Michael's Telluride Film Blog : More Toronto Musings/Margarethe/Pi VIew

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MORE TORONTO MUSINGS

After the announced first wave of Galas and Special Presentations from Toronto yesterday I made my usual observation that there is a significant overlap between the Toronto and T-ride in terms of films they will share and that history bears this out. I've gone back the last five years to come up with the list from each year of films that played in both places. Here that is:

TORONTO/TELLURIDE OVERLAP

2011:

Albert Nobbs

Butter

A Dangerous Method

The Artist

The Descendants

Shame

We Need to Talk About Kevin

In Darkness

Crazy Horse

Into the Abyss

The Island President

Footnote

The Forgiveness of Blood

Goodbye First Love

A Separation

Pina

Le Harve

The Kid with a Bike

The Turin Horse

Bonsai

The Story of Film

2010:

Black Swan

The King’s Speech

127 Hours

Another Year

Biutiful

The Illusionist

Never Let Me Go

Tamara Drewe

Incendies

Poetry

Inside Job

Tabloid

Chico and Rita

The First Grader

Of Gods and Men
Precious Life

2009:

Vincere

The White Ribbon

Bad Lieutenant

Bright Star

An Education

Farewell

Life During Wartime

My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done

A Prophet

The Road

Up in the Air

London River

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Gignate

Samson + Delilah

Fish Tank
Window
Inferno

2008:

Gomorrah

The Good, the Bad and the Weird

O’Horten

Happy Go Lucky

I’ve Loved You So Long

Waltz with Bashir

Hunger

Slumdog Millionaire

Tulpan

Adam Resurrected

Everlasting Moments

Revanche

Flame and Citron

2007:

4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

I’m Not There

Into the Wild

Juno

Margot at the Wedding

Persepolis

Rails and Ties

The Savages

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

When Did You Last See Your Father

The Band’s Visit

Brick Lane

The Counterfeiters

Jar City

My Enemy’s Enemy

Terror’s Advocate

Encounters at the End of the World
Pierre Rissent: Man of Cinema
Secret Sunshine
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Jellyfish

Redacted
The Princess of Nebraska

As you can see, it's rather extensive each year. On average the festivals share 16-17 films and 6-8 are in Toronto's Gala or Special Presentation category. So the trick is figuring out what those might be...

MARGARETHE

I noticed yesterday that Toronto has programmed Margarethe Von Trotta's "Hannah Arendt". That reminded me that Von Trotta had been feted in Telluride as a 2009 tributee and made me think that it's entirely possible that we could see "Hannah" in a few weeks in the San Juans.

Von Trotta's "Visions" was shown in 2009 as a part of the tribute and Janet McTeer appears in the film as does Barbara Sukowa in the lead role.. McTeer, who was in "Albert Nobbs" last year in T-ride (and Oscar nominated as a result) was also a guest of the fest back in 2000 with "The King is Alive". Sukowa was with Von Trotta in Telluride in 2009. Perhaps we'll see all three women in town.

Von Trotta's IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0903137/

McTeer's IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005216/

Barbara Sukowa entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837784/

"Hannah Arendt's" IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/

PI VIEW

The interwebs all aquiver today with the posting of a trailer for Ang Lee's "Life of Pi". It's pretty. See below: