frida
The Funeral
The Girl with the Hat Box
The Great Wall Is a Great Wall
Harvest
Hidden River
The House on Trubaya Square
Huey Long
In Her Own Time
The Journey of Natty Gann
Les Visiteurs Du Soir
Louie Bluie
Lulu in Berlin
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The Mystery of Picasso
Nicaragua Was Our Home
Night of the Shooting Stars
One More Spring
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Pearl
The Rebel
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Sheer Madness
The Woman Men Yearn For
Yellow Earth
GUESTS:
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Ken Burns
Roger Ebert
Chuck Jones
Helen Shaver
Alice Waters
Terry Zwigoff
THE THIRTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 29-September 1, 1986
Tributes: Alexander Mackendrick, Jiri Menzel and Isabelle Huppert.
Also of note, a retrospective of the films of Anthony Mann labeled Mann of the West that featured the one and only Jimmy Stewart in person.
SHOWS:
The Biscuit Eater
Blue Velvet
Cactus
Closely Watched Trains
The Decline of the American Empire
Devil in the Flesh
Document: Fanny and Alexander
Eat the Peach
Eraserhead
The Gay Desperado
The Interrogation
The Lacemaker
The Ladykillers
A Lonely Woman
Los Inundados
The Man form Laramie
Mother Teresa
My Little Village
No End
The River's Edge
The Sacrifice
Sacrificed Youth
Seize the Day
Smasher
The Sweet Smell of Success
Therese
Tire Die
Too Far to Go
We the Living
Winchester 73
The Witch
Working Girls
GUESTS:
Denys Arcand
Laura Dern
Crispin Glover
Agnieszka Holland
Chuck Jones
David Lynch
Kyle MacLachlan
Anne Meara
Jerry Stiller
James Stewart
Robin Williams
THE FIFTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 2-5, 1988
Guest Director: Donald Richie
Tributes: Pedro Almodovar, Cab Calloway, The Xi'an Studio
SHOWS:
Aschik Kerib
Broken Down Film
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The Dragon Painter
Far North
High Hopes
Homeland of Electricity
The King of Children
Kric! Krac! Tales of a Nightmare
La Lectrice
The Legend of the Forest
Little Vera
Manifesto
Men of Kishnou Island
Night of the Hunter
The Old Well
One Hand Don't Clap
Patty Hearst
Rapt
Red Sorghum
Salaam Bombay
Split
Summer Vacation
That Rhythm Those Blues
Track 29
Voices from the Attic
Voices of Sarafina
Wherever You Are
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wrath of the Gods
GUESTS:
Keith Carradine
Olympia Dukakis
Daryl Hannah
Tess Harper
Chuck Jones
Mike Leigh
Mira Nair
Nicholas Roeg
Teresa Russell
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Sam Shepard
THE SIXTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 1-4, 1989
Guest Director: Errol Morris
Tributes: Dennis Potter, Peter Greenaway, Shohei Imamura
SHOWS:
The Big Bang
Black Rain
Blue Remembered Hills
Born to Kill
China My Sorrow
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
The Entertainer
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Herdsmen of the Sun
I Went to the Dance
The Icicle Thief
La Salle de Bain
Land of Liberty
My 20th Century
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Penn and Teller Get Killed
Pennies from Heaven
Roger and Me
Solovki Power
Strapless
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
Testament
There's Always Tomorrow
The Trip to Tilsit
Trop Belle Pour Toi
Twin Peaks
Water and Power
When the Clouds Roll By
The Yellow Curse
GUESTS:
Mark Frost
David Hare
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Werner Herzog
Jim Jarmusch
Penn Jillette
Chuck Jones
Daniel Day Lewis
John McNaughton
Michael Moore
Michael Ontkean
Arthur Penn
Michael Rooker
Teller
THE SEVENTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 31-September 3, 1990
Guest Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Tributes: Clint Eastwood, John Berry, Gerard Depardieu
SHOWS:
All the Vermeers in New York
Antonia and Jane
Archangel
The Big Man
The Civil War
Coma
The Comfort of Angels
Cyrano de Bergerac
Daddy Nostalgia
Doctor Petiot
The First Spring of Youth
Freeze-Die-Come to Life
Havana
He Ran All the Way
I Walked with a Zombie
Industrial Symphony
Ju Dou
Justin de Marsielle
The King of New York
L'Atalante
The Long Walk Home
The Nasty Girl
Pursued
Reversal of Fortune
The Roof of the World
Stanto Tutti Bene
White Hunter Black Heart
GUESTS:
Ken Burns
Julee Cruise
Manny Farber
Abel Ferrera
Taylor Hackford
Chuck Jones
Guy Maddin
Helen Mirren
Liam Neeson
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Sissy Spacek
Christopher Walken
THE EIGHTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 30-September 2, 1991
The guest director was Laurie Anderson.
Tributes were for Jodie Foster, Sven Nyquist and "Nature's Filmmakers": Peter Jones, Marion Zunz and Paul Atkins.
SHOWS:
Apocalypse Now
A Captive in the Land
Danzon
Dogfight
The Double Life of Veronique
Empire of the Air
Hearts of Darkness
Hors la Vie
I Want to Fly
Latino Bar
Let Him Have It
Little Man Tate
Lucky Star
Lyrical Nitrate
The Other Eye
The Ox
Prix de Beaute
Prospero's Books
Raise the Red Lantern
Rambling Rose
The Rapture
Ride the High Country
Scream of Stone
A Tale of the Unextinguished Moon
The Tourist
3:10 to Yuma
The Trails of Life
Wild by Law
A Woman's Tale
GUESTS:
John Berry
Ken Burns
Martha Coolidge
Laura Dern
Jean Doumanian
Roger Ebert
Glenn Ford
Peter Greenaway
Renny Harlin
Werner Herzog
Dennis Hopper
Elmore Leonard
Bill Plympton
Mimi Rogers
Lili Taylor
THE NINETEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 4-7, 1992
Guest Direct: G. Cabrera Infante
Tributes: Harvey Keitel, Elmer Bernstein, Cy Endfield
SHOWS:
Bad Lieutenant
The Chosen One
Close to Eden
The Cranes Are Flying
The Crying Game
The Donner Party
El Mariachi
Feed
The Firm
From Hollywood to Hanoi
The Godless Girl
Homeland
I Am Cuba
I Want to See Angels
La Virgen de la Caridad
Laughter
Leolo
Lessons of the Darkness
The Letter That Was Never Sent
Life in Shadows
The Long Day Closes
The Loveless
Made in Britain
The Magnificent Seven
Momento Mori
Nail in the Boot
The Oak
Olivier Olivier
Peter's Friends
Reservoir Dogs
Road
The Sound of Fury
Strictly Ballroom
Tous Les Matins Du Monde
Victim of Sin
Visions of Light
GUESTS:
Kathryn Bigelow
Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Michael Moore
Gary Oldman
Robert Rodriguez
Tim Roth
THE TWENTIETH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 3-6, 1993
Guest Director: John Boorman
Tributes: Ken Loach, Jennifer Jason Leigh and John Alton
SHOWS:
Abraham's Valley
The Ark
Blue (Jarman)
Blue (Kieslowski)
Bonne Chance
Border Incident
The Boys of St. Vincent
Chasing Butterflies
Clean, Shaven
Double Bind
Faraway, So Close
Farewell My Concubine
Fear and Desire
Flight of the Innocent
Gardiens de Phare
The Great Adventure
The Joy Luck Club
Kind of Blue
L627
The Last Stop
Love and Human Remains
Make Way For Tomorrow
Naked
The Piano
Point Blank
Raining Stones
Raw Deal
The Social Contract
Starting Place
Stella Polaris
Suture
Sylvester
T-Men
Time Has No Name
Upstage
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
GUESTS:
Joan Chen
Henry Czerny
Darryl Hannah
Leo McGarey
Michael Stipe
Amy Tan
Bertrand Tavernier
David Thewlis
Wayne Wang
Wim Wenders
THE TWENTY-FIRST TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
My review of past TFF's has been on the back burner for about three weeks as the focus on information on Toronto and Venice film fests has dominated my thinking and subsequently the blog but we return today with a look at the 21st Telluride Film Festival which ran Sept. 2-5, 1994.
Guest Director: John Simon
Tributes: Harriet Andersson, Judy Davis, Ken Burns
SHOWS:
Arizona Dream
Aventurea
Bab El-Oued City
Black Daisies for the Bride
Bullets Over Broadway
Casque D'Or
Crows
Dedee D'anvers
Dust of Life
The Easy Life
Ed Wood
Eternity
Family
Glen or Glenda
Ladybird, Ladybird
Lonesome
Memories and Dreams
Monika
Montand
Muriel's Wedding
Music for the Movies
The New Age
Once Were Warriors
One Fine Day
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Room at the Top
Silences of the Palace
Strawberry and Chocolate
Swimming with Sharks (aka The Buddy Factor)
They Shoot Horses Don't They
The Transformation of the World Into Music
The Unforgettable Summer
Vanya on 42nd Street
We, The Children of the 20th Century
The Wooden Man's Bride
GUESTS:
Harriet Andersson
Ken Burns
Judy Davis
Faye Dunaway
Andre Gregory
Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Louis Malle
Errol Morris
Sydney Pollock
Wallace Shawn
Kevin Spacey
Frank Whaley
Treat Williams
Michael Winterbottom
THE TWENTY-SECOND TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 1-4, 1995
Guest Director: Phillip Lopate
Tributes: John Schlesinger, Zhang Yimou, The Surrealists
Special Medallion: Andrew Sarris
SHOWS:
The Arsonists
Augustin
Careful
Carrington
China; The Wild East
Cold Comfort Farm
Desolation Angels
Floating Clouds
Fresh Bait
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
The Hard Way
History is Made at Night
Institute Benjamenta
The Journey of August King
The Man with the Movie Camera
Man's Castle
On the Beat
Persuasion
Pie in the Sky
The River
The Saragosa Manuscript
Shanghai Triad
Survivors of the Holocaust
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
The Tit and the Moon
To Die For
Total Eclipse
Visions of Heaven and Hell
The Wanderers
Warrior Lanling
The Water Carrier
Welfare
The White Balloon
GUESTS:
Ken Burns
Josh Charles
Danny Elfman
Thierry Fremaux
Christopher Hampton
Anne Heche
Werner Herzog
Angneiska Holland
James Ivory
Chuck Jones
Philip Kaufman
Christine Lahti
Guy Maddin
Roger Michell
Thandie Newton
Mark Rappaport
Peter Reigert
Gus Van Sant
Sam Waterston
Treat Williams
Frederick Wiseman
August 31-September 2, 1984
Tribute Recipients were: Henry Hathaway, Janet Leigh and Andrzej Wajda.
SHOWS:
Act of Violence
Almonds and Raisins
America and Lewis Hine
Camila
Cheaters
Coup De Torchon
Everything for Sale
Full Moon in Paris
Go Masters
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Holy Innocents
L'Hirondelle et la Mesange
The Last Campaign
Lonely Hearts
Love in Germany
Maidstone
Man of Flowers
Milky Way
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
My First Wife
Paris, Texas
Peter Ibbetson
A Poet in the Cinema: Andrey Tarkovsky
Providence
Raw Deal
Reign of Terror
Repo Man
Slightly Scarlett
Steaming
Stranger than Paradise
Sunday in the Country
The Times of Harvey Milk
To the Last Man
Where the Green Ants Dream
Wooden Crosses
Participants (partial list):
Ry Cooder
Athol Fugard
Werner Herzog
Jim Jarmusch
Klaus Kinski
Jessica Lange
Norman Mailer
Sam Sheperd
Dean Stockwell
Bertrand Travernier
Harry Dean Stanton
Wim Wenders
THE TWELFTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 30-September 2, 1985
TRIBUTES:
Alexander Trauner
Emilio Fernandez
Hanna Schygulla
SHOWS:
All the King's Men
Bliss
Chaos
Colonel Redl
Derborence
Desert Hearts
Drums Across the Sea
Dracula
Frida
The Funeral
The Girl with the Hat Box
The Great Wall Is a Great Wall
Harvest
Hidden River
The House on Trubaya Square
Huey Long
In Her Own Time
The Journey of Natty Gann
Les Visiteurs Du Soir
Louie Bluie
Lulu in Berlin
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The Mystery of Picasso
Nicaragua Was Our Home
Night of the Shooting Stars
One More Spring
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Pearl
The Rebel
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Sheer Madness
The Woman Men Yearn For
Yellow Earth
GUESTS:
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Ken Burns
Roger Ebert
Chuck Jones
Helen Shaver
Alice Waters
Terry Zwigoff
THE THIRTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 29-September 1, 1986
Tributes: Alexander Mackendrick, Jiri Menzel and Isabelle Huppert.
Also of note, a retrospective of the films of Anthony Mann labeled Mann of the West that featured the one and only Jimmy Stewart in person.
SHOWS:
The Biscuit Eater
Blue Velvet
Cactus
Closely Watched Trains
The Decline of the American Empire
Devil in the Flesh
Document: Fanny and Alexander
Eat the Peach
Eraserhead
The Gay Desperado
The Interrogation
The Lacemaker
The Ladykillers
A Lonely Woman
Los Inundados
The Man form Laramie
Mother Teresa
My Little Village
No End
The River's Edge
The Sacrifice
Sacrificed Youth
Seize the Day
Smasher
The Sweet Smell of Success
Therese
Tire Die
Too Far to Go
We the Living
Winchester 73
The Witch
Working Girls
GUESTS:
Denys Arcand
Laura Dern
Crispin Glover
Agnieszka Holland
Chuck Jones
David Lynch
Kyle MacLachlan
Anne Meara
Jerry Stiller
James Stewart
Robin Williams
THE FOURTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 4-7, 1987
Tributes: Don Siegel, Stephen Frears and Tenghiz Abuladze.
SHOWS:
Acting Our Age
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Babette's Feast
Barfly
The Beguiled
The Blot
Brightness
Broken April
Candy Mountain
Confession
A Flame in My Heart
Hail, Hail Rock and Roll
Haiti Dreams of Democracy
The Houses Are Filled with Smoke
A Hungry Feeling: The Life and Death of Brendan Behan
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
The Magic Toyshop
The Magic Tree
Manon of the Spring
The Marvelous Life of Joan of Arc
Molba
Polyester
Repentance
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sans Soliel
Shy People
They Made Me a Fugitive
This Is Our Home, It Is Not for Sale
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
The Tingler
Traveling North
Wagonmaster
Walter and June
The Whales of August
Guests:
Harry Carey, Jr.
Taylor Hackford
Ben Johnson
Chuck Jones
Louis Malle
Leonard Maltin
Helen Mirren
Bill Plympton
Barbet Schroeder
John Waters
THE FIFTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 2-5, 1988
Guest Director: Donald Richie
Tributes: Pedro Almodovar, Cab Calloway, The Xi'an Studio
SHOWS:
Aschik Kerib
Broken Down Film
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The Dragon Painter
Far North
High Hopes
Homeland of Electricity
The King of Children
Kric! Krac! Tales of a Nightmare
La Lectrice
The Legend of the Forest
Little Vera
Manifesto
Men of Kishnou Island
Night of the Hunter
The Old Well
One Hand Don't Clap
Patty Hearst
Rapt
Red Sorghum
Salaam Bombay
Split
Summer Vacation
That Rhythm Those Blues
Track 29
Voices from the Attic
Voices of Sarafina
Wherever You Are
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wrath of the Gods
GUESTS:
Keith Carradine
Olympia Dukakis
Daryl Hannah
Tess Harper
Chuck Jones
Mike Leigh
Mira Nair
Nicholas Roeg
Teresa Russell
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Sam Shepard
THE SIXTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 1-4, 1989
Guest Director: Errol Morris
Tributes: Dennis Potter, Peter Greenaway, Shohei Imamura
SHOWS:
The Big Bang
Black Rain
Blue Remembered Hills
Born to Kill
China My Sorrow
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
The Entertainer
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Herdsmen of the Sun
I Went to the Dance
The Icicle Thief
La Salle de Bain
Land of Liberty
My 20th Century
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Penn and Teller Get Killed
Pennies from Heaven
Roger and Me
Solovki Power
Strapless
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
Testament
There's Always Tomorrow
The Trip to Tilsit
Trop Belle Pour Toi
Twin Peaks
Water and Power
When the Clouds Roll By
The Yellow Curse
GUESTS:
Mark Frost
David Hare
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Werner Herzog
Jim Jarmusch
Penn Jillette
Chuck Jones
Daniel Day Lewis
John McNaughton
Michael Moore
Michael Ontkean
Arthur Penn
Michael Rooker
Teller
THE SEVENTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 31-September 3, 1990
Guest Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Tributes: Clint Eastwood, John Berry, Gerard Depardieu
SHOWS:
All the Vermeers in New York
Antonia and Jane
Archangel
The Big Man
The Civil War
Coma
The Comfort of Angels
Cyrano de Bergerac
Daddy Nostalgia
Doctor Petiot
The First Spring of Youth
Freeze-Die-Come to Life
Havana
He Ran All the Way
I Walked with a Zombie
Industrial Symphony
Ju Dou
Justin de Marsielle
The King of New York
L'Atalante
The Long Walk Home
The Nasty Girl
Pursued
Reversal of Fortune
The Roof of the World
Stanto Tutti Bene
White Hunter Black Heart
GUESTS:
Ken Burns
Julee Cruise
Manny Farber
Abel Ferrera
Taylor Hackford
Chuck Jones
Guy Maddin
Helen Mirren
Liam Neeson
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Sissy Spacek
Christopher Walken
THE EIGHTEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
August 30-September 2, 1991
The guest director was Laurie Anderson.
Tributes were for Jodie Foster, Sven Nyquist and "Nature's Filmmakers": Peter Jones, Marion Zunz and Paul Atkins.
SHOWS:
Apocalypse Now
A Captive in the Land
Danzon
Dogfight
The Double Life of Veronique
Empire of the Air
Hearts of Darkness
Hors la Vie
I Want to Fly
Latino Bar
Let Him Have It
Little Man Tate
Lucky Star
Lyrical Nitrate
The Other Eye
The Ox
Prix de Beaute
Prospero's Books
Raise the Red Lantern
Rambling Rose
The Rapture
Ride the High Country
Scream of Stone
A Tale of the Unextinguished Moon
The Tourist
3:10 to Yuma
The Trails of Life
Wild by Law
A Woman's Tale
GUESTS:
John Berry
Ken Burns
Martha Coolidge
Laura Dern
Jean Doumanian
Roger Ebert
Glenn Ford
Peter Greenaway
Renny Harlin
Werner Herzog
Dennis Hopper
Elmore Leonard
Bill Plympton
Mimi Rogers
Lili Taylor
THE NINETEENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 4-7, 1992
Guest Direct: G. Cabrera Infante
Tributes: Harvey Keitel, Elmer Bernstein, Cy Endfield
SHOWS:
Bad Lieutenant
The Chosen One
Close to Eden
The Cranes Are Flying
The Crying Game
The Donner Party
El Mariachi
Feed
The Firm
From Hollywood to Hanoi
The Godless Girl
Homeland
I Am Cuba
I Want to See Angels
La Virgen de la Caridad
Laughter
Leolo
Lessons of the Darkness
The Letter That Was Never Sent
Life in Shadows
The Long Day Closes
The Loveless
Made in Britain
The Magnificent Seven
Momento Mori
Nail in the Boot
The Oak
Olivier Olivier
Peter's Friends
Reservoir Dogs
Road
The Sound of Fury
Strictly Ballroom
Tous Les Matins Du Monde
Victim of Sin
Visions of Light
GUESTS:
Kathryn Bigelow
Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Michael Moore
Gary Oldman
Robert Rodriguez
Tim Roth
THE TWENTIETH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 3-6, 1993
Guest Director: John Boorman
Tributes: Ken Loach, Jennifer Jason Leigh and John Alton
SHOWS:
Abraham's Valley
The Ark
Blue (Jarman)
Blue (Kieslowski)
Bonne Chance
Border Incident
The Boys of St. Vincent
Chasing Butterflies
Clean, Shaven
Double Bind
Faraway, So Close
Farewell My Concubine
Fear and Desire
Flight of the Innocent
Gardiens de Phare
The Great Adventure
The Joy Luck Club
Kind of Blue
L627
The Last Stop
Love and Human Remains
Make Way For Tomorrow
Naked
The Piano
Point Blank
Raining Stones
Raw Deal
The Social Contract
Starting Place
Stella Polaris
Suture
Sylvester
T-Men
Time Has No Name
Upstage
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
GUESTS:
Joan Chen
Henry Czerny
Darryl Hannah
Leo McGarey
Michael Stipe
Amy Tan
Bertrand Tavernier
David Thewlis
Wayne Wang
Wim Wenders
THE TWENTY-FIRST TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
My review of past TFF's has been on the back burner for about three weeks as the focus on information on Toronto and Venice film fests has dominated my thinking and subsequently the blog but we return today with a look at the 21st Telluride Film Festival which ran Sept. 2-5, 1994.
Guest Director: John Simon
Tributes: Harriet Andersson, Judy Davis, Ken Burns
SHOWS:
Arizona Dream
Aventurea
Bab El-Oued City
Black Daisies for the Bride
Bullets Over Broadway
Casque D'Or
Crows
Dedee D'anvers
Dust of Life
The Easy Life
Ed Wood
Eternity
Family
Glen or Glenda
Ladybird, Ladybird
Lonesome
Memories and Dreams
Monika
Montand
Muriel's Wedding
Music for the Movies
The New Age
Once Were Warriors
One Fine Day
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Room at the Top
Silences of the Palace
Strawberry and Chocolate
Swimming with Sharks (aka The Buddy Factor)
They Shoot Horses Don't They
The Transformation of the World Into Music
The Unforgettable Summer
Vanya on 42nd Street
We, The Children of the 20th Century
The Wooden Man's Bride
GUESTS:
Harriet Andersson
Ken Burns
Judy Davis
Faye Dunaway
Andre Gregory
Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Louis Malle
Errol Morris
Sydney Pollock
Wallace Shawn
Kevin Spacey
Frank Whaley
Treat Williams
Michael Winterbottom
THE TWENTY-SECOND TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
September 1-4, 1995
Guest Director: Phillip Lopate
Tributes: John Schlesinger, Zhang Yimou, The Surrealists
Special Medallion: Andrew Sarris
SHOWS:
The Arsonists
Augustin
Careful
Carrington
China; The Wild East
Cold Comfort Farm
Desolation Angels
Floating Clouds
Fresh Bait
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
The Hard Way
History is Made at Night
Institute Benjamenta
The Journey of August King
The Man with the Movie Camera
Man's Castle
On the Beat
Persuasion
Pie in the Sky
The River
The Saragosa Manuscript
Shanghai Triad
Survivors of the Holocaust
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
The Tit and the Moon
To Die For
Total Eclipse
Visions of Heaven and Hell
The Wanderers
Warrior Lanling
The Water Carrier
Welfare
The White Balloon
GUESTS:
Ken Burns
Josh Charles
Danny Elfman
Thierry Fremaux
Christopher Hampton
Anne Heche
Werner Herzog
Angneiska Holland
James Ivory
Chuck Jones
Philip Kaufman
Christine Lahti
Guy Maddin
Roger Michell
Thandie Newton
Mark Rappaport
Peter Reigert
Gus Van Sant
Sam Waterston
Treat Williams
Frederick Wiseman
This is great! I've had such a hard time finding old Telluride lineups.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering something. Do you have any more information on which films these are exactly? Like the filmmakers or release years?
I'm an insane person and have been trying to put together a list of movies at different film festivals. I'm trying to match up the films with their IMDB database codes. I'd appreciate your help, because there are basically no other sources of this information that I've found.
Please email me at acules@gmail.com if you can help.