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      <title>Film:The Rest is Silence (Restul e Tacere)</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> The Rest is Silence (Restul e Tacere)<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2007<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Nae Caranfil<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> A fact-based work of fiction that inevitably recalls the Taviani Brothers' Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Romanian director <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___231115/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Nae Caranfil</a>'s historical epic Restul e Tacere travels back to the Bucharest of 1911, where 19-year-old Grigore Ursache (played by Marius Florea Vizante and modeled upon real-life director Grigore Brezeanu) realizes that he'll never be able to achieve success as a stage actor on par with his famous thespian dad. As an alternative, he decides to kick-start a new career as a filmmaker <I>extraordinaire</I> by mounting the country's first epic drama - a lavish onscreen recreation of Romania's struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. Thus commences the young man's arduous and oft-nebulous seriocomic struggle between the requirements of art and the demands of business. While difficult, Ursache's effort does ultimately produce the film that he desires: the real-life Romanian masterpiece Independenta Romaniei (The War for Independence, 1912). His goal is simple: to convince a dubious Romanian public that cinema, as an art form, can exist on par with theater. Throughout the film, Caranfil intercuts sequences from Brezeanu's original motion picture, which underwent restoration just prior to the production of Restul e Tacere. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 1<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 2<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 7<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 4<br/>
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      <title>Spout Post: FilmCouch #86: Happy-Go-Lucky and Adam Resurrected, Telluride 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/9/5/34782.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359912.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/5/2008 9:00:59 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
The Telluride Film Festival is what Sundance would be if it took place in heaven. Every year the tiny mountain hamlet hosts four days of hassle-free cinema paradise. There were grumblings about the lack of American films, but we still found plenty to love. Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake) came with his delightful new movie, Happy-Go-Lucky. He sat down for a disgruntled yet insightful interview. Paul Schrader (Affliction, Hardcore) seemed as blow away as we were by his latest film, Adam Resurrected, starring Jeff Goldblum.

(Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our RSS feed and an episode will download each Friday)
0:00 - Intro, Telluride faves: Waltz with Bashir, Revanche, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Tulpan, The Rest is Silence.
7:04 - Happy-Go-Lucky, with Mike Leigh interview.
19:52 - Adam Resurrected, with Paul Schrader interview.
filmcouch-86 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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The Telluride Film Festival is what Sundance would be if it took place in heaven. Every year the tiny mountain hamlet hosts four days of hassle-free cinema paradise. There were grumblings about the lack of American films, but we still found plenty to love. Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake) came with his delightful new movie, Happy-Go-Lucky. He sat down for a disgruntled yet insightful interview. Paul Schrader (Affliction, Hardcore) seemed as blow away as we were by his latest film, Adam Resurrected, starring Jeff Goldblum.

(Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our RSS feed and an episode will download each Friday)
0:00 - Intro, Telluride faves: Waltz with Bashir, Revanche, The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Tulpan, The Rest is Silence.
7:04 - Happy-Go-Lucky, with Mike Leigh interview.
19:52 - Adam Resurrected, with Paul Schrader interview.
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      <title>Spout Post: Telluride 2008: Complete Coverage</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/9/4/34736.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359912.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/4/2008 11:01:27 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Prodigal Sons review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button preview (and backlash)
Waltz with Bashir review
Jeff Goldblum, Media Diet interview
Helen review
Tulpan review
O’Horten review
Learning Gravity review
Ken Burns, Media Diet interview
You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers Story and tribute to Richard Schickel
‘Movies Are Over.’ Directors, Distribs & Journos Debate Future of Film & Criticism
Hunger, Steve McQueen interview
Slavoj Zizek and Nazi melodrama
Telluride 2008 photos
Slumdog Millionaire review
Adam Resurrected, Paul Schrader interview
Firaaq review
The Rest is Silence review
I’ve Loved You So Long review
The Good, The Bad and the Weird interview with Kim Ji-Woon
Revanche review
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth<br/>
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Prodigal Sons review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button preview (and backlash)
Waltz with Bashir review
Jeff Goldblum, Media Diet interview
Helen review
Tulpan review
O’Horten review
Learning Gravity review
Ken Burns, Media Diet interview
You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers Story and tribute to Richard Schickel
‘Movies Are Over.’ Directors, Distribs &amp; Journos Debate Future of Film &amp; Criticism
Hunger, Steve McQueen interview
Slavoj Zizek and Nazi melodrama
Telluride 2008 photos
Slumdog Millionaire review
Adam Resurrected, Paul Schrader interview
Firaaq review
The Rest is Silence review
I’ve Loved You So Long review
The Good, The Bad and the Weird interview with Kim Ji-Woon
Revanche review
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Telluride 2008: Complete Coverage</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/9/4/34735.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359912.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/4/2008 11:01:18 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
Prodigal Sons review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button preview (and backlash)
Waltz with Bashir review
Jeff Goldblum, Media Diet interview
Helen review
Tulpan review
O’Horten review
Learning Gravity review
Ken Burns, Media Diet interview
You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers Story and tribute to Richard Schickel
‘Movies Are Over.’ Directors, Distribs & Journos Debate Future of Film & Criticism
Hunger, Steve McQueen interview
Slavoj Zizek and Nazi melodrama
Telluride 2008 photos
Slumdog Millionaire review
Adam Resurrected, Paul Schrader interview
Firaaq review
The Rest is Silence review
I’ve Loved You So Long review
The Good, The Bad and the Weird interview with Kim Ji-Woon
Revanche review
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:01:18 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/4/2008 11:01:18 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>
Prodigal Sons review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button preview (and backlash)
Waltz with Bashir review
Jeff Goldblum, Media Diet interview
Helen review
Tulpan review
O’Horten review
Learning Gravity review
Ken Burns, Media Diet interview
You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers Story and tribute to Richard Schickel
‘Movies Are Over.’ Directors, Distribs &amp; Journos Debate Future of Film &amp; Criticism
Hunger, Steve McQueen interview
Slavoj Zizek and Nazi melodrama
Telluride 2008 photos
Slumdog Millionaire review
Adam Resurrected, Paul Schrader interview
Firaaq review
The Rest is Silence review
I’ve Loved You So Long review
The Good, The Bad and the Weird interview with Kim Ji-Woon
Revanche review
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      <title>Spout Post: The Rest is Silence Review, Telluride 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/8/31/34600.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359912.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/31/2008 6:01:09 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> The biggest budget movie ever made in Romanian history played for free at Telluride 2008 today. Nae Caranfil is the central figure of the current Romanian film renaissance (they call him “The Dean”). The Rest is Silence is a period piece loosely based on the true story of Grigore “Grig” Brezianu’s determination to create of the first epic Romanian movie and establish cinema as an art form. The War of Independence (1912) is about the Romanians war with the Turks, made about 35 years after the fact. According to Caranafil, the monarch at the time offered Grig 80,000 soldiers for his production.
It’s Bucharest in 1911. Live theater reigns supreme and movies are just shy of an opiate appealing to base instincts and keeping lower class citizens out of live theater houses. Drama schools only enroll those who can best impersonate the nation’s “heroes of history.” Grig (Marius Florea Vizante) is a 25 year old movie director whose theater actor father is ashamed of him. The big french studio, Gaumonde, has set up a shop in Romania and catches wind of Grig’s “film libretto” about Romania’s war of independence. The famed actor Belcea was Grig’s only advocate and shot at making the movie, but he’s dead and Gaumonde wants to steal the story. Grig runs to get the help of Leon Negrescu (Ovidiu Niculescu), an eccentric tycoon who believes God mandated him to bring arts and sciences to Romania (he wears a toga and conducts art classes). But first Grig has to convince Leon that film is worthy of his patronage.
It’s the first of several hysterical hurdles Grig faces to get his movie made. He wears the hats of both swindler–when he needs money–and moralist–when he needs control. Along the way, an aspiring actress, Emilia (Mirela Zeta) captures his heart, but her ruthless ambitions threaten to break him. By casting Marius Florea Vizante as Grig (think a young, Romanian Paul Giamatti) Caranfil finds the perfect fresh-faced optimist whose naive enough to know when he’s right. But as much as Silence is a story of Grigg sprinting the gauntlet to get his film made, it’s about how movies rose from humble beginnings to greatness and the sacrifices–or casualties–made along the way.
It’s somehow pitch perfect that in this story where film is the underdog, Nae Caranfil wrote and directed it in classic Hollywood style. It has the rapid-fire charm and wit of  movies like His Girl Friday, the visual eye-candy of the turn of the century sets from The Godfather II and a tightly wound script where each element must lead to the next.
In fact, watching The Rest is Silence is kind of a bitter sweet pill. It’s just so enjoyable and such a respectful homage to Romania’s first major filmmaker, that it’s a little mournful the U.S. can’t tout such a film as the most expensive made in our history. And to add insult to injury, Silence’s budget was 2.6 million euros (somewhere around four million dollars). No wonder Romania is experiencing a renaissance when they’re smarter with four million dollars than Hollywood is with 100 million. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:01:09 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/31/2008 6:01:09 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>The biggest budget movie ever made in Romanian history played for free at Telluride 2008 today. Nae Caranfil is the central figure of the current Romanian film renaissance (they call him “The Dean”). The Rest is Silence is a period piece loosely based on the true story of Grigore “Grig” Brezianu’s determination to create of the first epic Romanian movie and establish cinema as an art form. The War of Independence (1912) is about the Romanians war with the Turks, made about 35 years after the fact. According to Caranafil, the monarch at the time offered Grig 80,000 soldiers for his production.
It’s Bucharest in 1911. Live theater reigns supreme and movies are just shy of an opiate appealing to base instincts and keeping lower class citizens out of live theater houses. Drama schools only enroll those who can best impersonate the nation’s “heroes of history.” Grig (Marius Florea Vizante) is a 25 year old movie director whose theater actor father is ashamed of him. The big french studio, Gaumonde, has set up a shop in Romania and catches wind of Grig’s “film libretto” about Romania’s war of independence. The famed actor Belcea was Grig’s only advocate and shot at making the movie, but he’s dead and Gaumonde wants to steal the story. Grig runs to get the help of Leon Negrescu (Ovidiu Niculescu), an eccentric tycoon who believes God mandated him to bring arts and sciences to Romania (he wears a toga and conducts art classes). But first Grig has to convince Leon that film is worthy of his patronage.
It’s the first of several hysterical hurdles Grig faces to get his movie made. He wears the hats of both swindler–when he needs money–and moralist–when he needs control. Along the way, an aspiring actress, Emilia (Mirela Zeta) captures his heart, but her ruthless ambitions threaten to break him. By casting Marius Florea Vizante as Grig (think a young, Romanian Paul Giamatti) Caranfil finds the perfect fresh-faced optimist whose naive enough to know when he’s right. But as much as Silence is a story of Grigg sprinting the gauntlet to get his film made, it’s about how movies rose from humble beginnings to greatness and the sacrifices–or casualties–made along the way.
It’s somehow pitch perfect that in this story where film is the underdog, Nae Caranfil wrote and directed it in classic Hollywood style. It has the rapid-fire charm and wit of  movies like His Girl Friday, the visual eye-candy of the turn of the century sets from The Godfather II and a tightly wound script where each element must lead to the next.
In fact, watching The Rest is Silence is kind of a bitter sweet pill. It’s just so enjoyable and such a respectful homage to Romania’s first major filmmaker, that it’s a little mournful the U.S. can’t tout such a film as the most expensive made in our history. And to add insult to injury, Silence’s budget was 2.6 million euros (somewhere around four million dollars). No wonder Romania is experiencing a renaissance when they’re smarter with four million dollars than Hollywood is with 100 million. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: The Rest is Silence Review, Telluride 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/8/31/34599.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359912.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/31/2008 6:00:55 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> The biggest budget movie ever made in Romanian history played for free at Telluride 2008 today. Nae Caranfil is the central figure of the current Romanian film renaissance (they call him “The Dean”). The Rest is Silence is a period piece loosely based on the true story of Grigore “Grig” Brezianu’s determination to create of the first epic Romanian movie and establish cinema as an art form. The War of Independence (1912) is about the Romanians war with the Turks, made about 35 years after the fact. According to Caranafil, the monarch at the time offered Grig 80,000 soldiers for his production.
It’s Bucharest in 1911. Live theater reigns supreme and movies are just shy of an opiate appealing to base instincts and keeping lower class citizens out of live theater houses. Drama schools only enroll those who can best impersonate the nation’s “heroes of history.” Grig (Marius Florea Vizante) is a 25 year old movie director whose theater actor father is ashamed of him. The big french studio, Gaumonde, has set up a shop in Romania and catches wind of Grig’s “film libretto” about Romania’s war of independence. The famed actor Belcea was Grig’s only advocate and shot at making the movie, but he’s dead and Gaumonde wants to steal the story. Grig runs to get the help of Leon Negrescu (Ovidiu Niculescu), an eccentric tycoon who believes God mandated him to bring arts and sciences to Romania (he wears a toga and conducts art classes). But first Grig has to convince Leon that film is worthy of his patronage.
It’s the first of several hysterical hurdles Grig faces to get his movie made. He wears the hats of both swindler–when he needs money–and moralist–when he needs control. Along the way, an aspiring actress, Emilia (Mirela Zeta) captures his heart, but her ruthless ambitions threaten to break him. By casting Marius Florea Vizante as Grig (think a young, Romanian Paul Giamatti) Caranfil finds the perfect fresh-faced optimist whose naive enough to know when he’s right. But as much as Silence is a story of Grigg sprinting the gauntlet to get his film made, it’s about how movies rose from humble beginnings to greatness and the sacrifices–or casualties–made along the way.
It’s somehow pitch perfect that in this story where film is the underdog, Nae Caranfil wrote and directed it in classic Hollywood style. It has the rapid-fire charm and wit of  movies like His Girl Friday, the visual eye-candy of the turn of the century sets from The Godfather II and a tightly wound script where each element must lead to the next.
In fact, watching The Rest is Silence is kind of a bitter sweet pill. It’s just so enjoyable and such a respectful homage to Romania’s first major filmmaker, that it’s a little mournful the U.S. can’t tout such a film as the most expensive made in our history. And to add insult to injury, Silence’s budget was 2.6 million euros (somewhere around four million dollars). No wonder Romania is experiencing a renaissance when they’re smarter with four million dollars than Hollywood is with 100 million. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul Moore<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:00:55 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>paul</spout:postby><spout:postto>paul on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/31/2008 6:00:55 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>The biggest budget movie ever made in Romanian history played for free at Telluride 2008 today. Nae Caranfil is the central figure of the current Romanian film renaissance (they call him “The Dean”). The Rest is Silence is a period piece loosely based on the true story of Grigore “Grig” Brezianu’s determination to create of the first epic Romanian movie and establish cinema as an art form. The War of Independence (1912) is about the Romanians war with the Turks, made about 35 years after the fact. According to Caranafil, the monarch at the time offered Grig 80,000 soldiers for his production.
It’s Bucharest in 1911. Live theater reigns supreme and movies are just shy of an opiate appealing to base instincts and keeping lower class citizens out of live theater houses. Drama schools only enroll those who can best impersonate the nation’s “heroes of history.” Grig (Marius Florea Vizante) is a 25 year old movie director whose theater actor father is ashamed of him. The big french studio, Gaumonde, has set up a shop in Romania and catches wind of Grig’s “film libretto” about Romania’s war of independence. The famed actor Belcea was Grig’s only advocate and shot at making the movie, but he’s dead and Gaumonde wants to steal the story. Grig runs to get the help of Leon Negrescu (Ovidiu Niculescu), an eccentric tycoon who believes God mandated him to bring arts and sciences to Romania (he wears a toga and conducts art classes). But first Grig has to convince Leon that film is worthy of his patronage.
It’s the first of several hysterical hurdles Grig faces to get his movie made. He wears the hats of both swindler–when he needs money–and moralist–when he needs control. Along the way, an aspiring actress, Emilia (Mirela Zeta) captures his heart, but her ruthless ambitions threaten to break him. By casting Marius Florea Vizante as Grig (think a young, Romanian Paul Giamatti) Caranfil finds the perfect fresh-faced optimist whose naive enough to know when he’s right. But as much as Silence is a story of Grigg sprinting the gauntlet to get his film made, it’s about how movies rose from humble beginnings to greatness and the sacrifices–or casualties–made along the way.
It’s somehow pitch perfect that in this story where film is the underdog, Nae Caranfil wrote and directed it in classic Hollywood style. It has the rapid-fire charm and wit of  movies like His Girl Friday, the visual eye-candy of the turn of the century sets from The Godfather II and a tightly wound script where each element must lead to the next.
In fact, watching The Rest is Silence is kind of a bitter sweet pill. It’s just so enjoyable and such a respectful homage to Romania’s first major filmmaker, that it’s a little mournful the U.S. can’t tout such a film as the most expensive made in our history. And to add insult to injury, Silence’s budget was 2.6 million euros (somewhere around four million dollars). No wonder Romania is experiencing a renaissance when they’re smarter with four million dollars than Hollywood is with 100 million. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul Moore</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 2008 Telluride Film Festival line-up announced</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/8/29/34517.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s359912.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/29/2008 9:01:07 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> The 2008 Telluride Film Festival list of movies was revealed this afternoon. Our team on the ground is going to be back with more commentary on the selections but it looks to be an exciting and eclectic festival this year as usual. You can also stay up to date here on SpoutBlog or join in the conversation that develops around these movies on our Telluride Film Festival Group page.
The full lineup is after the jump.

A New Land (Nybyggarna)
Adam Resurrected
American Violet
An Italian Straw Hat (Un Chapeau de Paille d’Italie)
Daddy and Lili Marlene
Elmer Gantry
Everlasting Moments
Firaaq
Flame & Citron
Gomorrah
Happy-Go-Lucky
Helen
Here Is Your Life (Haer Har Du Ditt Liv)
Hunger 
I’ve Loved You So Long…
Innocence Unprotected(Nevinost bez Zastite)
Kisses
Learning Gravity
Lola Montès
Low Level Flight
Meet You in Denver
Nightmare Alley
O’Horten
On Dangerous Ground
Philanthropy
Pirate for the Sea
Pirosmani
Private Century
Revanche
Seconds
The Emigrants
The Fall of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina)
The Good, the Bad and the Weird
The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang)
The Rest is Silence (Restul e Tacere)
Tulpan
Waltz With Bashir
With a Little Help From Myself (Aide-toi le ciel t’aidera)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Zodiac Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:01:07 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/29/2008 9:01:07 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>The 2008 Telluride Film Festival list of movies was revealed this afternoon. Our team on the ground is going to be back with more commentary on the selections but it looks to be an exciting and eclectic festival this year as usual. You can also stay up to date here on SpoutBlog or join in the conversation that develops around these movies on our Telluride Film Festival Group page.
The full lineup is after the jump.

A New Land (Nybyggarna)
Adam Resurrected
American Violet
An Italian Straw Hat (Un Chapeau de Paille d’Italie)
Daddy and Lili Marlene
Elmer Gantry
Everlasting Moments
Firaaq
Flame &amp; Citron
Gomorrah
Happy-Go-Lucky
Helen
Here Is Your Life (Haer Har Du Ditt Liv)
Hunger 
I’ve Loved You So Long…
Innocence Unprotected(Nevinost bez Zastite)
Kisses
Learning Gravity
Lola Montès
Low Level Flight
Meet You in Denver
Nightmare Alley
O’Horten
On Dangerous Ground
Philanthropy
Pirate for the Sea
Pirosmani
Private Century
Revanche
Seconds
The Emigrants
The Fall of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina)
The Good, the Bad and the Weird
The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang)
The Rest is Silence (Restul e Tacere)
Tulpan
Waltz With Bashir
With a Little Help From Myself (Aide-toi le ciel t’aidera)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
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<strong>Body:</strong> The 2008 Telluride Film Festival list of movies was revealed this afternoon. Our team on the ground is going to be back with more commentary on the selections but it looks to be an exciting and eclectic festival this year as usual. You can also stay up to date here on SpoutBlog or join in the conversation that develops around these movies on our Telluride Film Festival Group page.


A New Land (Nybyggarna)
 
Adam Resurrected



American Violet




An Italian Straw Hat (Un Chapeau de Paille d’Italie)
 



Daddy and Lili Marlene
 



Elmer Gantry
 
Everlasting Moments 



Firaaq




Flame & Citron
 



Gomorrah
 



Happy-Go-Lucky
 



Helen

Here Is Your Life (Haer Har Du Ditt Liv)
Hunger

I’ve Loved You So Long…




Innocence Unprotected(Nevinost bez Zastite)
 



Kisses




Learning Gravity
 



Lola Montès




Low Level Flight
 



Meet You in Denver
 



Nightmare Alley
 



O’Horten




On Dangerous Ground
 


Philanthropy
Pirate for the Sea
Pirosmani
Private Century


Revanche
Seconds
The Emigrants
The Fall of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina)
The Good, the Bad and the Weird
The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang)
The Rest is Silence (Restul e Tacere)
Tulpan
Waltz With Bashir
With a Little Help From Myself (Aide-toi le ciel t’aidera)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Zodiac (The Director’s Cut)
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>8/28/2008 6:01:00 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>The 2008 Telluride Film Festival list of movies was revealed this afternoon. Our team on the ground is going to be back with more commentary on the selections but it looks to be an exciting and eclectic festival this year as usual. You can also stay up to date here on SpoutBlog or join in the conversation that develops around these movies on our Telluride Film Festival Group page.


A New Land (Nybyggarna)
 
Adam Resurrected



American Violet




An Italian Straw Hat (Un Chapeau de Paille d’Italie)
 



Daddy and Lili Marlene
 



Elmer Gantry
 
Everlasting Moments 



Firaaq




Flame &amp; Citron
 



Gomorrah
 



Happy-Go-Lucky
 



Helen

Here Is Your Life (Haer Har Du Ditt Liv)
Hunger

I’ve Loved You So Long…




Innocence Unprotected(Nevinost bez Zastite)
 



Kisses




Learning Gravity
 



Lola Montès




Low Level Flight
 



Meet You in Denver
 



Nightmare Alley
 



O’Horten




On Dangerous Ground
 


Philanthropy
Pirate for the Sea
Pirosmani
Private Century


Revanche
Seconds
The Emigrants
The Fall of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina)
The Good, the Bad and the Weird
The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang)
The Rest is Silence (Restul e Tacere)
Tulpan
Waltz With Bashir
With a Little Help From Myself (Aide-toi le ciel t’aidera)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
Zodiac (The Director’s Cut)
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