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49-639: Walk the Line premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 4, 2005, and was theatrically released by 20th Century Fox on November 18. It received positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $ 187 million on a $ 28 million budget. At the 78th Academy Awards , Witherspoon won Best Actress while the film was also nominated for Best Actor (Phoenix), Best Sound , Best Costume Design , and Best Film Editing . The film begins in 1968 with Johnny Cash performing at Folsom State Prison . As

98-411: A 1993 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman . That year, Cash was a guest star on the show, where he and June Carter became friends with Jane Seymour , the star of the show, and Seymour's ex-husband James Keach who was directing the episode. By the mid-1990s, Cash had asked Keach to make a film of his life; he and Seymour began the process with a series of interviews. In 1997, the interviews had been

147-554: A 2012 album by the Blasters . Trixie Mattel and Orville Peck did a cover in 2021, first as a single and then as part of Mattel's EP Full Coverage, Vol. 1 . According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums , the name of UK pop band Prefab Sprout was a mondegreen from the lyrics "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout", misheard by frontman Paddy McAloon . McAloon has maintained, however, that

196-474: A Female Actor in a Leading Role , Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress . She was also voted Favorite Leading Actress at the 32nd People's Choice Awards . The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design , Best Film Editing , and Best Sound Mixing . On February 28, 2006, a single-disc DVD and

245-901: A Leading Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress , Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress , Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress , Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical , Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress , New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress , North Texas Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Actress, Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress , San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress , Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by

294-629: A Male Actor in a Leading Role , among others. For his involvement on the film's soundtrack , he won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media , sharing the win with T Bone Burnett (producer) and Mike Piersante (engineer/mixer). For her portrayal of June Carter , Witherspoon won the Academy Award for Best Actress , Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Awards Circuit Community Award for Best Actress in

343-619: A door-to-door salesman to support his growing family, but with little success. One day, Johnny Cash was walking past a recording studio when he was inspired to form a band to play gospel music. He and his band auditioned for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records. Phillips signed them after they played "Folsom Prison Blues." The band then toured as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two , along with other rising stars Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins , and Jerry Lee Lewis . Johnny Cash meets country music singer and songwriter June Carter while on tour, and

392-455: A musical-comedy hybrid - constantly courts (but never marries) mockery." David Ansen of Newsweek ranked Witherspoon as one of the five best actresses of 2005. Some critics found the film too constrained by Hollywood plot formulas of love and loss, ignoring the last twenty years of Cash's life and other more socio-politically controversial reasons he was considered "the man in black". Cash's daughter, Rosanne Cash , had mixed feelings about

441-676: A religion than anything as ordinary as a festival, complete with messianic believers and agnostic scoffers." Jeffrey Ruoff, a film historian at Dartmouth College, noted in 2015 that "Early buzz at Telluride opens the fall season of North American award speculation that climaxes with the Oscars." The Academy Film Archive houses the Telluride Film Festival Collection, which consists of conversations with iconic filmmakers, tributes, symposium and seminars dating back to 1978. Jackson (Johnny Cash and June Carter song) " Jackson "

490-412: A second chance. They begin a tentative relationship, but June resists Cash's marriage proposals. Johnny Cash performs " I Got Stripes " on stage. The song is so powerful that it causes Johnny to collapse on stage, accompanied by June Carter. Johnny Cash recorded an album live at Folsom Prison after discovering that most of his fan mail was from prisoners. The performance was a success, and Johnny embarked on

539-1135: A special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media ), HBO , the French film magazine Positif , Ted Turner , and Janus Films . The Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion is awarded to three honorees each year. The 1974 tributes honored Francis Ford Coppola , Gloria Swanson and Leni Riefenstahl . Other tributees have included Riz Ahmed , Pedro Almodóvar , Robert Altman , Christian Bale , Cate Blanchett , George Clooney , Toni Colette , Penélope Cruz , Marion Cotillard , Daniel Day-Lewis , Catherine Deneuve , Gérard Depardieu , Peter Dinklage , Clint Eastwood , Jodie Foster , Peter Greenaway , Sterling Hayden , Werner Herzog , Harvey Keitel , Ang Lee , David Lynch , Jack Nicholson , Mads Mikkelsen , Peter O'Toole , Sara Polley , Mickey Rooney , John Schlesinger , Jean Simmons , Meryl Streep , Tilda Swinton , Andrei Tarkovsky and Peter Weir . As of 2015

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588-460: A tour with June and his band. He later performed " Ring of Fire " on stage. At the end of the film, Johnny Cash invites June Carter to join him for a duet. He stops in the middle of the song and tells her that he can't sing " Jackson " anymore unless she agrees to marry him. June accepts, and they share a passionate embrace on stage. Later, Johnny and his father reconcile their relationship while they are with their families. The film has its origins in

637-510: A two-disc collector edition DVD were released; these editions sold three million copies on their first day of release. On March 25, 2008, a two-disc 'extended cut' DVD was released for region one. The feature on disc one is 17 minutes longer than the theatrical release, and disc two features eight extended musical sequences with introductions and documentaries about the making of the film. The film has been released on Blu-ray Disc in France, Sweden, and

686-633: A wonder they don't burst into flames." A. O. Scott , in his review for The New York Times , had problems with Phoenix's performance: "Even though his singing voice doesn't match the original – how could it? – he is most convincing in concert when his shoulders tighten and he cocks his head to one side. Otherwise, he seems stuck in the kind of off-the-rack psychological straitjacket in which Hollywood likes to confine troubled geniuses." In his review for Time , Richard Corliss wrote: "A lot of credit for Phoenix's performance has to go to Mangold, who has always been good at finding

735-766: Is a film festival held annually in Telluride, Colorado , during Labor Day weekend (the first Monday in September). The 51st edition took place on August 30–September 4, 2024. First held on 30 August 1974, the festival, hosted at the Sheridan Opera House, was founded by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy , and James Card of Eastman-Kodak Film Preserve . It is operated by the National Film Preserve. In 2010, TFF partnered with UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television . This partnership created FilmLab which

784-541: Is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber . It was recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio , Wheeler, and Flatt and Scruggs . It achieved its most notable popularity with two 1967 releases: a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter , which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and a pop hit single by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood , which reached No. 14 on

833-488: Is going to achieve nothing but the damaging of his health and that people are going to see him as a fool. She says she will be there waiting, having her own fun laughing at him. There has been much speculation regarding which city of Jackson the song is about, but Wheeler said: "Actually, I didn’t have a specific Jackson in mind. I just liked the sharp consonant sound, as opposed to soft-sounding words like Nashville." Though Wheeler had no particular Jackson in mind when writing

882-637: Is immediately smitten. He tries to woo her, but she gently rebuffs his attempts. Despite this, they become friends. As Johnny grew up, he begins abusing drugs and alcohol. Johnny Cash persuades June Carter to go on tour with him, over the objections of Johnny's wife, Vivian Liberto . The tour is a success, but backstage Vivian becomes critical of June's influence over Johnny. After one performance in Las Vegas , Johnny and June sleep together. The next morning, June notices Johnny taking pills and begins to doubt her choice to be with him. At their concert that evening, Johnny

931-441: Is transcendent. They act with every bone and inch of flesh and facial plane, and each tone and waver of their voice. They do their own singing with a startling mastery of country music's narrative musicianship." In his review for Sight & Sound , Mark Kermode wrote: "Standing ovations, too, for Witherspoon, who has perhaps the tougher task of lending depth and darkness to the role of June, whose frighteningly chipper stage act -

980-411: Is upset by June's apparent rejection and behaves erratically. He eventually passes out on stage. June is upset with Johnny's behavior and decides to dispose of his drugs. She begins to write " Ring of Fire " as a way to describe her feelings for him and the pain she feels as she watches him descend into addiction. After returning to California , Johnny Cash traveled to Mexico to purchase more drugs. He

1029-729: The Academy Award for Best Actress . Regarding Phoenix, Ebert wrote: "Knowing Johnny Cash's albums more or less by heart, I closed my eyes to focus on the soundtrack and decided that, yes, that was the voice of Johnny Cash I was listening to. The closing credits make it clear it's Joaquin Phoenix doing the singing, and I was gob-smacked." In her review for the Los Angeles Times , Carina Chocano wrote: "Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon do first-rate work – they sing, they twang, they play new-to-them instruments, they crackle with wit and charisma, and they give off so much sexual heat it's

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1078-466: The Billboard Hot 100 and No. 39 on Easy Listening . Actress Gaby Rodgers is cited as co-author of "Jackson", because Leiber, in writing it with Wheeler, used his then-wife's name as a pseudonym. First recorded in 1963 by Wheeler, he explains the evolution of the song, and Leiber's contribution: 'Jackson' came to me when I read the script for Edward Albee 's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (I

1127-587: The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , Hollywood Film Award for Actor of the Year , and North Texas Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor. He also received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role , Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor , Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by

1176-1067: The New York Film Festival . This insistence on premieres has led to Telluride's being associated with the discovery of a number of important new films and filmmakers like Michael Moore (whose first film Roger and Me debuted there in 1989) and Robert Rodriguez (whose first feature El Mariachi got its first festival screening there in 1992). The festival has also hosted the American premiere of films such as My Dinner With Andre ( Louis Malle , 1981), Stranger than Paradise ( Jim Jarmusch , 1984), Blue Velvet ( David Lynch , 1986), The Civil War ( Ken Burns , 1990), The Crying Game ( Neil Jordan , 1992), Mulholland Drive ( David Lynch , 2001), Brokeback Mountain ( Ang Lee , 2005), The Imitation Game ( Morten Tyldum , 2014), Sully ( Clint Eastwood , 2016), Moonlight ( Barry Jenkins , 2016), Lady Bird ( Greta Gerwig , 2017), and Saltburn ( Emerald Fennell , 2023). Since 1995,

1225-668: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic , and resumed a year later in 2021 . The bulk of the program is made up of new films, and there is an informal tradition that new films must be shown for the first time in North America to be eligible for the festival. Telluride is situated on the international film festival calendar after the Cannes Film Festival , but just before the Toronto International Film Festival and

1274-947: The 2005 film Walk the Line , and also appears on the soundtrack of the 2011 film The Help . Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood put out their take in July 1967, hitting No. 14 on the US Chart that year. Their cover also peaked at No. 4 in South Africa. It also performed very well in continental Europe , where it made No. 8 in the then West Germany, No. 4 in Austria, No. 9 in the Netherlands, No. 2 in Flemish-speaking Belgium, No. 3 in French-speaking Belgium, and No. 4 in Norway. The song

1323-603: The Devil "took the wrong son". In 1950, Johnny Cash enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in West Germany. While there, he purchased a guitar and found solace in writing songs, including " Folsom Prison Blues " which he developed in 1952. After his discharge from the military in 1954, Johnny Cash returned to the United States and married his girlfriend, Vivian Liberto. The couple moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Cash worked as

1372-470: The Sheridan Opera House, the festival venue where the Silver Medallions are awarded. Susan Sontag , in her 1974 essay "Fascinating Fascism", lamented that, "The purification of Leni Riefenstahl's reputation of its Nazi dross has been gathering momentum for some time, but it has reached some kind of climax this year, with Riefenstahl the guest of honor at a new cinéphile-controlled film festival held in

1421-688: The UK in the form of its extended cut. The American Blu-ray features a shorter theatrical cut. Wind-up Records released the soundtrack in November 2005. It featured nine songs performed by Joaquin Phoenix , four songs by Reese Witherspoon , two songs by Tyler Hilton , and one song each by Waylon Payne , Johnathan Rice , and Shooter Jennings . The album received a Grammy at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media . Telluride Film Festival The Telluride Film Festival ( TFF )

1470-476: The audience of inmates cheered him on, Cash waited backstage near a table saw. The saw reminded him of his early life. Two decades earlier, in 1944, 12-year-old Johnny was raised on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas, with his brother Jack, his abusive father Ray, his mother Carrie, and his two sisters. One day, Jack was killed in a sawmill accident while Johnny was out fishing. Ray blamed Johnny for Jack's death, saying that

1519-450: The basis of a screenplay written by Gill Dennis , with input from Keach; two years later, still lacking any studio interest, Keach contacted James Mangold , who had been "angling to become involved in the project for two years." Mangold and his wife, producer Cathy Konrad , developed the script for Sony , and by 2001, they had a script they thought they could pitch to a studio . Sony and others turned it down, but Fox 2000 agreed to make

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1568-474: The bleak melodrama in taciturn souls ... If Mangold's new movie has a problem, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk the lines of the inspirational biography too rigorously." Andrew Sarris , in his review for The New York Observer , praised Witherspoon for her "spine-tingling feistiness", and wrote: "This feat has belatedly placed it (in my mind, at least) among a mere handful of more-than-Oscar-worthy performances this year." He also ranked

1617-426: The emotional subtleties of the legend of Johnny Cash with a freshness that is a pleasure to watch." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert praised Witherspoon for her "boundless energy" and predicted that she would win

1666-523: The film and on the accompanying soundtrack are played and sung by Phoenix. To prepare for her role as June Carter, Witherspoon studied videos of the singer; she also listened to her singing and telling stories to get her voice right. Walk the Line was released on November 18, 2005, in 2,961 theaters, grossing $ 22.3 million on its opening weekend behind Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . It went on to earn $ 119.5 million in North America and $ 66.9 million in

1715-509: The film as number seven on his top films list of 2005 and Witherspoon as the best female performance of the year. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" rating and wrote: "While Witherspoon, a fine singer herself, makes Carter immensely likable, a fountain of warmth and cheer, given how sweetly she meshes with Phoenix her romantic reticence isn't really filled in." The Baltimore Sun contributor Michael Sragow wrote: "What Phoenix and Witherspoon accomplish in this movie

1764-485: The film. The film was in part based on two autobiographies, both of which were optioned : Man in Black (1975) and Cash: The Autobiography (1997), though the film "burrows deep into painful territory that Mr. Cash barely explored." Phoenix met Cash months before hearing about the film. When Phoenix read the script, he felt there were at least ten other actors who would be better in the role. All of Cash's vocal tracks in

1813-408: The film. She did not enjoy the "painful" experience of seeing the film, "because it had the three most damaging events of my childhood: my parents' divorce, my father's drug addiction, and something else bad that I can't remember now". Regarding the work of the filmmakers, she said "the three of them [in the film] were not recognizable to me as my parents in any way. But the scenes were recognizable, and

1862-415: The poster art for the festival. Those who have accepted the commission include Chuck Jones , David Salle , Doug and Mike Starn , Dottie Attie , Jim Dine , Ed Ruscha , Francesco Clemente , Dave McKean , Gary Larson and Luke Dorman of Meow Wolf . The sole requirement for the poster is that the word SHOW be featured. This is a tribute to a large illuminated sign which says "Show" and sits outside of

1911-418: The program was created by founder and artistic director Tom Luddy, executive director Julie Huntsinger and one of the Telluride Film Festival guest directors , who change each year. These have included Errol Morris , Peter Bogdanovich , Bertrand Tavernier , Salman Rushdie , Don DeLillo , Peter Sellars , Stephen Sondheim , Buck Henry , and Michael Ondaatje . Each year, an artist is selected to produce

1960-470: The rest of the world for a total of $ 186.4 million, well above its $ 28 million budget, making it a box office success. It was the all-time highest grossing music biopic until Straight Outta Compton surpassed it in 2015. Walk the Line has an approval rating of 82% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 210 reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Superior acting and authentic crooning capture

2009-510: The song at #112 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking. Johnny Cash and June Carter released a version in February 1967, reaching No. 2 on the US Country charts and winning a Grammy Award in 1968 for Best Country & Western Performance Duet, Trio or Group . This version was reprised by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon , performing as Johnny Cash and June Carter, in

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2058-521: The song on my first Kapp Records album, with Joan Sommer, an old friend from Berea, Kentucky, singing the woman's part. Johnny Cash learned the song from that album, A New Bag of Songs , produced by Jerry and Mike. The song is about a married couple who find that the "fire" has gone out of their relationship. It relates the desire of both partners to travel to "Jackson" where the husband believes he will be turned loose, be with many women and be practically worshipped as he has his wild time. The wife says he

2107-514: The song, some subsequent singers have specified Jackson, Tennessee . The previous source also quotes Charlie Daniels as having recorded "Jackson" with these lines, "I ain't talking 'bout Jackson, Mississippi . I'm talking 'bout Jackson, Tennessee". And, Johnny Cash is quoted in the video from the same source: "Well, I was gonna take her down to see Carl Perkins in Jackson." Carl Perkins lived in Jackson, Tennessee. In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked

2156-574: The storyline, so the whole thing was fraught with sadness because they all had just died, and I had this resistance to seeing the screen version of my childhood. I don't resent them making it - I thought it was an honorable approach. I loved the film Ray , but I'm sure if you asked Ray Charles's kids, they would tell you, "Well, that's not exactly how it was..." Walk the Line won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and North Texas Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture. For his portrayal of Johnny Cash , Phoenix won

2205-453: The summer in Colorado...." After serving as guest director in 2001, Salman Rushdie wrote that, "It is extraordinarily exciting, in this age of the triumph of capitalism, to discover an event dedicated not to commerce but to love". Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 2002 that "the hothouse filmocentric universe Telluride creates over a Labor Day weekend has always been more

2254-538: Was a program that focuses on the art and industry of filmmaking. This program is custom-designed for ten selected filmmaker graduates from UCLA . The partnership was further extended in 2012, the two partners created a mutually curated film program on UCLA's Westwood campus. In 2013 the festival celebrated its 40th anniversary with the addition of a new venue, the Werner Herzog Theatre and an extra day of programming. The festival went on hiatus in 2020 due to

2303-534: Was arrested, and his marriage to Vivian imploded. They divorced, and he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1966. Johnny Cash buys a large house near a lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee, in an attempt to reconcile with June. Ray, Johnny's father, and other members of the extended Carter family arrive for Thanksgiving . Ray and Johnny get into an argument, and June's mother urges June to help Cash. Cash goes into detox and awakens next to June, who says they have been given

2352-455: Was featured in Nancy Sinatra's 1967 TV special Movin' with Nancy . The Australian rock band INXS included "Jackson" on the 1985 release of their Dekadance EP. This version featured a duet between lead singer Michael Hutchence and backing singer (and later star in her own right), Jenny Morris . Phil Alvin and Exene Cervenka recorded their version for Fun on Saturday Night ,

2401-443: Was too broke to see the play on Broadway)...When I played it for Jerry [Leiber], he said 'Your first verses suck,' or words to that effect. 'Throw them away and start the song with your last verse, "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout."' When I protested to Jerry that I couldn't start the song with the climax, he said, 'Oh, yes you can.' So I rewrote the song and thanks to Jerry's editing and help, it worked. I recorded

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