Telluride Lineup Revealed / Most Excited / MTFB Milestones / Reminders

Good Thursday Citizens.  The 43rd Telluride Film Festival begins...TOMORROW!

Reporting to you from the road...Here's is the officially released lineup for TFF #43...

TELLURIDE LINEUP REVEALED

Here's the complete lineup for the 43rd Telluride Film Festival according to Deadline.com

· ARRIVAL (d. Denis Villeneuve, U.S., 2016)
· THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2016)
· BLEED FOR THIS (d. Ben Younger, U.S., 2016)
· CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER (d. Doug Nichol, U.S., 2016)
· CHASING TRANE (d. John Scheinfeld, U.S., 2016)
· THE END OF EDEN (d. Angus Macqueen, U.K., 2016)
· FINDING OSCAR (d. Ryan Suffern, U.S., 2016)
· FIRE AT SEA (d. Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France, 2016)
· FRANTZ (d. François Ozon, France, 2016)
· GENTLEMAN RISSIENT (d. Benoît Jacquot, Pascal Mérigeau, Guy Seligmann, France, 2016)
· GRADUATION (d. Cristian Mungiu, Romania/France/Belgium, 2016)
· INTO THE INFERNO (d. Werner Herzog, U.K./Austria, 2016)
· THE IVORY GAME (d. Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani, Austria/U.S., 2016)
· LA LA LAND (d. Damien Chazelle, U.S., 2016)
· LOST IN PARIS (d. Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, France/Belgium, 2016)
· MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (d. Kenneth Lonergan, U.S., 2016)
· MAUDIE (d. Aisling Walsh, Canada/Ireland, 2016)
· MEN: A LOVE STORY (d. Mimi Chakarova, U.S., 2016)
· MOONLIGHT (d. Barry Jenkins, U.S., 2016)
· MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA (d. Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2016)
· NERUDA (d. Pablo Larraín, Chile/Argentina/France/Spain, 2016)
· NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER (d. Joseph Cedar, U.S./Israel, 2016)
· SNAPSHOTS: EYES ON THE WORLD – three nonfiction short films including EXTREMIS (d. Dan Krauss, U.S., 2016); REFUGEE (d. Joyce Chen, Emily Moore, U.S., 2016); THE WHITE HELMETS (d. Orlando von Einsiedel, U.K., 2016)
· SULLY (d. Clint Eastwood, U.S., 2016)
· THINGS TO COME (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany, 2016)
· THROUGH THE WALL (d. Rama Burshtein, U.S./Israel, 2016)
· TONI ERDMANN (d. Maren Ade, Germany/Austria, 2016)
· UNA (d. Benedict Andrews, U.K./U.S./Canada, 2016)
· WAKEFIELD (d. Robin Swicord, U.S., 2016)

MOST EXCITED

The films I am most excited to see:

1) Arrival

2) Toni Erdmann

3) Manchester by the Sea

4) La La Land

5) Wakefield



MTFB MILESTONES

A couple of really big milestones were hit since yesterday's post.  First, as you should be able to see on the page view counter to the right, MTFB passed a quarter of a million lifetime views .  ONE QUARTER MILLION.

I simply have a difficult time grasping that there have been that many looks at this space in the eight years since I started tapping away at the keyboard.  It overwhelms me.

Additionally, at the end of the day yesterday, August 2016 officially became the most viewed month in the Blog's history with 11.980  views.  The previous biggest month had been August of 2014 with 10, 333 views.

A huge thank you to all of you who check in every now and then on MTFB.


REMINDERS...

MTFB will be posting every day of the fest so check back here for commentary, schedules, TBA and Sneak announcements.  Or check out my Twitter @Gort2.

Rate the films you see for MTFB's People's Telluride.  1 to 5 scale and get them to me any way yuj want.  Email, Twitter, Facebook,

I'll compile and reveal the results about a week after the festival.

Here's contact info:

mpgort@gmail.com

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