The Criterion Collection

The annual Telluride Film Festival is now under way, and, as usual, Criterion is there. Like every year, the festival programmers kept the official selections hush-hush in the weeks leading up to the event. But the twenty-four-feature lineup has announced yesterday, and we were particularly excited to see new films from a handful of Criterion favorites, including Olivier Assayas (Carlos), Stephen Frears (Tamara Drewe), Mike Leigh (Another Year), Bertrand Tavernier (The Princess of Montpensier), and Peter Weir (The Way Back), not to mention the Elia Kazan documentary A Letter to Elia, the latest collaboration between Martin Scorsese and one of our favorite writers, Kent Jones. Also, Stig Björkman’s long-anticipated documentaries on Ingmar Bergman, . . . But Film Is My Mistress and Images from the Playground, will be shown in the Backlot sidebar.

Additionally, author Michael Ondaatje has picked a half dozen personal favorite movies to screen, including Larisa Shepitko’s devastating 1977 World War II drama The Ascent, which is available in our eleventh Eclipse set. Other events of note: this year, the festival is scheduled to give Silver Medallions (which honor an artist’s contributions to cinema)  to Weir and actress Claudia Cardinale (8½).

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