LABOR DAY goes to the Telluride festival – August 29-Sep 2, 2013 in Colorado
Telluride Film Festival lineup includes ‘Gravity,’ ‘Labor Day’
By John Horn
August 28, 2013, 7:00 a.m.
Colorado’s Labor Day weekend festival — which is starting Thursday, a day earlier than normal, to commemorate its 40th edition — is known for eclectic programming announced at the very last minute, and it’s often difficult to detect trends.
Among the 59 features and shorts playing in Telluride, the awards contenders certainly include “Gravity” (premiering Wednesday at Venice Film Festival) and “All Is Lost” (which premiered at Cannes in May) as well as Jason Reitman’s “Labor Day.” Reitman’s film is an adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel about a single mother (Kate Winslet) who decides to take in an escaped prisoner (Josh Brolin), sparking a rift with her young son (Gattlin Griffith). It’s the third time the director has launched a movie in the mountain resort town, as “Labor Day” follows the Telluride premieres of his “Up in the Air” in 2009 and “Juno” in 2007.
Huntsinger said the usually silent half of the Penn and Teller prestidigitation duo will not only speak at a question-and-answer session following a screening of “Tim’s Vermeer,” but he also will be among the storytellers at a new Friday event called “Story Night,” where he, Reitman, Buck Henry, Gregory Nava and others will tell original, 10-minute stories in an outdoor venue.
While the audience will have the final say over the quality of the festival’s selections, Huntsinger said she, Luddy and Meyer were able to pick from a solid crop of contenders.
“I do feel there is an amazing amount of good cinema,” she said. “And we’re the lucky recipients of it.”
www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-telluride-20130829,0,3752853.story
www.telluridefilmfestival.org/
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