Monday, September 18, 2023

The People's Telluride 2023 / Audience Award at Toronto / Trailer for The Taste of Things / Alexander Payne Talks The Holdovers / Changes Coming to Your Favorite Gondola

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE 2023




Here it is!  The People's Telluride poll for TFF #50.  We start with a trip down memory lane.

The first People's Telluride was posted on Sept. 10, 2012.  The top ten films from that year's fest from the populist perspective were:

1) Stories We Tell- 4.80
2) Argo- 4.75
3) The Attack- 4.70
4) The Act of Killing-4.41
5) Wadjda-4.2
6) Amour 4.17
7) Barbara- 4.17
8) The Sapphires-4.11
9) Frances Ha-4.07
10) (Tie)The Hunt and Baraka - 4.00

In subsequent years the top ten were:

2013:

1) Tim's Vermeer (4.67)
2) 12 Years a Slave (4.55)
3) Gravity (4.40)
4) The Lunchbox (4.25)
5) Inside Llewyn Davis (4.15)
6) Nebraska (4.08)
7) All is Lost (4.06)
8) The Wind Rises (4.0)
9) Ida (4.0)
10) The Past (3.81)

2014:

1) The Imitation Game (4.73)
2) Birdman (4.46)
3) Wild Tales (4.23)
4) Foxcatcher (4.20)
5) Merchants of Doubt (4.04)
6) '71 (3.90)
7) Red Army (3.63)
8) Wild (Tie 3.50)
8) Escobar: Paradise Lost (Tie 3.50)
8) Mommy (Tie 3.50)

2015:

1) Room (4.47)
2) Spotlight (4.45)
3) Beasts of No Nation (4.35)
4) Ixcanul (4.31)
5) Son of Saul (4.30)
6) Marguerite (4.23)
7) Black Mass (4.13)
8) Carol (4.02)
9) Rams (3.98)
10) Steve Jobs (3.86)

2016:

1) Moonlight (4.37)
2) La La Land (4.33)
3) Maudie (4.29)
4) The Eagle Huntress (4.21)
5) Manchester by the Sea (4.18)
6) Arrival (4.13)
7) Bright Lights (3.90)
8) Frantz (3.89)
9) Toni Erdmann (3.80)
10) Sully (3.79)

2017:

1) Lady Bird (4.38)
2) The Shape of Water (4.22)
3) Darkest Hour (4.04)
4) Hostiles (3.99)
5) Faces Places (3.71)
6) Battle of the Sexes (3.68)
7) Lean on  Pete (3.66)
8) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (3.57)
9) The Other Side of Hope (3.45)
10) Wonderstruck (3.43)

2018

1) Roma (4.47)
2) First Man (4.34)
3) Shoplifters (4.29)
4) Boy Erased (4.23)
5) Free Solo (4.19)
6) Cold War (4.02)
7) White Boy Rick (3.88)
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3.81)
9) The Favourite (3.76)
10) The Front Runner (3.69)

2019:

1) The Two Popes (4.51)
2) Parasite (4.36)
3) Ford v. Ferrari (4.35)
4) Marriage Story (4.14)
5) Pain and Glory (3.81-Tie)
5) A Hidden Life (3.81-Tie)
7) Judy (3.80)
8) The Aeronauts (3.67)
9) The Report (3.66)
10) Motherless Brooklyn (3.64)
11) Lyrebird (3.62)
12) Waves (3.61)
13) Inside Bill's Brain (3.39)
14) Uncut Gems (3.22)
15) The Climb (3.07)
16) First Cow (3.02)

No People's poll in 2020.

 2021:

1) The Power of the Dog (4.63)
2) The Rescue (4.20)
3) Julia (4.18)
4) Belfast (4.12)
5) King Richard (4.06)
6) C'mon C'mon (3.93)
7) The Hand of God (3.83)
8) Cyrano (3,62)
9) A Hero (3.60)
10) Marcel the Shell (3.57)
11) The Duke (3.53)
12) Spencer-tie- (3.50)
12) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain-tie- (3.50)
14) The Lost Daughter (3.44)
15) Red Rocket (3.41)
16) Petite Maman (3.25)
17) The French Dispatch (2.50)
18) Encounter (2.43)

2022:

1) Women Talking 4.22
2) TAR 4.20
3) Sr. 3.98
4) The Wonder 3.86-(TIE)
4) One Fine Morning 3.86 (TIE)
6) Bones and All 3.77
7) Living 3.70
8) Aftersun 3.63
9) Armageddon Time 3.62
10) Broker 3.57
11) Godland 3.50
12) Empire of Light 3.43
13) Lady Chatterley's Lover 3.31

The Process:  I collated all results that were sent in.  Films that earned ratings from at least 40% of all respondents qualified to make the final listings. 16 films met that threshold.  I added all ratings of a film together and then divided that by the number of ratings it received to arrive at the average rating on a 1-5 scale.

AND SO, HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS FOR THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE FOR 2023

1) Poor Things (4.51)
2) Anatomy of a Fall (4.24)
3) The Zone of Interest (4.19)
4) The Holdovers (4.17)
5) Perfect Days (4.16)
6) All of Us Strangers (4.14)
7) Rustin (4.00)
8) Daddio (3.99)
9) Nyad (3.95)
10) The Bikeriders (3.86)
11) Saltburn (3.68)
12) Fingernails (3.46)
13) Janet Planet (3.45)
14) The Royal Hotel (3.36)
15) Tuesday (2.98)
16) Wildcat (2.62)

Seven films earned a 4.00 average or better making 2023 the best year for that statistic since 2013 which had nine (2015 also had seven films rated 4.00 or better).

Poor Things was the most viewed film among respondents to the poll this year with 93% of them having viewed it.  Saltburn was next at 88%.  The Holdovers was third at 75%. The Bikeriders was fourth with 73% and for fifth there was a three way tie between All of Us Strangers, Rustin and The Zone of Interest at 70%.

After the completion of this year's People's Telluride Poor Things moves onto the all time top ten films with it 4.51 rating at #8 tied with The Two Popes.
The all time People's Top Ten:

1) Stories We Tell (4.80) (12)
2) Argo (4.75) (12)-Won Best Picture
3) The Imitation Game (4.73) (14) Nominated Best Picture
4) The Attack (4.70) (12)
5) Tim's Vermeer (4.67) (13)
6) The Power of the Dog (4.63) (21) Nominated Best Picture 
7) 12 Years a Slave (4.55) (13) Won Best Picture
8) (TIE) Poor Things (4.51) (23)
8) (TIE)The Two Popes (4.51) (19)
10) (TIE) Roma (4.47) (15) Nominated Best Picture
10) (TIE) Room (4.47) (18) Nominated Best Picture

The Composite Telluride will go up on Thursday!


AUDIENCE AWARD AT TORONTO




Cord Jefferson's under -the-radar film American Fiction (stars Jeffrey Wright) won the TIFF Audience Award Sunday.  Alexander Payne's The Holdovers was first runner-up followed by Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron.  



TRAILER FOR THE TASTE OF THINGS

Here's an official trailer for director Ahn Hung Tran's The Taste of Things (The Pot au Feu) that dropped last week:




ALEXANDER PAYNE TALKS THE HOLDOVERS




As a part of Deadline's series of interviews during the Toronto International Film festival, director Alexander Payne sat down and talked about his latest film (and one of the most highly rated and viewed films at Telluride a couple of weeks back) The Holdovers starring Paul Giamatti, Da'vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa.



CHANGES COMING TO YOUR FAVORITE GONDOLA




News from The Telluride Daily Planet:  It appears a new gondola may be on the way to T-ride.  From the story that appeared in the digital version of The Daily Planet on Thursday, Sept. 14th:

"San Miguel County is poised to move forward with a draft intergovernmental agreement for planning the replacement of the current gondola with a new gondola system."

The bare bones of a timeline were also mentioned on the post:

"Wednesday’s work session was a discussion “about a proposed intergovernmental agreement for the planning operations that will be occurring for the next two years to get us to a potential ballot measure and/or other grant opportunities” for the “the ultimate replacement of the gondola as well as continued operations of the gondola post-2027.”


Stay tuned...



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