Deadline's Andreas Wiseman wrote an article posted Tuesday that discusses the potential of five different fall film fests occurring in a Covid-19 world. Telluride is one of the five fests that gets assessed. The article drops this tantalizing bit of info:
"Telluride (September 4 – 7/8): A spokesperson for the picturesque and famously press-shy Telluride Film Festival has told us that they are “hoping to have some information this week” regarding the event’s status and planning in light of the Coronavirus. The Oscar-bellwether was expected to expand to five days this year after the Town Council approved an additional day earlier this month. Colorado has recorded close to 10,000 positive cases of COVID-19 and 422 deaths. The state garnered international headlines this week when healthcare workers blocked anti-lockdown protests."
The most intriguing part of that assessment is the "spokesperson's..."hoping to have some information this week".
Additionally, Deadline mentions the extra fifth day reportedly approved by the Telluride Town Council last week.
What's confusing? The Deadline author lists the dates for the fest as Sept.4-7/8 meaning that their assumption is that Telluride is tacking the fifth day onto the end of the fest rather than, as I had assumed, the Thursday before the fest as TFF did in 2013 for its 40th iteration.
Further confusing the date situation is that the original reporting from the Telluride Watch/Daily Planet cites the added date as Sept. 1 which would be the Tuesday before the traditional and originally schedule Friday start. From The Daily Planet last week:
Sooo....
VENICE FESTIVAL DIPSY-DO
Just a day after an interview with Venice Biennale President Roberto Cicutto (the film fest's parent organization) said that no collaboration with Cannes was planned, came another interview with festival's artistic director, Alberto Barbera that suggests just the opposite.
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Roxborough in a post that went up on Tuesday afternoon that Barbera had some strong thoughts about a Cannes partnership with Venice. From the post:
"ANSA quoted Barbera as saying he had not excluded the possibility of "a real collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival, which would be a sign of solidarity towards the cinema world, which is now more than ever in difficulty." Barbera said he was in talks with Frémaux and that there was a "concrete will" on both sides to find a solution."
The story suggests that Venice, at least at this point, continues to stay the course on its planned dates of Sept. 2-12.
The full THR story is here.
21ST CENTURY FILMS AND TELLURIDE
I missed this back a few weeks ago when Empire Online published their list of the 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century (so far). Empire says in the introductory paragraphs that the list (originally published on Jan. 8th) that they combined the thoughts of their team with thousands of responses from their readers in compiling the list.
So, as you might expect...I had to see how many and at what spots within the 100 that Telluride films popped up. Here's what I discovered...19 TFF films made the list. Here they are presented with their position and the year that they screened at TFF:
95- A Prophet (09)
90- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (00)
83- Frances Ha (12)
72- Birdman (14)
63- Under the Skin (13)
60- Carol (15)
54- Brokeback Mountain (05)
46- Inside Llewyn Davis (13)
44- Roma (18)
36- Lady Bird (17)
35- Arrival (16)
34- Zodiac (08)
31- Amelie (01)
24- La La Land (16)
23- City of God (02)
15- Spirited Away (02)
11- There Will Be Blood (scenes screened as part of Daniel Day Lewis tribute 07)
10- Lost in Translation (03)
5- Moonlight (16)
Notes:
*The #1 film on the list: George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.
*You could make a case for 2016 being TFF's strongest year with three films making this list: #5 Moonlight, #24 La La Land and #35 Arrival.
* TFF 2002 landed two films on the list: #15 Spirited Away and #23 City of God. TFF 2013 also has two films making the grade: #46 Inside Llewyn Davis and #63 Under the Skin.
*Ang Lee is the only director to land two TFF films on the list: #54 Brokeback Mountain and #90 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
*The Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig team scores with #83 Frances Ha (Baumbach directed and co-wrote with Gerwig who stars in it) and #36 Lady Bird (written and directed by Gerwig. Baumbach gets a "Special Thanks" mention in the credits).
Check out the complete list of 100 films from Empire Online linked here.
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