37th Telluride Film Festival Lineup Announced

With the kickoff of the 37th Telluride Film Festival, so begins the 2010 Awards Season. Of special note are the special sneak previews of THE KING’S SPEECH starring Oscar hopeful Colin Firth, Darren Aronofsky’s BLACK SWAN via the Venice Film Festival and Danny Boyle’s 127 HOURS. Also on the schedule are Mike Leigh’s ANOTHER YEAR, Mark Romanek’s NEVER LET ME GO with Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, and Peter Weir’s THE WAY BACK starring Colin Farrell, Mark Strong, and Ed Harris. Many of the films listed below will continue onto the Toronto International Film Festival which runs September 9-19. So fellow Awards Watchers…let the games begin.

Press Release:

37th TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2010 FESTIVAL LINEUP

Twenty-four new feature films to preview in Festival’s main program, the “SHOW”

Claudia Cardinale, Colin Firth and Peter Weir to receive Silver Medallion Awards

Special revival programs selected by Guest Director Michael Ondaatje

The 2010 Telluride lineup:

THE “SHOW”

• “A Letter to Elia” (Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, U.S., 2010)
• “Another Year” (Mike Leigh, U.K., 2010)
• “Biutiful” (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico, 2010)
• “Carlos” (Olivier Assayas, France, 2010)
• “Chico and Rita” (Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal Spain-Cuba, 2010)
• “The First Grader” (Justin Chadwick, U.K., 2010)
• “The First Movie” (Mark Cousins, U.K., 2009)
• “Happy People: A Year in The Taiga” (Dmitry Vasyukov with Werner Herzog, Germany, 2010)
• “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle” (Florin Serban, Romania, 2010)
• “The Illusionist” (Sylvain Chomet, U.K., France, 2010)
• “Incendies” (Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 2010)
• “Inside Job” (Charles Ferguson, U.S., 2010)
• “The Kings Speech” (Tom Hooper, U.K., 2010)
• “Le Quattro Volte” (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 2010)
• “Never Let Me Go” (Mark Romanek, U.K./U.S., 2010)
• “Of Gods and Men” (Xavier Beauvois, France, 2010)
• “Oka! Amerikee” (Lavinia Currier, U.S.-Central African Republic, 2010)
• “Poetry” (Lee Chang-Dong, Korea, 2010)
• “Precious Life” (Shlomi Eldar, Israel, 2010)
• “The Princess Of Montpensier” (Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2010)
• “Tabloid” (Errol Morris, U.S., 2010)
• “Tamara Drewe” (Stephen Frears, U.K., 2010)
• “The Tenth Inning” (Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2010)
• “The Way Back” (Peter Weir, U.K., 2010)

MEDALLION AWARDS

This year, TFF will be honoring the following three recipients with its Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema:

CLAUDIA CARDINALE: Italian film star Claudia Cardinale (8½, THE LEOPARD, THE PINK PANTHER) will receive the Silver Medallion followed by an onstage interview conducted by Hilton Als (Saturday) and Davia Nelson (Sunday). The program will include a screening of Valerio Zurlini’s GIRL WITH A SUITCASE (Italy, 1961).

COLIN FIRTH: Telluride audiences will be the first to see British actor Colin Firth’s performance in THE KING’S SPEECH. The film will be preceded by a survey of Firth’s career (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, A SINGLE MAN), the presentation of the Silver Medallion and an onstage interview with Davia Nelson (Sunday) and Todd McCarthy (Monday).

PETER WEIR: Filmmaker Peter Weir (WITNESS, THE TRUMAN SHOW, MASTER AND COMMANDER) will be presented with the Silver Medallion followed by an onstage interview with Leonard Maltin (Friday) and Scott Foundas (Saturday). A screening of Weir’s lost classic THE PLUMBER (Australia, 1976) and his latest film, THE WAY BACK, will screen during the Festival.

GUEST DIRECTOR PROGRAMS

• “The Ascent” (Larisa Shepitko, U.S.S.R., 1977, Archive Print)
• “Confidence” (István Szabó, Hungary, 1980, Archive Print)
• “Fat City” (John Huston, U.S., 1972, Archive Print) Followed By An Interview with Author Leonard Gardner
• “Here’s Your Life” (Jan Troell, Sweden, 1966, Restoration Print from the Swedish Institute)
• “The Hustler” (Robert Rossen, U.S., 1961, Archive Print)
• “Mother Dao, The Turtlelike” (Vincent Monnikendam, Netherlands, 1995, Archive Print)

ADDITIONAL FILM REVIVALS

• “Rotaie” (Mario Camerini, Italy, 1930) – Pordenone Presents with Live Music Performance By Judith Rosenberg.
• “Moana: A Story of the South Seas” (Robert Flaherty, U.S., 1926) – with The 1970S Soundtrack Flaherty’S Daughter Monica Created to Honor Her Father’S Original Intentions and A Restored Print By His Great-Grandson Sami Van Ingen. with Special Guest Documentarian Richard Leacock Who Worked with Flaherty.

BACKLOT

• “Bergman: Featuring Two Films By Stig Björkman …But Film Is My Mistress” (Sweden, 2010) and Images from the Playground (Sweden, 2009)
• “Cameraman: The Life and Work Of Jack Cardiff” (Craig Mccall, U.K., 2010)
• “Chekhov For Children” (Sasha Waters Freyer, U.S., 2010)
• “Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense” (Pascal Hoffmann, Benny Jaberg, Germany, 2010)
• “Documentarist” (Harutyun Khachatryan, Armenia, 2003)
• “Hurricane Kalatozov” (Patrick Cazals, France, 2010)
• “The Magnificent Tati” (Michael House, U.K.-U.S.-France, 2009)
• “Moguls and Movie Stars” (D.Jon Wilkman, U.S., 2010, Two Episodes, Tcm Television Documentary Series)
• “Music Makers of the Blue Ridge” (David Hoffman, U.S., 1965)
• “On “Being There” with Richard Leacock” (Jane Weiner, U.S., 2010)
• “Pygmies in Paris” (Mark Kidel, U.K., 1992)
• “The World According to Ion B.” (Alexander Nanau, Romania, 2010)

In keeping with Festival tradition, additional “Sneak Previews” are expected to surprise attendees over the weekend. Sneaks will be announced on the Telluride Film Festival webpage throughout the weekend at http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/