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The Telluride Film Festival, which takes place every Labor Day weekend in the mind-expandingly gorgeous San Juan Mountains, is the favorite film festival of anyone who’s ever attended it. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. The four-day festival is neither hectic nor amped, but it nonetheless manages to showcase the best of each year’s Cannes and Toronto line-ups, as well as invariably some rarities and older films to savor.
This year, Eric D. Snider and I will be bringing you the news and reviews from Colorado. (It’s Eric’s first trip, which is doubly exciting.) And the line-up, announced earlier today, looks excellent, showcasing Cannes favorites like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful](Biutiful (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), Mike Leigh’s Another Year](Another Year (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), and Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe](Tamara Drewe (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), as well as high-profile premieres like Mark Romanek’s eagerly awaited Never Let Me Go](Never Let Me Go (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) (with superstar novelist Kazuo Ishiguro in attendance) and Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech](The King's Speech (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), which is getting major Oscar buzz for Colin Firth.
The title that really makes me tingle with anticipation is Peter Weir’s POW flick The Way Back](The Way Back (2010) - IMDb). Weir makes two movies a decade these days, if we’re lucky, and they’re always good. (I am maybe the world’s biggest Peter Weir fan; two of his movies – The Truman Show and Gallipoli – would make my all-time top 20 if I were to construct one.) Weir is getting one of the festival’s “Silver Medallion” awards, which is usually a bit of an exercise in who-can-we-get-to-come, but this is a great choice. The festival will also be screening Weir’s long-lost 1979 horror film The Plumber](The Plumber (TV Movie 1979) - IMDb), which I have never seen and will do my very best to catch.
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