Angelina Jolie will be in the house when the Telluride Film Fest kicks off this weekend. Big Oscar Movies drop with Darkest Hour, Downsizing, Battle of the Sexes, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Hostiles, Wonderstruck, and The Shape of Water. I’m also thrilled that Ken Burns’ Vietnam will be there. Can’t wait. Here is the lineup:
44th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program:
- ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (d. Rebecca Miller, U.S., 2017)
- BATTLE OF THE SEXES (d. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, U.S., 2017)
- DARKEST HOUR (d. Joe Wright, U.K., 2017)
- DOWNSIZING (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2017)
- EATING ANIMALS (d. Christopher Quinn, U.S., 2017)
- FACES PLACES (d. Agnes Varda, JR, France, 2017)
- A FANTASTIC WOMAN (d. Sebastián Lelio, Chile-U.S.-Germany-Spain, 2017)
- FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (d. Paul McGuigan, U.K., 2017)
- FIRST REFORMED (d. Paul Schrader, U.S., 2017)
- FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (d. Angelina Jolie, U.S.-Cambodia, 2017)
- FOXTROT (d. Samuel Maoz, Israel, 2017)
- HOSTAGES (d. Rezo Gigineishvili, Georgia-Russia-Poland, 2017)
- HOSTILES (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2017)
- HUMAN FLOW (d. Ai Weiwei, U.S.-Germany, 2017)
- THE INSULT (d. Ziad Doueiri, France-Lebanon, 2017)
- LADY BIRD (d. Greta Gerwig, U.S., 2017)
- LAND OF THE FREE (d. Camilla Magid, Denmark-Finland, 2017)
- LEAN ON PETE (d. Andrew Haigh, U.K.-U.S., 2017)
- LOVELESS (d. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia-France-Belgium-Germany, 2017)
- LOVE, CECIL (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2017)
- LOVING VINCENT (d. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, U.K.-Poland, 2017)
- A MAN OF INTEGRITY (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2017)
- THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (d. Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2017)
- THE RIDER (d. Chloé Zhao, U.S., 2017)
- THE SHAPE OF WATER (d. Guillermo del Toro, U.S., 2017)
- TESNOTA (d. Kantemir Balagov, Russia, 2017)
- THE VENERABLE W. (d. Barbet Schroeder, France-Switzerland, 2017)
- THE VIETNAM WAR (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2017)
- WORMWOOD (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2017)
- WONDERSTRUCK (d. Todd Haynes, U.S., 2017)
Two documentary shorts, HEROIN(E) (d. Elaine McMillion Sheldon, U.S., 2017) and LONG SHOT (d. Jacob LaMendola, U.S., 2017) will also play together in the main program.
The 2017 Silver Medallion Awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, will be presented to Academy Award winning actor Christian Bale (TFF selection HOSTILES), and Oscar nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman (TFF selection WONDERSTRUCK). Tribute programs include a selection of clips followed by the presentation of the Silver Medallion, an onstage interview and a screening of the aforementioned films.
Guest Director Joshua Oppenheimer, who serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s program, presents the following revival programs:
- EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (d. Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1970)
- HOTEL OF THE STARS (d. Jon Bang Carlsen, Denmark, 1981)
- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (d. Charles Laughton, U.S., 1955)
- SALAM CINEMA (d. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran, 1995)
- TITICUT FOLLIES (d. Frederick Wiseman, U.S., 1967)
- THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (d. Jacques Demy, France, 1964)
Additional film revival programs, all newly restored, include THE BAKER’S WIFE (d. Marcel Pagnol, France, 1938); THE COTTON CLUB ENCORE (d. Francis Ford Coppola, U.S., 1984/2017); KEAN, OR DISORDER AND GENIUS (d. Aleksandr Volkoff, France, 1924), with the Mont Alto Orchestra; and
SUCH IS LIFE (d. Carl Junghan, Czechoslovakia, 1929).
Telluride Film Festival annually celebrates a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents great movies. This year’s Special Medallion award goes to Katriel Schory, director of the Israeli Film Fund.
Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers, will screen the following programs:
- CINEMA THROUGH THE EYE OF MAGNUM (d. Sophie Bassaler, France, 2017)
- FILMWORKER (d. Tony Zierra, U.S., 2017)
- HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD (d. Rüdiger Suchsland, Germany, 2017)
- JAMAICA MAN (d. Michael Weatherly, U.S., 2017)
- PORTRAIT OF VALESKA GERT (d. Volker Schlöndorff, Germany, 1977) + EDGE OF ALCHEMY (d. Stacey Steers, U.S., 2017)
- SLIM GAILLARD’S CIVILISATION (d. Anthony Wall, U.K., 1989)
- THAT SUMMER (d. Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden-U.S.-Denmark, 2017)
