Are you like me?
We're two weeks from what would have been the last day of TFF #47.
It's not that I haven't internalized that the fest isn't going to happen this year. I had been contemplating the possibility for quite a while before the announcement dropped on July 14th. However, as the dates approach that would have been the 47th edition of the Telluride Film Festival (and my 15th time to attend) I, like I suspect many of you, have a serious pang of longing and regret that our normally glorious weekend of film and fun will come and go more or less as just another weekend in Covid-19 America.
It will be weird and dis-orienting two weeks from today, when I would be winding the weekend down. My habit over the past few years has been to get up on Labor Day to grab an early screening of something that has become buzzy over the weekend (the last two years that my films on Monday morning have been Cold War and Parasite...not bad, eh?) and then booking to Town Park to grab lunch and ice cream, say goodbye to whomever I could find there that needed saying goodbye to...that's how I met Barry Jenkins four years ago. And then climb in the mini-van and head south and east.
This year, I'll already be "south and east" when I wake up on Labor Day. Sooooo....
TELLURIDE AT HOME
I've decided that I'm programming a weekend at home of Telluride films from that past 14 editions that either I have seen or missed when they were in T-ride and that I still haven't visited. The wife and I started compiling a list yesterday. We'll whittle it down until we get to 10 or so films. Then, in the tradition of Telluride, I'll announce my list for "Telluride at Home" on Thursday, Sept. 3rd. The day before my festival starts.
What about you? If you were to program a Telluride Fest from the years you've been attending, what would you include? What would re-visit? What films did you miss that you still haven't seen but wished you had? Make a list of ten.
Drop me a line with your list if you feel like it. I might well publish those here.
FIRST LOOKS: FIREBALL AND MAINSTREAM
As a result of their selections for TIFF and Venice, we have our first glimpses of would-be TFF #$7 films. Werner Herzog's Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds and Gia Coppola's Mainstream.
From the Toronto PR for Fireball, it's Clive Oppenhiemer and Herzog as they search the world for meteors and stories of meteors.
THE USUAL SUSPECTS: COVID-19 EDITION
Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent in Roger Michell's The Duke
Looking over the 29 feature film titles that were announced as what would have been selections had TFF #47 taken place, I can't help but notice that a number of folks who have had a presence at TFF in past Telluride Film Festivals were returning. Some, like Chloe Zhao were returning after a maiden voyage with the fest. Zhao's The Rider screened at Telluride in 2017. The lineup also included Werner Herzog who is a mainstay of many, many TFF lineups.
Here's a quick rundown of folks that are or may soon be on my list of TFF"s "Usual Suspects" that are included in the TFF #47 lineup:
*Liz Garbus/All In: The Fight for Democracy (Love, Marilyn TFF #39)
*Andrey Tarkovsky/Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (Tarkovsky's works have often been featured at TFF)
*Frank Marshall/The Bees Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Marshall is on TFF's Board of Advisors)
*Roger Michell/The Duke (Michell's TFF credits include: Venus, Hyde Park on Hudson and Enduring Love)
*Gia Coppola/Mainstream (Coppola's first and only feature thus far, Palo Alto, was at TFF #40)
*Chloe Zhao/Nomadland (Zhao's The Rider was at TFF #44)
*Gianfranco Rosi/Notturno (Rosi was last at Telluride in 2016 with Fire at Sea)
*Mohammad Rasoulof/There Is No Evil (TFF tribute recipient in 2013, last film at TFF was 2017's A Man of Integrity)
*Lisa Immordino Vreeland/Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (multiple TFF appearances: Love, Cecil, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel)
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