The first big film festival, Telluride, has opened. There’s already Oscar buzz and great reviews for Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing” with Matt Damon, and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” with Sally Hawkins. “Dunkirk” was getting lonely sitting by itself on Oscar lists. Here’s the Telluride rundown. The big festival, Toronto, starts in one week.
- ARTHUR MILLER: WRITERÂ (d. Rebecca Miller, U.S., 2017)
- BATTLE OF THE SEXESÂ (d. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, U.S., 2017)
- DARKEST HOURÂ (d. Joe Wright, U.K., 2017)
- DOWNSIZINGÂ (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2017)
- EATING ANIMALSÂ (d. Christopher Quinn, U.S., 2017)
- FACES PLACESÂ (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 REFORMEDÂ (d. Paul Schrader, U.S., 2017)
- FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHERÂ (d. Angelina Jolie, U.S.-Cambodia, 2017)
- FOXTROTÂ (d. Samuel Maoz, Israel, 2017)
- HOSTAGESÂ (d. Rezo Gigineishvili, Georgia-Russia-Poland, 2017)
- HOSTILESÂ (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2017)
- HUMAN FLOWÂ (d. Ai Weiwei, U.S.-Germany, 2017)
- THE INSULTÂ (d. Ziad Doueiri, France-Lebanon, 2017)
- LADY BIRDÂ (d. Greta Gerwig, U.S., 2017)
- LAND OF THE FREEÂ (d. Camilla Magid, Denmark-Finland, 2017)
- LEAN ON PETEÂ (d. Andrew Haigh, U.K.-U.S., 2017)
- LOVELESSÂ (d. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia-France-Belgium-Germany, 2017)
- LOVE, CECILÂ (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2017)
- LOVING VINCENTÂ (d. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, U.K.-Poland, 2017)
- A MAN OF INTEGRITYÂ (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 WATERÂ (d. Guillermo del Toro, U.S., 2017)
- TESNOTAÂ (d. Kantemir Balagov, Russia, 2017)
- THE VENERABLE W. (d. Barbet Schroeder, France-Switzerland, 2017)
- THE VIETNAM WARÂ (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2017)
- WORMWOODÂ (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2017)
- WONDERSTRUCKÂ (d. Todd Haynes, U.S., 2017)