HOORAY FOR SAN FRANCISCO
I told you yesterday that the rumors were flying that Paul Thomas Anderson was going to sneak "The Master" in San Francisco tonight...and that's what's going to happen. It's showing at 8pm (PDT) at the Castro Theater in glorious 70mm. Congrats to you lucky "Golden Gaters" out there and particularly friend of the blog Eugene Novikov...
Look, I love San Fran...I was just there a couple of weeks ago...so couldn't you have sneaked it then , Mr. Anderson?
Here's the teaser trailer for the film that highlights tonight's presentation:
Wish I was there...
INVITATION
Please join me and our hosts, Mitzi and Larry Mallard of The River Club at the "Club" on Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00pm for the Second ever "Guide to the 'Ride; Flow of the SHOW". Refreshments and conversation will ensue...
IMPOSSIBLE TRAILER
A film that could pop up at Telluride next week that has quietly gained some buzz is Juan Antonio Bayona's The Impossible" starring Ewan MacGregor and Naomi Watts. In previous posts I've been able to link to the international trailer. Now there is a U.S. specific trailer for the film. Here it is via the post yesterday from FirstShowing.net:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/must-watch-stunning-us-trailer-for-j-a-bayonas-the-impossible/?uid=a19654cf4aea0351e5a0ed2db77d01aae9e0e871
I'm hoping to be able to directly link to the trailer by tomorrow.
TEN THAT COULD
Over the next three days I'm going to look at an additional 30 films that could make the cut for Telluride this year...that's in addition to this week's "Ten Bets" (from yesterday's post: http://michaelstelluridefilm.blogspot.com/2012/08/ten-bets-9invitationmaster.html ) and I'll do it in 10 film increments...with comments!
"The Hunt" Thomas Vintenberg...well received at Cannes and an award winner for Mads Mikkelsen as Best Actor, "The Hunt" is the kind of film that certainly is often a choice for Telluride. Chances- 50%
"Reality" Matteo Garrone...were it not for Garrone's legal issues and middling reviews I'd probably still have this film in or near the "Ten Bets" list. As it is, it still stands a reasonable chance to play. A Cannes choice and Garrone has a Telluride pedigree...Chances-50%.
"Like Someone in Love"...This film also has been on the "Ten Bets" list earlier this summer and, just like "Reality" has that Cannes thing going for it and director Abbas Kiraostami's past presence at Telluride as another marker making it a possibility. Chances-40%
"The East" from Zal Batmanglij...(co-written and starring Brit Marling)...Sundance darlings for "Another Earth" and "Sound of My Voice" I could see this making a Telluride appearance as it is distributed from Fox Searchlight which is usually a serious player at Telluride but whose playlist as we approach Labor Day is slight. Chances-35%
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" From Alain Renais and a Cannes choice where it was modestly well received. The fact that it's a Cannes selection from a legend like Renais makes it a Telluride possible. Chances-35%
"Song for Marion" from Paul Andrew Williams. I have had this film on the Telluride list for a long time. It has spent a good chunk of the summer on the "Ten Bets" list and were it not Toronto's closer it would still be on the "Ten Bets" list. From The Weinstein Company, I still think it has an excellent shot at the lineup. Terrence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave star. Maybe a Redgrave tribute??? Chances-65%
"The Sapphires" from director Wayne Blair and The Weinstein Company, this played out of competition in Cannes to good reviews and its sort of off beat subject matter...a girl group from the outback of Australia touring Vietnam during that war...makes me think it has a real shat at being included. Chances-45%
"The Angel's Share" from director Ken Loach. It's reception as Cannes makes me think it is at least possible for T-ride. Chances-25%
"Something in the Air" from director Olivier Assassyas. I'm still pretty bullish on this film that has spent a large portion of the summer on my "Ten Bets"...Assassyas' past with Telluride argues fro its inclusion. Chances-65%
"Hannah Arendt"...from director Margarethe Von Trotta. She's a past tributee...Barbara Sukova (playing the title roll) has been a T-ride guest as has co-star Janet McTeer. Its inclusion wouldn't surprise me. Chances- 50%
WINDOM
Actor William Windom died on Sunday. He was 88. Known for T.V. mostly, he also did film and stage work. Memorably, for me anyway, in "To Kill a Mockingbird" as the County Attorney who has to face off with Atticus Finch as he prosecutes the Brock Peters character and in the T.V. movie "The Homecoming" from the Earl Hamner story that would lead to "The Waltons"...he played a turkey thief.
I met Windom in the mid 1980's as he was booked to a Thurber retrospective by our local humanities council. He could do the Thurber as an outgrowth of his Thurber-based character/T.V. program "My World and Welcome to It". Windom was nothing short of kind to a young drama/debate teacher in the middle of the Oklahoma Panhandle and even taught my buddy and I a bar trick to cadge drinks from the unsuspecting. It involved tying a cigarette into a knot, untying it and still being able to smoke it...no kidding.
That's a memory I have always treasured and I have the autographed Thurber collection to prove he was actually in my auditorium.
Goodbye Mr. Windom, you will be missed.
William Windom's IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934750/
Entertainment Weekly's bio: http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/08/20/emmy-winning-comedic-actor-william-windom-dead-at-88/
CLOSER
You can tell that TFF #39 is closing in as the readership on the blog is increasing and I get more comments. Yesterday and anonymous reader pointed out that my note about a possible Clint Eastwood tribute was unlikely as Eastwood was a previous Telluride honoree. Um...yes...Clint was tributed in 1990 with "White Hunter, Black Heart" presented as a part of those festivities. So, no Clint tribute, but Tapley and Thompson still think the film (and probably Eastwood) have a reasonably good chance of being in Telluride next week.
More later...
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