Featuring 38 movies in its main program, this year's festival will launch the Oscar campaigns of several movies, even if their actors will not be in attendance.
) with the best of international and independent cinema, Huntsinger boasts — with gratitude — that she didn’t lose a single film.
The all-director tribute lineup reflects one reality of the strikes that Telluride could not escape. Typically, the festival mixes in high-profile honors to actors — last year saw afor her performance in “Tár.” This year, Bening had been in the mix for her turn in “Nyad” until the SAG-AFTRA strike scuttled such thoughts.
She reserves a special spot for Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” a bittersweet, reflective tale laced with deadpan humor. “Tom had this preternatural equanimity,” Huntsinger says. “He wanted everyone to love cinema as much as he did. And for that love to be contagious, he knew he had to talk about it in a certain way — which was his natural way. He could make people enthusiastic for really academic cinema and movies from bygone eras. And they’d always say, ‘How have we never seen that? That’s so fantastic.’ It was just a combination of good taste, kindness and charisma.... We miss them.
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