The Telluride Film Festival began today with its usual surprise list of screenings.
Not on the list: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” or Brady Corbett’s “The Brutalist.”
But there are plenty of hits including Sean Baker’s “Anora,” and two strong Netflix entries with “The Piano Lesson” and “Emilia Perez.”
Martha Stewart is there for her documentary, “Martha,” directed by RJ Cutler.
There will also be the debut of “Saturday Night,” Jason Reitman’s retelling of the first night of “Saturday Night Live.”
Most of these films will be at the Toronto Film Festival next week.
This has been a slow year so far. Will the festivals turn it around?
Meanwhile, in Venice, there have been positive reactions to Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas movie starring Angelina Jolie. Best Actress will be a hot category this season!
FEATURE FILM & EPISODIC WORKS
· ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (d. Payal Kapadia, France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg, 2024)
· ANORA (d. Sean Baker, U.S., 2024)
· APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (d. Petra Costa, Brazil-U.S.-Denmark, 2024)
· BETTER MAN (d. Michael Gracey, Australia, 2024)
· BIRD (d. Andrea Arnold, U.K., 2024)
· BLINK (d. Daniel Roher, Edmund Stenson, U.S.-Canada, 2024)
· CARVILLE: WINNING IS EVERYTHING, STUPID! (d. Matt Tyrnauer, U.S., 2024)
· CONCLAVE (d. Edward Berger, U.K., 2024)
· DISCLAIMER (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.K.-U.S., 2024)
· DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (d. Embeth Davidtz, South Africa, 2024)
· EMILIA PÉREZ (d. Jacques Audiard, France, 2024)
· IN WAVES AND WAR (d. Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, U.S., 2024)
· JEAN COCTEAU (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2024)
· LEONARDO DA VINCI (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, U.S., 2024)
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· MARIA (d. Pablo LarraÃn, Germany-Italy-U.S.-Hungary-France-Greece, 2024)
· MARTHA (d. R.J. Cutler, U.S., 2024)
· MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (d. Adam Elliot, Australia, 2024)
· MISERICORDIA (d. Alain Guiraudie, France-Spain-Portugal, 2024)
· NICKEL BOYS (d. RaMell Ross, U.S., 2024)
· NO OTHER LAND (d. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Palestine-Norway, 2024)
· ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (d. Kevin Macdonald, U.K., 2024)
· PIECE BY PIECE (d. Morgan Neville, U.S., 2024)
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· SANTOSH (d. Sandhya Suri, U.K.-Germany-France, 2024)
· SATURDAY NIGHT (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2024)
· SEPARATED (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2024)
· SEPTEMBER 5 (d. Tim Fehlbaum, Germany, 2024)
· SOCIAL STUDIES (d. Lauren Greenfield, U.S., 2024)
· THE END (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Ireland-Germany-Italy-Sweden-Denmark-U.K., 2024)
· THE FRIEND (d. David Siegel, Scott McGehee, U.S., 2024)
· THE OUTRUN (d. Nora Fingscheidt, U.K.-Germany, 2024)
· THE PIANO LESSON (d. Malcolm Washington, U.S., 2024)
· THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany-France-Iran, 2024)
· THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT (d. Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos, U.S., 2024)
· WILL & HARPER (d. Josh Greenbaum, U.S., 2024)
· ZURAWSKI V TEXAS (d. Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault, U.S., 2024)
SHORT FILM IN MAIN PROGRAM
· A SWIM LESSON (d. Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, U.S., 2024)
· ALOK (d. Alex Hedison, U.S., 2024)
· THE TURNAROUND (d. Kyle Thrash, Ben Proudfoot, U.S., 2024)
Kenneth Lonergan, this year’s festival Guest Director, presents the following film selections:
· ARCH OF TRIUMPH (d. Lewis Milestone, U.S., 1948)
· BARRY LYNDON (d. Stanley Kubrick, U.K.-U.S., 1975)
· DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (d. David Lean, U.K.-Italy-U.S., 1965)
· GRAND HOTEL (d. Edmund Goulding, U.S., 1932)
· MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (d. John Ford, U.S., 1946)
· A SUDDEN GLIMPSE TO DEEPER THINGS (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2024)
· ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR! (d. Arthur Bradford, U.S., 2024)
· CHAIN REACTIONS (d. Alexandre O. Philippe, U.S., 2024)
· HER NAME WAS MOVIOLA (d. Howard Berry, U.K., 2024)
· MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (d. David Hinton, U.K., 2024)
· NOBU (d. Matt Tyrnauer, U.S., 2024)
· RIEFENSTAHL (d. Andres Veiel, Germany, 2024)
· THE EASY KIND (d. Katy Chevigny, U.S., 2024)
