On Thursday, the discuss of Telluride was what the Friday patron screening could be. On Friday, we discovered it was Paolo Sorrentino’s Venice opener “La Grazia.” And on the annual Telluride brunch, the query circulating was: Which screening of Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere” would Bruce present up at? Friday or Saturday? (Each.)
The jampacked brunch up within the mountains introduced most of the Labor Day weekend gamers collectively. Once I launched Paul Mescal (“The Historical past of Sound” and “Hamnet”) to documentarian Morgan Neville (“Man on the Run”), they dove right into a deep, enthusiastic dialog about their mutual fascination, Paul McCartney. Mescal is deep in rehearsals in London for the primary of 4 Sam Mendes Beatles films. He has visited McCartney’s sheep farm in Scotland, the place he decompressed after the Beatles breakup, and likewise visited his Cavendish manse. Neville is debuting his post-Beatles McCartney Wings film. Whereas Telluride director Julie Huntsinger wished McCartney to attend, he was on tour. Mescal additionally greeted Harris Dickinson (the writer-director of “Urchin”), who performs Lennon, and Jeremy Allen White, who performs Springsteen.
Additionally available had been Chloe Zhao, the director of the guide adaptation “Hamnet,” starring Mescal and Jessie Buckley as Shakespeare and his spouse, one in all two movies about grieving on the pageant, together with “H is for Hawk,” starring Claire Foy, who performs the creator Helen Macdonald in Philippa Lowthorpe’s movie model.
Rose Byrne is producing Oscar discuss for her efficiency in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” and Ethan Hawke can be constructing buzz for “Blue Moon,” directed by Richard Linklater, who was available together with his “Nouvelle Obscure” star Zoey Deutch.
Many Cannes movies are on show at Telluride, together with “Sentimental Worth” (with Stellan Skarsgard) and “Pillion” (with Alexander Skarsgard) and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Secret Agent,” starring Greatest Actor winner Wagner Maura.
The opposite first night time screenings had been “Hamnet” and Edward Berger’s “Ballad of a Small Participant,” starring Colin Farrell as a seedy gambler in Macau. Saturday brings two Venice arrivals, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia” starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and “Jay Kelly,” with out George Clooney, who missed his press convention as a result of a sinus an infection. Actually the Italian authorities delayed two personal planes that had been bringing the “Jay Kelly” entourage to Colorado. Huntsinger at her press convention after the brunch suspected foul play from the Venice pageant, which doesn’t like their expertise to go away early to go to Telluride. (There’s fierce competitors amongst Telluride, Venice and Toronto.)
Huntsinger is clearly pleasant with Sundance’s Eugene Hernandez, Berlin’s Tricia Tuttle, and Cannes’ Thierry Fremaux, who had been all available.
