Monday, September 5, 2016

Monday's TBAs and Special Programs / Pics of the Day / Day Three Comments/ And on the Fourth Day / Don't Forget

Welcome to Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 5, 2016...the final day of the 43rd Telluride Film Festival. Was it good for you?


MONDAYS TBA'S AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS




SPECIAL ADDED PROGRAMS:

At the Pierre: Volker Sclondorf's Voyager @ 4:00pm
                       The Fabulous Baron Munchausen @ 7:00pm

TBAs by Venue

The Palm

Una @ 1:00pm
Moonlight @ 3:15pm
Sully @ 6:00pm
Lost in Paris @ 8:15pm

The Galaxy

Things to Come @ 3:00pm
Manchester by the Sea @ 5:30pm


The Chuck

Through the Wall @3:30pm
Toni Erdmann @5:45pm


The Zog

The Eagle Huntress @1:00pm (Free)
Arrival @ 3:45pm
La La Land @ 6:45pm

Sheridan Opera House

I Called Him Morgan @ 9:00am
Frantz @ 3:00pm
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer @ 5:30pm
California Typewriter @ 8:00pm

The Nugget

Bright Lights @ 1:00pm
Mifune: The Last Samurai @ 3:15pm
Chasing Trane @ 5:15pm
Neruda @ 7:45pm

The Masons

The Pagnol Trilogy @ 1:30pm, 4:00pm, 6:45pm


The Pierre

Calling Cards @1:30pm (Free)
Other programming is above in the Special Programming section

The Backlot (all programs free)

The Fanatic Heart: Bob Geldof and WB Yeats @ 9:15am
Beauties of the Night @ 1:00pm
The Family Whistle @ 3:30pm
Bernadtte Lafont @ 5:00pm
Cool Cats @ 7:30pm


PICS OF THE DAY

Via the CEO Kristy Patterson;

Bryan Cranston from Wakefield's Q and A:




And Richard Gere from Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer Q and A:





DAY THREE COMMENTS




Toni Erdmann...funny...ver funny and touching but a meandering second act and a third act that strains credulity.  That said, it's still very good.

Una...Rooney Mara is outstanding in this adaption of the Davod Harrower play Blackbird (which I saw in June with Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels).  Ben Mendelsohn gets acted off the screen (imho).  Frankly I'd love to ahve seen a Daniels/Mara film version and something script-wise closer to the stage version.

Wakefield...I liked this quite a lot though the heavy use of voice over may challenge some viewers. Bryan Cranston carries the load with Jennifer Garner giving solid support.

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.  I liked it  quite a bit too.  Solid performances from richard Gere and company especially Lior Ashkenazi as the Prime Minister of Israel.

Oscar prospects from Sunday: Mara for Una, Erdmann for Best Foreign Language Film.


AND ON THE FOURTH DAY

MTFB sleeps a bit and then...

11:00 Labor Day Picnic
12:00 Noon Convo in Town Park
1:00pm Bleed for This (The Chuck)
3:30pm Through the Wall (The Chuck)
8:15pm Lost in Paris (Palm)



DON'T FORGET...

Time to start thinking about rating those films you've seen this weekend.  Send them in on a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being "putrid" ad 5 being"poifect".   The People's Telluride composite ratings will be posted here in a week to ten days.


Send ratings to...

mpgort@gmail.com

michael_speech@hotmail.com

Twitter @Gort2

or as a comment to this blog.

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