Telluride lineup.

The Telluride Film Festival likes to be coy about its lineup, unveiling it each year only a day or so before the fest takes place on Labor Day weekend. Word is now out and, as Eugene Hernandez reports at indieWIRE, "festival co-founder and co-director Bill Pence noted that this year's festival is a particularly literary event." Which is to say, first, lots of adaptations - Eugene (who'll also be blogging from the fest) has the list - and second, "Author Don DeLillo (White Noise) is on board as Guest Director at this year's event and will present three films from the 1970s, including Barbara Loden's Wanda, Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger, and Victor Erice's The Spirit Of The Beehive."

The site's a fun browse. Dave McKean designed the poster and Neil Gaiman, who's collaborated with him on MirrorMask, has this to say about him:

I never minded Dave being an astonishing artist and visual designer. That never bothered me. That he's a world-class keyboard player and composer bothers me only a little. That he drives amazing cars very fast down tiny Kentish backroads only bothers me if I'm a passenger after a full meal, and much of the time I keep my eyes shut anyway. He's now becoming a world class film and video director, that he can write comics as well as I can, if not better, that he subsidizes his art (still uncompromised after all these years) with highly paid advertising work which still manages, despite being advertising work, to be witty and heartfelt and beautiful.... well, frankly, these things bother me.

Posted by dwhudson at September 1, 2005 1:48 PM