Telluride Announcement

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No big wows or mild surprises, even, at this year's Telluride Film Festival, which announced its slate about an hour ago. The title that has my interest most of all, frankly, is Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones' Letter to Elia , a documentary about Elia Kazan that will be discussed in a panel consisting of Todd McCarthy, Michael Barker (whose presence presumably confirms that Sony Classics will distribute?) and Jones.

Photos by HE correspondent Glenn Zoller.

The selections include Mike Leigh's Another Year (played at Cannes), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful (ditto), Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff, Olivier Assayas' 330-minutes Carlos (Cannes), a doc called Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (narrated by Werner Herzog, directed by Dimitry Vasyukov), Charles Ferguson's Inside Job, Peter Weir's The Way Back (allegedly problematic but the basis for a Weir tribute), Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go, Lee Chang Dong's Poetry, Errol Morris's Tabloid, Stephen Frears' Tamare Drewe (why on earthy would Tom and Gary they invite this film to Telluride?), Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 2, 2010 at 11:22 AM

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Travis Crabtree says ...

Way, way WAY cool poster!

Posted by Travis Crabtree at September 2, 2010 12:30 PM

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lazespud says ...

Holy shit... Kent Jones? the snarky, yet pretty damn funny dude who does the jokey end segments on the Rachel Maddow Show? I can only presume it is him because according to IMDB he got a "thank you" credit on Scorsese's Shine a Light.

Very cool/

That said, I know that people want to let bygones be bygones, but Kazan was a horrible fucking person for his testimony at HUAC. Horrible person.

History isn't kind to weak people and it shouldn't be kind to Kazan.

He has a hot granddaughter though, so that mitigates things a bit.

Posted by lazespud at September 2, 2010 12:37 PM

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George Prager says ...

Speaking of Kazan, there was a great article about his wife Barbara Loden and her film "Wanda" in the NY Times last Sunday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/movies/29wanda.html?ref=movies

Posted by George Prager at September 2, 2010 1:30 PM

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moviechick44 says ...

Nice to see The Way Back getting a screening at a festival. Just finished the book and I really liked it. Real page turner.

Posted by moviechick44 at September 2, 2010 3:51 PM

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MAGGA says ...

How can a new Errol Morris film be anything less than exhilerating? He's one of modern cinema's true heroes and one of the greatest living directors.

Posted by MAGGA at September 2, 2010 3:52 PM

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Cde. says ...

No big wows or mild surprises, even, at this year's Telluride Film Festival
Brad Pitt is rumoured to be in town.

...just saying.

Posted by Cde. at September 2, 2010 6:16 PM

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Jeffrey Wells says ...

Wells to Moviechick44: Three people who've seen it have told me it's a tank.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells at September 2, 2010 6:59 PM

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Strawdog says ...

Hmm..Tapley's got an article up saying he knows of 2 people who have seen TWB and both loved it... so should be interesting to hear what kind of reactions we get tomorrow.

Posted by Strawdog at September 2, 2010 7:22 PM

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Terry McCarty says ...

re lazespud's post:
Assuming it's the FILM COMMENT Kent Jones. I can only imagine the kind of panel discussion if Kazan biographer Richard Schickel ("Elia hated commies and so do I") were there to participate.

Also missing the days of the late 80s at Telluride when Chuck Jones would provide artwork (particularly for festival T-shirts).

Posted by Terry McCarty at September 3, 2010 1:27 AM

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