tadiv
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9/5/2007 1:24 PM
posted awhile ago
A quick summary of what I saw at the Telluride Film Festival in 2007 (no reviews, just a list)
We saw the following films at the 2007 Telluride Film Festival...
Features: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Band’s Visit, The Counterfeiters, When Did You Last See Your Father?, Persepolis, Terror’s Advocate, Jar City, Blind Mountain, People on Sunday, Encounters at the End of the World, I’m Not There, Juno, The Savages, Bergman Island: Ingmar Bergman on Faro Island, Cinema & Life, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, and Redacted.
Shorts that played with features: FISSION, L’AMERIQUE LUNAIRE, SALIM BABA, SPIDER, and YOURS TRULY.
Works from the "Great Expectations" program: FISH SOUP, DISTINGUISHING FEATURES, END OF THE LINE, COCO Y NICO, A SMALL DEATH, IF I DIE FAR FROM YOU, VENUS, and VER LLOVER.
Works from the "Student Prints" program: THE REPLACEMENT CHILD, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IN THE NAME OF THE SON, THE KNIFE GRINDER’S TALE, and DEATH OF SHULA. It was a good festival - we only got turned away from one film - that was Into the Wild, however there were many passholders complaining about being turned away from more than one show. Tom
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akdennis
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9/8/2007 4:57 AM
posted awhile ago
Re: A quick summary of what I saw at the Telluride Film Festival in 2007 (no reviews, just a list)
Hi Tom. As you mentioned at the end of your comments, there was a signifcant problem this year with passholders being turned away; i was one of them. I've been going to the Telluride fest for about 10 years now and it was significantly different this year. I had a Festival Pass and was turned away from 3 films in a row on Saturday. That has never happened to me before. There were quite a few rumours running around as to why this happened. One was they they sold more Festival passes this year. The other was that there was an unanticipated surge in sales of Patron passes this year and they filled up all the seats. I got into the Sunday morning showing of "Into the Wild," the Q and A session, but just barely. I actually sat in the very first row (tough to see the film, but good for seeing Sean Penn). I chatted with one of the staffers later and she said that normally they would expect 20-30 Patron passes at the Chuck for a major, popular fiilm. But for this shiow, she said they had about 100. Interesting. Not sure what the festival managers will do but they will have to do something to avoid a repeat of this next year. Cheers! -Dennis, Portland, OR
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