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44th Telluride Film Festival
The 44th Telluride Film Festival was held on September 1–4, 2017, in Telluride, Colorado, United States. Director Joshua Oppenheimer was appointed as the guest director of the event. Telluride honored Edward Lachman and Christian Bale as the Silver Medallion winners. The Special Medallion was awarded to Katriel Schory of Israeli Film Fund. Official selections Main program Guest Director's Selections The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Joshua Oppenheimer. Backlot The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Filmmakers of Tomorrow Student Prints The selection was curated and introduced by Gregory Nava. It selected the best student-produced work around the world. Calling Cards The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. It selected new works from promising filmmakers. Great Expectations The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. Silver Medallion *Edward Lachman *Christian Bale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telluride, Colorado
Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains. The first gold mining claim was made in the mountains above Telluride in 1875, and early settlement of what is now Telluride followed. The town was founded in 1878 as "Columbia", but due to confusion with a California town of the same name, was renamed Telluride in 1887 for the gold telluride minerals found in other parts of Colorado. These telluride minerals were never found near Telluride, but the area's mines for some years provided zinc, lead, copper, silver, and other gold ores. Telluride sits in a box canyon. Steep forested mountains and cliffs surround it, with Bridal Veil Falls situated at the canyon's head. Numerous weathered ruins of old mining operations dot the hillsides. A free gondola connects the town with its companion town, Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cotton Club (film)
''The Cotton Club'' is a 1984 American crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane and Lonette McKee, with Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Gwen Verdon, Fred Gwynne and Laurence Fishburne in supporting roles. The film was noted for its over-budget production costs, and took a total of five years to make. Despite being a disappointment at the box-office, the film received generally positive reviews and was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for Best Art Direction ( Richard Sylbert, George Gaines) and Best Film Editing. Plot A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero, the girlfriend of Jewish-American organized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McGuigan (filmmaker)
Paul McGuigan (born 19 September 1963) is a Scottish film and television director, best known for directing films such as ''Lucky Number Slevin'', ''Gangster No. 1'' and ''Push''. He has also directed episodes of '' Sherlock'', ''Scandal'', '' Monroe'' and '' Smash''. He was born in Bellshill Maternity Hospital, Scotland. Filmography * ''The Acid House'' (1998) * ''Gangster No. 1'' (2000) * '' The Reckoning'' (2003) * '' Wicker Park'' (2004) * ''Lucky Number Slevin'' (2006) * ''Push'' (2009) * ''Victor Frankenstein'' (2015) * ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' is a 2017 biographical romantic drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell, with a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters. It is based on the memoir o ...'' (2017) Television Awards References External links * BBC - ''Paul McGuigan on Movies''Telegraph - ''Film-makers on film: Paul McGuigan'' {{DEFAULTSORT:McGuig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' is a 2017 biographical romantic drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell, with a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters. It is based on the memoir of the same name by Peter Turner, which tells of his relationship with Academy Award-winning American actress Gloria Grahame in 1970s Liverpool and, some years later, her death from stomach cancer. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 1 September 2017. It was released in the United Kingdom on 16 November by Lionsgate and in the United States on 29 December by Sony Pictures Classics. At the 71st British Academy Film Awards, it received three nominations: Best Actress (Bening), Best Actor (Bell) and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was a box office flop, grossing $4 million against a production budget of $10 million, but received generally positive reviews. Synopsis ''In media res'', in October 1981, Gloria Grahame is playin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Lelio
Sebastián Lelio Watt (born 8 March 1974) is a Chilean director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He received critical acclaim for directing the films ''Gloria'' (2013) and ''A Fantastic Woman'' (2017), the latter of which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Lelio was born in Mendoza, Argentina and moved to Viña del Mar, Chile at the age of 2 with his Chilean mother Valeria. He describes his early life as "nomadic": "Up to the age of 21, I was moving between different cities in Chile. I lived for a time in the United States, and also in Viña del Mar; my maternal family is from Viña...essentially I was never more than two or three years in the same city."Ernesto Garratt Viñes"Sebastián Lelio: Hacer 'Gloria' fue entrar a un mundo desconocido" diario.elmercurio.com, 1 February 2013. After some years in Viña, his mother moved to Concepción; later, they lived for one year in North America; from the age of 12 to 17, he lived in Cholguán (Yungay, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fantastic Woman
''A Fantastic Woman'' ( es, Una mujer fantástica) is a 2017 drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio, written by Lelio and Gonzalo Maza, produced by Juan de Dios and Pablo Larraín and starring Daniela Vega and Francisco Reyes. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film where it won in the 90th Academy Awards. Plot Marina is a young transgender woman living in Santiago, Chile, who works as a singer and a waitress. She is taken to dinner by her boyfriend, Orlando, an older man with whom she has recently moved in. He gives her the birthday gift of a note promising tickets to a famous resort because he has mislaid the actual tickets before or after visiting the sauna. That night, Orlando wakes up in a daze and complains he does not feel right. As Marina prepares to take him to the hospital, he stumbles down a flight of stairs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JR (artist)
JR (; born 22 February 1983) is the pseudonym of a French photographer and street artist. JR stands for the initials of JR's first name, which is Jean-René. Describing himself as a ''photograffeur'' (a portmanteau of "photographer" and " graffeur"French for "graffiti artist"), he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in public locations.Elizabeth Day"The street art of JR" ''The Observer'', 7 March 2010. He states that the street is "the largest art gallery in the world." He started out on the streets of Paris.Unattributed,Street Art" Tate Modern, accessed, 6 June 2016. JR's work "often challenges widely held preconceptions and the reductive images propagated by advertising and the media." JR's work combines art and action, and deals with commitment, freedom, identity and limits.Excerpts from the book ''Women Are Heroes'' published by Alternatives, 2009. He has been introduced by Fabrice Bousteau as: "the one we already call the Cartier-Bresson of the 21st centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary realism, addressing women's issues, and other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style. Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema. Varda's feature film debut was ''La Pointe Courte'' (1955), followed by ''Cléo from 5 to 7'' (1962), one of her most notable narrative films, ''Vagabond'' (1985), and ''Kung Fu Master'' (1988). Varda was also known for her work as a documentarian wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faces Places (film)
''Faces Places'' (french: Visages Villages) is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and JR. It was screened out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival where it won the L'Œil d'or award. The film follows Varda and JR traveling around rural France, creating portraits of the people they come across. It was released on 28 June 2017 in France and 6 October 2017 in the United States. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. The film was Varda's second-to-last work, preceding ''Varda by Agnès'' in 2019. Synopsis Varda and JR visit villages, small towns, and factories throughout France to meet communities of people and create large portraits of them to plaster on the surroundings. The process brings the two artists together as friends. Varda repeatedly refers to ''Les fiancés du pont MacDonald'', a short film she made with Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina in 1961. The film revolves around a young man, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Dillon Quinn
Christopher Dillon Quinn, also known as Christopher Quinn, is an American film director, writer, and producer. He was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in neighboring Alexandria, Virginia. He studied Film and Visual Anthropology at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Quinn won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for his film ''God Grew Tired of Us'' at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. ''God Grew Tired of Us'' went on to win Best Documentary at the Deauville Film Festival and Galway Film Festival. In 2007, Quinn was awarded the emerging documentary filmmaker award by the International Documentary Association. He also directed the feature-length film '' 21 Up America'' which was based on the seminal British series and produced by Michael Apted. Quinn recently directed and wrote a documentary entitled “Eating Animals”, which explores the highly damaging effects of industrialized animal agriculture on animals, humans, and the planet. The film, narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Payne
Constantine Alexander Payne (; born February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the films ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), ''About Schmidt'' (2002), ''Sideways'' (2004), ''The Descendants'' (2011), ''Nebraska'' (2013) and '' Downsizing'' (2017). He is noted for his dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2017, Metacritic ranked Payne 2nd on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. Early life Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Peggy and George Payne, restaurant owners. He is the youngest of three sons and grew up in the Dundee neighborhood. He is of Greek ancestry. Payne's paternal grandfather, Nicholas "Nick" Payne, anglicized the last name from "Papadopoulos". His family comes from three areas in Greece: the island of Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downsizing (film)
''Downsizing'' is a 2017 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by Payne and Jim Taylor, and starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig. It tells the story of Paul Safrânek, who decides to undergo a recently-invented procedure to shrink his body so he can start a new life in an experimental community, which he ends up doing alone when his wife backs out at the last minute; his journey takes an unexpected turn after he befriends an impoverished activist. Principal photography for the film began in Ontario, Canada, on April 1, 2016. The film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on December 22, 2017. It was a box-office bomb, grossing only $55 million against a production budget of $68–76 million, and received mixed reviews from critics. Nevertheless, it was chosen by the National Board of Review as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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