THE TFF PROGRAM AND DEDICATIONS
With the passing of film legend Agnes Varda a few days back, MTFB has spent some time re-visiting her career.
I wondered last week in this space if Varda might be honored by TFF with a dedication in the 2019 program. I mentioned that the festival has done that before and cited 2018's program dedication to Pierre Rissient.
And that got me to thinking...how often has the fest dedicated the program? When and to whom? It seemed to me to be a natural extension to seek some answers to those questions especially since I have spent some time trying to put together some of the festival's past and preserve it here. Sooo...
I have gone to the programs themselves to see what the record shows and here's what I have discovered from the past decade's programs...the following dedications:
#45 2018- Pierre Rissient
#44 2017- Sam Shepard
#43 2016- Paul Cox and Abbas Kiarostami
#42 2015- Peter von Bagh
#41 2014- Stanley Kauffmann and Peter O'Toole
#40 2013- Les Blank, Roger Ebert, George Gund, Donald Richie
#39 2012- Bingham Ray and Jan Sharp
#38 2011- Richard Leacock and Arthur Penn
#37 2010- Max Palevsky
#36 2009- Horton Foote and Budd Schulberg
I'll keep going back to older programs and continue this search for the next couple of posts.
TRIAL BY FIRE TRAILER AND RELEASE DATE
Ed Zwick's Trial by Fire which was one of two films that played in Telluride last Labor Day inspired by articles written by David Grann (the other was The Old Man and the Gun) has a trailer and a release date-May 17th. That according to both trailer-track.com and FirstShowing.net.
Here is the trailer linked from YouTube:
Trial by Fire stars Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA ANNOUNCES MEGALOPOLIS
Photo via Rob Latour/Shutterstock and Deadline
Over the weekend the film interweb was abuzz with the announcement from Francis Ford Coppola that he will begin filming a long gestating dream project entitled (at least at the moment) Megalopolis. The film is characterized in reporting from Deadline.com's Mike Fleming Jr. as "a sprawling film as ambitious as Apocalypse Now.
Coppola is reported as saying the filming will begin this year.
With Coppola's fairly recent return to Telluride (with Apocalypse Now Redux and The Cotton Club) you have to wonder if a TFF screening of the new film might be something that could be a part of a future fest lineup.
The Deadline.com article is linked here.
That's this Monday's MTFB. I'll have more on Thursday.
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