KEEP THOSE RATINGS COMING
First of all a big thanks to all of you who have already sent me your ratings of the films that you saw in Telluride last weekend. The numbers have been steadily coming in but we're still at about half the level of respondents that we had last year so, if you saw films and would like to contribute to the collective evaluation of the films that played TFF #46...the polls are still open and will be until next Tuesday evening at 9:00 EDT/5:00 PDT.
As a reminder, I include the collective rating for films that have received at least a level of 25% of the maximum possible of number of people that actually do participate which means that films that don't get rated by a sufficient number of respondents won't make it into the list. My feeling is that the 25% threshold provides a large enough sample size to adequately compare ratings of film to film.
At this point it looks like some films already will have enough votes to make the list including:
The Aeronauts
The Climb
Ford v. Ferrari
Judy
Lyrebird
Marriage Story
Motherless Brooklyn
Parasite
The Report
The Two Popes
Uncut Gems
Waves
On the bubble:
A Hidden Life
Inside Bill's Brain
Pain and Glory
Other films may struggle to reach the necessary threshold to make the final list.
So keep those ratings coming in. My plan is to publish The Peoples Telluride a week from today.
Meanwhile, the Professionals are about half way in. When those ratings get published is a bit up in the air in as far as I'm waiting for a few of them to get their ratings into me.
As always, you can rate your films via any of the methods of contact listed at the bottom of this post.
TFF OSCAR PROJECT PART ONE
Not long ago I did a quick roundup of Oscar nominees in the eight main categories from Telluride films since 2005. After that process, I started thinking that someone needed to do an entire history of Telluride films and the Oscar.
For the past three months or so, I have gone back to the beginning and researched all of the Oscar nominees and winners in the 21 feature categories that were screened at Telluride prior to their nominations.
As a result, beginning today and over the next month or so, I will be presenting the Oscar History of the Telluride Film Festival. Eventually, after I get the whole history posted as a part of the dual weekly postings, I will post a new page dedicated to the one stop spot for that history.
So, I start today with the TFF Oscar Project Part One 1974-1985 (nominations for the films from a particular year's fest and wins are in parentheses):
1974 (3)
The Conversation- Picture, Original Screenplay, Sound
1981 (2)
Eight Minutes to Midnight- Documentary
Three Brothers-Foreign Language
1983 (5)
Carmen- Foreign Language
Entre Nous- Foreign Language
El Norte-Original Screenplay
Seeing Red- Documentary
Testament- Best Actress- Jane Alexander (first acting nomination from TFF)
1984 (2/1)
Camila- Foreign Language
The Times of Harvey Milk-Documentary-WON (first Oscar win from TFF)
1985 (2)
Colonel Redl- Foreign Language
The Journey of Natty Gann- Costumes
Stay tuned for the continuation of this series over the next few weeks.
DIEGO MARADONA TRAILER
Released just prior to the opening of TFF #46, the folks at HBO dropped this trailer for the documentary Diego Maradona...which examines the life and career of the world famous soccer player.
Here's that trailer from YouTube:
FULL DISCLOSURE
So, as it turns out, I was NOT perfect this year. I misread the lineup when it was released a week ago. My final list of 25 Bets included Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth. Somehow I thought it WAS in the lineup announcement and it wasn't. Consequently, rather than being 25 for 25 for TFF #46, MTFB was actually 24 of 25.
Over the last four years the final pre-SHOW predictions have been 93 of 95.
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