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Quint's going to the Telluride Film Festival!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Telluride has been a film festival I’ve wanted to attend since I first heard of it. Taking place right before Toronto this fest is handled a lot like Butt-Numb-A-Thon in that they typically have some incredible premieres and they don’t announce their line-up in advance.
On top of that, they don’t comp their badges for press or industry people, so it’s not a highly publicized festival. Their badges ain’t cheap, either.
So, I’m doing this festival guerilla style, driving up from Austin, renting a room out from someone downtown and doing the fest without a badge, buying individual tickets for every show.
Since they don’t announce their programming in advance I can’t give you a preview of the fest, but IndieWire’s Anne Thompson speculates we’ll see Cannes films White Ribbon, Bright Star and Un Prophete, which won the Grand Prix. She also guesses there’s a shot at THE ROAD, Jason Reitman’s UP IN THE AIR (he brought JUNO to Telluride before it premiered at Toronto) and early Oscar buzzer AN EDUCATION.
Apparently the fest is a favorite of Werner Herzog, so there’s a lot of talk about MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? and BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, which has me giddy. If you don’t know why I’m giddy to see that movie you obviously haven’t seen the trailer…
Alexander Payne serves as the Guest Director and will be hand picking a few selections himself.
From word of those that have been and from what I read online Telluride strikes me as a film lover’s festival. It’s all about the movies, not the awards, not the glamour, not the star-fucking, but a kind of leap of faith that you’re going to experience great films in one of the most beautiful places in the country.
Last year Danny Boyle snuck SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE there and the buzz from that fest started the wave that carried him all the way to the Kodak Theater where he took home quite a few little golden statues. David Fincher also snuck a work in progress print of Benjamin Button.
I’ll be there on the ground figuring it out movie by movie, seeing just how much trouble I can get in to. I don’t know how much access I’ll be able to get, but I understand the fest if fairly talent-heavy so I’ll see if I can lock down a few interviews as well a full plate of movies. If you’re around the fest and want to say hi drop me an email at quint@aintitcool.com.
I leave Austin tomorrow morning at 5am beginning the some 1100 mile drive that'll take me through Northern Texas, New Mexico and the crazy Colorado mountains. It'll be an adventure and a half, that's for sure. I look forward to sharing it with you guys.
-Quint
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...I demand a write-up. Make it happen, sir!
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You better believe I will. I love that book and I'm so incredibly curious to see how the flick turned out. Stay tuned!
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I'll definitely be tuning in. Like you, I love the book and I'm incredibly curious yet strangely nervous. I hope Hillcoat pulled it off.Have you seen the new one-sheets? Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/nz2nh8
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I mean they have Viggo Mortensen himself there, so it would seem only natural. No idea why so many rumors are Scott Pilgrim is playing there... doubt that one (?).
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You'll have a good time i'm sure Quint, Telluride's a cool little town.
I haven't been to the festival but I have seen a movie in their theatre.. really didn't know much about it at the time but that movie was PREDATOR - and yes, it did indeed fuck my eyeballs.
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are both playing at the Venice Film Festival next week. I'm hoping to make it over there for Survival Of The Dead and cool looking french, Zombies Vs gangsters flick, La Horde
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Bad Lieutenant looks worse than The Wicker Man.
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All the films you mentioned are playing there for sure. I'll be seeing The Road, Up In the Air, A Serious Man, A Prophet, Youth in Revolt and The Invention of Lying, among many others. And yes, it's perfectly acceptable to hate me right now.
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I went to that one...
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Sep 01, 2009 11:58:09 AM CDT
Have fun, Quint and please report on THE ROAD if it happens
by yackbacker
And bring back some beef jerky for the group.
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I hear its been left abandoned.
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Sep 01, 2009 12:31:47 PM CDT
Seems like Nic Cage has that coke sniffin down good
by zombieheathledger
a little sense memory?
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This Festival took longer than Sundance did, but it's has become an assfucked whore. I guess it had to happen.
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fuck driving 1100 miles
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I loves me some Herzog - any man who can control Klaus Kinski has nothing to fear from the Cage.
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That line could become this year's "Not the beeeeees!"
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Don't like. They really want to be the next I am Legand don't they?
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... Hollywood reaches Telluride in a whole new way this year.
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I got to go last year, and it was a superb experience. Of course, I got to go through a student thingy that gave me a chance to chat with most of the filmmakers and not wait in line for most of the movies...so maybe my experience was easier than most.
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They're large, static and cold. The only craziness you can expect is the right wing douchebag at the Conoc you stop at for gas bitching about the government comin' to take his guns away.
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when Abel Ferrara made it years ago with The Keitel as the Bad Lieutenant. Fuck this movie, Fuck Nicholas Cage and fuck you.
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if by any miracle you're reading this. SHAVE YOUR FUCKING HEAD. I don't know whether to watch you in shitty movies or call U.S. Fish and Wildlife services.
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It's just pure movies.No serious celebrity bullshit or red carpets.You see actual stars inline like everybody else for a movie. You have to take a ski lift to go over a mountain for a bigger theater( named after Chuck Jones; I saw the American premiere of Princess Mononoke there ) It's kind of sad that Toronto has basically taken away all the spotlight from it, but it's probably a good thing. It's never turned into the asinine seller's market that Sundance turned into.
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Sep 02, 2009 2:15:58 AM CDT
Damn it Johnny, you know I love my Big Beef & Chedder
by thegreatlightningheist
30 Rock love!I bow to you stevenWphillips.
Also, Colorado + September + Mind-blowing Cinema - Industry Douche-Baggery = Telluride Festival Awesomeness! Enjoy it while it lasts.
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