39th Telluride Film Festival

Given the nature of their films VISION and AN EDUCATION, Festival Moderator Annette Insdorf asks our panel's directors Margarethe von Trotta and Lone Scherfig their thoughts on portraying complex and realistic heroines on screen.

In the second part of our Elks Park Seminar, Moderator Annette Insdorf asks Brenda Blethyn about starring in Rachid Bouchareb's LONDON RIVER with co-star Sotigui Kouyaté, and what it was like to develop a character searching for her child in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.

In the first part of our noon Seminar in Elks Park, Michael Lerner provides an actor's perspective on the different styles directors will implement to pull out complex performances - and how unique Todd Solondz' approach was for LIFE DURING WARTIME.

Special Medallion recipient Serge Bromberg sits down with Leonard Maltin and a packed Sheridan Opera House crowd following his RETOUR DE FLAMME show. Serge talks about what the restoration of film is, and explains a popular method used to do it. You may be surprised at the historical figures involved in its creation!

Actors Paul Schneider and Nic Cage, and Directors George Gittoes and Jason Reitman offer advice and hard-earned wisdom on working with comedy. Discover how humor truly is the best medicine in this panel discussion moderated by journalist Anne Thompson during TFF's Labor Day picnic.

SAMSON AND DELILAH director Warwick Thornton talks with Jason Silverman about his desire to make a film all Australians can be proud of.

Directors James Marsh and Julian Jarrold, with Producer Andrew Eaton, talk about the triumphs and challenges of shooting the Red Riding Trilogy with three different directors and production teams all at the same time.

Telluride Film Festival proudly presents our Silver Medallion to the beautiful and enigmatic screen legend Anouk Aimée. Alexander Payne and Scott Foundas share in the magic and the love.

Michael Haneke sits down with Scott Foundas to talk about his latest film THE WHITE RIBBON and the creative choices that influence his style of fimmaking.

Carey Mulligan and Katie Jarvis discuss how each of their directors, Lone Scherfig and Andrea Arnold, made working on AN EDUCATION and FISH TANK exceptionally special. Leonard Maltin moderates this edition of our Courthouse Conversation series.

Award winning actors Laura Linney and Helen Mirren chat about Mirren's new film THE LAST STATION, the comic-dramatic account of Leo Tolstoy's final months, in which Mirren plays his self-absorbed wife, Sofya Tolstoy, with great enthusiasm.

Laura Linney and Helen Mirren continue their Courthouse Conversation with talk of Helen's other film at the Festival THE JAZZ BARONESS. While the film's director, Hannah Rothschild, chimes in that Helen's participation in the film was brilliant, Helen reveals an early career moment where famed Italian director Federico Fellini thought differently.

In reference to his latest film, BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, Davia Nelson asks Nicolas Cage, "Why New Orleans?" Cage answers with mesmerizing candor.

Telluride Film Festival Tributee Viggo Mortensen talks with Davia Nelson about THE ROAD and how his extraordinary 11 year-old costar Kodi Smit-McPhee taught him valuable lessons about their craft, as well as about life.

In the third and final part of this panel discussion, Barbara Sukowa captivates all with her wise answer to the question of how she prepared to portray the complex heroine Hildegard von Bingen in 36th TFF Tributee Margarethe von Trotta's new film VISION.

In this second part of our panel discussion RED RIDING: 1980 director James Marsh discusses the chilling techniques he implemented to bring serial killer The Yorkshire Ripper to life, and effervescent Carey Mulligan tells of her first meeting with the larger-than-real-life character Lynn Barber, whom Mulligan portrays in the film AN EDUCATION.

Annette Insdorf moderates a panel of our filmmaker and actor guests as they discuss the creative process behind each of their pictures. In this part, FAREWELL director Christian Carion, COCO BEFORE CHANEL director Anne Fontaine, and THE LAST STATION director Michael Hoffman talk of the inspiration behind turning their real life subjects into fascinating screen personas.

Film critic and painter Manny Farber's life is celebrated by his wife Patricia Patterson, editor Robert Polito, and close friends and colleagues Greil Marcus, Robert Walsh, and Kent Jones. Listen as they share some of their favorite writings of Manny's from the Library of America book "Farber on Film: The Complete Writings of Manny Farber."

Telluride Film Festival Tributee Margarethe von Trotta shares with Annette Insdorf and an Opening Night Sheridan Opera House crowd that while she has filmmaking roots in New German Cinema, her story is only just beginning.