Overnight we got reports that American hero, Olympian and the focus of the upcoming film "Unbroken" Louis Zamperini has died. Zamperini was 97 and will has been something of a presence in the media these last few months as the P.R. machine began to crank up for the Angelina Jolie film. I have linked the Awards Daily coverage of Zamperini's passing:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/r-i-p-louis-zamperini-olympian-and-wwii-hero/
IFC FILMS AND TFF #41
IFC films has been a fairly substantial presence at Telluride over the past several years. The firms highlight year probably was 2008 (the writer's strike year) when it was represented by 5 films. IFC Films sometimes partners with Sundance Selects.
Here's the film record for IFC Films at Telluride for the past ten years:
2003: Touching the Void, Intermission
2004: Nobody Knows
2005: Three Times
2006: Deep Water, Indigenes
2007: Secret Sunshine, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, Jar City
2008: Hunger, Gomorrah, Flame and Citron, Everlasting Moments, The Good, the Bad and the Weird
2009: Fish Tank, Red Riding Trilogy, Life During Wartime, Vincere
2010: The Princess of Montpensier, Carlos
2011: Into the Abyss, Pina
2012: Frances Ha
2013: No Show
IFC Films averages 2.3 films per year at the Telluride Film Festival over the last decade. So...what's in the IFC pipeline that has Telluride implications?
The one that seems most likely is Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria" which also played Cannes. After that there is also "Bird People", "The Salvation" and "Welcome to New York". It seems to me that "The Salvation" might be the next most likely film but any of these four or none of them could make the T-ride lineup.
TEASERS AND TRAILERS
Two new view of films that might be in the mix for Telluride. First, a new trailer for Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher". I just get more excited every time I see something new about the film. Here's the trailer via YouTube:
And an accompanying story from The Dissolve:
Meanwhile, I'm warming to the idea that the latest Bill Murray flick could be in the T-ride mix. "St. Vincent" stars Murray in full irresponsibility mode as an adult that develops a relationship with an adolescent. It's in The Weinstein Company wheelhouse and could conceivably be a better shot at Oscar consideration than "Hyde Park on Hudson". Additionally, I got the feeling that Murray really enjoyed his Telluride visit with "Hyde Park" two years ago. Here's that trailer also from YouTube:
And, again, an accompanying story from The Dissolve:
COULD "THE TRIBE" MAKE NOISE IN TELLURIDE?
Alex Billington of FirstShowing.net reports that Drafthouse Films has acquired U.S. distribution for "The Tribe". The film is told completely with sign language and without subtitles and was quite the buzz producer at Cannes in May.
Drafthouse was represented at Telluride in 2012 with Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"...By the way, I fully expect Oppenhiemer's sequel to screen at TFF #41, "The Look of Silence".
Here's the link to the Billington post that includes a slightly NSFW trailer:
More tomorrow, including this week's "Ten Bets".
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