Telluride Film Festival 2007

Reviews will appear here as I write them. I inevitably promise more than I can deliver, so we’ll see how far I get. It’s a promising, fairly high-profile schedule, which I hope inspires me to do some writing — although the staff protests when I try to type in the theaters before the movies start. It’s an example of Telluride taking its technophobic, death-to-cell-phones policy way too far.

The festival actually began on Thursday with an outdoor screening of Norman Jewison’s original The Thomas Crown Affair, which I had never seen. It’s actually a strange film, it turns out, not terribly concerned with mechanics and unafraid of making its title character a total cypher. More remarkable than the film was the experience of huddling together in the cold mountain weather and on the grass with a few hundred cinephiles, who watched the film in almost total silence.

Friday, August 31st

I’m Not There. (Todd Haynes)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Jar City (Baltasar Kormakur)

Saturday, September 1st


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Jellyfish (Etgar Keret) – I have absolutely nothing to say about this movie. C-
Rails and Ties (Alison Eastwood)

Sunday, September 2nd

The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
Redacted (Brian De Palma) B+
Cargo 200 (Aleksei Balabanov) B

Monday, September 3rd

When Did You Last See Your Father? (Anand Tucker) C+
Wind Man (Khuat Akhmetov) C+

The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky) B
4 Weeks, 3 Months and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) A
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-- Eugene Novikov

Released:	2007
Rated:	UR