Telluride 2009

The 36th Telluride Film Festival starts tomorrow and wraps up on Monday. What's cool about Telluride is that it keeps its lineup a secret until just as the fest is getting started. More screenings are announced throughout the week, so there's never any knowing exactly what's in store at this one.

The festival has just announced its lineup today, and there are a lot of big titles showing this year, namely the Sundance champ An Education and Palme d'Or winner The White Ribbon.

• A Prophet (D: Jacques Audiard, Germany/Austria/France)
• An Education (D: Lone Scherfig, UK)
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (D: Werner Herzog, US)
• Bright Star (D: Jane Campion, UK/Australia/France)
• Coco Before Chanel (D: Anne Fontaine, France)
• Farewell (D: Christian Carion, France)
• Fish Tank (D: Andrea Arnold, UK)
• Gigante (D: Adrian Biniez, Uruguay)
• Henri-Georges Clouzout's Inferno (D: Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, France)
• Life During Wartime (D: Todd Solondz, US)
• London River (D: Rachid Bouchareb, UK/France/Algeria)
• Red Riding (three-part series) 1974 (D: Julian Jarrold, UK), 1980 (D: James Marsh, UK), 1983 (Anand Tucker, UK)
• Room and a Half (D: Andrey Khrzhanovsky, Russia)
• Samson & Delillah (D: Warwick Thornton, Australia)
• Sleep Furiously (D: Gideon Koppel, UK)
• Terra Madre (D: Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
• The Jazz Baroness (D: Hannah Rothschild, UK)
• The Last Station (D: Michael Hoffman, UK)
• The Miscreants of Taliwood (D: George Gittoes, Australia/Pakistan)
• The Road (John Hillcoat, US)
• The White Ribbon (D: Michael Haneke, Germany/Australia/France)
• Vincere (D: Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
• Vision (D: Margarethe von Trotta, Germany)
• Window (D: Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India)

Lots of anticipated titles to talk about. I'm really looking forward to hearing more about these, especially A Prophet, An Education, Fish Tank, The Last Station, and The White Ribbon.