TELLURIDE: Film fest showcases Oscar-worthy ‘Speech’
TELLURIDE: Film fest showcases Oscar-worthy ‘Speech’
Has Telluride done it again? As the 37th annual Colorado-set film festival came to a close Monday, the prevailing wisdom was that the fest had launched yet another serious Oscar contender in director Tom Hooper and writer David Seidler’s “The King’s Speech.” The Weinstein Co. drama, which stars Colin Firth, Helena Bonham-Carter (both pictured right) and Geoffrey Rush, [...]
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At Telluride Film Fest, ‘Black Swan’ and ‘127 Hours’
At Telluride Film Fest, ‘Black Swan’ and ‘127 Hours’
At the Telluride Film Festival, some of the fall’s most anticipated movies get a test run.
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Telluride Film Festival Announces 2010 Line-up
Telluride Film Festival Announces 2010 Line-up
One of the many things that makes the Telluride Film Festival more interesting than most other film festivals is that it doesn’t announce the line-up until 24 hours before the film festival begins. And even then the festival usually packs a few unannounced surprise premieres. This year’s line-up is kind of a let down. A large portion of the 24 feature films were selected from this year’s Cannes …
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TFF Blog: Welcome to the 37th Telluride Film Festival
TFF Blog: Welcome to the 37th Telluride Film Festival
Every September, a small rustic mountain ski town in Colorado becomes host to one of the most elite film festivals in North America — The Telluride Film Festival. My friend Alex Billington of FirstShowing has a theory that most of the good film festivals are hard to get to. Alex’s theory is that to see the good films first, you really need to work for it. To attend Sundance, you need to fly …
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Scorsese, Weir, Frears films lead Telluride fest lineup
Scorsese, Weir, Frears films lead Telluride fest lineup
LOS ANGELES — The Telluride Film Festival unveiled the lineup of movies Thursday for this weekend’s event, which is regarded as an early highlight for Oscar hopefuls. Film – Arts – Movies – Filmmaking – Telluride Film Festival
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Top directors headlining Telluride film fest
Top directors headlining Telluride film fest
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Fall Fest Daily | Portman, “Miral,” and Telluride Lineup
Fall Fest Daily | Portman, “Miral,” and Telluride Lineup
Rounding up the latest from the fall festival circuit on a daily basis… Both Shane Danielsen and Anne Thompson are planted in Venice to report on the festival for indieWIRE. Each offered their take on Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” which opened the Venice Film Festival on September 1. Danielsen for one loved the film, hailing it as superior to Aronofsky’s debut “Pi.” Of Natalie Portman’s much …
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