Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is a stalwart fan of the Telluride Film Festival. He's been there a lot beginning in 2006 with Babel (it was my first year at TFF too) and following it with Biutiful in 2010 and Birdman in 2014. He's also been in town for the fest as a supporter for both Alonzo Cuaron and Guillermo Del Toro and, I believe, has attended once or twice just to attend.
Now comes news that he is working on a restoration of his first feature film, the Oscar nominated Amores Perros from 2000. Indiewire's Zack Sharf reports that the film maker has plans to screen it at the Morelia Film Fest in Mexico in October and a massive public screening in Mexico City in December.
One has to wonder, and I do, if the possibility exists that the new restoration might be rolled out over Labor Day weekend in Telluride. Sharf reports that Inarritu has already been working on the project for months and the October target for the Morelia screening suggests that there is at least a theoretical possibility that it could be ready for a Telluride bow.
It would make for an intriguing addition to the TFF #47 slate.
Check out the entire story from Indiewire here.
THE BEST OF THE 90'S
Jordan Ruimy at his website World of Reel completed and posted an enormous poll of industry folks: film makers, critiques, pundits etc. Somehow, I was invited and was more than happy to respond. We (some 175 of us or thereabouts) were asked to submit five titles, in no particular order, that we regarded as the best films of the 1990's. That post went up last Thursday.
My list of five: Goodfellas, L.A. Confidential, Magnolia, Pulp Fiction and Schindler's List.
When all was said and done, all five of the films from my list landed in the Top 20 of Ruimy's over all poll. Mine, in the order the finished: Goodfellas at #1. Pulp Fiction at #2. Magnolia at #7. Schindler's List at #13 and L.A. Confidential at #18.
Ruimy's complete list of the Top 40 films of the 1990's is linked here.
The individual rundown of every one who was a respondent and their lists is linked here.
No one matched my choices 5 for 5. I was 4 of 5 with The A.V. Club's Jesse Hassenger. Our only disconnect was my inclusion of L.A. Confidential. Hassenger had Fargo instead...which is a worthy choice.
There nine folks that I was 3 for 5 with including Telluride freinds Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter and Mark Johnson/Awards Circuit. Also Peter Howell from The Toronto Sun who had always been kind to answer my questions about the Toronto Film Fest.
Other notable participants included: David Ansen/Newsweek, Alex Billington/First Showing, film director Jim Cummings (Thunder Road), David Ehrlich/Indiewire, Gregory Ellwood/The Playlist, David Fear/Rolling Stone, Dave Karger/TCM, Eric Kohn/Indiewire, Eric Lavalee/Ioncinema, film director Rod Lurie (Straw Dogs), Scott Menzel /We Live Entertainment, Steve Pond/The Wrap, Claudia Puig/USA Today, Jeff Sneider/Collider, Glenn Whipp/The Los Angeles Times.
Jordan has also polled us on the best films of the 2000's ane I expect we'll see that poll very soon.
NEW RULES FOR DOCS AT THE OSCARS
Poster for last year's Best Doc Oscar winner: American Factory
Much as they did at the end of April, for feature films, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has re-worked the rules for Oscar eligibility for documentary films to reflect the challenges film makers are experiencing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Basically, AMPAS has made it easier, for this year only, to qualify a documentary for Oscar consideration including screening at specific film fests, though Telluride is not on the list of those fests published by The Hollywood Reporter.
The whole of the THR article about the new rules is linked here.
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