THE FIRST TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL-1974
The long developing TFF history project comes to a way station today with a review of the first Telluride Film Festival which occurred in Telluride on Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 1974.
I started this with a post on April 13, 2017 with a look at the 32nd TFF. That was the starting point as you can still access programs for the festival beginning with the one from 2006 on the official Telluride Film Festival website.
I plan to add this style of history for each of those years soon. Ultimately, I plan to add pages to the History section of this space by permanently placing all of my synopses there in full. My goal is to have a one stop spot where anyone can access a somewhat expanded history of the fest. That's going to drop next week just prior to the beginning of this year's fest.
So, though today is a milestone, it's still not the completion of the project.
That said, here's the review of TFF #1:
Tributes: Francis Ford Coppola, Gloria Swanson, Leni Riefenstahl
SHOWS:
BBC Interview with Leni Riefenstahl
The Blue Light
The Chinese in Paris
The Conversation
Das Stahltier
Don't Touch the White Woman
Finian's Rainbow
Olympia
Peau Danne
Queen Kelly
The Rain People
Rivers of Sand
Sadie Thompson
Solaris
Stage Struck
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Movie
The Thief of Baghdad
Triumph of the Will
White Hell of Pitz Palu
Why Change Your Wife
You're a Big Boy Now
In addition to the tribute recipients, British actress Julie Christie was reported to have attended the festival.
TRIBUTE ODDS
As the picture continues to get clearer about probable films that will part of the TFF #45 program, I thought it might be time to return to the contemplation of who might be tribute recipients this year.
I touched on this topic in a post on July 31st and since then, we've added some more film titles that are probable for Telluride...most notably Destroyer with Nicole Kidman starring.
So...here are ten people would could be tributed and what I guessing their odds are:
1) Nicole Kidman/Destroyer and Boy Erased Odds-2 to 1.
2) Sissy Spacek/The Old Man and the Gun Odds 3 to 1.
3) Alfonso Cuaron/Roma Odds- 3 to 1
4) Juliette Binoche/Non-Fiction Odds - 4 to 1
5) Hugh Jackman/The Front Runner Odds-5 to 1
6) Matthew McConaughey/White Boy Rick Odds-5 to 1
7) Ryan Gosling/First Man Odds- 10 to 1
8) Hirokazu Kore-eda/Sholifters Odds- 15 to 1
9) Rachel Wiesz/The Favourite Odds-20 to 1
10) Guillaume Canet/Non-Fiction Odds 25 to 1
Runner-up-Olivier Assayas/Non-Fiction Odds 30 to 1
INDIEWIRE'S FALL MOVIE PREVIEW
The staff at Indiewire have put together their "awards contenders" list of 25 films for the fall film season and listed them chronologically by release date.
If the latest Ten Bets list from last Friday is accurate (and I think it's pretty accurate) then nine TFF #45 films made their list:
White Boy Rick- Sept. 21
The Old Man and the Gun- Sept. 28
First Man- Oct. 12
Boy Erased- Nov. 2
The Other Side of the Wind- Nov.2
Peterloo- Nov. 9
The Favourite- Nov. 23
Cold War- Dec. 21
Roma- undated but likely a December release
On the list of the Indiewire films that could still land at Telluride: Mary Queen of Scots (Dec. 7), Welcome to Marwen (Dec. 21), Adam McKay's untitled Dick Cheney film (Dec. 21), Ad Astra (Dec. 21) and On the Basis of Sex (Dec. 25)
Check out the entire list at Indiewire.
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
For the seventh consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride. All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".
When the time comes, you can send those ratings to me in any of the following ways listed as contact info for me listed below.
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
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