Fireworks from July 4, 2011 in Telluride (photo by Larry Mallard)
The Pattersons celebrated with family, food and fireworks...oooohhhh....aaaaahhhh... It was a nice day!
FRANCE 3 CINEMA
Today's European film production house to focus on is France 3 Cinema. F3C's recent Telluride past looks like this:
2011: The Artist
2010: The Princess of Montpensier, Of Gods and Men, The Illusionist
2009: The White Ribbon
2008: I've Loved You So Long
2007: Persepolis, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2006: The Page Turner
2005: Cache
F3C generally has one film in play at Telluride and rarely two. This year they are involved with Michael Haneke's "Amour" so my bet is that will be the one (and only) F3C film in Telluride...but it's a good bet. Haneke's previous two films ( The White Ribbon, Cache) played T-ride and F3C had a hand in both.
Tomorrow a look at British firm Film4.
THE MASTER AS PRISM
"The Master" is Paul Thomas Anderson's take on, among other things, a "belief system" that may or may not (but probably does) seem something like Scientology and with the recent implosion of the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes marriage and Cruise's high profile position within Scientology, Kris Tapley naturally wonders if "the Master" will be the "zeitgeist" movie of the year.
Seems like a reasonable question. Check his musings from HitFix yesterday:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/could-tom-cruise-and-katie-holmess-divorce-make-the-master-this-years-zeitgeist-movie
Come on PTA/TWC and TFF...let's get "the Master" locked down for this year's festival!
FRANCO IN OZ
I met James Franco briefly in 2009 when he was in Telluride with Danny Boyle's "127 Hours". As almost everyone has been in the years I have been going, Franco was very pleasant to talk to and accessible and seemed to be genuinely having a good time.
He's next big project is NOT a T-ride 2012 possible (it's scheduled to drop in March 2013) but seems intriguing. Franco stars as the man who will become the Wizard of Oz in a prequel to the classic film.
Above is the newly released poster for the film and here are some posts from a variety of sources that went up on the internet in the last 24 hours:
FirstShowing.net:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/disney-unveils-sam-raimis-oz-the-great-and-powerful-teaser-poster/?uid=3c15781e107635391d32fe24096f9f9497945b21
The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-official-poster-for-sam-raimis-oz-the-great-and-powerful-20120704
Rope of Silicon:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/oz-the-great-and-powerful-movie-poster/
"Oz the Great and Powerful's" IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205/
THE FACEBOOK
And finally, in an attempt to branch out a bit more, this blog now has a Facebook page. I'm not really sure what that will mean other than you're supposed to "like" it...but only if you actually do "like" it.
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