On Thursday, the conversation about Tellurid Was what Friday tax screening would be. On Friday we were told that it was Paolo Sorrentino’s Venice opener “La Grazia.” And at the annual Telluride brunch, the question was that circulated: what screening of Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: liver me from Nowhere” would Bruce show up on? Friday or Saturday? (Both.)
The jampged brunch up in the mountains brought many of the Labor Day Weekend players. When I introduced Paul Mescal (“The History of Sound” and “The Port”) to the documentary Morgan Neville (“Man on the run”), they hide into a depth, enthusiastic conversation about their mutual fascination, Paul McCartney. Mescal is deep in rehearsals in London for the first of four Sam Mendes Beatles films. He has visited McCartney’s sheep farm in Scotland, where he decompressed after the Beatles breakdown and also visited his Cavendish Manse. Neville debuts his Post-Beatles McCartney Wings movie. While Telluride director Julie Huntsinger wanted McCartney to participate, he was touring. Mescal also greeted Harris Dickinson (author-director of “Urchin”), who plays Lennon, and Jeremy Allen WhiteWho plays Springsteen.
At hand was also Chloe Zhao, the director of the book adaptation “The Harbor”, starring Mescal and Jessie Buckley as Shakespeare and his wife, one of two films about the festival, along with “H is for Hawk,” with Claire Foy, who plays author Helen MacDonald film version.
Rose Byrne generates Oscar calls for his performance in “If I had legs I would kick you”, and Ethan Hawke also builds buzz for “Blue Moon”, directed by Richard Linklater, who was at hand with his “Nouvelle Vague” star Zoey Deutch.
Many Cannes films appear on Telluride, including “Sentimental Value” (with Stellan Skarsgard) and “Billion” (with Alexander Skarsgard) and Kleber Mendonça Filhos “Secret Agent”, with the best actor Wagner Maura.
The second first night’s shows were “Harbor” and Edward Berger’s “Ballad by a small player”, with Colin Farrell as a snuff player in Macau. Saturday brings with him two Venice anchors, Yorgos Lanthimo’s “Bugonia” with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and “Jay Kelly,” without George Clooney, who missed his press conference because of a sinus infection. In fact, the Italian government delayed two private aircraft that brought the “Jay Kelly” company to Colorado. Huntsinger at his press conference after the brunch suspected Foul Play from the Venice festival, which does not like their talent to leave early to go to Telluride. (There is fierce competition among Telluride, Venice and Toronto.)
Huntsinger is obviously friendly with Sundances Eugene Hernandez, Berlin Tricia Tuttle and Cannes Thierry Fremaux, all of whom were on hand.
