First Looks at You Were Never Really Here / Wakefield Begins to Emerge / Barry Jenkins Profiled / Burns Presents Vietnam at Harvard / A Look Back at TFF #31

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FIRST LOOKS FOR YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Among the films chosen to play at Cannes that has caught my eye as a possibility to play Telluride in September is Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here.  The film stars Joaquin Phoenix.

The combination of Ramsay (who played T-ride in 2011 with We Need to Talk About Kevin), a Cannes selection and Amazon with distribution (Amazon had Manchester by the Sea at Telluride last year) make me believe that the film has a good shot at a T-ride slot.

Amazon released the first images for the film this past week which included the still from above.

Details and other photos can be accessed with these links:

from The Film Stage

and from The Playlist.

WAKEFIELD BEGINS TO EMERGE

One of the films that I salivated the most about prior to TFF #43 was Bryan Cranston's Wakefield. The film dropped a complete trailer this week in its run up to a release on May 19th.  You can see the trailer above and find more about the film, the trailer and its release here:

from Entertainment Weekly

from Indiewire

and from FirstShowing.Net

BARRY JENKINS PROFILED

Director/writer Barry Jenkins has had a whirlwind going since Moonlight dropped at Telluride last Labor Day weekend.  The film became a key player in the awards season earning eight Academy Award nominations and it won Oscars for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actor. Jenkins was busy throughout.

The Denver Post recently profiled the film maker who, as you might expect, is red hot as a result of Moonlight's success.  Take a look by clicking on the link.





BURNS PRESENTS VIETNAM AT HARVARD

I mentioned this as a potential SHOW addition in the last post: Ken Burns screening some of the 18 hours that will make up his documentary Vietnam that is scheduled to begin screening on PBS on Sept. 17th.

Burns recently screened some of the footage at Harvard and also appeared to answer some questions.
Coverage and clues about the project can be found here From The Harvard Gazette.



A LOOK BACK AT TFF #31

I continue the project I wrote about last week in today's post as I try to expend the history of past Telluride Film Festivals beyond the program links on the official Telluride Film Festival website.

Today, it's the 31st fest which ran from Sept. 3-6, 2004. Here's the review of the program:

Guest Director: Buck Henry

Tributes:

Theo Angelopoulous

Jean-Claude Carriere

Laura Linney

Special Medallion:

Fred Roos

Shows:

Aaltra

Adam and Paul

Bad Education

Baober in Love

Being Julia

Blackmail

Ecstasy

Enduring Love

Erotikon

Francis, George and Theo

From Saturday to Sunday

Gunner Palace

Harvest Time

House of Flying Daggers

Hunger

Keane

Kinsey

Kontroll

Landscape in the Mist

Maugham and the Secret Agent

Million $ Legs

Moolaade

Nobody Knows

Overlord

P.S.

Palindromes

Payday

THX 1138

Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

Unforgiveable Blackness

Viva La Muerte

Yes

Guests included:

Buck Henry

Laura Linney

Rip Torn

Daniel Craig

Joan Allen

Sally Potter

Peter Sellars

Lenny Abrahamson

Annette Bening

Ellen Barkin

Todd Solondz

Bill Condon

Gael Garcia Bernal

George Lucas

Ken Burns

Peter Bogdanavich

Andrea Arnold is included with a short entitled Wasp.

 And that's that for this Thursday...more on Monday.

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