FRED WARD 1942-2022
Fred Ward at TFF #36 (photo via Salon.com and Getty Images)
I will miss Fred Ward. The actor died on May 8th at the age of 79. Fred's credits included some great stuff: Escape from Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, The Player and, of course, Tremors. Tremors is one of my wife's favorite movies. For years we've been talking about writing and producing a stage musical adaptation. Can you envision singing Graboids?
I just watched The Player again a couple of weeks ago.
Ward was in Telluride in 2009 for The SHOW as a part of the group that was there with the foreign film Farewell, a gripping cold war true story that featured Ward as Ronald Reagan. I saw the film at the fest and it was quote good.
Salon.com had a nice write up about Fred this week. That's linked here.
MARCELS'S CREATORS HAVE A WORD
Recently, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On co-creators Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate sat down with Joshua Rothkopf writing for Entertainment Weekly for an interview ahead of the films release on June 24th. The result of that interview was posted at EW.com on Friday the 13th.
Frequent readers of this space already know that I am an outspoken fan of the film so I am pleased to provide the link to the interview, encourage you to read (regarding the genesis of the project and other matters) and then make sure to go see the film or re-watch it of you caught it at Telluride or one of its other film fest stops (SXSW, San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee).
OFFICIAL CLIP FOR HOLY SPIDER
On the TFF #49 watch list is Ali Abbasi's Cannes Plame d'Or contender Holy Spider. The film focuses on a series of murders in Iran and the female journalist that is trying to unravel the story.
Here's the newly released first look clip from YouTube:
NEON NABS BROKER
NEON has acquired North American distribution rights for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Broker according to multiple sources including Variety. This is of note to Telluride Film Fest fans as the film now checks off a bunch of boxes that could signal a TFF #49 appearance.
Cannes competition choice...check
Foreign auteur that's played TFF before... check (Kore-eda's Shoplifters in 2018)
Distributor with a history at T-ride...check (NEON)
Assuming reviews are strong out of Cannes, Broker's lineage could land it on my first "Ten Bets" list.
MARTY BACK IN OKLAHOMA
Jordan Ruimy of World of Reel reports that additional filming is underway in the northeast part of my home state for Killers of the Flower Moon. Jordan, as a part of his story, links to a report from Louise Red Corn writing for The Osage News from last Tuesday with photos showing crew and equipment back in Pawhuska.
Speculation is that they'll be filming a social dance that will include an number of the locals that were filmed earlier as extras and background players.
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