8 Days and ...tick...tick...tick...counting...
Come and join me for a Michael's Telluride Film Blog meet and greet called: "The Guide to the Ride; The Flow of the SHOW" on Friday, Sept. 2 from 5:00 to 5:30 PM in The River Club in Telluride. Larry and Mitzi Mallard of the Club will be our hosts and I am told that refreshments will be provided. The River Club is located at 550 Depot in Telluride. That's 4 blocks west of the Gondola station. Come by and say hello or "howdy" if you prefer.
TWO TRAILERS
New versions of trailers for two films that are on the "Ten (plus) Bets list this week. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Drive."
I must say I want both of these films to be in Southwest Colorado next week. "TTTS" stars Gary Oldman. Colin Firth, John Hurt (one of my favorite under-used actors), Ciaran Hinds (another favorite), Toby Jones, Tom Hardy and Mark Strong in the John LeCarre spy story. Tomas Alfredson directs. The new trailer is up from First Showing.net here:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/another-great-international-trailer-for-tinker-tailor-solider-spy/
Meanwhile, The Playlist (IndieWire) has a new trailer up for the Nicolas Winding Refn noirish, existential thriller "Drive." It features Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and comedian Albert Brooks in a performance that is generating Oscar buzz. The Playlist folks say that the new trailer might be "spoilerish" so I have chosen to avoid looking at it. You can, though, if you want to here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_another_great_though_potentially_spoiler-ish_trailer_for_drive/#
TTTS IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/
Drive's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/
ANNE'S INTERVIEWS
Anne Thompson (Thompson on Hollywood/IndieWire) gets to talk to interesting people and lately interesting people that may well have film(s) involved in the 38th Telluride Film Festival. For example, recently she spoke with Antonio Banderas who stars in Telluride possible and Pedro Alomdovar film "The Skin I Live In." Take a look at what Banderas has to say here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/08/24/banderas_talks_almodovar_reunion_betrayal
Skin's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189073/
Also up on Anne's site is an interview with the red hot Jessica Chastain. Chastain has had a crazy, meteoric rise this year. She's already been seen in Malick's "The Tree of Life" and "The Help." She could potentially be seen on the streets of Telluride in support of "Take Shelter," "Coriolanus," "The Wettest County," and/or "Texas Killing Fields."
Jessica Chastain with "Coriolanus" co-star and director Ralph Fiennes
Chastain's interview with Thompson can be found here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/08/23/jessica_chastain_talks_tree_of_life_the_help_the_debt_coriolanus/#
IMDb pages for:
Coriolanus: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1372686/
The Wettest County: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212450/
Texas Killing Fields: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389127/
Take Shelter: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675192/
GURUS!
Movie City News has its first "Gurus of Gold" chart up for the 2011 Oscar campaign. MCN canvases a group of Oscar predictors and then collates their responses. As you might expect a good number of Telluride possibles/probables are on the initial pre-fall film festival list. If you're inclined the results are here via Sasha Stone at Awards Daily:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/08/the-gurus-of-gold-pre-toronto-check/
On the Gurus top fifteen are TFF#38 possibles: "The Ides of March," "The Artist," "The Descendants," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," "We Bought a Zoo," and "Moneyball." (and at #15 Jason Reitman's festival shunner "Young Adult"...though there's still a part of my that thinks it might still actually "sneak" at T-ride).
Anne Thompson's picks are missing from this chart but she has posted hers at her site:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/08/24/oscar_watch_war_horse_ides_of_march_the_artist_lead_early_gurus_o_gold_top_
AND WHAT DO YOU DO AFTER "RED RIDING" AND "CARLOS"?
New friend and fellow Telluride-bound journalist Eugene Novikov of FilmBlather.com asked me yesterday if I thought that German three part film "Dreileben" might be programmed for TFF #38 in the same fashion that "Red Riding" was in 2009 and "Carlos" was in 2010.
After some consideration, my response is a definite "maybe." Certainly T-ride has established that pattern the last two years and this fits the bill...so it wouldn't surprise me all that much. Maybe Eugene is prescient or maybe he has some inside dope. Or (like me) he may just be guessing.
The Hollywood Reporter had this review up for the three parter after its run in Berlin:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/dreileben-film-review-167356
We'll find out next week.
Dreileben's three IMDb pages are here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1718775/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1718776/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1718777/
More on the morrow...
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