10 Buzziest Movies Telluride Film Festival

Telluride, Colorado (TheWrap.com) - It 's official: George Clooney, Telluride is the town hall hours. All other - Glenn Close, Tilda Swinton, Jennifer Garner, dogs, hippies, and even Lauren Bush, the top clans in the mountains - only to live in it.

38th annual festival may have peaked early with his first world premiere screening last Friday of Alexander Payne "descendants", on which it was difficult to find a discouraging word. Unanimity has not carried over to concern any other film, even if the American debut at the Cannes favorite "The Artist" encouraged about the same emotion.

Love of Payne movie would have been lower, but George Clooney was not done for the city. It does not hurt that has charmed everyone in the valley of effort, and a weekend that began with the controversy of the party - and soon canceled - the edict of the media not to photograph the watch to the end with the actor and director, after spending quality time with everyone, but the dogs in town (and still can get a hearing).

The panel was asked how he deals with the crush of fans, Clooney left the living language by far the sexiest on the cheek.

"I drink - a lot," he said. "And here, at this point, you can get pretty f --- ed Up," with only one or two shots, he said. "It's cheap drink here!"

Other players were very accessible to more casual festivals, including Glenn Close. ("She's in it to win it," notes a press agent admiring rival an Oscar hopeful.) But the question of the gondola was divided on projects Close passion, "Albert Nobbs", as he David Cronenberg was for Freud-Jung - Beat the theater company, "a dangerous method," and especially unannounced sneak previews of "Grease," a satirical large, red-state-baiting comedy co-produced by leading lady Jennifer Garner.

Buzz this 10 key films in Telluride through Monday evening near:

1. Offspring. How much does the audience and critics love Alexander Payne's first film after "Sideways"? Let me count the ways, the probable discomfort to all those who have not been shot when they see it, until Fox Searchlight release of its 23 theaters in November. None of Reckoning, the comic drama is 25 times better than the trailer suggested in doubt, the father-absent-switches-with-daughter-through-tragedy theme, just one of many wrinkles to walk a tightrope tone of the script. Clooney has more heart than he had even allowed on the screen, and even the players with only two or three scenes, like Robert Forster, Judy Greer, and not the time to perform comedy and heartbreak.

The industry bloggers carried his heart on his sleeve. Written Elsewhere Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood, "For me, the love of sudden changes, subtle in tone between drama and straight-What you gonna do, throw-up-your-hands, the comedy alone. Perfect. " "If Searchlight makes all the right movies, the film must navigate through mixed-season prices," said Anne Thompson indieWIRE. Only Kris Tapley fight was lukewarm, calling it "a little light Payne" and saying "not sure" whether to "fight a nomination for Best Picture" - a prediction of a few others are now again.

Artist 2nd. If Weinstein play their cards - and their title and brief dialogue - right, "The Artist" could be the first silent film hit, because, well, Mel Brooks "Silent Movie" ... if not, since the real beginning of the 1930s. The public did not seem to think that its plot - basically "A Star Is Born" with a happy ending - is far Cornier that the film classic silent film director whose formal conventions monkeys as well. It is to play as a general board crowd, judging by the participants evangelical zeal Telluride may very well out of the ordinary arthouse Cineplex.

Butter third. Hundreds were turned away from the world premiere Saturday night, and "sneak preview" of a competition-in-the-stick comedy, which is compared to everything from "Smile" to "Little Miss Sunshine." Laughter echoed through the galaxy, but some left with sour faces, with extensive film stereotypes of the Midwest and condescending attitude toward the crossing point of states measure.

Jennifer Garner, the output from the project and it is as if she and the filmmakers have begun with the idea of ​​coming up with a shrill witch-like Sarah Palin to mock, then worked backwards to give him some great movies ran - including an incredibly early age of 11, black girl that contribute to a championship against him for butter sculpture. Condescending or not, there was a lot of players willing and able to laugh Iowans make butter sculptures of the Last Supper and Newt Gingrich. Garner was bold - maybe too bold - to make him hard to the right cycle. But there is pleasure in the myriad of supporting turns including Olivia Wilde is cast against type stripper most amazing of Iowa, and finally play a human (barely) after "Tron. Legacy" "Cowboys & Aliens "and

Awards Daily Sasha Stone gave the image a good rating, but other bloggers did not melt. "Galaxy eaten this political comedy," Thompson Twitter ", but left me cold. Laughter, but it is difficult to sell the TWC." Wells was up-front about the film festival, tweeting: "For Telluride Film Festival, a mecca for quality, visualization of socio-political satire in a subtle way, stupid and written at random," can "?"

4. Albert Nobbs. Telluride is famous for the launch of a gender-bending hit "The Crying Game", so that hopes were high towers Glenn Close drag along this period film would result in a successful new audience. Its protagonist is a woman who lived in 1890 Dubin most of his life disguised as a man, thanks for a waiter and sommelier, occupations that lend themselves to invisibility. With the help of makeup and prosthetics Nobbs minor Close interpreted as a kind of social and sexual with a naive look of perpetual servitude, ingenuity and surprise, in a flash of bravura acting superb in its simplicity and reserve. But Telluride reaction was mainly along the lines of "love of performance;. (Just) like the movie"

Tapley writes: "It's a fascinating character, but it feels a little closed to the public. It works, given the circumstances, to some extent, but soon turns into a claustrophobic room with the nature of the film." Called Wells movie "moderately affected" and gave the public "somewhat muted reaction, adding that almost gives" a classic, minimalist performance. "But he had high praise even higher on Broadway veteran Janet McTeer, another woman posing as a man, the prediction of an additional name for the Oscar McTeer and saying that their actions to support" a dignity, heart and heat. "

5. A dangerous method. If Olivia Wilde was cast against type in "butter", the double Knightley for "method" Keira, including the bottom lashes, bare nipples, and limit psychotic crises provide the audience are not inherently fascinated by psychoanalytic theory, because otherwise, David Cronenberg once academics see Freud / Jung biopic. In the opening scenes, was transported for treatment, while acting in the way most of Linda Blair, pulling the jaw more than any other player since Billy Bob Thornton, of honor in Telluride with "Sling Blade". "His jaw is the fourth character in this movie," joked one staff member of the party.

Draw two and three are Michael Fassbender (also seen at the festival of "shame") and Viggo Mortensen as a pioneer of psychoanalysis in competition, who play their cards close to the vest, even when one is armed with a powerful racket . It's a bit dry, and some sex scenes punishment notwithstanding. But where, but patrons would find Telluride on a bike to travel on the streets quibble 1:00 ET on how the film portrays the genesis of theories of "individuation"?

Already established in Venice a few days ago, "Method" arrived in Telluride with diminished expectations for its Oscar chances - which provided some Colorado fans to argue that he had been prematurely rejected abroad. The tweeter has come very grateful to Anne Thompson, who wrote, intellectual catnip "" Dangerous Method "for the smart-house crowd, or anyone who has ever been in love, like S + M, or Brave performances therapy ... Knightley divided critics, like the film, which may be too kinky for Oscar voters. "To get out of the academy, then, or too bad ... or both?

Sixth in the dark. Director Agnieszka Holland described this as his "third film Shoah, and hopefully the last." Trilogy "sounds good." She saved the best for last, this goes on, yet poignant story the real lives of tens of Polish Jews , who spent 14 months in hiding their fighters in a sewer system. Most of the film is set in the dark underground that might not seem an ideal lighting for two and a half hours sitting. But the steps in Holland action sequences and suspense terribly wet because it makes the character interaction among the terrified refugees - it is interesting to note - can be just as excited hiding amid the smell of human excrement as they were above soil.

Most of the bloggers in the industry have not taken "in the dark" yet, but Movie City News' David Poland has already established that his choice for the Oscar nominated foreign language. Well nothing that the designation process is predictable category, Holland has a strong chance of contention Price to make a sale difficult, as substantial gains for the public in the light.

7. Shame. Steve McQueen is a psychosexual drama received strong warnings from Venice over the weekend, and begins its first American showing Sunday in Telluride. The public, who can not get enough of the bad scenes glimpse of "dangerous method", has apparently much closer to them, when this same NC-17 film rolls out Sunday and Monday.

8. In the abyss. Werner Herzog is the patron saint often return to Durango, to the praise of his annual film here should be taken with a grain of salt lightly. But he called the initial projection of the death penalty documentary swear it's one of the most recent manager. "Best of the Fest so far," Tapley wrote in his blog.

9th Living in the material world. Martin Scorsese launched his brilliant Bob Dylan film "No Direction Home" in Telluride, so it was a little surprised when his three-and-a half hour of the first George Harrison documentary Friday before an arc beginning in October TV HBO. Festival of the customer Greil Marcus promised that Dylan pic "nothing against" Scorsese followed, but the public was not necessarily agree with the complaints that it feels like a large collection of film clips and interviews but not necessarily a true story. Beatlemaniacs But being on the moon, not only on fresh anecdotes and demos ever seen, but a 5.1 audio remix include dozens of Fab Four tunes and Harrison, which are controlled by Giles Martin .

10. The Moon / Pina. Pixar has shown one of his magical short films to date, "The Moon", a rapid 3D shows how the two men, the son of an anchor, and a rake to keep the maintenance of the moon changing shape. Short has been preceded by a brilliant 3-D feature, Wim Wenders, "Pina", 100 minutes of brilliant modern dance performance on stage, the beaches and cliffs, and even traffic medians. It is directly connected to Herzog's "Cave of Dreams Forgotten", a short pantheon of art-house documents that require these special glasses - and perhaps to convince Roger Ebert turn causes.

Praise from the public was also high for "Le Havre" and the documentary film "The Island Chair" Cannes and the importation of "separation" and "The Kid with a bicycle," which is gradually deployed over the weekend .

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