What movies are in the next Oscar race? The Telluride Film Festival has answers.
It isn’t easy — or, for that matter, cheap — to get to the Telluride Film Festival, nestled in an isolated box canyon in the mountains of Colorado where miners once dug for silver and gold. So the festival’s programmers know they need to make it worth the trip.
“The thinking is, if people are spending a lot of money to come to Telluride, we’d better show them some stuff they haven’t seen before, some stuff that’s outrageously good,” says executive director Julie Huntsinger, who curates the festival’s program with Tom Luddy. “We’re just devoted to saying, ‘Look at this.
“Christian Bale achieves new heights and Matt Damon shows a side of him that I don’t think we’ve seen before,” Huntsinger says of “Ford v Ferrari,” which chronicles Ford’s effort to unseat the seemingly indomitable Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans auto race. “Two and a half hours flies by.”On the other end of the spectrum are smaller, more intimate films, including director Trey Edward Shults’ “Waves,” which centers on a suburban African American family whose patriarch is played by Sterling K.
Along with Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which will open the New York Film Festival, “Marriage Story” isto follow the trail blazed by last year’s “Roma” into the best picture Oscar race. That would mark a first for writer-director Baumbach, whose earlier films include “Kicking and Screaming,” “The Squid and the Whale” and“I think it’s his best work so far,” Huntsinger said of Baumbach’s film.
Telluride will also offer North American audiences their first opportunity to see a handful of international films that made waves earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, including French director Céline Sciamma’s
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