WELCOME
And by that I mean that you are welcome to attend the Second Annual(?) Guide to the 'Ride; Flow of the SHOW" at 5:00pm Friday at The River Club, 550 Depot in Telluride for a conversation about this year's festival lineup, the blog...and whatever else might come up. Hosts Mitzi and Larry Mallard will open The River Club's doors and provide some drinks and snacks...come by...say hello!
LEANING TOWARDS...
Coming down the stretch this week and there seems fairly strong buzz/indications that we almost certainly can count on Ben Affleck's "Argo", Brian DePalma's "Passion" and Walter Salles "On the Road". All three have been on the MTFB radar and "Argo" was listed Monday on the "Additional Ten Bets" List at #11. These three join "Rust and Bone", "Hyde Park on Hudson", "The Central Park Five", "Frances Ha', "Ginger and Rosa" and "Midnight's Children" as virtual certainties for this weekend.
What this means is that I will, in fact, do a final "Ten Bets" tomorrow and post it before I get in the car and head to the mountains.
VENICE FILMS???
The Venice Film Festival opens today with Mira Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and if the past is any guide , somewhere between 2-4 films will cross over from Venice to southwest Colorado. The most likely possibilities are:
Among competition films: "At Any Price", "Something in the Air", "Passion".
"To the Wonder" and "The Master" now are unlikely Telluride candidates.
Among the out of competition films: "Love is All You Need", "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", "The Company You Keep", "The Iceman".
And if I were forced to chose I'd rank the five most likely as: "Passion", "At Any Price", "The Iceman", "Something in the Air" and "The Company You Keep".
CENTRAL PARK FIVE
I don't think it's much of a secret that I've had this Ken Burns and Co. documentary on the "Ten Bets" list all summer. It's going to play, I say.
Jeff Wells/Hollywood Elsewhere touched on it, it's Telluride probability and other items in this post yesterday:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/08/we_done_em_wron.php
SESSIONS CLIP
A new clip from Sundance hit and one of my personal hopes for this weekend "The Sessions" emerged yesterday. Here it is:
NATIVE SILENCE
And put this down in your notebook for Telluride #40...a restored silent film starring Native Americans discovered and restored here in my home state of Oklahoma. The article says that it's headed to Telluride which would have to mean 2013 and has the support of the above-mentioned Mr. Burns. It's sounds fascinating!
Here's the link to the article from IndianCountryTodaymedianetwork.com:
FALL OSCAR PREVIEW?
HitFix has a very nice pictorial up of 20 films it isolates as the films it most anticipates this fall. A number of probable/possible Telluride titles make their list including: "Passion", "Argo", "Frances Ha", "Something in the Air", "The Iceman" and "At Any Price". And some less likely T-ride possibilities such as: "Cloud Atlas", "Anna Karenina", "Great Expectations", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Quartet", "The Place Beyond the Pines", "Seven Psychopaths" and "The Impossible".
Take a look: http://www.hitfix.com/news/20-most-anticipated-fall-film-festival-premieres
More later...
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