WILLIAM GOLDMAN 1931-2018
"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? How can they do that? Who ARE those guys?"
It was announced Friday that screen writer and novelist William Goldman had died at the age of 87. Like a lot of film fans, I was an avid reader of a good deal of what Goldman wrote and an admirer of his screenplays.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
All the President's Men
He won Oscars for those scripts
The Princess Bride
Marathon Man
Read both novels and loved both films.
And the books about the film business...insightful, incisive and funny as hell. That's what I admired about Goldman's writing as much as anything...his ability to cut swiftly and cleanly with a turn of phrase. Funny, funny and honest.
87 is a good long run...but, damn, the film world and, really the whole place, as I wrote yesterday, is colder without William Goldman in it.
Think I'm going to grab my copy of adventures in the Screen Trade right now and re-read it...again.
"Nobody knows anything."
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT NOMINATIONS AND TFF #45 (AND #44)
Film Independent dropped the announcement for their 2018 Independent Spirit Awards on Friday. Here's how that played out concerning films that played Telluride in 2018- and in the case of First Reformed- 2017.
TFF #45 nominations went to Can You Ever Forgive Me? for Richard E. Grant as Supporting Male and for Nicole Holofcener for Best Screenplay.
Roma, The Favourite and Shoplifters were each nominated for Best International Film (which was the only Indy Spirit Award they were eligible for).
The big TFF winner was TFF #44 film First Reformed which enjoyed four nominations for Best Feature, Direction (Paul Schrader), Screenplay (Schrader) and Best Male Lead-Ethan Hawke.
Indiewire has the entire list of nominees linked here.
MULTIPLE INTERVIEWS
Over the past few days a multiplicity of interviews with people from a number of films that played at TFF #45 have appeared. Here's a sample of those interviews and profiles:
High Jackman/The Front Runner with Variety's Tim Gray
Emma Stone/The Favourite with Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio
The Crew behind The Other Side of the Wind and The Wrap's Steve Pond
The cast of First Man and The Hollywood Reporter's Tara Bitran
Marielle Heller, director of Can You Ever Forgive Me? on Variety's Playback Podcast with Kristopher Tapley
Sissy Spacek of The Old Man and the Gun with Pete Hammond of Deadline.com on The Actor's Side
NEW GURUS OF GOLD UP AT MOVIE CITY NEWS
Those of us who acting as Gurus for this Oscar season for Movie City News got the call last week to update Best Picture predictions and take a stab at Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
That brand new Gurus chart is here.
Films and performers from Telluride that make the grade are:
Best Picture (through the top 12 spots): Roma, The Favourite, First Man, Can You Ever Forgive Me/ and Boy Erased.
Among the Best Actor picks Ryan Gosling/First Man sits at #5, Hugh Jackman/The Front Runner is at #8 and Robert Redford/The Old Man and the Gun is at #9. TFF #44's Ethan Hawke for First Reformed is at #7.
Supporting Actor TFFers are Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me? at #3 and Russell Crowe at #10 for Boy Erased.
That's your Monday MTFB. I'll have more on Thanksgiving morning!
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