Telluride Film Festival guest directors
The Telluride Film Festival Guest Director is a position held by a different individual each edition, invited by the festival's artistic director to join them in the creation of the festival program.
Below is a list of each guest director followed by the films the director specifically chose to highlight.
List of guest directors and selected films
1980s
| Year | Guest Director | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (15th) |
Donald Richie | Japan's Cutting Edge | Various | Japan | |
| Remembering Sessue Hayakawa | |||||
| The Dragon Painter (1919) | William Worthington | United States | |||
| 1989 (16th) |
Errol Morris | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) | John McNaughton | United States | |
| Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) | Leo McCarey | ||||
1990s
| Year | Guest Director | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (17th) |
Bertrand Tavernier | Justin de Marseille (1935) | Maurice Tourneur | France | |
| Pursued (1947) | Raoul Walsh | United States | |||
| 1991 (18th) |
Laurie Anderson | Danzon (1991) | María Novaro | Mexico | |
| New Video Art | |||||
| 1992 (19th) |
G. Cabrera Infante | Laughter (1930) | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | United States | |
| Victims of Sin (1951) | Víctimas del pecado | Emilio Fernández | Mexico | ||
| The Virgin of Charity (1930) | La Virgen de la Caridad | Ramón Peón | Cuba | ||
| 1993 (20th) |
John Boorman | Fear and Desire (1952) | Stanley Kubrick | United States | |
| Upstage (1926) | Monta Bell | ||||
| 1994 (21st) |
John Simon | The Easy Life (1962) | Il Sorpasso | Dino Risi | Italy |
| One Fine Day (1969) | Un certo giorno | Ermanno Olmi | |||
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) | Sydney Pollack | United States | |||
| 1995 (22nd) [1] |
Phillip Lopate | Floating Clouds (1955) | 浮雲 | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| The Hard Way (1943) | Vincent Sherman | United States | |||
| Welfare (1975) | Frederick Wiseman | ||||
| 1996 (23rd) |
B. Ruby Rich | ||||
| 1997 (24th) |
Peter Von Bagh | ||||
| 1998 (25th) |
Peter Bogdanovich | ||||
| 1999 (26th)[2] |
Peter Sellars | Allah Tantou (1992) | David Achkar | Guinea, France | |
| Dust in the Wind (1986) | 戀戀風塵 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | ||
2000s
| Year | Guest Director | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (27th) [3] |
Edgardo Cozarinsky | ||||
| 2001 (28th) |
Salman Rushdie | Metropolis (1927) | Fritz Lang | Germany | |
| Alphaville (1965) | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |||
| Solaris (1972) | Солярис | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | ||
| 2002 (29th) [4] |
Alberto Barbera | Bitter Rice (1949) | Riso Amaro | Giuseppe De Santis | Italy |
| Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) | Banditi a Orgosolo | Vittorio De Seta | |||
| Il Posto (1961) | Ermanno Olmi | ||||
| 2003 (30th) |
Stephen Sondheim | They Were Five (1936) | La Belle Equipe | Julien Duvivier | France |
| Un Carnet de Bal (1937) | |||||
| Panique (1946) | |||||
| 2004 (31st) [5] |
Buck Henry | Million Dollar Legs (1932) | Edward F. Cline | United States | |
| Payday (1932) | Don Carpenter | ||||
| Hunger (1966) | Sult / Svält | Henning Carlsen | Denmark, Norway, Sweden | ||
| 2005 (32nd) |
Don DeLillo | The Passenger (1975) | Professione: reporter | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| Wanda (1970) | Barbara Loden | United States | |||
| The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | El espíritu de la colmena | Víctor Erice | Spain | ||
| 2006 (33rd) [6] |
Jean-Pierre Gorin | Maldone (1928) | Jean Grémillon | France | |
| Stormy Waters (1941) | Remorques | ||||
| Summer Light (1943) | Lumière d'Ètè | ||||
| 2007 (34th) [7] |
Edith Kramer | The Way You Wanted Me (1944) | Sellaisena kuin sinä minut halusit | Teuvo Tulio | Finland |
| Millions Like Us (1943) | Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder | United Kingdom | |||
| Spring Shower (1932) | Tavaszi zápor | Pál Fejös | Hungary | ||
| 2008 (35th) [8] |
Slavoj Žižek | Nightmare Alley (1947) | Edmund Golding | United States | |
| On Dangerous Ground (1952) | Nicholas Ray | ||||
| Seconds (1966) | John Frankenheimer | ||||
| 2009 (36th) [9] |
Alexander Payne | Day of the Outlaw (1959) | Stelios Roccos and James Burroughs | United States | |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Michael Curtiz | ||||
| Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) | Leo McCarey | ||||
2010s
| Year | Guest Director | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (37th) [10] |
Michael Ondaatje | The Ascent (1977) | Восхождение | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
| Confidence (1980) | Bizalom | István Szabó | Hungary | ||
| Here Is Your Life (1966) | Här har du ditt liv | Jan Troell | Sweden | ||
| Fat City (1972) | John Huston | United States | |||
| The Hustler (1961) | Robert Rossen | ||||
| Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995) | Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende | Vincent Monnikendam | Netherlands | ||
| 2011 (38th) [11] |
Caetano Veloso | The Apartment (1960) | Billy Wilder | United States | |
| Aniceto (2008) | Leonardo Favio | Argentina | |||
| Vivre sa vie (1962) | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |||
| The Grand Maneuver (1955) | Les Grandes Manœuvres | René Clair | |||
| Black God, White Devil (1964) | Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol | Glauber Rocha | Brazil | ||
| Nordeste: Cordel, Repente E Canção (1975) | Tânia Quaresma | ||||
| 2012 (39th) [12] |
Geoff Dyer | Stalker (1979) | Сталкер | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| Beau Travail (1999) | Claire Denis | France | |||
| Together (2000) | Tillsammans | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden | ||
| Lessons of Darkness (1992) | Lektionen in Finsternis | Werner Herzog | France, United Kingdom, Germany | ||
| The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) | Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | Germany | |||
| Baraka (1992) | Ron Fricke | United States | |||
| Unrelated (2007) | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom | |||
| 2013 (40th) [13] |
Don DeLillo | La Morte Rouge (2006) | Víctor Erice | Spain | |
| The Zapruder Film (1963) | Abraham Zapruder | United States | |||
| Phillip Lopate | Naked Childhood (1968) | L'enfance nue | Maurice Pialat | France | |
| Buck Henry | The Terminal Man (1972) | Mike Hodges | United States | ||
| Michael Ondaatje | Elephant (1989) | Alan Clarke | United Kingdom | ||
| La Jetée (1962) | Chris Marker | France | |||
| B. Ruby Rich | One Way or Another (1974) | De Cierta Manera | Sara Gómez | Cuba | |
| Salman Rushdie | Mahanagar (1963) | Satyajit Ray | India | ||
| 2014 (41st) [14] |
Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan | California Split (1974) | Robert Altman | United States | |
| M (1951) | Joseph Losey | ||||
| Man's Castle (1933) | Frank Borzage | ||||
| The Road to Glory (1936) | Howard Hawks | ||||
| Wicked Woman (1953) | Russell Rouse | ||||
| Il Grido (1957) | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | |||
| 2015 (42nd) [15] |
Rachel Kushner | The Mother and the Whore (1973) | La maman et la putain | Jean Eustache | France |
| My Little Loves (1974) | Mes Petites Amoureuses | France | |||
| Wake in Fright (1971) | Ted Kotcheff | Australia | |||
| Cocksucker Blues (1979) | Robert Frank | United States | |||
| A Day In The Country (1936) | Partie de campagne | Jean Renoir | France | ||
| Uncle Yanco (1967) | Oncle Yanco | Agnès Varda | France | ||
| The Mattei Affair (1972) | Il Caso Mattei | Francesco Rosi | Italy | ||
| 2016 (43rd) [16] |
Volker Schlöndorff | I Was Nineteen (!968) | Ich war neunzehn | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| It Was in May (1970) | Byl mesyats may | Marlen Khutsiev | Soviet Union | ||
| The Barefoot Contessa (1954) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | |||
| Les Enfants terribles (1950) | Jean-Pierre Melville | France | |||
| The Fire Within (1963) | Le Feu follet | Louis Malle | |||
| Spies (1928) | Spione | Fritz Lang | Germany | ||
| 2017 (44th) [17] |
Joshua Oppenheimer | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Charles Laughton | United States | |
| Titicut Follies (1967) | Frederick Wiseman | ||||
| Hello Cinema (1995) | سلام سینما | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran | ||
| Hotel of the Stars (1981) | Jon Bang Carlsen | Denmark | |||
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) | Les Parapluies de Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France | ||
| Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) | Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen | Werner Herzog | West Germany | ||
| 2018 (45th) [18] |
Jonathan Lethem | Angel (1937) | Ernst Lubitsch | United States | |
| Bigger Than Life (1956) | Nicholas Ray | ||||
| Never Cry Wolf (1983) | Carroll Ballard | ||||
| The Tarnished Angels (1957) | Douglas Sirk | ||||
| To Be or Not to Be (1942) | Ernst Lubitsch | ||||
| The White Meadows (2009) | کشتزارهای سپید | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran | ||
| 2019 (46th) [19] |
Pico Iyer | Late Autumn (1960) | 秋日和 | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) | 女が階段を上る時 | Mikio Naruse | |||
| The Makioka Sisters (1983) | 細雪 | Kon Ichikawa | |||
| Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) | Aparna Sen | India | |||
| Under the Sun (2015) | В лучах солнца | Vitaly Mansky | Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia, North Korea | ||
2020s
| Year | Guest Director | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 (48th) [20] |
Barry Jenkins | West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) | West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté | Med Hondo | France, Mauritania, Algeria |
| Chocolat (1988) | Claire Denis | France | |||
| Looking for Langston (1989) | Isaac Julien | United Kingdom | |||
| Garden (2003) | גן | Adi Barash | Israel | ||
| Russian Ark (2002) | Русский ковчег | Alexander Sokurov | Russia | ||
| Kahlil Joseph: Selected Works | Kahlil Joseph | United States | |||
| 2022 (49th) [21] |
Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko | L'Atalante (1934) | Jean Vigo | France | |
| Elegy of a Voyage (2001) | Элегия дороги | Alexander Sokurov | France, Russia, Netherlands | ||
| Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (1978) | Познавая белый свет | Kira Muratova | Soviet Union | ||
| Oasis (2002) | 오아시스 | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea | ||
| Where Is the Friend's House? (1987) | خانه دوست کجاست | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | ||
| The Wonders (2014) | Le meraviglie | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | ||
| 2023 (50th) [22] |
Steve McQueen | Zero for Conduct (1933) | Zéro de Conduite | Jean Vigo | France |
| Mira Nair | The Music Room (1958) | Jalsaghar | Satyajit Ray | India | |
| Alfonso Cuarón | Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) | Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 | Alain Tanner | France-Switzerland | |
| Rachel Kushner | Juvenile Court (1973) | Frederick Wiseman | United States | ||
| Ethan Hawke | All That Jazz (1979) | Bob Fosse | United States | ||
| Adam Curtis | The Long Good Friday (1980) | John Mackenzie | United Kingdom | ||
| 2024 (51st) [23] |
Kenneth Lonergan | Arch of Triumph (1948) | Lewis Milestone | United States | |
| Barry Lyndon (1975) | Stanley Kubrick | United States, United Kingdom | |||
| Doctor Zhivago (1965) | David Lean | United Kingdom, Italy, United States | |||
| Grand Hotel (1932) | Edmund Goulding | United States | |||
| My Darling Clementine (1946) | John Ford | ||||
References
- ↑ "Telluride Festival 1995 Films". www.filmscouts.com. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
- ↑ Movshovitz, Howie (1999-09-08). "The Telluride Menu: Eclectic, Rewarding : Commentary: Film festival reflected the omni-vision of guest curator Peter Sellars". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ↑ "38th Telluride Film Festival Announces 2011 Festival Lineup". We Are Movie Geeks. 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ↑ "Alberto Barbera is guest director at Telluride Festival". Screen. 2002-07-30. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
- ↑ "31ST TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILMS Uncategorized Film Threat". 2004-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
- ↑ "30th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "34th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "35th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "36th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "37th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "38th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "39th TFF program guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-03.
- ↑ "40th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "41th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "42nd TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "43th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "44th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "45th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "46th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "48th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "49th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ "50th TFF program guide" (PDF). telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
- ↑ Davis, Clayton (2024-08-29). "Telluride Festival Lineup Includes 'Nickel Boys,' 'The Piano Lesson' and 'Saturday Night' With Tributes for Jacques Audiard and Saoirse Ronan". Variety. Retrieved 2024-08-29.