The Second Telluride Film Festival-1975 / Cold War Trailer / Wells Thinks We'll See The Other Side

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THE SECOND TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL-1975

Here's the penultimate addition to the ongoing look back at the history of the Telluride Film Festival.  

The second Telluride Film Festival took place on Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1975 with the following:

Tributes: Jack Nicholson. Werner Herzog and Henry King

SHOWS:

Ace Up My Sleeve

Aguirre, Wrath of God

Alexander's Ragtime Bad

Carnal Knowledge

The Cockfighter

Drive, He Said

Dupont Lajoie

Easy Rider

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Every Man for Himself and God Against All

Fata Morgana

Five Easy Pieces

Funny Face

Garden of Allah

General Idi Amin Dada

The Gunfighter

Happiness

Hester Street

Jesse James

Karl May

King of Marvin Gardens

The Last Detail

Leap Year

Legacy

Les Ordres

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

Man, Woman and Sin

Ride in the Whirlwind

Song of Bernadette

State Fair

Sweethearts

Taking Off

Tol'able David

Trail of the Lonesome Pine

12 O'Clock High

The White Moth

White Sister

Guests:

Shelley Duvall

Louise Fletcher

Milos Forman

Monte Hellman

Buck Henry

Anjelica Huston

Carol Kane

Mary Kay Place

Joan Silver

It's crazy how many of Jack Nicholson's films they programmed to coincide with his tribute: Carnal Knowledge, Drive He Said, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, King of Marvin Gardens, The Last Detail and Ride in the Whirlwind.

Here's what's even crazier...Jack, Louise Fletcher and Milos Forman were all in town and there's no record of any screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which would open on Nov. 19th of that year.

COLD WAR TRAILER

Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War made a splash at Cannes.  The film won Pawlikowski the Best Director prize there.

This weekend we saw the release of a trailer for the U.K.  Here it is from YouTube:

Linked here are stories about the film and its trailer release from The Playlist and The Film Stage.  A note that the August release date is for Great Britain not the U.S. which still leaves the door open for a play at Telluride.  Its distribution from Amazon Studios suggests that there's chance that it could play The SHOW.

WELLS THINKS WE'LL SEE THE OTHER SIDE

Jeff Wells posted a piece at his Hollywood Elsewhere site over the weekend assessing/analyzing the fall fest fortunes of Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind.

Over the past few days, the film has emerged as a popular guess as the possible opener for the Venice Fest.

Wells says he has heard a rumor to that effect but he is also relatively confident that regardless of its Venice status that we'll find it on the play list for TFF #45.

The complete Wells piece is here.

That's your MTFB for this Monday.  More tomorrow.

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