Back to a real job today for this guy. Teaching Inservice today and tomorrow. Classes start Wednesday.
Also...pseudo-waiting...
The 38th Telluride Film Festival starts in 18 days...
LATE BREAKING NEWS
Two items making Telluride connected news late last night.:
1) Ioncinema.com baldly claims what I have expected for some time and that is that Werner Herzog's documentary "Into the Abyss" will play T-ride. No surprise there.
and 2) Film critic and Telluride regular (and past Silver Medallion recipient) Leonard Maltin had surgery for a detached retina yesterday in El Paso, TX. Wishing you a speedy recovery, Mr. Maltin!
TEN (+) BETS
There's some chance that we see W.E.
Last week's Ten Bets were:
1) The Descendants
2) Gazing Into the Abyss
3) A Trip to the Moon
4) The Artist
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin
6) Le Havre
7) Prohibition
8) Drive
9) Shame
10) The Kid with a Bike/Dark Horse (tie)
This week's Ten Bets:
1) The Descendants
2) Into the Abyss
3) The Artist
4) A Trip to the Moon
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin
6) Le Havre
7) Prohibition
8) Shame
9) Drive
10) The Kid with a Bike
Here's the "+"
11) Dark Horse
12) The Birds Upstairs
13) The Skin I Live In
14) The Lady
15) W.E.
16) The Ides of March
17) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
18) Albert Nobbs
19) Coriolanus
20) A Dangerous Method
Note: Kris Tapley at Incontention.com in his July 28th Telluride spec piece listed three Sundance films as possibles, but because they already appeared in Park City, I'm doubtful that they will be in T-ride. The three are: "Take Shelter," "Like Crazy" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene."
Now that we're down to less than three weeks, I may update the "Ten Bets" list with more frequency than once a week depending what oozes out that I can latch onto.
KEVIN'S ENGLISH TRAILER
A lot of buzz surrounding Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" this last week including a post from the weekend from First Showing.net for the film's U.K. trailer. Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly star. The trailer looks appropriately chilling and kind of creepy. "Kevin" remains at #5 on this week's "Ten Bets."
Here's the link:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/must-watch-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-official-uk-trailer-lands/
Kevin's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/
DARREN ARONOFSKY AND NOAH
Earlier this summer I passed on the news that Darren Aronofsky (director of last year's TFF#37 sensation and multi-Oscar nominated "Black Swan"--Natalie Portman winning Best Actress) was tackling the Biblical story of Noah as his next project. Because it's Aronofsky and because "Swan" had such a successful run last year, you have to include "Noah" as a future Telluride possibility at least for the time being.
Get the Big Picture.com posted a fairly substantial speculative piece about that "Noah" project this weekend. You can take a look at that post here:
http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2011/8/13/we-can-only-speculate-what-noah-will-be-like-under-darren-ar.html?utm
Aronofsky's IMDb page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004716/
MY FRIEND MARLON
One of the most viewed posts that I put up this summer included my pictures of me and film legend Marlon Brando. It was fun to relive that two day period when the double Oscar winner and arguably the finest screen actor of all time was in Weatherford, OK.
So, naturally, when I saw the post this week from Open Culture.com that included Brando's screen test for "Rebel Without a Cause" I had to put a link to it here on my blog. Not only because it's really cool, but also because it gave me another excuse to put up the Brando and me photo...
Here's the link to Brando's screen test (which, of course, was unsuccessful. Some kid named James Dean got the role The article also has a link to Dean's screen test):
http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/marlon_brando_screen_tests_for_irebel_without_a_causei.html
Brando's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008/
Rebel's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048545/
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