If there was any lingering doubt about the Telluride Film Festival’s place in the annual film awards season, this year’s Oscars outcome ought to finally settle them.
'Birdman' Oscar win again proves Telluride an Oscar season good luck charm
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:08 pm · February 22nd, 2015
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Toronto and Telluride lock horns over festival premieres
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 pm · January 29th, 2014
The Toronto Film Festival has taken action against Telluride’s “sneak previews” of major prestige titles, extending the heated rivalry between the fall fests.
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Off the Carpet: Reindeer games
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:53 pm · September 8th, 2013
Something I’ve been fending off as just inside baseball bitching suddenly stuck in my craw this week. So let’s get this business out of the way at the top so we can enjoy the season.
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Venice seeks to take action against Telluride's sneak previews
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:15 am · September 6th, 2013
The venerable Euro fest doesn’t take kindly to having its world premieres pinched.
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Telluride: Wrapping up the 40th annual fest
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:06 am · September 3rd, 2013
The 40th annual Telluride Film Festival has come to a close, unofficially launching the Oscar season and wrapping up another wonderfully curated program that continues to be one of my most anticipated journeys each year.
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Telluride Roundup: 'Prisoners,' 'Palo Alto,' 'Gravity'
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 12:27 am · September 3rd, 2013
Looking back at some of the major films at Telluride’s 40th edition including “Palo Alto,” “Gravity,” “Prisoners,” “The Wind Rises” and “Tim’s Vermeer.”
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Telluride: J.C. Chandor on the multiple metaphors of 'All is Lost'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:21 pm · September 2nd, 2013
Like any artist, J.C. Chandor isn’t interested in tying his work down with one thematic takeaway. Indeed, his latest film, “All is Lost,” lives in the abstract and can service any number of perspectives on it. But for a guy who launched his career with the financial crisis indie “Margin Call,” one can’t help but wonder if this film, about a man stranded at sea as things go from bad to worse, isn’t in some way a metaphor for market collapse and financial ruin as seen over the last five years.
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Off the Carpet: Telluride launches the season from 'Gravity' to '12 Years a Slave'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:27 am · September 2nd, 2013
The Telluride Film Festival wraps up today and with that, the upcoming awards season has finally taken a little shape. We have a long way to go, of course, and no one should be calling the race from this far out, but we certainly know a few things.
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Telluride: Penn and Teller's 'Tim's Vermeer' might be the breakout hit of the festival
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:17 pm · September 1st, 2013
I must say I’m happy to see that the media is finding its way to Penn and Teller’s “Tim’s Vermeer” here at the fest. I caught the film on a whim Thursday morning and haven’t found the right time and headspace to write it up, but it might just be — still — my favorite entry of the 40th annual Telluride Film Festival.
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Telluride: Jonás Cuarón's 'Aningaaq' short plays as a companion piece to Alfonso Cuarón's 'Gravity'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:29 pm · September 1st, 2013
There’s an interesting bit of synergy happening in Telluride this year between the hottest ticket of the festival and a modest short film that has been screening before John Curran’s “Tracks.”
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Telluride: 'All is Lost' and 'Gravity' play with similar themes at sea and in space
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:38 am · September 1st, 2013
Survive this life-affirming double feature.
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Telluride: Nothing touches Oscar Isaac in 'Inside Llewyn Davis' … nothing
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:42 pm · August 31st, 2013
As I let the film marinate I can’t help but take a moment to praise this performance.
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Telluride: On the beauty and barbarity of sure-fire Oscar contender '12 Years a Slave'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:11 pm · August 31st, 2013
TELLURIDE, Colo. – Fox Searchlight was smart to get into business with filmmaker Steve McQueen two years ago when, not long after screening his last film, “Shame,” here at the Telluride Film Festival, they acquired it for distribution. Further dividends will be paid in the sterling accomplishment of “12 Years a Slave,” to be sure.
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Telluride: The Coen Bros. and T Bone Burnett celebrated for telling the stories of American music
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:15 pm · August 31st, 2013
Given the Coen brothers’ catalog of great American films, they would have been perfectly suited to a tribute unto themselves at this year’s 40th annual Telluride Film Festival. But when you consider Telluride’s connection to music via the annual Bluegrass music festival held in June, the Coens’ collaboration with T Bone Burnett over the years and particularly how that collaboration has reached a peak with this year’s “Inside Llewyn Davis,” honoring them together made way too much sense.
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Review: Powerful '12 Years A Slave' won't turn away from the brutality of slavery
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 11:02 pm · August 30th, 2013
Chiwetel Ejiofor is exceptional in Steve McQueen’s powerful “12 Years A Slave,” the true story of Solomon Northrup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
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Telluride: Robert Redford looks back at the progression of an industry
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:52 pm · August 30th, 2013
It’s interesting seeing Robert Redford receive a tribute at the Telluride Film Festival. With Sundance so ingrained in his blood and his being the face of an entire institution, his presence here — albeit in a completely warranted capacity — feels like a touch of infidelity. But it’s too good an opportunity to pass up for a fixture of Hollywood history who this year delivers an absolutely amazing, sure-fire Oscar-contending performance in J.C. Chandor’s “All is Lost.”
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Telluride: Denis Villeneuve's 'Prisoners' is a bow of tension drawn impossibly tight
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:47 pm · August 30th, 2013
They simply don’t make thrillers like Denis Villeneuve’s “Prisoners” at the studio level, and yet here it is. Glacially paced, bloated to a 158 minute running time, stingy with details as its mystery unfolds, it goes against most every convention for a film like this.
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'12 Years a Slave' added to New York Film Festival lineup
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:25 pm · August 30th, 2013
Steve McQueen’s hotly buzzed historical drama sneaks in Telluride tonight.
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