THE FIFTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
We're winding down the review of past Telluride Film Festivals (a process over a year in the making). Today we look at TFF #5 that took place Sept. 1-4, 1978.
TRIBUTES: Hal Roach, Sterling Hayden, The Czech New Wave: Jaromil Jires, Pavel Juracek, Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer.
SHOWS:
Always for Pleasure
American Friend
Camouflage
Case for a Rookie Hangman
China 9, Liberty 37
Cooley High
The Devil's Reporter
Diamonds of the Night
Doctoring
El Capitan
Hellgate
Intimate Lighting
Johnny Guitar
The Killing
Koko, The Talking Gorilla
Martyrs of Love
The Messiah
Miss Mend
My Love to the Swallows
North Avenue Irregulars
Of Mice and Men
On the Yard
Perils of the Yukon
Pinocchio
Roger Corman-Hollywood's Wild Angel
Siringo
The Star
Topper Takes a Trip
Valerie
Way Out West
The Wicker Man
Windjammer
GUESTS:
Carroll Ballard
Robert DeNiro
Milos Forman
Monte Hellman
Harvey Keitel
Robbie Robertson
Isabella Rossellini
Barbet Schroeder
Martin Scorsese
Joan Micklin Silver
Wim Wenders
IF I HAD TO
I'm still about three weeks away from the summer's first "Ten Bets" listing. For those who may be new to the blog, the "Ten Bets" will become my weekly "official" guess as to what films are likely to make the TFF #45 lineup. Those "Bets" will then continue right up until the actual lineup is announced on Aug. 30th.
That said, for hoots, I thought I'd slap together a list of ten or so films that feel like the best shots to make the TFF #45 program with three months to go. Last year when I did this I hit six titles right. Last year's "If I Had To" list (which I posted on June 5th) included these that I got right:
Wonderstruck
Downsizing
Loveless
A Fantastic Woman
Faces Places
Battle of the Sexes
What I missed on: The Florida Project, You Were Never Really Here, BPM and The Current War.
So, if you made me surrender ten titles today (in alpha order):
Beautiful Boy
Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Old Man and the Gun
The Other Side of the Wind
Peterloo
Roma
Sunset
Just outside: Boy Erased, Dogman, The Front Runner, Girl, On the Basis of Sex and The Sisters Brothers.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: MORE DETAILS
Two weeks after the close of TFF #43 and the triumphant and ultimately award winning success of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, we got word that Jenkins was set up to adapt Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winner The Underground Railroad.
We got more details this week about that project which looks to be the next thing Jenkins will be working on after the completion of If Beale Street Could Talk.
Indiewire's Steve Green reports that Jenkins will direct the full run of what will be an 11 part limited series for Amazon.
Here's the link to the complete story from Indiewire.
P.S. Mr. Jenkins...will be glad to audition for any role at all...
AND A RE-CAP
Still from The Old Man and a Gun
(and hoping I am sitting in a theater with Redford and Spacek on Labor Day)
It sure felt like a wave of Oscar-y and fall fest films made some noise this week with trailers for The Old Man and the Gun, A Star Is Born, Widows, White Boy Rick, Serenity, Kidding, stills from First Man.
There's some buzz that a First Man trailer might drop today or in days timed with Ryan Gosling's appearance tonight on Jimmy Kimmel's NBA Game Night prime time show.
And I have made my application for media accreditation again for this year's festival...fingers crossed.
That's a wrap for this Friday and this first week of June. I'll have more on Monday.
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