Telluride 2018–Coming Attractions!

Greetings from beautiful Telluride!  I am with the same 3 friends as the last couple years: Michelle, Julie & Pat.  I think this is my 15th year here!  We arrived yesterday (and were very disappointed with the condo we reserved this time, but c’est la vie).  Now we’re settled and anxious for the films to start tomorrow.  We got our program today and are excited about films and who will be here (although I see very few of the actors with this kind of pass we got---unlike the past, sigh).
A sampling:

*Emma Stone is being honored this year.  We saw her here the last 2 years with “La La Land” and “Battle of the Sexes.”   This year her new film is “the Favourite”—a period piece about Queen Anne & her lady consort (Stone).

*Melissa McCarthy in her dramatic debut: “Can You Forgive me?”

*Damien Chazelle (wrote La La Land) with his new “First Man” starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong.

*Hugh Jackman and Jason Reitman —“The Front Runner” about the derailed presidential campaign of Gary Hart in 1988, also with Vera Farmiga & J.K. Simmons

*Nicole Kidman has TWO films here: ‘The Destroyer” as an LA police detective
And “Boy Erased” about parents putting their boy through “Christian conversion therapy”, starring Russell Crowe & Lucas Hedges (from Manchester by the Sea)

*Ralph Fiennes directed & starring in “The White Crow” about Rudolf Nureyev’s defection
*Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek & Casey Affleck in “The Old Man & the Gun” based on a true story about Forrest Tucker—-who broke out of jail at age 70 to be a bank robber!

Tomorrow the festival starts with “Watergate—or How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President.”  Hmmm....  Hope people take notes.  :-)
So—-this looks like an excellent lineup.

Jane