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Telluride Film Festival Lodging Book Here 2008 Telluride Film Festival Program Guide click here 2007 TBA Below (click here) A wide range of accommodations is available in the town of Telluride and nearby Mountain Village. Telluride's downtown lodging facilities are conveniently located within easy walking distance of most Festival sites and lodgers in Mountain Village can easily access Festival sites via the free gondola. Acme Passholders may wish to obtain accommodations in the Mountain Village, where Chuck Jones’ Cinema is located. Telluride Film Festival Lodging Book Here As flights into the Telluride area are limited, attendees are strongly urged to immediately contact Telluride Central Reservations, the Festival's travel partner, to arrange transportation. They have access to flights unavailable elsewhere, including charter flights from Los Angeles and Denver. Contact Telluride Central Reservations via e-mail to make a reservation request. |
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“The most exclusive film festival of all is Telluride. Why? Because it is the most ifficult to get to, it doesn’t announce its program in advance, it charges the press for a pass and it has as its guests some of the best filmmakers in the world. It’s one of the friendliest and most democratic, as if the least important attendees were just as consequential as the most distinguished.” – Derek Malcolm, The Guardian (London) Telluride Film Festival Lodging Book Here
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“The Telluride Film Festival is widely regarded as the Tiffany of the world’s filmfestivals. Telluride each year draws devoted movie lovers from all over the world to this beautiful Colorado mountain town.” – John Hartyl, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Telluride Film Festival Lodging Book Here
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“Of all the film events I’ve attended, Telluride comes closest to being a real people’s film festival.”
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Steven Winn: "Telluride a major player in film festival circuit"
Courtesy of SF Gate.com Wednesday,
August 29, 2007 weekend festival in the remote Rocky Mountain town of Telluride, Colo., a lot of people must have wondered what they were thinking. ilm festivals were a relative rarity back then, as opposed to the seemingly limitless growth industry they have since become. Almost all of them took place in major cities - Berlin, Venice, New York, San Francisco. Cannes, a resort town on the French Riviera, was the geographical exception that proved the rule. closely watched cinematic barometer. In 2004, "Hotel Rwanda," "Ray" and "Kinsey" opened at Telluride. In 2005, it was "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote" and "Walk the Line." Last year's lineup included "The Lives of Others," "The Last King of Scotland," "Babel" and "Little Children." two foreign-language films on this year's bill that "will make a lot of noise on 10-best lists and during the awards season." What Meyer couldn't do was name those or any other films that will be screened. It's a time-honored tradition that the program at Telluride remain a closely guarded secret. The identity of the 22 feature films scheduled for this year's festival, which opens Friday and continues through Labor
Day, are embargoed until Thursday afternoon. reputation to attract visitors to its pricey and out-of-the-way venue and routinely sells out. But it also offers a perspective n the current festival-driven film world, the competitive and sometimes courtly behaviors it produces, and some effects of the mind-boggling number of
films that festival programmers and attendees see. erkeley one sunny
day. None of them looked as if they had been spending much time
outdoors. form in which most of the 500 or so unsolicited entries now arrive. "At least I could record 'The Sopranos' over them," he said of the rejected tapes. "About all you can do with a DVD is use it as a coaster." Telluride Film Festival Lodging Book Here Humor may be essential for the sanity of any film festival programmer. While many of the Telluride aspirants are weeded out by a team of screeners, the directors log plenty of screen time with unknowns, hoping for an exciting, out of-the-blue discovery. other festivals. Luddy attended the Berlin Film Festival this year. He and Meyer were
both at Cannes. Others" fell into Telluride's lap after both the Berlin and Cannes festivals passed on the highly praised story of a Stasi surveillance operation. not showing enough German films, already had four of them in place when they saw 'Lives.' They decided, apparently fo reasons of balance, that they couldn't add another German film. "The rumor is that Cannes passed on it because Berlin
turned it down," added Luddy with a bemused smile. The
film went on to win the Oscar for best foreign film. comparable circumstances. The home-country Toronto International Film Festival never even considered "Boys" because it was originally made for TV, not the big screen. It was added to the Toronto program as an "extra" at the last minute,
after the premiere created a stir in Colorado. someone else has
passed on. On the other hand, you start to mistrust films when certain
colleagues turn them down." Queen" (paired with a Helen Mirren tribute) and "Pan's Labyrinth" at Telluride. When Stephen Frears' film about Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana was selected to open the glossy New York Film Festival, Luddy backed off. "There's this understanding that we're not going to make trouble," he said. "Pan's Labyrinth" got away because the director, Guillermo del Toro, was a Venice International Film Festival juror. He couldn't get away from Venice in time to make it to Telluride, and he couldn't bear
the idea of his film premiering in Colorado when he was still in Italy. crammed international film festival calendar. The clamor for attention is now almost constant. In the Bay Area, for alphabetical starters, there are festivals devoted to American Indian, Arab, Armenian and Asian American film. June brings the Queer Women of Color Film Festival. July offers the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. The call for entries is now out for next year's San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. Any director without a film festival credit of one kind or another must
not be trying very hard. end late at night, day after day. "Is this any way to see movies?" she asked. "No, it's not normal. People ask, 'What did you see?' and you realize one film is running into another." Even a manageable festival like Telluride, where people are
gorging on 22 films, various shorts and other programs in four days, has
a potential to overwhelm. good films, even very good films, may only have a few moments that are terrific," said Kramer, "and lots of flaws. Audiences often expect things to be perfect. But they're not, they can't be. It's so difficult to make a good film. There are so many decisions a filmmaker has to make, under all kinds of pressures. If something redeeming comes out of that process, it's really
pretty amazing."
Telluride Film Festival 2007 "To Be Announced"
Listings: Telluride Film Festival Lodging Book Here
2007 Sneak Preview - THE SAVAGES nd sister who are yanked from their busy lives as, respectively, an aspiring playwright and college professor, when their father becomes ill. Achingly funny, familiar and poignant, THE SAVAGES is a showcase for two of America's most perceptive, expressive actors and as a brilliant return to feature filmmaking by writer-director Tamara Jenkins
(SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS). (U.S., 2007,
113m) In person: Laura Linney, Tamara Jenkins a young Chinese woman who is four months pregnant, through a fling back in Beijing. Interrupting her first year of college in Nebraska, she travels to San Francisco to abort the child and confront her lover's male friend. Sasha's unborn baby takes her on a daring journey from Beijing to the streets of San Francisco, and is the untold umbilical film to A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD
PRAYERS. (U.S., 2007,
78m) In person: Wayne Wang, Yiyun Li suspense like DRESSED TO KILL and BODY DOUBLE and the socially realistic epics like SCARFACE and CASUALTIES OF WAR, director Brian De Palma has been a major force n American cinema. He has managed to focus on themes of voyeurism, violence, and fractured identity, while developing his own utterly distinctive cinematic language. In REDACTED, De Palma tells a tiny horrific anecdote of the Iraq war. He's particularly fascinated by how the chaos there is mediated by multiple cinematic perspectives, a soldier's video diary, verite journalism, and Internet imagery. In REDACTED De Palma manages to gather together all the topics that have previously obsessed him, now fusing them with a new element of moral indignation that humanizes and deepens his work. Made on a tiny budget with an excellent cast of unknowns
REDACTED may be the
crowning accomplishment of Brian De Palma's already illustrious career.
-LG (86 min) (THANK YOU FOR SMOKING) balances serious problems she faces with smart humor when Juno has sex with her friend (Michael Cera) and decides to give birth to the resulting baby but offer it for adoption to a couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) she finds in the Penny Saver. Diablo Cody s ( Candy Girl ) witty script provides twists and unexpected surprises. Strong performances by all with young Ellen Page proving she will be a star.
(92 min) In person: Director
Jason Reitman, Writer Diablo Cody
to pick one child over another (wink to CARMICHAEL & SHANE). We just can't do it. However, we must say that those with a talent for such things seem to repeatedly
reward artists and films
featured at our little event. op honors to Alejandro González Iñárritu's masterfully crafted BABEL, for Best Motion icture - Drama. Speaking at a Festival seminar last Labor Day weekend, Alejandro revealed one of the great inspirations for his non-linear technique. "My father, always a great storyteller, started in the middle. He would start with a hook from the middle
someplace. Then he'd go back for the beginnings. Then more hooks.
Back and forth toward the end." portrayal of Idi Amin in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND. After screening the film at our last Festival, Joe Morgenstern wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "Forest Whitaker's portrayal in THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND is enormous, mercurial, terrifying, endlessly seductive and, more simply put, one of the great performances in
odern movie history."
We re glad to see we're not the only ones to notice. and thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press for their continuing dedication to
celebrating the very best work in contemporary cinema. have taken awards at the EFA in Warsaw, Poland. VOLVER, directed by Pedro lmodovar, walked away with a stunning five awards, including Best Director and Best Cinematography. Its star, Telluride Tributee Penelope Cruz took the award
for Best Actress. THE LIVES OF OTHERS (also screened at our last festival) by Florian Henckel,
which was honored with the award for Best Film. We send
a hearty congratulations out to all of them - well done!
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