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Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson and I talk our Best Picture gets and various other things from Telluride, and a bit about Toronto. A quick hour.
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Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson and I talk our Best Picture gets and various other things from Telluride, and a bit about Toronto. A quick hour.
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I’m confused. Sasha talks about Telluride “changing the narrative” on Belfast after Venice. Belfast didn’t play Venice, did it? Also, gotta say I don’t get the King Richard love. It’s just not that good (about the 10th best film I saw in Telluride). Not a bad movie, but not in the same class as Power, Cmon, Hand of God, Belfast, Spencer, or even Cyrano. Left me as soon as I left the theatre.
Its interesting to see Licorice Pizza all over Gold Derby. I feel like that will get overwhelmed by all the other movies and disappear.
Richard Jenkins for The Humans has moved up fast in Gold Derby. He must be fantastic in it.
I must admit I have always been slightly confused by Telluride just because it sounded to me like the amount of movies one can catch is so small. I always think of it in relation to this local festival with a seemingly pretty similar vibe, a small town with a lot of nature around it, high school gyms converted into movie theatres and a very warm general tone with the attendants. Pre-COVID I would do at least 5 movies a day there, including once doing 8 screenings back to back one day (noon to 7 am), and after going to sleep for a few hours, I went to another 6. Because this is how my brain has been taught is how one goes to a festival, I’ve always kind of considered Telluride to be low on the list of the major festivals I’d want to go to some day because it sounded like doing even three screenings a day was difficult. So it’s really wonderful to hear that one can actually do a lot at the festival
Wow, watching that many films with that little rest remind me of uni freshers’ camp. You must have been exhausted! I normally max out at 3 films a day on a festival, I don’t think my brain could take more.
In general, I’ve noticed that as long as you just get into it immediately, you can kind of just form a day rhythm around going to the movies and it works perfectly until you need to return back to a normal rhythm, which is when I usually need about a day or so to recalibrate. That’s why at whatever festival I go to, I cram the first day as full as I can. For example the big festival of the year around here (not the one I was talking about above) starts tomorrow but there’s only one movie screening on opening night (Annette), so on Friday I’m planning to see 4 movies (Dune, After Love, Flee and The World to Come), even if due to needing to also do other things I’ll probably average at around 2.5 movies per day otherwise.
2.5 is still plenty, especially if you need to do other things too! My schedule for this year’s London Film Festival involves 17 films over 12 days, but I only go above 2 on weekends. The 9-5 takes up too much time on weekdays 🙁
I can only do two movies a day … 😮
Quick sidebar for the next “can the Oscars be saved” discussion. Look how much run ESPN got last night for Monday Night Football doing a simulcast on a sister station with the Manning brothers giving an MST/Live Twitter style discussion of the game. Engaging and funny as hell. Maybe Oscar ought to design a simulcast utilizing the various networks and streaming services ABC/Disney owns.
Vanity Fair just posted the first images of the cast of Nightmare Alley on their Instagram. Looks beautiful!
Oh it’s looking absolutely stunning. Super excited for it!
It really does. Literally my only mild concern for the movie at this point is that it might actually have too much star power – to the point that it becomes distracting