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Chris Knipp
08-30-2018, 12:39 PM
45th TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES 2018 PROGRAM LINEUP: August 31-September 3, 2018

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ROBERT REDFORD IN LOWERY'S THE OLD MAN WITH THE GUN

The Colorado "boutique" festival, costly to attend, yet "democratic," with more mixing of high and low, and no red carpet, which comes right between the major fests of Venice (just ending) and Toronto (soon to begin), has announced its full list of new features. It includes some US premieres of admired films from Cannes, Venice, Locarno, etc., and some first-time showings. World Premieres (but Telluride is cagey about claiming these) probably include Robert Redford's alleged swan song The Old Man and the Gun (David Lowery) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller), starring Melissa McCarthy; and White Boy Rick (Yann Demange), wmoing to theaters in the fall - trailers are already long-running for it; Jason Reitman's The Front Runner and Boy Erased (Joel Edgerton; starring him, Lucas Hedges and Nicole Kidman). Treats from this year's Cannes include Koreeda's Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters, best actor win from Garrone Dogman, and Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski's much admired Cold War.

MAIN SELECTIONS:

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. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, 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 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)

BACKLOT: Behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers. This is an especially important category this year with the long awaited Orson Welles films.

A FINAL CUT FOR ORSON: 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING (d. Ryan Suffern, U.S., 2018) + THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2018)
HAL (d. Amy Scott, U.S., 2018)
HUGH HEFNER’S AFTER DARK: SPEAKING OUT IN AMERICA (d. Brigitte Berman, Canada, 2018)
IT MUST SCHWING! THE BLUE NOTE STORY (d. Eric Friedler, Germany, 2018)
THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS (d. Peter Medak, U.K.-Cyprus, 2018)
WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL (d. Rob Garver, U.S., 2018)

SELECTIONS FROM GUEST DIRECTOR (Jonathan Lethem)

ANGEL (d. Ernst Lubitsch, U.S., 1937)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (d. Nicholas Ray, U.S., 1956)
NEVER CRY WOLF (d. Carroll Ballard, U.S., 1983)
THE TARNISHED ANGELS (d. Douglas Sirk, U.S., 1957)
THE WHITE MEADOWS (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2009)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (d. Ernst Lubitsch, U.S., 1942)

Additional film revival programs include “Christian Wahnschaffe, Parts I & II” (d. Urban Gad, Germany, 1920 – 1921), “Fiečvre” (d. Louis Delluc, France, 1921), “Coeur Fid Čle” (d. Louis Delluc, France, 1923) and “Remous” (d. Edmond T. Gréville, France, 1934).

Poster:
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Chris Knipp
09-01-2018, 09:55 PM
Walter Chaw reviews Telluride 2018.

Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central, a very independent film critic I haven't read in a while, is at Telluride and so far has reviewed

David Lowery's The Old Man and the Gun (http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2018/09/telluride-18-the-old-man-the-gun.html) (3 our of 4 stars)

Damien Chazelle's First Man (http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2018/09/telluride-18-first-man.html)(1/2 a star)