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Friday, September 4, 2020

SPECIAL POST: Telluride at Home-Day One

SPECIAL POST: TELLURIDE AT HOME-DAY ONE



We "opened" the first ever Telluride Film Festival at Home last night with the first film we ever saw at the The SHOW, Alejandro Inarittu's Babel.

I've mentioned the story before, but briefly we got to attend the 2006 festival due to the kindness of a couple of my former students.  We didn't have a clue what we were about to experience.  We actually didn't get to Telluride until Saturday afternoon (I had obligations on Friday night).  I had seen a little bit about Babel before we got on the road that weekend, and on Saturday evening we thought that seemed like the most attractive prospect.  Lined up at the Chuck...which meant we also had to figure out its specific W2 process.  We got in after some interesting conversation with people online and got settled.

Then the ringmaster brought out Inarittu to introduce the film.  I had no idea that that would happen.  That was the moment I was hooked.  The notion that I was going to be able to see this film with the director in attendance (and answering questions afterwards).  Yes please.

We had been provided about half a dozen individual passes for the weekend and used them to see:

Babel
Directed by John Ford
Fur
The Lives of Others
Venus
Volver

After the fest was over we also sought out:

Infamous
Little Children
Severance

We've been in Telluride each Labor Day since.

Babel Poster

Babel's IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449467/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Friday's planned films: First Man (TFF #45-2018) and Frances Ha (TFF #39-2012)



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