MORE PROGRAM DEDICATIONS FROM PAST FESTS
Spurred by the recent death of Agnes Varda and my speculation that we might find the 46th TFF program dedicated to her when we show up in the San Juans in late August, I began chronicling the people who have had past fests dedicated to them as far back as I can find them in the actual TFF programs.
In my last post I was able to list dedications for the last ten years of the festival (2009-2018). Today that listing continues with a look at dedications from 1999-2008:
#35 2008- No dedication
#34 2007- Edward Yang and Ulrich Muhe
#33 2006- Jody Goodman
#32 2005- G. Cabrera Infante
#31 2004- Fay Wray
#30 2003- Stan Brakhage
#29 2002- Chuck Jones
#28 2001- Richard Farnsworth
#27 2000- John Berry
#26 1999- Albert Johnson
I'll have he next flight of program dedications in Monday's post.
BEST OF THE DECADE
I was recently asked to contribute to a survey of the best films of the decade (2010-2019). So I have been pondering what might end up on my list. I have been tasked with naming five films. To that end, I have started the process by creating a list of 20 films to winnow down to the five.
As you might expect, the original list of 20 is heavy with films that played at Telluride but it's not exclusively TFF films.
Here's the working list at the moment listed chronologically by year:
2010- True Grit
2011- The Tree of Life, Shame, A Separation
2012- Lincoln, The Life of Pi
2013- 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Inside Llewyn Davis
2014- Birdman, Foxcatcher, The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015- Son of Saul, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road
2016- Moonlight, La La Land
2017- Lady Bird, Dunkirk
2018- Roma
Of the 20 films seven of them are films the did not screen at Telluride.
Got to get it down to five...not going to be easy.
NEWS FROM CANNES
Ahead of next week's reveal of the bulk of titles that will play the Cannes Film Festival was the announcement this week that the venerable french film fest will open with the latest from Jim Jarmusch. His film The Dead Don't Die will be the opening night film. The film plays on Tuesday, May 14th to open the 72nd edition of Cannes.
The Dead Don't Die is described as a zombie comedy and stars Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny as well as Steve Buscemi and Tom Waits.
Jarmusch appears to have been involved with Telluride thrice in the past in 1984 with Stranger than Paradise; in 1989 with Mystery Train and in 1993 with Coffee and Cigarettes, the third short in the series was released that year.
The film has been off my Telluride radar for some time as it will open in the U.S. on June 14th.
I have linked the announcement news from Indiewire and the IMDb page for The Dead Don't Die is linked here.
That's your MTFB for this Thursday. Come back on Monday for more.
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