By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
39th Telluride Film Festival
It’s an interesting line-up… but I’ve seen 6 of the films (2 of them twice), will see 9 more (and shoot interviews will the directors) in the next 11 days, and really, have 4 films that will be added to my radar because of their placement at Telluride.
It’s still my favorite festival in the world and I would love to be there – family makes it complicated – but aside from the camaraderie, beautiful location, and the luxury of wandering from excellent film to excellent film without too much worry about getting in and knowing you’ll be seeing them with a passionate, intelligent audience… not sure it isn’t redundant for those of us also attending TIFF this year.
In a way, I am happy for the festival. The last few years became awards hype fodder – and look for some TBAs to be announced in the next 24 hours (Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, Anna Karenina and Only God Forgives seem most likely) – and it bent the idea of Telluride. It was always a festival about perspective, down to its silent film roots, and not about launches.
Here’s the list of new films…
THE ACT OF KILLING (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, 2012)
AMOUR (d. Michael Haneke, Austria, 2012)
AT ANY PRICE (d. Ramin Bahrani, U.S., 2012)
THE ATTACK (d. Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon-France, 2012)
BARBARA (d. Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012)
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, U.S., 2012)
EVERYDAY (d. Michael Winterbottom, U.K., 2012)
FRANCES HA (d. Noah Baumbach, U.S., 2012)
THE GATEKEEPERS (d. Dror Moreh, Israel, 2012)
GINGER AND ROSA (d. Sally Potter, England, 2012)
THE HUNT (d. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, 2012)
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (d. Roger Michell, U.S., 2012)
THE ICEMAN (d. Ariel Vromen, U.S., 2012)
LOVE, MARILYN (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2012)
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN (d. Deepa Mehta, Canada-Sri Lanka, 2012)
NO (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2012)
PARADISE: LOVE (d. Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2012)
PIAZZA FONTANA (d. Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy, 2012)
A ROYAL AFFAIR (d. Nikolaj Arcel, Denmark, 2012)
RUST & BONE (d. Jacques Audiard, France, 2012)
THE SAPPHIRES (d. Wayne Blair, Australia, 2012)
STORIES WE TELL (d. Sarah Polley, Canada, 2012)
SUPERSTAR (d. Xavier Giannoli, France, 2012)
WADJDA (d. Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia, 2012)
WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE? (d. Mark Cousins, Ireland-Mexico, 2012)
I saw 13 films but looking over the list makes me regret the ones I missed … my favorites were Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, Francis Ha, and The Hunt