Send in Your Ratings/Critic's Corner/50 K/5 Days in 2013

Good Thursday Everyone!

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finally kind of returning to a "normal" existence after the heady weekend that was TFF #39.

SEND ME YOUR RANKINGS

I have put together a Critic's scorecard for this year's festival that I am planning to unveil in tomorrow's post...see below.

But I'd also like to do a "People's Ratings" of this year's films.  So, please, join in!

Send ratings of all the films you saw 0-5 with 0 being "abysmal" and 5 being "fantastic".  I'll compile them and post "The People's Telluride" on Monday.  

Tell your friends, the more the merrier.

I'll cut off ratings at 9pm (EDT, 6pm PDT) Sunday, Sept. 9.

Send ratings to me via email : mpgort@gmail.com OR just "comment" here on the blog with your films and ratings.

This should be interesting and fun.

CRITIC'S CORNER

As mentioned above, I'm going to have a Critic's/Film Bloggers Scorecard of the Telluride 2012 films up on Friday.  I'm very excited about it.  Some really great people have agreed to participate: Sasha Stone/Awards Daily, Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter, Eugene Hernandez/Film Society of Lincoln Center and co-founder of IndieWire, Kris Tapley/InContention, Alex Billington/First Showing and Eugene Novikov of Film Blather.

It's an incredibly distinguished list and I feel very fortunate that they've agreed to be included.


50,000

Almost unnoticed by me as it was happening was the 50,000th view of Michael's Telluride Film Blog.  It happened sometime Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Now, I know that's small potatoes in the grand scheme of the Interweb...but it sounds big to me.

It's also a measure of the growth of MTFB that it happened over the weekend while the fest was happening. I had projected earlier in the summer that I thought that I'd get to 50,000 before Halloween.  So to get there a couple of months early was both surprising and gratifying.

Thanks Readers!

5 DAYS IN 2013

To reiterate the announcement from last week from the fest's poobahs...TFF #40 will be a 5 day affair...starting on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013.

And, as you might expect, preparations seem to already be underway or in the planning stages.

I happened to be on line Sunday morning behind two employees of The Academy...you know THE Academy.  They cryptically mentioned that work had already begun from their end on some special programming for next year's fest.

That's all they'd say...but it was enough to get me jazzed...

OK, I was also jazzed that I was minutes away from seeing Marion Cotillard in person...

But my "jazzedness" was increased.

How fast can you make a year go???

More later...

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Home Again/Greta and Noah/Consensus and What We Saw

Good Wednesday to All!

HOME AGAIN

I'm back in Oklahoma and writing this entry from my P.C. in my office.  It's nice to be in familiar surroundings but, as I'm sure you'll agree, it's also hard to make myself leave the magic of the Telluride Film Festival behind.  Nevertheless, the day looms and students will show up in my classroom expecting some education to happen so I'd better gird up!


GRETA AND NOAH

One of the best surprises of the SHOW this year, I thought anyway, was Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" which featured and was written by Greta Gerwig both of whom were in Telluride with the film.  Now, I have never been a big Baumbach fan but this film, which seems something of a departure for him, I liked it quite a lot.  The Art Director was even more enamored of the film than I was.

Now, I'm usually the guy that will stop some of "the talent" to strike up a conversation and not The Art Director but she ran across the couple on Colorado Ave. as I I was finishing a purchase of some gifts for our grandkids.  So imagine my surprise as I came out of the store to find her engaged in a rather animated discussion of the film and her admiration of it with both Gerwig and Baumbach.

So...I joined in.  It was fun.  They were kind.

Good movie.

CONSENSUS AND WHAT WE SAW

I have had a nice response to my request from various Film Bloggers/Critics to share their reactions to the films they saw this past weekend and I'm going to be able to publish that consensus on Friday.  I really pleased to tell you that included will be (as of this morning):  Kristopher Tapley/InContention, Sasha Stone/Awards Daily. Eugene Hernandez/Film Society of Lincoln Center and co-founder of IndieWire, Alex Billington/First Showing, Eugene Novikov/Film Blather and Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter.

I may have a couple more before I post on Friday.

AND...

I want you're ratings too!  Send me your ratings for the films you saw last weekend at TFF #39.  I'll compile those and post a "People's Ratings" next Monday.

Just rate each film you saw.  0 for just abysmal to 5 for perfection and we'll see how we peeps do in comparison.

Let's get everyone involved.  Call, email, tweet, Facebook your friends who were there and send those ratings in!

Email ratings to:
mpgort@gmail.com OR
michael_speech@hotmail.com

OR just leave me a comment here on the blog with your ratings.  Should be fun.

More later...

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