THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-2026
Here's my compilation of film ratings from TFF attendees for TFF #53. Respondents were asked to rate each film they saw on a 1-5 scale with 1 being not-so-good and 5 being "way good". Over 60 attendees responded to the poll. The traditional requirement for inclusion is that a film had to have been seen by a third of the respondents. 15 films met that criteria. Here they are in order of their average rating:
1) La Bola Negra 4.56
2) Wild Horse Nine 4.43
3) Elsinore 4.42
4) Rose 4.39
5) Club Kid 4.34
6) The Debut 4.17
7) Tenzing 3.98
8) Fjord 3.93
9) Liberation 3.65
10) The Only Living Pickpocket in New York 3.54
11) Ink 3.49
12) Tender Loving Care 3.40
13) Fatherland 3.28
14) A Long Winter 2.99
15) Alpha Gang 2.72
A point for consideration. Despite the overwhelming critical reception from the Professionals, the "super-secret" TBA of You Can See Everything didn't have enough reported ratings from the People to qualify for inclusion here. There were a mere 10 respondents that included the film. It is, however, worth mentioning that all 10 ratings were a 5.
Altogether, in the 14 years I have been polling at Telluride, I've not seen the kind of overwhelmingly positive reception for a film as what occurred here.
Coming on Thursday...The Composite Telluride.
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING TRAILER
You Can See Everything is set to be released, according to distributor A24, sometime on October 16th.,
Here is a teaser for the film from YouTube:
Telluride films do pretty, pretty good in Toronto as La Bola Negra wins The People's Choice Award and Elsinore wins TIFF's Best International Film People's Choice.
I Play Rocky was the First Runner-Up for the People's Choice Feature award and Being Heumann was Second Runner-up.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM HONORED
The documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem was named as this year's winner of the Lavine-Burns Prize for Film from the Library of Congress. Here's the poster:
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