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36th Telluride Film Festival - Sept 4-7 '09 - Telluride, Colorado
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 8:33am.
Announcement
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber, Professor Emeritus Patricia Patterson, JP Gorin
The Celebration of Manny Farber
September 4-7, 2009
Telluride, Colorado
Each Labor Day weekend, the tiny mountain village of Telluride, Colorado triples in size. Swells of passionate film enthusiasts flood the town for four days of total cinematic immersion, embarking on a viewing odyssey, blissfully spending entire days in flickering dark rooms. With only an appreciation of celluloid to guide them, these devotees flock to the show, year after year. Why? Blind faith. We don’t reveal the program until everyone lands in town. Yet the Telluride family trusts that a unique experience will unfold.
The Telluride Film Festival is not just a picture show. It is Tributes to luminaries who've propelled the medium forward; it is candid discussions with a film’s creator or the historian who champions it; it is discovering that the person in line behind you made the film you just enjoyed; it is engaging in lively debate with every manner of film lover in the summer sun of a Colorado afternoon, always minutes away from a new exhibition. Our audiences were the first in the world to laugh with JUNO, to observe THE LIVES OF OTHERS, to visit BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, to learn the secret of THE CRYING GAME, to experience BLUE VELVET, and to witness THE CIVIL WAR. We resurrected the silent epic NAPOLEON, and highlighted the genius of animator Chuck Jones.
We take great pains to remain not a competition, but a celebration of the best in film — past, present and future — from all around the world. This is one weekend immersed in an unabashed carnival of film: viewing, breathing, eating, and talking cinema. This is The SHOW.
The Celebration of Manny Farber
Telluride Film Festival and The Library of America are pleased to present a special program in honor of artist and film critic Manny Farber. "The Celebration of Manny Farber" will include an intimate bookstore signing of The Library of America's September 2009 release Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber with editor Robert Polito and Farber's wife and collaborator, Patricia Patterson. They will also be part of an interactive panel with guests Jean-Pierre Gorin, Kent Jones, Greil Marcus, David Thomson, and Robert Walsh. More special guests will be in attendance for a screening of one of Farber's favorite films to be announced on Opening Day, September 4, 2009.