THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
Running a tad late today...apologies.
Here's my compilation of film ratings from TFF attendees for TFF #52. 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. 13 films met that criteria. Here they are in order of their average rating:
1) Hamnet 4.55
2) Bugonia 4.37
3) Sentimental Value 4.30
4) It Was Just an Accident 4.23
5) Tuner 4.16
6) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 3.80
7) The History of Sound 3.79
8) Jay Kelly 3.78
9) Frankenstein 3.77
10) Blue Moon 3.43
11) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 3.42
12) A Private Life 3.35
13) Ballad of a Small Player 3.22
So, essentially universal agreement between the Peeps and the Pros regarding Hamnet, Sentimental Value and It Was Just an Accident. Pretty big differences between the two groups on Bugonia, Tuner and Frankenstein.
The Composite Telluride is coming on Monday as well as updates to all three categories all time top ten films.
RIP ROBERT REDFORD 1936-2025
Robert Redford died on Tuesday. He was 89. He was also a giant having amassed a bevy of great performances in great films, as well proving himself a fantastic director and producer. And, of course, he was the founder of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival.
He was an Oscar winner for directing Ordinary People. He was also nominated five other times:
Producer for Ordinary People, Direction and Producer for Quiz Show and Best Actor for The Sting.
A partial list of notable films in which he acted:
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
The Candidate (1972)
The Way We Were (1973)
The Sting (1973)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
All the President's Men (1976)
The Electric Horseman (1979)
The Natural (1984)
Out of Africa (1975)
A River Runs Through It (Narrator) (1982)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
All Is Lost (2013)
There were many more.
Direction:
Ordinary People (1980)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Quiz Show (1994)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
And others.
I was fortunate enough to catch his Q+As in 2013 for All Is Lost for which Redford received the Telluride Silver Medallion and then again in 2018 for The Old Man and the Gun.
Robert Redford at his TFF Tribute in 2013.
Like I suspect many of you, I have spent the last couple of days re-watching some of his films: All the President's Men, A River Runs Through It, The Great Waldo Pepper. I've got more to do.
It's really difficult to adequately describe how much of a effect he had in the film world. As I wrote above; he was a giant. The film industry would have been a a vastly different place without his career. We also owe him an immense amount gratitude for his environmental activism.
As always in cases like this, we are lucky to have his body of work to remind us of his greatness.
NEW TRAILER FOR SPRINGSTEEN
We have a new trailer released for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Here it is from YouTube:
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