Telluride film festival guest directors

The Guest Director position is held by a great film lover that the Telluride Film Festival Directors invite to join them in the creation of the festival program. The guest director serves as a key collaborator in all of the festival's programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride.

Guest Directors

# 1988 - Donald Richie chose: Japan's Cutting Edge, a 2 hour collection of Japanese film dating from 1981-1988 and Remembering Sessue Hayakawa, a two film montage of this film great's first roles in the 1914 film Wrath of the Gods and the 1919 film The Dragon Painter
# 1989 - Errol Morris chose: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (USA, 1986, 90min) and There's Always Tomorrow (USA, 1956, 84min)
# 1990 - Bertrand Tavernier chose: Justin de Marseille (France, 1935, 105min) and Pursued (USA, 1947, 101min)
# 1991 - Laurie Anderson chose: Danzon (Mexico, 1991, 102min) and New Video Art, the first video projection program at the festival which included a series of modern video shorts.
# 1992 - G. Cabrera Infante
# 1993 - John Boorman
# 1994 - John Simon
# 1995 - Phillip Lopate
# 1996 - B. Ruby Rich
# 1997 - Peter Von Bagh
# 1998 - Peter Bogdanovich
# 1999 - Peter Sellars
# 2000 - Edgardo Cozarinsky
# 2001 - Salman Rushdie chose: Metropolis (Germany, 1927, 92min), Alphaville (France, 1965, 100min), and Solaris (U.S.S.R., 1972, 167min)
# 2002 - Alberto Barbera chose: Bitter Rice (Italy, 1949, 100min), Bandits of Orgosolo (Italy, 1961, 98min) and Il Posto (Italy, 1961, 90min)
# 2003 - Stephen Sondheim chose: La Belle Equipe (France, 1936, 100min), Carnet du Bal (France, 1952, 144min) and Panique (France, 1946, 96min)
# 2004 - Buck Henry
# 2005 - Don DeLillo chose: The Passenger (Italy, 1975, 126min), Wanda (U.S.A., 1970, 102min.), The Spirit of the Beehive (Spain, 1973, 97min.)
# 2006 - J. P. Gorin chose: Maldone (France, 1928, 83min), Remorques (France, 1941, 81min), Lumière d'Ètè (France, 1943, 112min)
# 2007 - Edith Kramer chose: The Way You Wanted Me (Finland, 1944, 102min), Millions Like Us (U.K., 1943, 101min), Marie, a Hungarian Legend (Hungary, 1932, 68min)