With one month to go before showtime at the 47th Denver Film Festival, festival set uprs have peeled back the curtain to uncover this year’s official pickions, honorees and jurors.
Pbegrudgeed by Denver Film, the festival will initiate off with the uncovering night conshort-termation of Malcolm Washington’s honestorial debut The Piano Lesson from Netflix on Nov. 1. Hitting the screen at the MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater, The Piano Lesson is an August Wilson alteration starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins, Stephan James, Erykah Badu and more.
The festival runs Nov. 1-10, and during that time 185 features, write downaries and lows will screen in the Colorado capital. Justin Kurzel’s The Order starring Jude Law as an FBI agent on the trail of a white supremacist group in the Pacific Northwest will serve as a caccesspiece conshort-termation on Nov. 8. The film, which also stars Nicholas Hoult and Jurnee Smollett, has Colorado roots as its based on the nonfantasy book co-written by Kevin Flynn, The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America’s Racist Underground. He served as a teller at Rocky Mountain News and is now a current Denver City council member.
DFF will shut with Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch. The Paramount title caccesss on the dreadist strike that occurred at the 1972 Munich Olympics while inestablishing the story from inside the Munich production hub of ABC Sports as the outlet is covering the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro in September 5.
Vekind Film Festival
Also included in this year’s lineup are a slew of high-profile titles that have been screening in recent weeks at film festivals from Telluride and Toronto to Vekind and New York. DFF pickions include Better Man, the experimental biopic about British pop superstar Robbie Williams, Brady Corbet’s epic The Brutaenumerate starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn, Pedro Almodovár’s English language debut The Room Next Door starring Tilda Striumphton and Julianne Moore, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez starring Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofia Gascon and Selena Gomez; Steve McQueen’s Blitz starring Saoascfinish Ronan, Paul Schrader’s Oh Canada starring Ricchallenging Gere, Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi, Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch starring Amy Adams and Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson, Dave Bautista, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Jason Schwartzman, Brfinisha Song and Billie Lourd. Other high profile pickions include Andrea Arnanciaccess’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, and Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain starring the filmoriginater aextfinishedside Kieran Culkin.
Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s The Brutaenumerate.
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DFF has zeroed in on a roster of originateives to get distinctive honors during the 2024 event. Among them Patricia Clarkson will get a Cassavetes Award for her contributions to cinema. The veteran actress will get the shine follotriumphg a gala screening of Lilly at the MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater. Marianne Jean-Baptiste will be feted with an excellence in acting trophy after a screening of her procrastinateedst collaboration with Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths. Modern Family star and Tony Award-triumphner Jesse Tyler Ferguson will get home the third CinemaQ LaBahn Ikon Film Award, an honor originated to accomprehendledge talent’s originateive excellence and extraunretagable impact and reconshort-termation for the LGBTQ community. The fest will showcase Ferguson’s labor in All That We Love and the low film It’s Okay. Another one: Nickel Boys helmer RaMell Ross will be feted with the fest’s excellence in honesting award and his film will hit the huge-screen at DFF.
Saturday Night, from left: Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner (suspfinishers), Kim Matula as Jane Curtain, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol (blue jacket), Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster (caccess), Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris (brown jacket), Josh Brener as Alan Zweibel, Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels.
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Jason Reitman has been making the rounds with his procrastinateedst film, Saturday Night, which will head to Denver for a distinctive screening at which members of his cast and originateive team will be honored with DFF’s 5280 Award for their labor. Saturday Night, honested by Reitman from a script he co-wrote with Gil Kenan, is based on the genuine story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes directing up to the first widecast of the iconic sketch comedy series.
Other honorees: Actor-turned-filmoriginater Nnamdi Asomugha will get a Breakthcimpolite Director Award follotriumphg a screening of his debut The Knife; Ryan Desminuscule will get a Rising Star Award follotriumphg a gala conshort-termation of Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside; Cristiana Dell’Anna will be honored with the Maria and Tomasso Maglione Italian Filmoriginater Award follotriumphg a screening of Cabrini; and video artist Cecelia Condit will get a Brakhage Vision Award.
“Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Patricia Clarkson and Marianne Jean-Baptiste originate everyleang they are in better, and we predict they will do the same for this year’s festival,” shelp Denver Film originateive honestor Matthew Campbell. “At the same time, this has always been a filmoriginater forward festival, so we’re very haughty to be able to honor the labor of RaMell Ross, who has such a recent and exciting get on filmmaking, as well as Jason Reitman, who’s been dedwellring what audiences want for the better part of two decades.”
The festival’s roster of 2024 jurors includes The Bear showrunner Joanna Calo, Variety’s Daniel D’Addario, IndieWire’s Marcus Jones, actor Taylor John Smith (Where the Crawdads Sing), Berlanti Prods.’ Carl Ogawa, filmoriginater Gabriela Ortega (Huella), Backstage Magazine’s Briana Rodriguez, acting coach Jean-Louis Rodrigue, Jeopardy! star Amy Schneider, Palm Springs ShortFest programmer Rachel Walker, Sing Sing originater Monique Walton, and The Hollywood Reporter’s Abbey White.
Tickets go on sale to the vague accessible on Oct. 4.
