35th Telluride Film Festival

Telluride Film Festival Co-Founder and Co-Director Tom Luddy recounts the early days of the Festival, and remembers some of the more fantastic moments and characters that make up our 35 year history.

Elsa Zylberstein discloses some of the methods used to create the emotional space between the characters she and Kristin Scott Thomas portray in Philippe Claudel's magnificent first feature.

Are Cutbacks in Film Distribution and Criticism Affecting Quality Filmmaking? Annette Insdorf moderates a highly charged panel of industry professionals gazing into the changing face of the Internet and its relationship to Cinema. Panel includes Sony Pictures Classics Co-President Michael Barker, LA Weekly Film Editor Scott Foundas, Variety's Anne Thompson, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE director Danny Boyle, IFC Entertainment President Jonathan Sehring, and ADAM RESURRECTED director Paul Schrader.

One of the new millennium's most influential and cherished bands, Radiohead, kindly provide the soundtrack to this wonderful time-lapse video from our 35th year.

In relation to the controversy surrounding Youssou Ndour's album Egypt, Salman Rushdie speaks about his original intention of writing the controversial book "Satanic Versus."