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 Revered Consultants Guest Director
Joe Anne Erickson Management
Linda Wilkinson Corporate
Each year, Don DeLillo
Festival Directors In Don DeLillo’s first novel, Americana (1971), the
Esteemed Council of Advisors
Laurie Anderson New York, NY Bill Pence and narrator wanders the country with a 16mm camera,
thinking of himself as a “child of Godard and Coca-Cola.”
Alberto Barbera Torino, Italy Tom Luddy invite In The Names (1982), set in Greece and the Middle East,
Peter Becker New York, NY a film director tries to locate the members of a mysterious
one of the cult. And in DeLillo’s novel The Body Artist (2001), a film
Peter Bogdanovich New York, NY
John Boorman London, UK world’s great film director says, “The answer to life is the movies.”
Kevin Brownlow London, UK The power of the image and the presence of film culture
lovers to join have been consistent elements in DeLillo’s fiction.
Ken Burns Walpole, NH That’s in part due to his appreciation of great cinema.
them in the
Paolo Cherchi-Usai Acton, Australia In 1988 he described in an interview the qualities he
Buck Henry Los Angeles, CA creation of the enjoyed in films by Godard, Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman,
Lisa Henson Culver City, CA Kubrick and Howard Hawks: “They seem to fracture
Telluride Film reality. They find mystery in commonplace moments.
Werner Herzog Munich, Germany They find humor in even the gravest political acts.”
Festival. The
Kathleen Kennedy Santa Monica, CA
Each of these qualities also is evident in DeLillo’s works.
Adam Krentzman Beverly Hills, CA Guest Director The author of 13 novels and three stage plays, DeLillo is
Warren Lieberfarb Los Angeles, CA serves as a key one of the world’s most celebrated authors. He has won
Phillip Lopate Brooklyn, NY the National Book Award (for White Noise, 1985), the
collaborator in all PEN/Faulkner Award (for Mao II, 1991), the Jerusalem
Frank Marshall Santa Monica, CA
Award (he was the first American so honored, in 1999)
Errol Morris Cambridge, MA of the Festival’s and the William Dean Howells Medal (for Underworld,
Max Palevsky Los Angeles, CA 2000). Other novels include Players (1977), Running Dog
programming
Kirill Razlogov Moscow, Russia (1978), Libra (1988) and Cosmopolis (2003).
decisions, bring- DeLillo’s other film writing includes a screenplay (Game 6)
Donald Richie Tokyo, Japan
and an essay entitled “Counterpoint” for the magazine
Salman Rushdie London, UK ing new ideas
Grand Street. “Counterpoint” is a meditation on solitude
Marian L. Schwindeman New York, NY and overlooked and introspection that was largely inspired by the films
John Simon New York, NY STRAIGHT NO CHASER, THE FAST
films to Telluride. RUNNER and THIRTY TWO
Milos Stehlik Chicago, IL
SHORT FILMS ABOUT
Bertrand Tavernier Paris, France Past Guest
GLENN GOULD. DeLillo’s
David Thomson San Francisco, CA Directors include article on the film
Peter von Bagh Helsinki, Finland WANDA, a film that he
Salman Rushdie, will present at this
Irwin W. Young New York, NY
year’s Festival, will
Saul Zaentz Berkeley, CA Buck Henry,
appear later this year
Laurie Anderson, in the arts journal
Black Clock.
Prized Program Notes Contributors Stephen Sondheim,
Larry Gross (LG), Lead Writer DeLillo’s latest play,
Peter Sellars and Love-Lies-Bleeding,
Paolo Cherchi Usai (PCU), Don DeLillo (DD), Roger Ebert (RE) will premiere at
Scott Foundas (SF), David Thomson (DT); Phillip Lopate. Steppenwolf in
Telluride Film Festival staff (TFF): Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer, Chicago in
Bill Pence, Jason Silverman the spring
of 2006. He
is currently
Poster Artist at work on
a novel.
Dave McKean
When a magazine described Dave McKean as “the most absurdly talented
British artist in years,” it served as tribute both to McKean and to the graphic novel,
a genre that he helped legitimize. McKean is best known for his collaborations with
Neil Gaiman, especially on the wondrous Sandman novels. He also created
illustrations in a range of styles for everyone from The New Yorker to Tori Amos.
McKean is an author—his graphic novel Cages is a cult classic—and filmmaker. His
short N(EON) played at the 2002 Telluride Film Festival and his debut feature,
MIRRORMASK, which played Sundance ‘05, will be released later this year.
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1 A Tribute to Mickey Rooney
Made possible by a donation from the Lucky Star Foundation
A few days after this year’s Festival, he will be 85. According to the IMDB,
he has, so far, appeared in 260 films—the first, NOT TO BE TRUSTED, was
in 1926, and he played a midget. In 1939, the most golden of golden
years, Mickey Rooney became the top box-office attraction in America and
received his first Oscar nomination, for BABES IN ARMS (which is Busby
Berkeley, Judy Garland and our guy putting on a show). He had already
won an honorary Oscar in 1938 for “bringing to the screen the spirit and
personification of youth.”
He is, to this day, uncanny, sexy, beautiful, haunting and closer to the
spirit world than anyone has ever come on screen playing Puck in Max
Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM. He was Andy Hardy, about 15
times, at M-G-M, and went from being the son Louis B. Mayer never had to
a sex-mad kid, so wild he disrupted the sentimental image of the Hardy
films. If Mayer had been prescient, he might have looked at Rooney in the
early 40s and seen that Mickey was Dean and Presley and rock and roll
way ahead of his time.
So the Mick crashed. He went off to war, just like Hardy. He got drunk and
married up a storm and lost all his money. By the mid 1940s, it was said,
he was over. His astonishing energy and will to stay young were fighting
an older body. The body lost. In the years and decades during which he
was officially over, Mickey Rooney did a boxer in KILLER MCCOY; he was
Larry Hart in WORDS AND MUSIC; a race-car driver in THE BIG WHEEL.
The pictures got smaller, but Mickey got bigger. Sometimes that clash
was demented, over-the-top or hardly bearable. He was radioactive in
THE ATOMIC KID; a soldier in THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE; chilling in THE
COMEDIAN, written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer for
TV; hilarious in OPERATION MAD BALL; on Death Row in THE LAST MILE. He
was nearly an international incident in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S. For Don
Siegel, in 1957, he was Baby Face Nelson, one of the greatest performances
in cinema, as authentic as Falconetti as Joan of Arc.
He has never stopped. In the 80s, he won an Emmy in Bill. In the 90s, he
did Sugar Babies on Broadway. A couple of years ago, driving through
Oregon, I saw that he was doing dinner theatre in a clearing in the
woods. Plenty of his movies have been unworthy of him. But I recall a
year in which a very young son insisted on watching THE BLACK STALLION
over and over again on video, and the son sometimes asked his father why
he was crying. It was because of the unaffected zest and tenderness with
which Mickey Rooney was being Henry, teaching the boy to ride. For good
and ill, Mickey Rooney was what this whole movie thing was about. And in
his gargantuan, monstrous need to entertain us he exemplifies the show
in the business. Who is not crying? –DT
Following a compilation reel, Rooney will accept Telluride’s Silver Medallion.
An onstage interview will follow: Friday with Roger Ebert, Saturday with
Peter Bogdanovich. THE COMEDIAN 31 screens elsewhere in the Festival.
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2 Edmond
The masterful character actor William H. Macy makes us look afresh at
regular guys, endowing them with surprising humor and poignancy. In the
title role of EDMOND, adapted by David Mamet from his play and directed by
Stuart Gordon, Macy plays a white-collar guy who walks out on his wife
(Rebecca Pidgeon) and decides to live honestly and express his true feel-
ings. He celebrates with a succession of hookers (Denise Richards, Bai Ling
and Mena Suvari) whose economic realism brings Edmond considerable
humiliation, along with a few hilarious lessons in the art of negotiation. A
lifetime of buried anger towards women, blacks, and homosexuals boils
towards the surface, a large knife is purchased, and EDMOND becomes a
bizarre, comic and contemporary film noir. With extraordinary performances
by Joe Mantegna, Julia Stiles, Bokeem Woodbine, George Wendt and Dylan
Walsh. –LG (U.S., 2005, 75m, First Independent) Preceded by 9 (d. Shane
Acker, U.S., 2005, 11m) In person: Stuart Gordon, William H. Macy
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3 Caché (Hidden)
The latest from Michael Haneke (FUNNY GAMES, THE PIANO TEACHER) begins
with a surveillance video trained on the Paris home of book critic Georges
(Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche). The tape is recovered,
along with a crude crayon drawing of a child with a red triangle emerging
from his mouth. More tapes and drawings follow, forming a breadcrumb trail
that leads Georges back to his family’s estate and a long-dormant childhood
memory. CACHÉ is interested in many things, but telling us ‘whodunnit’
isn’t one of them. Just what happened back then and what bearing it has
on Georges are mysteries Haneke holds close to his vest. The tapes rattling
Georges aren’t so much one man’s nightmares made manifest as the embod-
iment of a collective guilt, of all the inhumanities to which we turn a blind
eye—be they childhood secrets wished away, dark-skinned strangers passed
in the street, or France itself in the long shadow cast by Algeria. –SF
(Austria, 2005, 117m, Sony Classics) In person: Michael Haneke
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4 Everything Is Illuminated
The talented Tony award-winning actor Liev Schreiber makes an impressive
directorial debut with his adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s prize-
winning novel. The story follows Jonathan (Elijah Wood), a young Jewish-
American writer who travels to the Ukraine to try and discover how his
grandfather escaped the Nazis’ murderous violence. His guide, and our
narrator, is Alex (Eugene Hutz), a twenty-something Ukrainian who busily
speeds away from his national and familial past, embracing the post-
Communist era with his every ounce of energy. Hutz’s deadpan comic line
readings and the way he casually mangles American slang are among the
film’s chief pleasures, as are the lyrically beautiful Ukrainian landscapes,
photographed by Matthew Libatique. Quietly, but inexorably, EVERYTHING
veers from black comedy towards tragedy, with each character trying to
settle accounts with crimes of the past. –LG (U.S., 2005, 100m, Warner
Independent) In person: Liev Schreiber
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5 Be With Me
Writer-director Eric Khoo works with a fixed camera, employs but a few
scraps of dialogue and uses music sparingly. His characters are of the
everyday sort. But, while BE WITH ME is minimalist in both style and scope,
Khoo’s film is substantial—a magical, bittersweet exploration of the terrain
of the human heart. The narrative floats between four central characters: a
shopkeeper confronting his wife’s advancing illness; a burly security guard
hoping to court a lithe businesswoman; a teenage girl tasting heartache for
the first time; and the deaf and blind, formidably happy writer Theresa
Chan, whose autobiography inspired the screenplay and who plays herself.
As Khoo quietly investigates matters of love, longing and destiny, he finds
revelation in the simplest moments. BE WITH ME was the opening night film
at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. -LG (Singapore, 2005, 90m)
Preceded by UNDRESSING MY MOTHER (d. Ken Wadrop, Ireland, 2004, 5m)
In person: Erik Khoo, James Toh
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6 A Tribute to the Dardennes
Made possible by a donation from The Burns Family
“All work merits payment,” notes a character early on in Luc and Jean-Pierre
Dardenne’s LA PROMESSE (1996), the first film by the Belgian-born brothers
to receive wide international exposure. For their own subsequent work, the
Dardennes have been paid handsomely: Twice, they have won the Cannes Film
Festival’s Palme d’Or and, twice more, directed actors to Cannes-awarded
performances. Yet, they’ve managed to do it all without ever venturing far
from home—in their case, Seraing, the industrial Belgian seaport city where
five of their six dramatic features (and several early documentaries) have
been set. It has become, for them, what Dublin was for Joyce and what
Giverny was for Monet: proof that, if he looks closely enough, an artist
may find all the inspiration he needs right in his own backyard.
They did not set out to become filmmakers. Jean-Pierre, the elder by three
years, aspired to be an actor. Luc studied philosophy. But while still in their
early 20s, in 1975, they formed a production company from which they directed
a series of nonfiction features on subjects including an underground workers’
newspaper and the career of proletariat playwright Jean Louvet. That work
was consistent with a career that has remained devoted to the minutiae of
working-class life. The brothers’ initial forays into narrative filmmaking
include FALSCH (1987), a neo-Brechtian work in which a Jewish man who
fled Berlin prior to the Holocaust is confronted by the specters of those
who stayed and perished; and JE PENSE A VOUS (1992), which drew on
more typical subject matter—a factory closure—but in precisely the classical
melodrama style that the brothers now regard with deepest suspicion.
Those films are little seen today, and the Dardennes seem in no hurry to
revive them. But they reveal LA PROMESSE as an act of artistic reinvention
of a kind rarely seen in cinema. Gone was all semblance of theatricality
and artifice. In its place, a hard-wrought realism made to seem effortless;
a terse story executed with astonishing narrative speed; and a commitment
to defining characters through their vocation (or lack thereof). It was a
model for everything that has followed: ROSETTA (1999), which won the
Palme d’Or, charts an unstable young woman’s descent into near-madness
when she loses her menial factory job; THE SON (2002) has the
Dardennes’ regular actor, Olivier Gourmet, in a brilliant performance as a
carpentry instructor who takes on his own son’s killer as a student; and
THE CHILD (2005), in which a directionless young man sells his newborn
child on the black market, only to try and reverse that devil’s bargain.
For this devastating study in greed and its consequences, the brothers
received another Palme d’Or, placing them among an elite group of double
winners that includes Francis Coppola and the Japanese master Shohei
Imamura. Rare company indeed, but in which the Dardennes should be
more than comfortable. –SF
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne will accept Telluride’s Silver Medallion following
a 20 minute compilation reel, and then will present their new film, winner of
Cannes’ 2005 Palme d’Or, THE CHILD. (France, 2005, 95m, Sony Classics)
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7 Wanda
WANDA appeared in 1971, toward the end of the great era of foreign films
showing in this country. It might be regarded as the unsung herald of the
American surge that sent many fine and famous movies coursing through
that decade. Barbara Loden wrote and directed, and she appears as the
title character, who wanders through the film, taking what comes her way,
most of it dished out by her criminal lover, played expertly by Michael
Higgins. The movie has the jittery look of scenes caught on surveillance
camera, and it is Barbara Loden’s high achievement to have created a
character who can survive only by attaching herself to a man and to have
made this woman so real and moving that she transcends our standard
categories of enlightened judgment. WANDA is a great lost movie—lost
and found. –DD (U.S., 1971, 102m, Castle Hill) Presented by Don DeLillo
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8 Fateless
Gyuri (played by Marcell Nagy in a superb, almost wordless performance)
is a 14-year-old boy who one day simply has the bad luck to be taken off
the bus to work and sent to Buchenwald. The horrific events Gyuri witnesses
and participates in don’t offer a reassuring moral about humanity or the
inevitable triumph of decency. Gyuri is not immune to the cruel depravity
of the world he is forced to inhabit. Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz
adapted this screenplay from his autobiographical novel, and the great
cinematographer Lajos Koltai, who has worked with the Hungarian master
Istvan Szabo, makes a beautiful and controlled directorial debut, structuring
the story as brief clipped moments rhythmically punctuated by fades to
black. The enigmatic denouement on the streets of post-war Budapest,
with Gyuri as a stranger in a strange land, is a haunting reminder of the
impossibility of understanding the Holocaust. –LG (Hungary, 2005,
136mm, Thinkfilm) In person: Lajos Koltai
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9 Bee Season
This adaption of Myla Goldberg’s novel begins as a rapturous celebration
of family happiness. Saul Nauman (Richard Gere), a theology professor
specializing in the mystical discipline of Kabbalah, is married to the
beautiful Miriam (Juliette Binoche), a devoted wife and mother of two
gifted children, Adam (Max Minghella) and Eliza (Flora Cross). The
Naumans’ good life gets better when Eliza successfully competes in
spelling bee competitions. Unexpectedly, Eliza’s gifts unleash unsettling
consequences, and what was once joyous and stable for the family begins
to unravel. Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal’s terse, elliptical screenplay, the lyrical
beauty of the imagery (directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel also
created SUTURE and THE DEEP END) and a superb ensemble make BEE
SEASON a startlingly original domestic drama. -LG (U.S., 2005, 100m, Fox
Searchlight) Preceded by WHILE DARWIN SLEEPS (d. Paul Bush, U.K,
2004, 5m) In person: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
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10 Spirit of the Beehive
Victor Erice is a celebrated director who makes a full-length film every
ten years or so. His masterwork, THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE—a
Janus/Criterion film, now screened in this country for the first time in 25
years—is set in the days of the dictatorship in Spain, and it’s a beautiful
and disturbing movie of remote landscapes, dreamy scenes of childhood
and the advancing shadow of the state. A young girl, Ana, lives with an
older sister and their distracted parents. Her father tends a beehive, her
mother corresponds with a lover. It is Ana’s two major discoveries, one,
the FRANKENSTEIN movie by James Whale, and then an injured soldier
in hiding, that shape the heart of this extraordinary movie. Shot in
deceptively serene tones, paced in the rhythms of rural isolation, SPIRIT
OF THE BEEHIVE exemplifies what Erice calls poetic cinema. It is the
poetry an artist finds in the weave of dangerous times. –DD (Spain,
1973, 97m, Janus) Presented by Don DeLillo
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11 A Tribute to Charlotte Rampling 12 Three Times

Made possible by a
Here is a career unbounded by barriers of language or nationality. Though she is This is the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien’s most accessible work, and
British, Charlotte Rampling has appeared in more than 60 films made in three one of the great films of the year. THREE TIMES is a trio of short stories,
different languages and on four separate continents. And one hardly doubts she each set in a different period, and it could be viewed as a summation of
would journey to Antarctica if the right project presented itself. For Rampling is Hou’s career to date. Each episode stars the actress Shu Qi and the actor
an actress of uncommon risk and unpredictability. Put that together with those Chang Chen; in each, she is May and he is Chen, and all three episodes
piercing, blue-grey eyes and you have a dangerous coupling indeed. You needn’t explore emotional lives and missed connections. In the first, set in 1966,
be Philip Marlowe to feel Rampling’s gaze in your hip pocket. May runs a billiard parlor and Chen is her admirer. In the second, set in
1911, May is a prostitute and Chen is an idealistic journalist and her
She briefly thought of becoming a cabaret singer, before her father—a
customer. In the third, set in 2005, they are confused modern young
British Army colonel—thought better and shipped her off to secretarial
people involved in romances that exist largely via cell phones and text
school. Yet, some things are simply meant to be, and so it was that while
messaging. THREE TIMES uses exquisite visual and tonal strategies to
the teenage Rampling was working in an ad agency’s typing pool, an execu-
evoke longing, loneliness, secret feelings and the brutal carelessness
tive spotted her and thought she’d be perfect for a Cadbury’s commercial.
of life. Hou’s film is wise and heartbreaking. –RE (Taiwan, 2005, 120m)
That led to her being cast in THE KNACK and GEORGY GIRL (both 1965)—two
In person: Shu Qi
of the quintessential British films of the 1960s. From there, it was off to
Italy for a small role in Visconti’s THE DAMNED (1969); to America for
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VANISHING POINT (1971), where she ended up on the cutting room floor;
and back to England for the futuristic oddity of ZARDOZ (1974). But it was 13 Johanna
her next part, as a Holocaust survivor reunited with her former torturer in
THE NIGHT PORTER (1975), which proved her most daring and enduring.
That movie was bound to be notorious, but Rampling was extraordinary,
so committed to showing how pain might turn to pleasure and back again
that she drained the film of its potential for camp kinkiness.
Not surprisingly, Hollywood came calling: She was opposite Robert Mitchum,
in the old Claire Trevor part, in FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (1975); with Paul
Newman in THE VERDICT (1982); and as the erstwhile object of Woody
Allen’s desire in STARDUST MEMORIES (1980)—Allen would later say that
any dinner party worth its salt should count Rampling and Franz Kafka
among its guests. In the two decades since, Rampling has rarely been less
than busy, often in France, where she has had maybe her two greatest
roles. In MAX MON AMOUR (1986), her eponymous lover is a chimpanzee, a
situation Rampling plays as though it were the sort of thing any woman
might do. Then, for the young French director François Ozon, she agreed to
be the wife whose husband disappears (or does he?) in UNDER THE SAND Picture a combination of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ken Russell and you will
(2000)—no matter that there wasn’t a finished script when she signed on. begin to imagine the strange splendors of Kornél Mundruczó’s film,
Likely, Ozon realized that Rampling would become more than the film’s which retells, in operatic form, the legendary story of Joan of Arc. This
star—she would help to shape its plangent sense of mystery and loss. It contemporary version in a surreal Hungarian hospital where the drug-
was, you see, a story not very far from Rampling’s own—in the 1960s, her addicted Johanna (Orsi Toth) falls into a coma, is miraculously rescued,
older sister committed suicide in Argentina, after which the young Charlotte but awakes having lost her memory. She stays on as a nurse and begins
joined with her father in concealing the truth from her grief-stricken mother. curing the sick by making love to them, arousing the rage of the entire
medical staff. Every word of JOHANNA is sung (the music is by Zsofia
But let us not forget that movies, above all else, give us illusions—and Taller) but the emotional extravagance of the material is balanced by the
Rampling is one of their most beguiling. –SF elegant visual storytelling. Mundruczó’s gliding Steadicam shots recall
Following an hour-long compilation of clips from her career, Charlotte Welles and Ophuls in their intricacy and precision. You have never encountered
Rampling will accept the festival’s Silver Medallion. An on-stage interview anything quite like JOHANNA. –LG (Hungary, 2005, 83m, Tartan)
will follow. Rampling’s ‘05 Cannes Festival opener, LEMMING 32 , screens Preceded by OVERTIME (d. Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrié,
elsewhere in the Festival. France, 2004, 5m) In person: Kornél Mundruczó

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14 Paradise Now
Sure to arouse fierce controversy, this film offers an uncannily intimate,
rigorously credible account of two young Palestinian suicide bombers
leading up to their fatal mission. PARADISE NOW begins quietly, conveying
the petty everyday humiliations and grinding poverty of daily life in Gaza
under Israeli occupation, where all sensible political hope is gone. It then
pirouettes abruptly but skillfully into a thriller of excruciating intensity.
Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad and cowriter Bero Beyer have created a
modest, dispassionate masterpiece that offers audiences an original kind
of political cinema. PARADISE NOW is resolute in its refusal to offer easy
ideological answers, and it sets a new aesthetic standard in the process.
No viewers who open themselves to Abu-Assad’s tragic vision will ever be
able to think and feel about the Middle East in quite the same way again.
–LG (Israel-Palestine, 2005, 90m, Warner Independent) Preceded by CITY
PARADISE (d. Gaelle Denis, U.K., 2004, 6m) In person: Hany Abu-Assad
P/Fri 6:30 PM - G/Fri 9:30 PM - C/Sat 4:30 PM
15 Capote
In 1959, The New Yorker sent Truman Capote, the fiction writer and socialite
extraordinaire, to report on the brutal murders of a Kansas farming family.
Six years later, In Cold Blood made Capote an international celebrity. In the
process, Capote popularized “literary journalism,” challenged our concepts
of objective truth and forever reshaped our cultural landscape. Bennett
Miller’s debut fiction feature, adapted by Dan Futterman from Gerald
Clarke’s biography, tells this fascinating story with a restrained, quiet
elegance, concentrating on Capote’s tortured relationship with the doomed
killer Perry Smith. Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a memorable portrait of
the artist as monstrously self-absorbed and self-pitying one moment and
eloquent, compassionate and wittily perceptive the next. The superlative
supporting cast includes Chris Cooper and Catherine Keener, who plays
Capote’s childhood pal Harper Lee. –LG (U.S., 2005, 109m, Sony Classics)
In person: Bennett Miller, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener
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16 A Cottage on Dartmoor
Hitchcock wasn’t the only master of suspense. This excellent late silent
film is also by far one of the lesser known, and the same fate undeservedly
applied to director Anthony Asquith (THE WINSLOW BOY, THE IMPORTANCE
OF BEING EARNEST), whose career covered several decades of British cinema.
The roaring applause at Pordenone for COTTAGE was largely due to the
film’s bold camerawork, fast editing and experimental special effects.
However, Asquith’s film is also a masterful example of classic storytelling,
a perfect blend of action and melodrama, with the additional touch of a
film-within-the-film bravura piece. Watch for the scene in a barbershop,
with a lover ready to cut the throat of a client who happens to be his
rival. Stephen Horne’s dazzling live piano accompaniment was one of the
highest points in the history of Italy’s pioneering silent film festival.
He will prove an ideal addition to Telluride’s musical family. –PCU
(U.K., 1929, 87m) In person: Stephen Horne and Paolo Cherchi-Usai
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17 Conversations With Other Women
Presentation made possible by a donation from Warren & Becky Gottsegen
It’s a set up as old as the hills: two strangers meet at a wedding and are
soon attracted to each other. In CONVERSATIONS, screenwriter Gabrielle
Zevin brings some nifty changes on the theme. Elizabeth (Helena Bonham-
Carter) and Thomas (Aaron Eckhart) are urban sophisticates whose charm
and intelligence can’t conceal the onset of lonely disenchantment as they
push 40. We expect them to be attracted to each other, but are surprised
as we discover the less obvious reasons why. Bonham-Carter and Eckhart,
onscreen almost continuously, are superb, and their conversation grows
more unpredictable as it goes along. Director Hans Canosa uses split-
screen effects ingeniously to capture the relationship’s intricacies and
invests a tiny anecdote with considerable emotional power. And a pleasant
comic romp grows deeper and darker. –LG (U.S., 2005, 83m) Preceded by
SPACER (d. Guy Roland, U.S., 2004, 3m) In person: Hans Canosa, Helena
Bonham-Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Gabrielle Zevin
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C/Fri 8:00 PM - M/Sat 7:15 PM - N/Mon 9:00 AM
18 The President’s Last Bang
Seoul, Korea, 1979: Park Chung-hee’s corrupt and cruelly repressive
dictatorship is collapsing, and turf wars between hack politicians, the
military’s security branch and Korea’s CIA are breaking out. Those in the
mix include Kim, a spy boss who yearns to defend democratic values but
has a nasty habit of succumbing to his homicidal and scatological rage;
Yu, a top agent and world-class bully; and the president’s sleazy secretary,
pompous bodyguard and two female companions. The grotesque and
bloody story of Park’s final hours is a good deal stranger and funnier than
most fiction. Director Im Sang-soo paints a crazy-lurid fresco, reminiscent
of DR. STRANGELOVE and the best of Hollywood’s 1960s anti establishment
satires. THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG offers a blackly comic look at a
momentous day in Korean history, remaining blessedly indifferent to all
forms of political and sexual correctness. –LG (South Korea, 2005, 102m,
Kino International) In person: Im Sang-soo
O/Fri 8:30 PM – P/Sat Noon
19 The Lost City
Presentation made possible by a donation from Lary & Sally Simpson
Guillermo Cabrera Infante and writer-director Andy Garcia spent 16 years
bringing Infante’s momentous novel Three Trapped Tigers—the Ulysses of
Cuba—to the screen. The result, THE LOST CITY, is many things: a love
letter to pre-Revolutionary Havana, a historical drama featuring Batista,
Castro and Che, and an homage to the greatest Cuban music and musicians.
At the film’s center is Fico (Garcia), a cabaret owner who tries to rise
above the political fray but discovers that his club is as tumultuous and
dangerous as Cuba itself. As an ex-pat gag writer, Bill Murray embodies
the spirit of Cabrera Infante, providing an absurdist commentary on
history as it unfolds, and the rest of the cast (including Dustin Hoffman,
Thomas Milian and Ines Sastre) is equally superb. Cabrera Infante,
Telluride’s Guest Director in 1992, died last February, but not before
seeing a fine cut of this inventive independent film. –TFF (U.S./Cuba,
2005, 138m) In person: Andy Garcia
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Shows
P/Sat 3:30 PM - G/Sat 7:00 PM - C/Sun 1:00 PM
20 Brokeback Mountain
In the summer of 1963, two young men—a Texas rodeo cowboy and a
Wyoming ranch-hand—meet on a lonely sheepherding job. Pulled together
by the harsh nights, they form a bond that will last the rest of their lives.
Academy Award-winning director and 2000 Festival tributee Ang Lee (THE
ICE STORM, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) returns to Telluride with
this sensitive adaptation (by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana) of Annie
Proulx’s short story. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger perfectly bring to
life Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto
captures the landscapes of the high grasslands of Alberta, Canada, doubling
for Wyoming. This is the most beautifully filmed outdoor movie you’ll see
indoors this weekend. Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, as the men’s
wives, and Randy Quaid (their ranch boss) add depth to this tale, which
demonstrates love's power in times of both joy and tragedy. –TFF
(U.S., 2005, 136m, Focus)
C/Sun 9:00 AM
21 The Moon and the Son + Much More
As a teen, John Canemaker found refuge from a troubled home life by
drawing his own elaborate movies. Today, Canemaker is a master animator,
with works in major museum collections. And, as the author of nine books,
he also is one of the form’s most articulate, passionate scholars. This program
opens with his newest film and also his masterpiece, THE MOON AND THE
SON, a colorful, moving, ultimately devastating plea from a boy to his late
father. Part immigrant’s tale and part diary, and with voiceovers by Eli
Wallach and John Turturro, MOON is a distinctly American story about the
possibilities of redrawing one’s own life. (U.S., 2005, 28m) Next, Canemaker
presents the six films that most deeply shaped his appreciation of animation.
Artists featured include Winsor McCay, Otto Messmer, Walt Disney, Oskar
Fischinger, Chuck Jones and Len Lye. -TFF (Running time: About 45m)
Stephen Horne will accompany the silent shorts. Another animation scholar,
Leonard Maltin, will lead an on stage interview with Canemaker.
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22 Breakfast on Pluto
There has never been a coming-of-age movie quite like this one. Neil
Jordan (CRYING GAME, MONA LISA, THE BUTCHER BOY) adapts Patrick
McCabe’s novel about a boy born to be different. Patrick Brady (Cillian
Murphy) is abandoned as a baby in a small Irish town, escapes to London
and, as a witty and deceptively tough young transvestite, searches for his
mother, asks to be called “Kitten” and learns to navigate big-city life.
Jordan captures the excitement and political turmoil of the 1970s in a film
that’s alternately hilarious, moving and magical. Murphy has quietly
impressed audiences in films including INTERMISSION, 28 DAYS LATER and
BATMAN BEGINS, but nothing could prepare us for this stunning perform-
ance—it’s certain to be his coming out. Adding to the pleasure are fine
performances from Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea and Brendan Gleeson, along
with a surprise for fans of the great musical scene of the 70s. -TFF
(Ireland/U.K., 2005, 135m, Sony Classics) In person: Neil Jordan
E/Fri 9:45 PM - M/Sat 4:15 PM
23 Army of Shadows
Best known for his vivid, intricate crime thrillers (BOB LE FLAMBEUR, LE
SAMOURAI), Jean-Pierre Melville also created an excellent trilogy of films
about World War II, including this adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel.
Melville joined the French Resistance during the bleakest days of German
occupation, but his ARMY is not the patriotic, sentimental, nostalgic
Resistance saga Hollywood might provide. Instead, Melville proceeds with
his icy, implacable logic, telling the story of a Resistance leader named
Gerbier (the superb Lino Ventura). The action unfolds within a dense fog of
fear, anxiety and betrayal and, as in Melville’s crime films, human frailty
and the malignant hand of Fate usually defeat strategy and planned heroics.
“All accounts will be settled,” Ventura tells a fellow prisoner—that’s the
closest thing to a moral provided by this gripping film, which will be
screened for the first time in America. –LG (France, 1969, 136m, Rialto)
Presented by Pierre Rissient
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Shows
O/Sat 8:30 PM - P/Sun Noon
24 Iron Island
Writer-director Mohammed Rasoulof mixes documentary realism and
poetic allegory in this provocative investigation of the conflicts within
contemporary Iranian society. IRON ISLAND is set almost exclusively on a
gigantic crumbling barge occupied by unemployable social outcasts who
are both held together and held back by their passionate Muslim faith.
This community is dominated by an aging but still-charismatic patriarch,
the ship’s captain, Nemat (Ali Nasirian). His manner of leadership swerves
between tender compassion and ferocious, inhuman brutality; he’s a clear
symbol of the mullahs who still rule Iran. One situation on the barge—a
teenaged boy who wants to marry his true love, against the wishes of her
father—exposes all of Nemat’s contradictions. The boy is then punished in
a scene that, without a shot fired or a drop of blood spilled, is one of the
scariest and most powerful in memory. –LG (Iran, 2005, 90m, Kino
International) In person: Mohammed Rasoulof
P/Sun 4:30 PM - C/Sun 10:00 PM - G/Mon 9:00 AM
25 Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix stars as country-western great Johnny Cash during his
ten year long romantic pursuit of June Carter (the revelatory Reese
Witherspoon), the singer who saw Cash through his miseries of pill-and-
alcohol addiction, then became his second wife. Writer-director James
Mangold, cowriter Gill Dennis and producer Cathy Konrad have fashioned a
fresh, observant narrative that rises above typical biopic hype. Mangold’s
vivid scenes of the life of 50s country-western musicians on tour are high
points, as are the moments when Cash crosses paths with Sam Phillips, Carl
Perkins, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. And the duets between Cash and
Carter perfectly evoke their deepening affection. In films such as TO DIE
FOR, GLADIATOR and QUILLS, Phoenix has been on the verge of becoming
one of the best actors of his generation. With this quietly powerful
performance, he crosses the line and gets there. -LG (U.S., 2005, 130m,
Twentieth Century Fox) In person: James Mangold, Cathy Konrad
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26 Chang + I’m King Kong
Before bringing King Kong to life, Merian C. Cooper flew fighter planes
and pushed the envelope as a documentary filmmaker. After KONG, he
helped create Technicolor and Cinerama and partnered with John Ford on
some of his best films. This program celebrates his legacy, first with a
rare screening of CHANG: A DRAMA OF THE WILDERNESS, a genre-bending
elephants-meet-villagers movie shot in Thailand by Cooper and codirector
Ernest B. Schoedsack. The Alloy Orchestra will perform their original
score. (U.S./Thailand, 1927, 67m, Milestone) Next, Patrick Stanbury and
Kevin Brownlow’s documentary I’M KING KONG follows Cooper from Polish
P.O.W. camp to Persia (where he filmed GRASS) and Africa (for THE FOUR
FEATHERS) and on to the spectacular production of KONG. As unpredictable
and thrilling as any of Cooper’s own movies, I’M KING KONG brings a
colorful, significant Hollywood maverick to life. -TFF (U.K., 2006, 55m)
In person: Paulo Cherchi-Usai, The Alloy Orchestra
M/Fri 9:45 PM - E/Sat 9:15 AM
27 The Passenger
Michelangelo Antonioni’s last great movie appeared in 1975, when he was
in his early sixties. It’s officially a French-Spanish-Italian coproduction,
with an American star, Jack Nicholson. The film immediately escapes all
these categories, beginning in stark desert terrain and following a man
called Locke who assumes the identity of another man called Robertson.
The director works from a fine spare screenplay by Mark Peploe and Peter
Wollen. With its dangling flashbacks, long takes, deep spaces, and
hovering sense of violence, THE PASSENGER is one of the strongest films
in Antonioni’s enduring study of identity and apartness. “People disappear
every day,” says the woman (Maria Schneider). “Every time they leave the
room,” says the man (Nicholson). In Spain, finally, he reenters the room.
Then there is the famous final seven-minute take of human isolation. This
missing film reappears after 25 years. –DD (France/Italy/Spain, 1975,
126m, Sony Classics) Presented by Don DeLillo
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Shows
N/Sat 6:45 PM - M/Sun 4:15 PM - E/Mon 9:15 AM
28 Sisters in Law
Presentation made possible by a donation from Peter & Linda Bynoe
In a courtroom in a small Cameroon town, the progressive-minded judge
Beatrice Ntuba and tough lawyer Vera Ngassa intervene in cases of
domestic abuse, offering compassionate wisdom, wisecracks and justice.
The film follows three of their cases: a 6-year-old girl is covered with scars
from cruel beatings by the aunt she has fled; a pre-teen dares to accuse a
neighbor of rape; and a battered wife bravely brings her violent husband
before the court despite objections from her Muslim community. As is the
case with the best non-fiction works, this film by Kim Longinotto
(DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET) and Florence
Ayisi is full of surprises, offering a rare view of strong African women and
their emerging hope for change. “Our film presents a different perspective
that moves beyond the negative stereotypes of Africa as a place of
perpetual misery and despair,” said Ayisi. –TFF (Cameroon/U.K., 2005,
104m, Women Make Movies) In person: Kim Longinotto
O/Sun 8:30 PM - P/Mon 8:30 AM
29 Live and Become
In the winter of 1984, thousands of Falashas—Ethiopian Jews descended
from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba—immigrated to the Sudan to
join airlifts to Jerusalem, seeking refuge from a devastating famine. A
Christian mother hoping to save her nine-year-old son renames him
Schlomo and pretends he is a Jew and orphan. After arriving in Israel,
Schlomo is adopted by a caring French-Tunisian family, but grows up
fearing his secrets will be discovered. And he suffers from the ignorance,
violence and racism of white Jews: A classmate is certain Schlomo’s black
skin will rub off if he touches it; Schlomo is badly beaten in a nightclub;
and the father of his would-be girlfriend calls him Satan, threatening to
disown his daughter if she doesn’t sever ties with her dark-skinned friend.
Director Radu Mihaileanu (TRAIN OF LIFE) injects this powerful epic with
humor and hope. -TFF (France/Brazil/Israel /Italy, 2005, 145m,
Menemsha) In person: Radu Mihaileanu
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M/Fri 7:15 PM
30 King Kong
Made possible by a donation from Turner Classic Movies
More than 70 years and thousands of supercomputers
later, special effects companies still haven’t
conquered King Kong. While technology marches
on, making ever slicker, bigger and more detailed
monsters, our big ape bounds through the jungle,
arms swinging, and looking as convincing and, yes,
beautiful as ever. Kong hasn’t looked this good since he first stomped
through theaters in 1933. KONG, in its newly fully restored form for the
first time ever, returns to Telluride, where, in 1975, it was the first and
only film to receive the Festival’s Silver Medallion. Celebrate the new biog-
raphical film I’M KING KONG, playing elsewhere in the festival, and
see the original KONG before Peter Jackson’s remake hits theaters this
winter. –TFF (d. Merian C. Cooper and John Schoedsack, U.S., 1933-2005,
105m, TCM) Presented by Leonard Maltin
E/Sat 2:15 PM
31 The Comedian
Next to this acid tale of the ugly side of show busi-
ness, THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS looks tame.
Mickey Rooney plays Sammy, a top-rated TV person-
ality (à la Sid Caesar? Milton Berle?) preparing for
the biggest broadcast of his life: a live, 90-minute
special. His brother Lester (played by Mel Torme) is
tired of being ridiculed on air and off and threatens
to undermine the program unless Sammy cuts an especially vicious seg-
ment. Rod Serling adapted Ernest Lehman’s novelette and John
Frankenheimer directed this piece of live television. The performers
(including Kim Hunter and Edmond O’Brien) are all excellent, but this is
Rooney’s film, and Sammy is perhaps his greatest role—an entertainer
beloved by his fans but feared by friends and family. This gem is a
reminder of Rooney’s now-forgotten place as one of America’s most
nuanced and devastatingly powerful performers. –TFF (U.S, 1957, 90m)
In person: Mickey Rooney
N/Fri 9:30 PM - G/Sun 1:00 PM
32 Lemming
Alain, a young inventor, invites his new boss Richard
and his wife Alice to join him and his wife Benedicte
for dinner. Bad move. Richard and Alice arrive late
and then Alice confronts her husband for his infi-
delities. Soon after, the rodent of the title—native
to Scandinavia, impossible in France—makes his
appearance. Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll, who
last teamed up for the international hit WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY, return
with this satire-laced combination of mystery, kitchen drama and supernat-
ural thriller. Telluride tributee Rampling leads the outstanding cast, inject-
ing a beyond-the-beyond weirdness into her Alice. –TFF (France, 2005,
129m) In person: Charlotte Rampling
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School of Baroque:
A Eugène Green Retrospective
According to his bio in the 2004 Locarno Film Festival catalogue, Eugène
Green is “a Frenchman” who “has always lived in Paris.” Well, not exactly.
But shush… don’t tell anyone. For who is to deny the most breathtakingly
original French filmmaker of the moment the right to be French? Particularly
when his movies’ lyrical, deliriously romantic fantasies are rooted in the
power of the imagination (and the word) to manifest the impossible? In
reality—or, at least, one version of it— Eugene (sans accent grave) Green
was born in New York in 1947 and only made his way to Paris in his early 20s.
There he established a theater company dedicated to “rediscovering the
modernity of baroque theater” and, since 1999, has made three feature
films and one short driven by a similar aim. The work is not nearly as
forbidding as it sounds, even if, like Green himself, it presents us with a bevy
of stimulating contradictions. At once ancient and modern, world-weary and
naïve, playfully theatrical yet rigorously cinematic, they are like the films of
an ageless time-traveler, traversing the centuries and distilling the wisdom
of the ages into his beautiful new-old stories. –SF In person for each film:
Eugène Green and Scott Foundas
M/Sat 9:15 AM
33 Toutes les Nuits
Green’s extraordinary debut, inspired by Flaubert’s
La Premiére Éducation Sentimentale, is an epic in
miniature, following two childhood friends (Alexis
Loret and Adrien Michaux, who have since played in
all of the director’s films) throughout the turbulent
1960s and 70s, as they find themselves torn
between academia, experience and various femmes
fatales. In a few short strokes, Green’s signature style is established: The
actors speak their lines directly into the camera; baroque music proliferates
on the soundtrack; everyone wears blue jeans and sensible shoes. –SF
(France, 2001, 112m)
M/Sun 9:15 AM
34 Le Monde Vivant
If Robert Bresson directed a no-budget, live-action
version of SHREK it might look something like this
disarming fable about a brave knight (Loret), the
young villager (Michaux) who joins him on his
ogre-slaying quest, and the beautiful, Rapunzel-like
maiden-in-distress who beguiles them both. Literal
and figurative flights of fancy abound, amidst touches
of Christian allegory, references to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and—how
could I forget?—a fearsome lion played most convincingly by a Labrador
retriever. –SF (France, 2003, 70m) Preceded by LE NOM DE FEU (THE WORD
FOR FIRE), in which a werewolf invites a lady doctor to witness his
transformation. (France, 2002, 20m)
C/Fri 5:00 PM - N/Sat 4:00 PM
35 Les Ponts des Arts
Green’s latest is also his biggest-budget production
(with money pitched in by Telluride honorees Luc
and Jean-Pierre Dardenne) and maybe his most
personal. Set in and around the Parisian performing
arts scene of the 1970s, it is, like TOUTES LES NUITS,
a romantic triangle in which two of the participants—
a suicidal Sorbonne student (Michaux) and a baroque
chanteuse (Natacha Régnier)—never actually meet in the flesh. But it is also
a scabrous satire on the hypocrisy of artistic academies, as represented by a
conductor called The Unnamable and a pompous theater director played
unforgettably by Olivier Gourmet. Oh! –SF (France, 2004, 126m)
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 Information Schedule
Passes Schedule Information
Passholders are admitted to the theatres first. Please read the back of your In this catalog and throughout the Festival, the shows that play are identified
pass for information on what your pass does and does not provide.The by number within a movie screen-shaped icon . Scheduled showings are
Telluride Film Festival schedule has been designed to accommodate all pass- printed adjacent to each program description. The theatre venue, with seating
holders at all programs. Programs that do not have sufficient seating at scheduled capacity given, is identified by the following letter designations:
showings will usually be repeated in the TBA slots, making it possible for all pass- P Palm [650 seats]
holders to see the programs they wish to see during the course of the Festival. The schedule calendar in
G Galaxy [500 seats]
Individual Tickets C Chuck Jones’ Cinema [500 seats] these four pages uses the
If open seats remain in the theatres after all passholders have been seated, S Sheridan Opera House [250 seats]
following symbols:
individual tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis for $20 each. N Nugget Theatre [200 seats]
The Late Show Ticket is $25. It provides entry to the final shows Friday, 35 Show
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at the Palm and may be purchased at the M Masons Hall Cinema [150 seats]
f Festivity
Hospitality Box Office in Brigadoon and at the Palm box office. Late Show E Minnie [135 seats] Talking Head
d
Ticket holders will be admitted to their shows with passholders. O Abel Gance Open Air Cinema
Free Shows Some of the screenings, indicated by Q & A , are immediately followed by a
half-hour discussion between the filmmakers and the audience.
The three film programs that comprise ‘Filmmakers of Tomorrow’ (pages 28
and 29) and the three ‘Made on a Mac’ programs (page 32) are free and open Several dozen show slots, mostly on Sunday and Monday, will not be pro-
to the public after all passholders have been seated. In addition, the follow- grammed and announced until that morning. These TBA (to be announced)
ing films are free after all passholders have been seated: programs will be determined by passholder demand as the Festival unfolds.

30 KING KONG (M/Fri 7:15 PM)

b Laurie Anderson (S/Sat Noon) Friday, September 2
31 THE COMEDIAN (E/Sat 2:15 PM) Palm Galaxy Chuck Sheridan Nugget Masons Minnie Elks Park &
Jones’ Opera Theatre Hall Elsewhere
c Peter Bogdanovich (S/Sun Noon) House
4 Made on
The shows at the Abel Gance Outdoor Cinema, located in Elks Park, are free to a Mac
(2 PM)
all who can find a spot on the lawn and brave the mountain weather.
The Noon Seminars in Elks Park (see page 33) are open to all. 5 35 a
The ‘Conversations’ (page 33), held in the County Courthouse, are free and Les Ponts Opening Night Feed on Colorado Avenue
open to the public after all passholders have been seated. des Arts
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Qs 15
Except for Chuck Jones’ Cinema (see below), all theatre venues utilize a system 7 12
of “Qs” to ensure fairness and uphold the first-come, first-served policy of the Capote 17 1
Festival. Paper Qs are distributed at each venue to better control entry and Convers- 30 Three
ations A Tribute 14 Times
determine as quickly as possible when a show is expected to sell out. Only one with Other to Mickey King
Q per person present will be issued. Holders of Qs are not guaranteed entry. 8 Women 18 Rooney Kong
Paradise
Now
Chuck Jones’ Cinema Q&A The 19
President’s
9 Last
Chuck Jones’ Cinema uses the Wabbit Weservation, or W2, system for entry, due to The Lost
Bang City
its location in Mountain Village, a 12-minute gondola ride from Telluride. The W2 17 32
15 2
guarantees an unassigned seat for passholders for a specific show at CJC for those 27 23
10 Convers-
who arrive 15 minutes prior to showtime. W2s are available from two locations: ations Capote Edmond Lemming
with Other The Army of
1. At the Acme Booth located near Brigadoon at the gondola base 90 minutes Women 38 Passenger Shadows
in advance up until 30 minutes prior to any show.
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Great
2. At the Acme Booth next to Chuck Jones’ Cinema in the Mountain Village Expectations
plaza five (5) hours in advance up until 30 minutes prior to any show. 2 Q&A
The Acme Booths open at 7:30 a.m. daily. 12
Edmond
At Chuck Jones’ Cinema, W2s are an alternative to the Qs distributed at other venues.
W2s are distributed to all passholders, who are advised to secure one for the show
they plan on attending. Any available seats after all passholders have been seated 1
will be sold at $20 each. Passholders should plan on allowing no less than 30 minutes
travel time from the base of the gondola to ensure entry into Chuck Jones’ Cinema.
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Schedule f Festivity Schedule
Saturday, September 3 d Talking Head Sunday, September 4
Palm Galaxy Chuck Sheridan Nugget Masons Minnie Elks Park & Palm Galaxy Chuck Sheridan Nugget Masons Minnie Elks Park &
Jones’ Opera Theatre Hall Elsewhere Jones’ Opera Theatre Hall Elsewhere
8 House 8 House

9 1 36 2 3 12 9 6 37 21 8 5
33 27 34
A Tribute Student Edmond Caché Three A Tribute Calling The Moon Fateless Be
and the
10 to Mickey Prints (Hidden) Times Toutes les The 10 to the Cards Son With Me Le Monde 13
Rooney Nuits Passenger d Dardennes + More Vivant f
Anderson/ Johanna Macy/
Q&A Sellars Q&A Hoffman
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b c
Laurie Made on Actors/ Peter Made on Movies/
The Lost Anderson a Mac Build Blocks Iron Bogdanovich a Mac Future
City Island
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Chang + Fateless Lemming Brokeback 22
2 I’m King 13 2 Mountain 7
Kong 4 17 16 9 Breakfast
Convers- Johanna 31 on Pluto Wanda
Everything ations A Cottage Bee
is with Other The on Season TBA
3 Illuminated Women e 3 Dartmoor g
Comedian
Q&A Maltin/ Foundas/
20 Q&A Garcia Dardennes
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Mountain 23 28
Breakfast 15 5 Les Ponts 25 TBA Paradise 10
on Pluto des Arts Army of TBA Now Sisters TBA
5 Shadows
5 in Law
Capote Be Walk the Spirit
With Me Line of the
Q&A Beehive TBA
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7 28 TBA 7 Q&A 8
TBA 20 4 6 9 11
Sisters 18 TBA Fateless
Brokeback Everything A Tribute in Law Bee TBA A Tribute 3
Mountain is to the The Season to
8 Illuminated Dardennes President’s
8 Charlotte Caché
Last 5 Rampling (Hidden)
Q&A Bang 24 TBA 29
9 Q&A Be 9 Q&A
Q&A With Me Iron Live and
Island Become
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10 10 TBA
3 22 7 TBA 25 Three
TBA Times TBA
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Schedule f
d
Festivity
Talking Head
‘No Shows’ Sites
Monday, September 5
Palm Galaxy Chuck Sheridan Nugget Masons Minnie Elks Park & Though the movies are the center of our universe, the Festival does tend
Jones’ Opera Theatre Hall Elsewhere to spill out into other parts of Telluride. Look for the following venues to
House
8 be centers of activity after you leave the theater:

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Brigadoon
9 Live and 25 11 13 18 Oak Street Plaza (next to the gondola station)
Become 10 28 Brigadoon’s hours:
Walk the A Tribute Johanna The
Line to President’s Thursday 12-5 PM
10 Spirit Sisters
Charlotte Last of the in Law h Friday 9 AM-6 PM
Rampling Bang Beehive DeLillo/ Saturday 9 AM-5 PM
Marcus Sunday 9 AM-5 PM
11 Monday 9 AM-5 PM
d
Labor Day Picnic It’ll appear every year, rather than every 100, but in many other ways,
N In Town Park
c Telluride’s Brigadoon promises to hold just about as much magic and
Directors/ surprise as the mythical Scottish village. This one-stop Festival head-
TBA TBA Balance quarters includes:
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• The Hospitality Center, where you’ll find Festival programs, pass
TBA lanyards, copies of The Film Watch, and goodies provided by the
2 Festival’s sponsors. Film Festival staff will be available to provide
TBA
TBA information about Telluride and answer your questions.
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3 TBA • Festival Memorabilia Store, the place to purchase TFF #32 pins,
Paradise
Now posters, and logo wear, along with a generous variety of treasures
TBA from Telluride Film Festivals past.
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• The Hospitality Box Office, for all pass issues, including sales of the
TBA Late Show Ticket.
5 TBA TBA
TBA TBA • And just next door, The Press Office, for the intrepid members of the
TBA media who have made the trek to Telluride.
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TBA
Elks Park
TBA The intersection of Colorado Avenue and Oak Street (SW corner)
7 TBA Telluride’s central location is a great place to rendezvous. It’s also the
TBA venue for the evening outdoor screenings and the Saturday and Sunday
TBA
Seminars. See page 33 for Seminar details.
8 TBA

TBA TBA
TBA County Courthouse
9 The intersection of Colorado Avenue and Oak Street (NW corner)
TBA TBA
TBA The historic San Miguel County Courthouse hosts the Conversations series.
See page 33 for details.
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The Rules
All Festival Passes are absolutely non-transferable.
The saving of seats or places in line is not permitted.
There is no seating after the performance begins.
The theatres will be cleared after each performance.
The use of cell phones, electronic recording or
communication devices is not permitted in the theatres.
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Fri-Mon, 11 AM - 5 PM
Apple has made high-quality movie production more accessible and
affordable than ever before. Drop by the Apple Studio to meet their film
and video experts and see Final Cut Studio software and Apple hardware
in action. You’ll find out how Apple’s state-of-the-art tools for editing,
motion graphics, sound design, and DVD authoring can elevate your
production values—while keeping your production budget in line.
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 Filmmakers of Tomorrow Filmmakers of Tomorrow
G/Sat 9:00 AM G/Sun 9:00 AM
36 Student Prints 37 Calling Cards
Made possible by a donation from Tom Cruise A program of imaginative works by determined and
resourceful emerging filmmakers.
Now in its twelfth year, this program showcases work Free to all after passholders have been seated.
by promising film students from around the world.
Free to all after passholders have been seated.

THE BET (d. Eric Swan, Occidental College, U.S., 2005, 8m) It’s a lose-lose A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD (d. Adam White, Australia, 2004, 9m) Life is filled
situation for a valet coveting a sweet BMW. with surprises for a silent-film character entering a new world.

PIRATE (d. Marion Lee, Victoria College of the Arts, Australia, 2005, 10m) On MONSTER (d. Jennifer Kent, Australia, 2005, 10m) “It’s just a doll.”
the day of her dad’s party, a girl becomes caught in an emotional battleground. “No, it isn’t, mommy, it’s real.”

THE SAVIOUR (d. Peter Templeman, Australia Film, Radio and Television WHO KILLED BROWN OWL (d. Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, U.K.,
School, 2005, 18m) The gentle Malcolm has a new challenge as he goes 2004, 9m) A perfect afternoon on a perfect riverside in a perfect London
door-to-door saving souls: winning the married woman he loves. neighborhood.

BREACHED (d. Laura Richard, New York University, U.S., 2005, 18m)
A fateful day: Maria prepares to cross into the U.S.A.
SANTIAGO (d. Paolo Borraccetti, University of Southern California, U.S.,
2004, 6m) A professor in a repressive country finds that survival can only
come through the deepest dedication to his art.
THE OTHER AMERICAN DREAM (d. Enrique Arroyo, Mexico, 2004, 10m)
On the U.S.-Mexico border, women continue to disappear. This is one of
their stories.
CHEYENNE (d. Alexander Meier, Switzerland, 2004, 4m) A determined girl
faces off against a fierce bird.

EL RINCON DE VENEZUELA (d. Reyther Ortega, New York University-Centro THE PASSAGE (d. Gautier Billotte, France, 2004, 4m) A car wreck, a young
Nacional Autonomo de Cinematografia, U.S./Venezuela, 2005, 19m) For a man, an unlikely connection.
family of new immigrants, opening a restaurant means adjusting to new
realities and reliving familiar ones. MUSIC PALACE (d. Eric Lin, U.S., 2005, 9m) Once a central part of
communal life, Chinatown’s movie palaces are nearing extinction.
UNHITCHED (d. Erin Hudson and Ben Wu, Stanford University, U.S., 2005, 12m)
A misunderstood, oft-ridiculed American population finally gets its own say. THE NATURAL ROUTE (d. Alex Pastor Vallejo, Spain, 2004, 11m)
The aftermath of a great love and a deep tragedy, played in reverse.
THE CONSCIENCE (d. Jan Bohuslav, FAMU, Czech Republic, 3m) Hell is a
vengeful shadow. C/Fri 10:30 PM
VICTORIA PARA CHINO (d. Cary Fukunaga, New York University, U.S., 2005, 38 Great Expectations
14m) A shattering tale of a real-life journey across the border.
After seeing these especially accomplished short films,
we can’t wait for the filmmakers’ first features!
Free to all after passholders have been seated.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Those groups of young, highly enthusiastic filmgoers you’ll see through
the weekend are probably participants in one of Telluride Film Festival’s
two educational programs. LIFE WITH SOPHIA (d. Svetla Tsotsorkova, Bulgaria, 2004, 20m) Vachko loves
Sophia. Sophia loves Marin. But Marin’s been gone ten years, long enough to
Student Symposium City Lights Project challenge her sanity and, maybe, her loyalty.
Sponsored by Shady Acres Supported by The Edouard
Entertainment Foundation A THOUSAND SUNS (d. Mathieu Vadepied, France, 2005, 26m) A young man
Now in its 17th year, this Building on the success of the hoping to rekindle an old friendship finds that everything has changed.
program provides 50 graduate Student Symposium, this program
and undergraduate students with includes 15 high school students RAIN IS FALLING (d. Holger Ernst, Germany, 2004, 15m) Water: it’s
a weekend-long immersion in and five teachers from three distant, heavy, lovely, musical, restless, magical, ceaseless.
cinema. Participants watch films divergent schools. These partici-
TWILIGHT (d. Victoria Gamburg, U.S., 2005, 21m) In Russia, a beloved child
and discuss movies with Festival pants have the opportunity to
lost, and found, and lost again.
guests and Symposium faculty. expand their personal and
professional horizons through a All Filmmakers of Tomorrow programs will be presented by Godfrey Reggio.
concentrated program of film
screenings and discussions. Additional support for Student Programs and Filmmakers of Tomorrow
provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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 SHOWcase for Shorts
Whether intended as a brief piece of entertainment, as an introduction
from an aspiring writer-director, or as an attempt to push cinema’s
boundaries, the short film remains an essential part of the Telluride
legacy. These five short and medium-length works, each preceding a
feature, prove that masterful films come in all sizes.
9 Harvard grads Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, Jr., who imported choice
(d. Shane Acker, U.S., 2005, 11m) Constructed
from fabric scraps and discarded machinery, these
underworld creatures nonetheless have courage,
compassion and, yes, souls.
2 Precedes EDMOND.
UNDRESSING MY MOTHER
(d. Ken Wadrop, Ireland, 2004, 5m) Celebrating
the body beautiful: “I'd rather be fat and happy
than thin and miserable.”
5 Precedes BE WITH ME.
WHILE DARWIN SLEEPS
(d. Paul Bush, U.K, 2004, 5m) Of the estimated 10
million bug species in the world, only one million have
been identified. A fraction of those flap back to life in
this masterfully constructed short.
9 Precedes BEE SEASON.
OVERTIME
(d. Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrié,
France, 2004, 6m) The closest friends of the
world’s most beloved puppeteer join together
for a final tribute.
13 Precedes JOHANNA.
CITY PARADISE
(d. Gaelle Denis, U.K., 2004, 6m) When Tomoko
arrives in London, she has no idea that she will soon
discover a mysterious secret hidden beneath the city.
14 Precedes PARADISE NOW
SPACER
(d. Guy Roland, U.S., 2004, 3 minutes) A whirling,
dizzying ballet of buildings and urban spaces.
17 Precedes CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN.
© Jonathan Becker
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Special Medallion
Criterion Collection and Janus Films
Janus Films, which in the 50s, 60s and 70s brought the finest films to
American theaters, and Criterion, which has elevated the DVD into an art form,
have made it their business to make great movies available to broad audiences.
These two companies, along with the dozens of imitators who have followed in
their path, have made America a terrific place to be a movie buff.
With missions that are so closely aligned, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that
Janus and Criterion share plenty of DNA. Janus Films was founded in 1956 by
films including François Truffaut’s JULES AND JIM, Michelangelo Antonioni’s
L’AVVENTURA and early classics of Ingmar Bergman such as THE SEVENTH SEAL
and WILD STRAWBERRIES. William Becker and Saul J. Turell acquired Janus in
1965 and began to build its now-legendary film collection. They acquired the
film masterpieces of the world—BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, BEAUTY AND THE
BEAST, RASHOMAN, THE RED SHOES, to name just a few—and organized
Janus festivals and retrospectives in theaters across the U.S.
With the initiation of the Criterion Collection in the 1980s, Peter Becker and
Jonathan Turell, the sons of the Janus owners, began using cutting-edge
technology to advance their fathers’ mission. First with laser disc and now with
DVD, Criterion has built a remarkable catalogue of familiar and obscure master-
works. Today, Criterion is the gold standard for DVDs. Ask 10 film buffs how to
start a good DVD library, and all 10 will tell you to buy up any available
Criterion titles.
Criterion also serves the film preservation movement, hunting down the best
source materials and providing a built-in audience for restored works. And
the company adds immensely to film scholarship; their disks include directors’
commentaries, interviews, behind-the-scenes documentaries, original
trailers and a cornucopia of terrific extras.
Though the Criterion catalogue includes the best works by Bergman, Dreyer,
Buñuel, Fellini, Kurosawa, Renoir, John Cassavettes and Michael Powell, the
Collection doesn’t promote a simple-minded cinematic canon. The Criterion
team celebrates movies in all genres, new and old. Their THIS IS SPINAL TAP
(now, sadly, out of print) is a collectors’ item, and the company makes no
apologies for issuing an extras-loaded set of Michael Bay’s ARMAGEDDON,
which it argues is a textbook example of a great action film.
Our tribute to Janus and Criterion makes perfect sense. Like Telluride,
Janus and Criterion have always been a family affair. And, like the Telluride
Film Festival, Janus and Criterion demonstrate a passion for bringing great
cinema, in its many forms, to a discerning audience. –TFF
Peter Becker, William Becker and Jonathan Turell will accept the Special
Medallions, which will be presented at the Festival’s first opening night screening.
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 Made on a Mac Talking Heads
From concept to finish, the Mac has become an indispensable tool at The Festival keeps the dialogue going with two series of live events—
every step of the filmmaking process. This series of programs takes you Seminars and Conversations. Both allow audiences to interact with
behind the scenes as filmmakers reveal how they used Apple hardware the Festival guests. Admission is free; passholders receive first seating
and software to create the movies they’re showing during the Festival. at indoor venues.
Free and open to the public; passholders seated first.
Seminars
Saturday and Sunday panels are free and open to the public;
passholders only admitted to the Monday panel. Moderated by
Annette Insdorf
Laurie Anderson a “What are the actor’s physical and verbal building blocks in
E/Fri 2:00-3:00 PM
becoming an on-screen character?”
Laurie Anderson is an artist whose work spans Saturday, Noon, Elks Park
music, film, live performance and multimedia. At
Telluride, she is presenting the short film HIDDEN
INSIDE MOUNTAINS b . Over the past 25 years, b “Where and how will we be watching movies in the future?”
she has released 10 albums and 6 books, created Sunday, Noon, Elks Park
multimedia theatrical works around the world,
and composed numerous dance and film scores. c “How do directors balance the personal and socio-political
elements of their films?"
Monday, Noon, Town Park
Hans Canosa & Kwesi Collisson
E/Fri 3:15-4:00 PM
Director Hans Canosa and producer Kwesi Conversations
Collisson’s new film, CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER Sponsored by NBC Universal
WOMEN, 17 shows that there are two sides to These intimate gatherings feature interviews between two intriguing
every story—literally. The film uses an innovative, Festival guests. Held at the historic County Courthouse on main street.
dual-frame technique to present the emotional Free and open to the public; passholders receive first seating.
journey of the two main characters simultaneously.
Every image in the film was scaled, cropped, and
repositioned for a split screen. d Laurie Anderson and Peter Sellars
Saturday, 10 AM

John Canemaker e Leonard Maltin and Andy Garcia

E/Sat Noon-12:45 PM Saturday, 3 PM
Animator John Canemaker prefers to work the
traditional way, drawing and painting by hand. f William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman
His new animated film THE MOON AND THE SON 21 Sunday, 10 AM
explores the difficult emotional terrain of father-son
relationships. His earlier animated films are included g
in the Museum of Modern Art permanent collection.
Scott Foundas and The Dardennes
Sunday, 3 PM

Liza Maine Seybold & Victoria Gamburg h Don DeLillo and Greil Marcus
E/Sat 12:45–1:30 PM Monday, 10 AM
The team of writer/director Victoria Gamburg and
editor Liza Maine Seybold overcame great challenges
to produce their short film TWILIGHT, playing in
Great Expectations 38 . This unique production
was completely shot and edited on location in
St. Petersburg, Russia, over an 18-month period.

Filmmakers of Tomorrow
E/Sun 12 noon–1:30 PM
Their names may not be familiar now, but they
will be soon. Meet some talented, up-and-coming
filmmakers whose movies were selected for inclusion
in the Festival’s Student Prints, Calling Cards and
© John Fago

Great Expectations programs (see pages 28-9).

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 Festivities Festivities
Out of the Past: From the
Collections of the Academy’s Poster Signing with Dave McKean
Margaret Herrick Library Brigadoon, Saturday at 12:30 PM
Made possible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, with additional support from the McKean is a legendary figure in the world of
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
comic books, and he has brought his distinc-
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, 130 E. Colorado Ave.
tive style to the creation of the 2005 Telluride
Hours: Fri 2–9 PM
Film Festival poster. McKean follows in the
Sat-Mon 10 AM–9 PM
footsteps of the many distinguished Telluride
The exhibition celebrates the creation of a poster artists, including Gary Larson, Julian
new Telluride Film Festival Special Collection Schnabel, Ed Ruscha, Jim Dine and, of course,
within the collection of the Academy of Chuck Jones. Meet Dave McKean and turn your
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Telluride poster into a true keepsake.
“Out of the Past” spans the years 1913-1994 Brigadoon is open to the public
and includes examples from AMPAS Library’s
vast holdings. Highlights include Edward
Steichen photographs of Lillian Gish, Paul Robeson, Gary Cooper and Joan
Crawford; production designs from GONE WITH THE WIND, MILDRED PIERCE c Encore! Peter Bogdanovich: 'Sacred Monsters'
and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE; costume design drawings from SHANE, Sheridan Opera House, Sunday at Noon
BONNIE & CLYDE and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE; and production The sensation of last year’s Festival is back by popular demand.
correspondence on THE WILD BUNCH from the Sam Peckinpah Collection. This hour-long program by former Telluride Guest Director Peter
Free and open to the public Bogdanovich offers a first-person
introduction to the giants of American
a Opening Night Cuban Feed moviemaking. He’ll recall the times he
spent with John Ford, Otto Preminger,
Sponsored by Cisco Systems Orson Welles, John Wayne and
Colorado Avenue/Fri 5-6:30 PM Howard Hawks, show some clips and
Each year, the Feed is a perfect place to connect with friends from bring his inimitable wit—and some
festivals past, and soak up the thin, clean air. And in 2005, in honor unforgettable impersonations—to the
of the late, great writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante (a former Telluride Opera House stage. In addition to his
Guest Director) and his new film THE LOST CITY, which premieres at work as director and writer,
Telluride, we’ll be serving the finest Cuban food. Eat your moros y Bogdanovich is surely a world-class
© John Fago

cristianos and roast pork and get ready to sprint to that first film. cinephile. Come celebrate the movies
For all passholders except Acme. with him. Free and open to the public;
passholders seated first

d Labor Day Picnic

Town Park/Mon 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
We dare you: find a more beautiful picnic ground. Ours, in Telluride’s
Town Park, is ringed by the rugged San Juan Mountains, in view of one
of the continent’s most spectacular waterfalls, and next to the San Miguel
River. And the food's great: meat and chicken from Omaha Steaks and
all the ice cream you can eat! Still not convinced? Stick around and we’ll
hold our final Seminar here. Town Park is located east of downtown on
© Lisa Law

Colorado Avenue, toward Bridal Veil Falls. For all passholders of the Festival

b Laurie Anderson: ‘Hidden Inside Mountains’

Sheridan Opera House, Saturday at Noon
A short (25-minute) but monumental work of video—HIDDEN
INSIDE MOUNTAINS tells a series of stories about nature, time
and human endeavor. The filmmaker, Laurie Anderson, filmed
performances on elaborately designed stages, added digi-
tal overlays and designed a soundtrack featuring violins,
bells, voice and electronica, punctuated by dog barks.
Richly layered, gorgeous and moving, HIDDEN is an
impressive work by one of America’s essential per-
formance artists. Laurie, our Guest Director in 1991,
follows this screening with a conversation about this
work and its context within EXPO ‘05 at Aichi, Japan.
© Peter Ross

© Lisa Law

Free and open to the public; passholders seated first

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OPERATIONS
Operations Office Manager: Curtis Walker.
Operations Project Assistants: Claudia Fucigna, Kerry Wagner.
Box Office Manager: Gary Sutton. Assistants: Carla Brown, George Forth,
Lorelei McKinnon.
Communications Services: Rock and Roll Radios, Greg Carttar (Mother),
Char Harner (Mother Superior), Larry Carttar (Mother’s Brother), Craig
Deslaurier (Other Mother).
Project Specialists: Michael Anderson, Greg Babush, Tim Frush, Dave
Hutchinson, Luci Reeve, Dean Rolley, Deborah Scharaga.
Emergency Management: Dave Hutchinson, Marc McDonald.
Debris Chief: Mike Oard. Debris Wranglers: Karl Ebel, Ryan Lacen,
Christopher Nelson, Greg Nemer.
TBAs: Curtis Walker.
Vespucci: Lynne Domingos. Vespucci Coach: Allyson Crilly.
Phantom: Marcello Vespucci.
Technical Staff:
Carl Brenkert Society: Russell Allen and Louis Eales (Dolby Laboratories),
Jon Busch (Cinema Associates of Aspen), Chapin Cutler (Boston Light &
Sound, Inc.), Ross Krantz (Cinema Engineering Services), Clyde McKinney
(McKinney Technical Services), Christopher Reyna (New Paradigm
Productions), Gary Stanley (Projection and Sound Services), Buzz Hays
(Stone’s Throw Films), Sam Chavez (Bay Area Cinema Products).
Video Projection: Brian Claypool, Tom Schwartz (Christie Digital).
Video Services: Marc Hathaway (Specialized Technical Services, Inc.)
Video Staff: Jeff Franks.
Film Inspection Chief: Paul Burt. Film Inspectors: Pamela Chandran,
Steve Marsh, Serena Warner.
Film Shipping and Traffic: Chris Robinson. Assistant: Tracy Harvey.
Staff: Lars Harvey, Brett Wagley, Michael Wagner, Jacob Wascalus.
Theatre PA and Sound: Dean Rolley.
Staff: Anna Roth, Chapin Cutler III, Deborah Cutler, Helen Stanley.
PRODUCTION
Production Coordinator: Mike Smith.
Production Office Manager: Sarah Pawlowski.
Managers: Jennifer Ammann, Michael Anderson, Lyndon Bray, Erik Cooper,
Susan Cooper, Tim Frush, Mark Lange, Ian Manson, Holden Payne, Brady
Richards, Tim Territo, Tim Vierling, Stanislaus Wislocki, Eric Wolff.
Assistant Managers: Peter Garber, Barry Jenkins, Erin Klenow, Shauna
McGlamery, Doug Mobley, Laurel Robinson, Shaddock Stipe, Anita Stiegler.
Crew: Dylan Brooks, Larry Gus, Lance Hinckley, Barry Jenkins, Dana
Landry, Sam Lyons, Bill Lyons, Sydney McNab, Allison Mobley, Eric Nepsky,
David Oyster, Kimberly Tarr, Avery Thatcher, Jacob Wascalos.
Production Apprentices: (DOGS) Angela Allen, Michael Boyd, Abbie Corse,
Christianne Hedtke, Megan Labadie, Diana Metzger, Amberlee Summer
Mucha, Nicole Shams, Chris Wells, Nichole Wleklinski.
Rigging Coordinator: Ian Manson.
Riggers: Erik Cooper, Peter Garber, Mark Lange, Tim Vierling, Stash Wislocki.
Shop Manager: Tim Frush.
Shop Foreman: Eric Wolff.
Master Carpenters: Brandon Hurd, Allan McNab.
Lighting Designer: Elaine Buckholtz.
Lighting Director: Jonathan Allen.
Production Electrician: Brian Ferguson.
Electrician: Justin Bonfiglio.
Schlepp Master: Tim Territo. Assistants: Jim Hurst, Scott Michels.
Schlepp Crew: Dan Auerbach, Andrew Cook, Thomas Fortier, Jean-
Christophe Jullien, Anthony Lore, Andres Marin, Martins Putelis, Robert
Rex, Justin Weihs, Wylder Wilson.
Sparks: Phil Hayden.
Signs: Shauna McGlamery, Suzan Beraza, Dawn Davis.
Nuts & Bolts: T.R. Richards
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Torch, etc.: Chuck Kroger, Aaron Smith.
High & Hard: Bone Construction. Heavy: J.R. Nershi.
Original Sound & Music Design for Palm & Galaxy: Bill Wolford.
Cookie Boy: ?
THEATRE OPERATIONS
Theatre Production Coordinator: Cynthia Bellai.
Assistant to Manager of Theatre Operations: Ru Biener.
Alloy Wrangler: Dave Hutchinson. Assistant: Brian Garton.
Concessions Manager: Jackie Arguelles. Assistant: Kathleen Cole.
PALM & MINNIE
Palm Manager: Gary Tucker. Palm Assistants: Krista Eulberg, Troy Paff,
Mark Rollins. Palm Ringmaster: Leyla Wefalle. Minnie Manager: Jonathan
Kaplan. Minnie Assistant Manager: Susan Orshan. Minnie Ringmaster:
Doug Mobley. Palm/Minnie Staff: Angela Allen, Budd Andrews, Tom
Baldridge, Tony Berns, Eve Bigelow, Michael Boyd, Ann Brady, Nolan Burke,
Josh Burns, Morgan Burns, Annie Chrietzberg, Abbie Corse, Bianca Escobar,
Morgan Faust, Bob Hamner, Sharri Hefner, Nataunya Kay, Emily Long, Arnold
Louw, Uriah Lovelycolors, Colleen Lyon, Michelle Martens, Laurel Minter,
David Nepsky, June Nepsky, Patrick Noyes, Pat Pilon, Terry Pilon, Emily
(Genie) Reed, Robert Reed, James Renn, Pam Shapiro, Howard Stern, Lois
Stern, J.D. Victor, Brigitta Wagner, Chris Wells, Mark Wensel, Neil Widener,
Anya Wislocki. Palm Chief Projectionist: Ingrid Lae. Palm Projectionists:
Matt Kunau, Matt Lanning, Cherie Rivers. Minnie Chief Projectionist: Erik
Teevin. Minnie Projectionists: John Gajda, Dan Gray, Rufus Wright.
Concessions Head: Morgan Young. Head Outside: Golan Ramras. Assistant
Outside: Sherrion Taylor. Inside Staff: Susan Dahl, Jessica Dumke, Ann-Marie
Fleming, Jock Fleming, Elizabeth Forth, Alicia Fusting, Gino Gioga, Eileen
Kaser, Elinor London, Emily Mark, Audrey Meltzer, Michelle Van Sandt.
Outside Staff: Michael Kastenbaum, Nancy Murphy, Janet Niichel, Jill
Proctor, Jennifer Schnackel, Stephanie Warner, Susan Whittle.
GALAXY
Manager: Katie Trainor. Assistant Managers: Lyndon Bray, Tondeleyo
Gonzalez, Hilary Hart, Caryn Sanchez. Ringmaster: Rosemerry Wahtola-
Trommer. Staff: Lene Andersen, Jackson Burke, Julie (Jules) Chalhoub,
Evan Golden, Jenessa Joffe, Dave Lincoln, Catherine McDonald, Jordan
Milliken, Houston Morrow, Holly Payne, Anna Reeves, Meghan Stratman,
Timothy Sun, Avery Thatcher, Stephanie Thomas-Phipps, Richard Thorpe,
David Wilson. Chief Projectionist: (The Reel) Bill Hill. Projectionists:
John Fahnestock, Joel Rice, Dean Silver. Concessions Head: Katy James.
Head Outside: Gwen Vogel. Assistant Inside: Colleen McLaughlin. Staff:
Heather Baltzley, Carlos Cagin, Lorraine Coppola, Camille Knox, Courtney
LaBarge, Erin LaBarge, Eliot Muckerman, Jeremy Myers, Marcia Northrup-
LaBarge, Susan Sante, Carrie Towbin, Joshua Weinberg, Shirley Wicevich.
CHUCK JONES’ CINEMA
Manager: Holden Payne. Assistant Managers: Ian Bald, Trish Hawkins,
Jeannie Stewart, Quang Tran. Ringmaster: Pamela Chandran. Staff:
Brendon Bouzard, JD Brown, Carol Dix, Cathe Dyer, Doug Glover, Larry
Gus, Christianne Hedtke, Annie Heng, Josie Kovash, Diana Metzger,
Amberlee Summer Mucha, Jeremy Nelson, Duane Osterlind, Barbara Ralph,
Melissa Swearngin, Phil Swearngin, Chad Thomas, Joanne Young. W2
Booth: Joan Anderson, Nancy Anderson. Chief Projectionist: Ian Price.
Projectionists: Peter Halter, Bruce Mazen, Ryan Gardner Smith.
Concessions Head: CC Rocque. Assistant: Michael Ste. Marie. Staff:
Adam Hyman, Frances McGrogan, Patrick McGrogan, Danielle Osterlind
(Jones), Lauren Shaddox, Joaquin Villalobos.
SHERIDAN OPERA HOUSE
Manager: Ben Kerr. Assistants: Allison Mobley, Shine Pritchard, Rick
Stafford. Ringmaster: Rick Brook. Staff: Robert “Bobalouie” Allen, Bo
Bedford, Cynthia Bellai, Genne Boles, Caitlin Brennan, Jean Marie Buckley,
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Kiersten Harter, Sandra Ippolite, George Jones, Judi Kiernan, Valerie
Krantz-Burge, Jeanie Krogh, Michael Manthey, Sherry Rose, Jamie Ross,
Sharon Swab. Chief Projectionist: Magic Brennan. Projectionists:
Elizabeth Antalek, Rory Lanning, Travis Young. Concessions: Head: Megan
Labadie. Staff: Shauna Moss.
NUGGET THEATRE
Manager: Laura Stewart. Assistant Manager: Matthew Von Waaden.
Ringmaster: Seth Berg. Staff: Jane Ferguson, Kelly Finley, Connie Fisher,
Susan Greer, Bill Kight, Jeff Levine, Barbara Macfarlane, Beth McCall, Robert
Roth, Nicole Shams, Meghan Storm, James Thole, Kathleen L. West, Nichole
Wleklinski. Chief Projectionist: Payal Doctor. Projectionists: Luci Reeve, Mark
Schoneveld, Scott Snare. Concessions Head: Sandy McLaughlin. Staff: Jim
Brieske, Charmaine McCarthey, Mia McLaughlin.
MASONS HALL CINEMA
Manager: Stephanie Shandera. Assistant Managers: Jill Farley, Peter
Goldie, Tod Kuykendall. Ringmaster: Gabriella Aratow & Evan Golden.
Staff: Lynne Beck, Bret Blosser, Jane Clemmons, Angela Dadak, Katrina
Foelsche, Ben Hatfield, Jordan Hobbs, Kimble Hobbs, Nancy (Miller)
Hobbs, Joan Leckey, Albert Mayer, Jeff Middents. Chief Projectionist:
Barbara Grassia. Projectionists: Graef Allen, Greg Babush, Brian Ganey.
ABEL GANCE OPEN AIR CINEMA
Manager: Jeff York. Assistant Manager: David Rothschild. Ringmaster:
Terry Tice. Staff: Ehren Borg, Gabriel Fleming, Joe O’Donnell. Chief
Projectionist: Gary Stanley.
THE HOME OFFICE
Number Juggler: Suzanne Patrakis. Assistant to Stella Pence: Teresa
Steenbeke. Pass Mastery: Lara Pence. Publications Editor: Jason Silverman.
Curatorial Assistants: Chris Robinson, Jason Silverman, Jerry White. Word
Parser: Kate Sibley. Teamstar & Box Office Junkie: Kate Dominus. Roving
Assistants: Linda & Roger Knapp. Assistant to Tom Luddy: Ruby Tugade.
Coverage: Brendon Bouzard, Nancy Copeland, Evan Golden, Jordan Miliken,
Meghan Stratman. Dear Diary: Peter Shelton. Festival Flags: Janet Behrens
Siebert. Computer Systems Wizard: Hunt Worth. Techno Aids: Doug Bloom,
Curtis Walker. Submissions Reaper, Web Wrangler, and Deputy to Bill
Pence: Trevor Bartlett.
Housing & Travel Assistants: Erica Gioga, Barbara Hunt. Airport Liasons:
Shane Ballard, Vincent M. Egan & Chance Leoff. Drivers: Tracy Boyce,
Michael Call, Susan Gillespie, Katie Lynch, David Swanson, Lori Tuite, Marta
Unnars, Marcus Wilson, Patricia Wilson, Cynthia Zehm. Travel Agents: Jana
Emery, Barbara Clark, Ann Denney.
Personnel: Staff Coordinator: Lucy Lerner. Housing Coordinator: Bevin
Gumm. HR Coordinator & Payroll Chief: Suzanne Patrakis. Office &
Payroll Guru: Mark Schoneveld. Day Supervisor: Johnny Bulson. Night
Manager: Peter Lundeen. Apprentice Extraordinaire: Clay Farland. Pass
Makers: Una Jackman, JoAnn Weisel. Personnel Commandos: Betsy
Adler, Jonathan Augello, Molly Babcock, Neal Babcock, Barb Bayne, Ruth
Biener, Heather Britt, Kittie Brown, Trish Cocking, Francine Cogen, Adina
Crafton, Melanie Cruz, Jenny N. Duffey, Ellen Esrick, Sue Evans, Hilary
Febbo, Melissa Friedman, Amy Fung, Ellen Geldbaugh, Terri Gioga, Jerry
Grandey, Molly Herrick, Michelle Hill, Liz Hughes, Lisa Issenberg,
Annemarie Jodlowski, Michael Kastenbaum, Joel Kaufman, Jim Kimble,
Teresa Koberstein, John Kostrey, Julie Kramer, Amy Beth Leber, Nancy Lee,
Alfredo Lopez, Vicki Lusk, Ryan Mackey, Carrie McInerney, Jon Mills,
Michelle Montague, Jeff Niblack, Kellan O’Brien, Tamara Ogorzaly, Molly
Papier, Sandra Perkins, Stacey Rippman, Jackie Ritter, Gayle Sands,
Kaiulani Schuler, Tami Schwartz, Jennifer Sher, Sharon Shuteran, Felicia
Stonedale, Kathryn Turkiewicz, Renee Zack.
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DEVELOPMENT
Associate Director: Jeanne Gottschalk. Assistant: Vesna Mladenovik
Currie. Telluride Development Coordinator: Peggy Curran. Sponsorship
Operations Manager: Cindy Beitmen. Staff: George Christensen, Jesse
Dubus. Sponsorship Fulfillment: Diane Gilbert, Joan Hersh, Bob O’Brien,
Lori Ryan. Sponsor Host: Shawna Hartley. Show Ring Co-ordinator:
Sydney Stowe. Video Crew: Tom Jones, James McCutcheon, Kiley Lane,
Jamie Morrison. Development Photographer: Cecily Shelton.
EVENTS
Assistant Manager: Alane Woehle. All-around Food and Party Wizard:
Jane Miller. Mind over Matter Crew: Matt Clark, Steve Schneider, Corin
Dalton, Atman Hanel. Spirit Masters: Graham Anderson, Michelle Haynes.
Staff: Riley Arthur, Sue Berg, Geraldine Buonanno, Corie Chandler, Debi
Dietz-Crawford, Rube Felicelli, Rion Foster, Nancy B. Frank, Patsy Gneck,
Bonnie Hanson, Linda Knapp, Roger Knapp, Nick Kolachov, Sue Lincoln,
Cat MacLeod, Geetanjali Misra, Denise Mongan, Melissa Morgan, Catie
Olson, Catherine Patterson, Mary Paxton, Jenifer Raidor, Shane Ricketts,
Sharon Shuteran, Jean Wagner. Mama Dresser: Gina Cassidy. Dressers:
Ashley Boling, Abbie Corse, Patrick (Thrax) Felsenthal, Dan Hanley, Mike
Koharchik, Karen Kurzbuch, The Mishky, Toodie Stone, Brian Werner, Ellen
Werner. Clubhouse: Crew Chiefs: Amy Guy, Kathryn McKenzie, Gordon
Rhoades. Front-of-House: Managers: Michael Chapman and Michelle
Chapman. Chefs de Cuisine: Cynthia Delles, Jeff Erickson, James Flatten,
Camille Silverman. Prep Cooks: Gene Cross, Laura Mutter, Dee Salazar.
HOSPITALITY
Manager: Amy Levek. Coordinators: Peter Cogen, Nancy Talmey. Staff:
Barbara Betts, Nancy Conner, John Irvin, Marjorie McGlamery, Billy Royal,
Matthew Stenberg. Box Officers: Kate Dominus, Lara Pence.
HOSTS
Manager: Bärbel Hacke. Assistant: Marc Schauer. Hosts: Kate Clark,
Maribeth Clemente, Dan Collins, Elizabeth Gick, Gus Gusciora, Amy
Kimberly Kaiser, Anne Sadler (Troshynski), Brett Schreckengost, Christine
Stanfield. Room Set-up Chief: Esther White. Staff: Hether Bachman,
Carole Chowen, JJ Giddings.
MEMORABILIA
Buyer: Muffy Deslaurier. Manager: Jim Eckardt. Assistant: Priscilla
Mangnall. Staff: Joseph J. Bell, Anne Brady, Patty Costello, Rich Fuxjager,
Kash Griffith, Alice Haberkorn, Larry Lambelet, Jed Thompson, Alan Vigil,
Greg Weiss, Suzanne Willener.
COMMUNICATIONS
Press Lead Team: Kean Bauman, Rolf E. Olsen. Staff: Amy Fisher, Sarah
Gregorio, Beth Krakower, Steve Larivee, Arun Nevader. Photographers:
Gerry & Phil Borgeson, John Fago, Lisa Law, Pilar Law, Arun Nevader,
Wendy Smith.
TALKING HEADS
Conversations Manager: Tom Goodman.
EDUCATION
Student Symposium Faculty: Howie Movshovitz, Linda Williams.
City Lights Faculty: Martha Brady, Jerry White.
Student Housing Honcha: Lauren Roche.
Student Services Quality Controllers: Filip Celander, Austin Sipes.
Student Prints & Filmmakers of Tomorrow Consultant: Danny Lee Ladely.
FOT Sherpa: Owen Gottlieb.
Telluride Education Liaison: Ellen Shelton.
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Sponsors Sponsors

PRESENTING The Palm Special Support for the

SPONSOR Education Programs

Opening Night Feed General Support Patron Brunch The Galaxy

Student Symposium Minnie Masons Hall Cinema “The Sound of Telluride”

Conversations City Lights Project Technical Services Festival Wine

General Support General Support General Support Magazine Partner

TOM
CRUISE
Boston Light & Sound

Festival Beer Technical Services General Support Student Prints

CAROL THE BURNS RALPH & LUCKY STAR SAMUELI

BOBO FAMILY RICKY LAUREN FOUNDATION FOUNDATION

General Support: Tribute Abel Gance Tribute General Support:

Angel Open Air Cinema Angel
This event is sponsored in part by the Town of Telluride, Commission for Arts
and Special Events
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 Filmanthropy Filmanthropy
Facets, Inc., Paul & Evy Frankel, Warren Franklin, Pamela Friedman,
Ronald Goss, Edward & Cherie Greene, Maurice & Barbara Grosby,
Trudye Grunert, Ruth Hayler, James Hemphill, Mikey Herring, Bill
Hess, Susan & Russ Holdstein, Martha Jameson, Dorothy Lee,
Stephen Martinez, James & Laura Maslon, Lisa Nemeroff, Ginger
Perry, Nancy Pitt, Maxine Rosston, Mary Ann Sabo, Mark Shapiro,
Ron & Joyce Allred Kathy Kennedy & Frank Marshall Shelton & Brigitte Stanfill, Milos Stehlik, Geoff Thompson, Barry
Winer, Mary Lou Woods
Kevin & Mary Grace Burke Vincent & Anne Mai
Ken & Julie Burns Charles & Jessie Price TELLURIDE BUSINESS FRIENDS
First National Bank of Telluride
Barry & Paula Downing Miranda Smith i-listen
Charles & Jody Goodman Joseph & Diane Steinberg Between the Covers
Clark’s Market
George & Pam Hamel Dr. Steven & Melissa Traub Elinoff Gallery
Lisa Henson Timberline Ace Hardware
Wells Fargo Bank Telluride
ASAP Accounting and Payroll, Mountain Tails,
BENEFACTORS Nevasca Realty, Two Skirts
Peter & Linda Bynoe Leucadia National Corporation
PALM THEATRE CAPITAL FUND
Jim Clubb Schneider Optics Lucky Star Foundation and the Gluckstern Family
Donna & Dennis Fecteau Lary & Sally Simpson Johnson Family Foundation
Dolby Laboratories
Warren & Becky Gottsegen Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
Kimberly & John Kirkendoll
FESTIVAL PRODUCTS & SERVICES Tom Cruise

LODGING PARTNERS
Alpine Rentals, Camels Garden, Hotel Columbia, Hotel Telluride,
The Ice House, Inn at Lost Creek, Mountain Lodge, Mountainside
Inn, New Sheridan Hotel, The River Club, Telluride Lodge,
ResortQuest, Victorian Inn, Wyndham Peaks Resort & Spa

DONORS
Anonymous, Paul Lehman & Ronna Stamm, Sony Electronics, Telluride
Conference Center, Jane Smith Turner Foundation
CONTRIBUTORS
Bacardi, The Bauch Family, Lorette Bayle, Criterion Collection, Keller Doss,
Ellesse Apparel & Footwear, Grace & Paul Engbring, Fiji Water, Bunny
Freidus & John Steel, Kristie Graham, Hal & Bev Haddon, Dr. Griff Harsh
& Meg Whitman, Marian Jones, Andrew & Debbie Rachleff, SAG Indie,
Joe Tarabino, Richard & Ann Teerlink, Telluride Daily Planet, Telluride
Express, Telluride Sports, TellurideStyle, Telluride Watch, TV-13 Telluride
FRIENDS
Dale & Sharon Andrews, Annenberg/CPB, Robert Beebe, Ted & Jacquie
Buttrick, Kit Collins, Colorado Film Foundation, Ben & Sally Crane,
The Criterion Collection, Tom Desmond, Joe Dishner, Judith Epley,
CATERERS
Barclay Daranyi and Barclay’s Cakes
Harmon Brown, Jim Ackard and Harmon’s at the Depot
Mark Krasic, Elyssa Kerins and Krasic’s Cuisine Inc.
Lucas Price and La Cocina de Luz
Ray Farnsworth, Ross Martin and New Sheridan Chop House
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Accounting: Davidson and Stone, PLLC, Portsmouth (Dennis Stone)
Design: Brown & Company Design, Portsmouth (Mary Johanna
Brown, Patrick Rowan and Matt Talbot)
Legal: Robinson & Diss, P.C., Denver (Fred Diss)
Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman & Scott, P.A., Portsmouth
(William Scott)
Publicity: McClure & Associates Public Relations, Los Angeles
(Carri McClure)

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 Patrons & Sponsors Patrons & Sponsors
Steven Addis, Laurie Anderson, Bonnie Apfelbaum, William Edward Roach, Jeanette M. Roach, Kim Roberts, Ralph J.
M. Apfelbaum, Allan Arkush, Scott Barbour, Ed Barlow, Tom Roberts, Rob Roberts, Suzanne F. Roberts, Winnie Roloson,
Bauch, Claire Beers, Bradley Beesley, Dale Berger, Max Kathi Rose, Willow Rossetti-Johnson, Dawn Rosso, Mark
Berger, Marc Berman, Sharen Berman, Patrick Bienvenue, Rosso, Mary Ann Sabo, Henry Samueli, Susan Samueli, Guy
Vanessa Bienvenue, Stephen E. Binder, Matthew Blake, Saperstein, Jeanine Saperstein, Laura Sayne, Deborah
Carol Bobo, Michele Bordieri, Andrea Bostick, Michael Schroeder, Addison Schultz, Sheri Kersch Schultz, Claire
Bostick, Marshall Brachman, Kim Britt, Harmon Brown, Bill Scott, Roger Scott, Bud Scruggs, Shirley Scruggs, Alan
Burgess, Mary Grace Burke, Sarah Burns, Linda Bynoe, Peter Seelenfreund, Ellyn Seelenfreund, Sue Selby, Liza Maine
Bynoe, Paul Campbell, Charlotte Canning, Charles Carmel, Seybold, Tom Shadyac, Mark R. Shapiro, Lary Simpson, Sally
Dana Carmel, Diane Carson, Paul Cashman, Joe Cellini, Simpson, Tait Simpson, Ina Smith, Linda Sonntag, Mary
Claudia Ceniceros, Won Hee Chang, Jim Clubb, Marty Cohen, Frances Stahler, Mark Stankevich, John H. Steel, Richard
Sharleen Cooper Cohen, Monica Rincon Gallardo Corcuera, Steiner, Linda Stern, Mark Strome, Katherine Stuart, Dawn
Jeanne Cordova, Joanne Corzine, Barbara Cullison, Brian Taylor, Jack Taylor, Ann Teerlink, Richard Teerlink, Stephanie
Currie, Kurt Dalton, Mark Dalton, Bruce Davis, Joann Davis, Thames, Gregory Thompson, MD, Andrew Tight, Annie Tlusty,
M.S. Derickson, Suzanne Derickson, A. Keller Doss Jr., Kirk Jane Smith Turner, Alice Traub, Avalon Passion Traub, Jesse
Douglas, Edith Elliot, Jeff Elliott, Marilyn Elliott, Charles H. Orion Traub, Diego Veitia, Alice Waters, Emma Webb, David
Ferguson, Cathy Field, Jeff Field, William Fischer, Natalie Weber, Blair Westlake, Elliot Wilhelm, Jennifer Wilson, Jean
Fitz-Gerald, Gabriella Flippen, Katrine Formby, Ericka Wolff, Kari Wolff, Kevin Wolff, Lewis Wolff, Beverly White,
Frederick, Bunny Freidus, Amy Friedkin, Morton L. Friedkin, Michael Wong, Ariel Wright, Quinton Wright, Susan Wright,
Elise D. Friedman, Tully Friedman, Jeff Gabel, Jsu Garcia, Tom Wright, Twyla Sue Wright, Hong Xin.
Debra Gershen, Alessandra Ghini, Kellie Gilbert, Judy
Gluckstern, Steven Gluckstern, Noelle Gonzalez, Becky
Gottsegen, Warren Gottsegen, Kristie Graham, Lisa Kay
Greissinger, Cherie Halladay, Madelyn Hammond, Pete
Hammond, Holly Harper, Will Harsh, Alan V. Hart, Kiley
Hart, Walker Hart, Wendy Hart, Jen Heflin, Caleb Heller,
Ron Hier, Leon Hogan, Linda Hogan, Joe Horning, Lynne
Horning, Anne Hubbell, George M. Iacono, Michael Isaacs,
Jim Jacks, Doug Jackson, Lisa Jackson, Paul Jackson, Sandi
Jackson, Anita L. Jackson-Kelley, Lee Ann Jacobs, Seth
Jacobs, Cheline Jaidar, Chris Jenkins, Jane Johnson, Jim
Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Marian Jones, Jim Jordan,
Barbara Kearney, Richard Kearney, Oscar Kelley, Jr, Sheila
Kelly, Alex King, Debbie Kinney, Kimberly Kirkendoll,
Deborah Klein, Toby Knobel, Robert Koch, Bob Korn, Carol
Korn, Kathryn Korniloff, Jennifer Lane, Judy Lang, Ralph
Lauren, Ricky Lauren, Anita Lawhon, Jason Lindbergh,
Suzanne Lindbergh, Ben Lowry, Ellen Maguire, Mort Marcus,
Mikka Bobo Margolis, James Maslon, Laura Maslon, Zack
Matheson, Charles Mauzy, Margo McCoy Reese, Samuel
McDonough, Eric McDougall, David McMahon, Patricia
Mellencamp, Victoria Meyers, Dennis Millary, Beth Miller,
Helaine Miller, Jennie Mingolelli, Alex Munoz, Lisa
Nemeroff, Morgan Night, Dr. Jerry A. Olshan, Don Orr,
Nancy Orr, Deborah Ortega, Nicholas Palevsky, Amanda
Morgan Palmer, Keith Palmer, Katherine Park, Sejin Park,
Dr. Jonathan Pellegrin, Rick Phillips, Michelle Pohlad, Linda
Powers, John Quinn, Shannon Quinn, Adam Rackoff, Rich
Rainaldi, Michael Scott Rankin, Martha Records, Mary Reed,

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 Thanks
THANK YOU
ABS, Allegra Print & Imaging, Russell Allen, The Alloy
Orchestra, Atlantic Media, Paul Bales, Michael Barker, Lucius
Barre, Pam Baucom, Greg Beal, Peter Becker, Tom Bernard,
Patrick Bienvenue, Alex Black, Black Diamond, Peter
Bogdanovich, Krista Boling, Adriene Bowles, British Film
Institute, Joan Buck, Michele LeSage Caldwell, Julie Carver,
Castle Hill Productions, CBS, Celluloid Dreams, Claudia
Ceniceros, Ronny Chammah, Cineson, Brian Claypool, Linda
Jones Clough & Jim Clough, Anne Coco, Fred Colonnato,
Colorado Film Foundation, Columbia Repertory, Nancy
Copeland, Jeanne Cordova, Mickey Cottrell, The Criterion
Collection, Chapin Cutler, Dartmouth College, Bruce Davis,
Densmore Productions, Eric Di Bernardo, Michael Donnelly,
Dennis Doros, Mary Eckles, Holly Elkins, Ellabel Productions,
Jana Emery, Fabrication Films, Facets, George Feltensterin,
Cathy Field, Ron & Valerie Finch, First Independent Pictures,
Kathy Fisher, Michael Fitzgerald, Focus Features, Bill &
Katrine Formby, Scott Foundas, Fox Searchlight, Thierry
Fremaux, French Cultural Services, French Film Office, Neil
Friedman, Andy Garcia, Dennis Gaughan, Chris George,
George Eastman House, Alessandra Ghini, Mark Gill, Steve
Gilula, Steven & Judy Gluckstern, Bruce Goldstein, The Grips
of Local 80: IATSE (Burbank), Harlan Gulko, Gusterman’s
Silversmith, Bette-Ann Gwathmey, Madelyn Hammond,
Andras Hamori, Brad Hampton, Harvard Film Archive, Dee
Hiatt, Kevin Higa, Lance Hinckley, Isabelle Huppert,
Inclusive PR, Janus Films, Jim Johnson, Jeff Joseph, Peter
Kailey, Antoine Khalife, Laura Kim, Kino International
Corporation, Elyse Klaits, Adam Krentzman, Don Krim, Anita
Lawhon, Amy Lawrence, Jennifer Leightner, Les Films A Un
Dollar, James Lilly, Suzanne Lindbergh, David Linde,
Meredith Lipsky, Serge Losique, Jim Luddy, Ellen Maguire,
Leonard Maltin, Peggy Mansfield, George Mansour, Greil
Marcus, Brett Marottoli, Charles Mauzy, Dick May, Roger
Mayer, Menesha Films, Diana Metcalf, Gary Mezzatesta,
Charlotte Mickie, Milestone Films, Milestone Products,
Miramax Films, Elvis Mitchell, Julie Mulholland, Sara Murphy,
The Music Hall of Portsmouth, NH, Bob Myerson, National Car
Rental, Davia Nelson, New Yorker Films, Pangea, Susan
Pasini, Mike Patrakis, Kevin Pawley, M.J. Peckos, Gordon
Phillips, Steffen Pierce, Bobby Pinkston, Maegan Pussilano,
Mary Radford, Mary Reed, Wendy Reed, Chris Reyna, Rialto
Pictures, Pierre Rissient, Ric Robertson, Paula Romano, Rena
Ronson, Chris Rooney, Fred Roos, Jeff Rosen, David Ross,
Gary Rubin, Sabucat Productions, SabuCat Productions,
George Scheppler, Mike Schlesinger, William Scott, Peter
Sellars, Tom Shadyac, Jan Sharp, Stephan Shelanski, Todd
Simon, Sony Entertainment, Sony Pictures Classics, Milos
Stehlik, Joseph Steinberg, Dennis Stone, Sydney Stowe,
Strand Releasing, Cynthia Swartz, John Switzer, Charles
Tabesh, Tartan Films, Larry Taub, ThinkFilm, David Thomson,
Annie Tlusty, Turner Classic Movies, Mike Uchida, Unifrance
USA, Mark Urman, Lawrence Van Hoey, Catherine Verret,
Katrina Wahlbrink, AnnaBelle Walter, Warner Bros., Warner
Bros. Independent, WB Classics, Beth Weiss, Wellspring
Entertainment, Ryan Werner, Robert Wherry, Wild Bunch,
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Merci
Marlan Willardson, The Wire, Portsmouth, NH, Jordan Wolfe,
Women Make Movies, Tom Wright, Thomas Wyatt, Susan
Yecies, Dwain Young, Healey Young, Zhao Wei Films,
Debra Zimmerman.
AND IN TELLURIDE
Bruce, Jim Ackard, Adelphia, ALSCO, American Linen Division,
Bill De Alva, Mona de Alva, ARF Communications, Greg
Babush, Marsha Bailey, Baked in Telluride, Barclay’s Cakes,
Kalli Barney, Gary Bennett, Richard Betts, Blue Gecko, Sid
Brotman, Harmon Brown, Stuart & Joanna Brown, Tammy
Burden, Jeff Bush, Seth Cagin, Canyon Flower Farm, Justin
Chandler, Cimarron Lodge HOA, Cindy Bread, Sharon Clark,
Tom Clark, Denny Clishe, La Cocina de Luz, Connie Colter,
Barclay Daranyi, Curtis Day, Durango Party Rental, Elevation
Vacations in Telluride, Neal Elinoff, Dave Erickson, eTECH,
Rich, Anna and Hayden Fake, Erik Fallenius, Davis Fansler, Ray
Farnsworth, Zachary Frangos, Peter Garber, Ron Gilmer, Jerry
Green, Kathy Green, Harmon’s at the Depot, Richard Haselton,
Phil Hayden, Heather Hays, Danny Herringe, Jay Herrington,
Rick “Q” Herrington, Mick Hill, Sue Hobby, Kristin Holbrook,
Kris Holstrum, Travis Julia, Tom Kenning, Rick Klement,
Heather Knox-Rommel, KOTO-fm, Mark Krasic and Elyssa
Kerins, Krasic’s Cuisine, Inc., Chuck Kroger, Laidlaw Transit,
Inc., Robert & Ronny Levine, Gary Lisbon, Kathy Mahoney,
Paul Major, Ross Martin, Masons of Telluride, Jennifer
Metzger, Bill Mills, Tom & Val Mortell, Mountain Village Metro
Services District, Mountain Village Town Council,
MountainFilm, Peter Mueller, New Sheridan Chop House, Night
and Day Janitorial, Jack Pera, Wes Perrin, Lucas Price, Jeff
Proteau, Red Hat Foods, Rocky Mountain Ice, Dick Rodgers,
Linda Rodgers, Wendy Rodriguez, Dean Rolley, Mary
Rubadeau, Bruce Sanders, San Miguel Electric, San Miguel
Power Association, Don Semi, Kurt Shugars, Skyline Ranch,
Carla Slate, Aaron Smith, Dennis Smith, Steve Smith, Mike
Spilman, Steaming Bean Coffee Company, Courtney Stuecheli,
Sysco Intermountain Food Services, Inc., Tom Taylor, TCAH,
TCTV-Channel 12, Telluride Elementary School, Telluride
Express, preferred ground transportation provider, Telluride
Gondola Crew, Telluride Gondola Transportation Board,
Telluride High School, Telluride High School Athletic
Department, Telluride Locksmith, Telluride Masonic Lodge,
Telluride Medical Center, Telluride Paging and Communications,
Inc., Telluride Public Schools, Telluride R-1 School Board,
Telluride Ski and Golf Company, Telluride Ski and Golf Lift
Operations, Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club, Telluride Ski
Instructors, Telluride Ski Patrol, Telluride Sports, Telluride
Town Council, Telluride Volunteer Fire Department, Jim
Thalman, Jenny Thomas, Timberline Ace Hardware, Town of
Telluride Marshal’s Department, Town of Telluride Parks and
Rec Department, Town of Telluride Public Works Department,
United Natural Foods, Viking Rentals, Alexa Warren, Tina
Whatcott, Madeline Whiteman, Michael Wingfield, Stash
Wislocki, Fritz and Dietz Woehle,Tom Wright, Jim Young,
Jack Zoller.
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 Index
Index of Festival Shows The Other American Dream 29
Army of Shadows 16 Overtime 11
Be With Me 6 The Passage 29
Bee Season 9 Pirate 28
Breakfast on Pluto 16 Rain Is Falling 29
Brokeback Mountain 15 El Rincon de Venezuela 28
(Caché) Hidden 5 Santiago 28
Calling Cards 29 The Saviour 28
Capote 12 Spacer 13
Chang 18 A Thousand Suns 29
The Child 7 Twilight 29
The Comedian 20 Undressing My Mother 6
Conversations With Unhitched 28
Other Women 13 Victoria Para Chino 28
A Cottage on Dartmoor 13 While Darwin Sleeps 9
Edmond 5 Who Killed Brown Owl 29
Eugène Green retrospective 21
Everything Is Illuminated 6 Information & Special Events
Fateless 8 Apple Studio 27
Great Expectations 29 Brigadoon 27
I’m King Kong 18 City Lights Project 28
Iron Island 17 Conversations 33
Johanna 11 Filmanthropy 42-43
King Kong 20 Filmmakers of Tomorrow 28-29
Lemming 20 Guest Director: Don DeLillo 3
Live and Become 19 Hospitality 27
The Lost City 14 Labor Day Picnic 35
The Moon and the Son 15 Made on a Mac 32
Printed by Vermillion, www.vermillion-inc.com

Le Monde Vivant 21 Memorabilia 27

Paradise Now 12
The Passenger 18
Les Ponts des Arts 21
The President’s Last Bang 14
Sisters in Law 19
Spirit of the Beehive 9
Student Prints 28
Toutes les Nuits 21
Three Times 11
A Tribute to Charlotte Rampling 10
A Tribute to Mickey Rooney 4
A Tribute to the Dardennes 7
‘No Shows’ Sites 27
Opening Night Feed 34
‘Out of the Past’ exhibition 34
Patrons and Sponsors 44-45
Poster Artist: Dave McKean 2
Poster Signing: Dave McKean 35
The Rules 26
Schedule 23-26
Seminars 33
Show People 36-39
SHOWcase for Shorts 30
Side Shows 20
Designed by Brown & Company Design, www.browndesign.com

Walk the Line 17 Special Medallion: Criterion/Janus 31

Wanda 8 Sponsors 40-41
Student Symposium 28
Short Films Thanks 46-47
The Bet 28 Ticket/Venue Information 22-23
A Black and White World 29
Breached 28
Cheyenne 29
City Paradise 12
The Conscience 28
Life With Sophia 29
Monster 29
Music Palace 29
The Natural Route 29
9 5 The 33rd Telluride Film Festival
Le Nom de Feu 21 will be held September 1-4, 2006

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