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Telluride Film Festival Announces 2008 Lineup!
Telluride Film Festival announces its program for the 35th annual Festival. Featuring diverse programming from around the globe, including a surge of international films, TFF once again sets the stage for some of the most highly anticipated films of the year.
TFF opens its 35th year with over twenty-five new feature films plus special artist tributes and salutes, guest director programs by Slavoj Zizek, a new animation section, classics and restorations, shorts, student prints, seminars and conversations.
- Download the 35th Telluride Film Festival Program Guide
- Press Release: 35th Telluride Film Festival Presented By Dell Announces 2008 Festival Lineup
2008 All Passes Sold Out!
Cinephile Pass? Sold out. Acme Pass? Sold out. Festival Pass? Sold out. Patron Pass? That’s right, sold out. There are only a finite number of passes we can make available for sale, and it looks like, once again, we’ve come to the bottom of our well.
Even though we have no more passes for sale, we’d still love to see you in the mountains this Labor Day. If your spirit of generosity allows, a limited number of Sponsor passes are still available (for more information on becoming a Sponsor of the Telluride Film Festival contact our Development department at 510.559.9400) Otherwise, you can check out our Festival on a Budget Page for some tips on how to enjoy the SHOW without even having a pass.
Thanks to all those who got their orders in to us, we’re looking forward to seeing you all in line in Telluride!
35th Festival Guest Director: Zizek!
The Directors of the Telluride Film Festival are thrilled to announce that Slavoj Zizek will preside as the Guest Director of the Festival's 35th Show. The Slovenian-born irrepressible political philosopher, cultural theorist, academic superstar and impassioned cinephile is certain to stimulate controversy and conversation with his hand-picked film treasures and exhilarating approach to talking about movies, art, culture, politics, and desire.
Most recently, Zizek collaborated with filmmaker Sophie Fiennes on The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006), a film that offers a striking visual introduction to Zizek's ideas on subjectivity, sexuality, and the relationship between fantasy and reality. Fiennes observes that Zizek is "always inverting things and setting up unexpected relationships. It's kind of like a mind gym."
"What I love about Slavoj's way of looking at film", Fiennes says, "is that he shows how important form is. Intuitively, when you watch films, you are enjoying that idiosyncratic language. And his explicit way of reading great moments is exhilarating for me." In the film, Zizek guides viewers into a close examination of some of the most lauded and fascinating films in cinema history.
Join us at the 35th Telluride Film Festival to meet Slavoj Zizek and savor the feast of films he will bring to the Festival!
35th Poster - A Chair Awaits You...
A chair awaits you with our 35th Poster, compliments of Laurie Anderson, returning to us as this year’s poster artist. Many of you may remember Laurie attending as our Guest Director for our 18th Festival and with a repeat performance in 2005 with “ Hidden Inside Mountains. ”
“It is a great honor to have been asked to create this year’s Festival poster,” said Laurie Anderson. “ The chair drawing was featured in my book called “Night Life” which is a book of dream drawings I made a couple of years ago while out on tour. The red chair in the poster was part of a dream drawing I made that happened to be set in a theater at Telluride! So of course it seemed perfect for the Festival poster since it’s all about the audience and the dreams that films really are.”
Writer, director, visual artist and vocalist, Anderson has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of film, art, theater, and experimental music. Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, includes the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Brave” and “Life on a String.” Anderson has published seven books and her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world. In 2002, she was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her touring solo performance The End of the Moon. Anderson has contributed music to films by Wim Wenders and Jonathan Demme and a score for Robert LePages theater production, “Far Side of the Moon.” She has created pieces for National Public Radio, The BBC, and Expo ‘92 in Seville.
“Laurie had all kinds of ideas,” said Co-Director Gary Meyer. ” She showed us photographs and graphics with a wide range of possibilities. When we saw the chair, we knew it was the right image. But we had no idea there was a Telluride connection until long after she designed the actual poster.” ”One of the great pleasures for us is when we can work with an artist in an ongoing relationship,” adds Co-Director Tom Luddy.
Her recent projects include a series of audio-visual installations and a high definition film, “Hidden Inside Mountains,” created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. Currently she is recording a new album for Nonesuch Records, “Homeland”, and touring internationally with an accompanying performance.
Laurie’s poster will be available during the Festival at our Memorabilia store located in Brigadoon, or contact the Festival offices in Berkeley.
TFF Picks at the Oscars & Spirit Awards
The Telluride Film Festival doesn't factor in glitz or awards potential when choosing the films it showcases each year. Our sole criterion is quality, we try and find the very best movies, new and old, from the U.S. or anywhere, to share with our audiences. Still, it's hard not to feel a bit of pride that the movies that we helped launch from our tiny box canyon have done so well in the bigger world. In total, members of the Telluride family took home two Oscars (for Diablo Cody's JUNO screenplay and tributee Daniel Day Lewis' performance in THERE WILL BE BLOOD) and 17 Oscar nominations (for, in various categories, PERSEPOLIS, THE SAVAGES, INTO THE WILD, I'M NOT THERE, DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, SALIM BABA, THE COUNTERFEITERS and MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI). Add to that nine of the 17 Independent Spirit Awards and acclaim from critics groups from around the continent. What a year, both for Telluride and for high-quality cinema. We congratulate our friends who earned these justly-deserved awards, and thank them again for sharing these amazing films with us.
Download the 34th TFF wrap press release
It's a wrap!
Read our wrap on the 34th Telluride Film Festival, and see what the media is saying.
Download the 34th TFF wrap press release here