Telluride Watch 3: Benjamin Button and AwardsBuzz

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I've Linked You So Long
Published 9/2/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (NATHANIEL R) at Film Experience Blog
In Contention joins in on the Kristin Scott Thomas Oscar buzz (for I've Loved You So Long). Could we really have a French language film in the Best Actress race two years running? As Little As Possible filing reports from Telluride. Can't wait to see some of these films Anne Thompson's Telluride Watch, too. Daily GreenCine collects the rousing response to Slumdog Millionaire, a festival breakout Just Jared burns up for Charlize Theron at her latest premiere. fwiw, the shoes are beyond ...

Is ‘Benjamin Button’ Too Long at Twenty Minutes?
Published 9/2/2008 at Vulture
... Variety's Anne Thompson blames blogger disappointment on the fact that they were forced to show minutes of bits and pieces of the film, rather than one long sequence, to make clear the passage of time (Button stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages backward). Still, though, if Fincher can't put together a decent twenty-minute montage from all his shot footage, doesn't that sort of undercut his argument that this movie needs to be three hours long? And will Paramount now ask him to trim the film from its current length to a more manageable sixteen or seventeen ...

Telluride Round-Up: Brad Pitt Qualifies For Oscar in 20 Minutes Flat [Telluride Film Festival]
Published 9/2/2008 by STV at Defamer
... bosses alike, Labor Day came and went instead with rangy early takes on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher's long-awaited (and reportedly just long) saga of Brad Pitt aging backwards. While we had pretty much gotten used to the film's stirring Spanish-language trailer, a few closer reads of previews emerging from the Rockies suggest the final result might be a little more complex: Extraordinary digital effects! Romance! And, alas, disappointment: What worked for Paul Thomas Anderson the year before seemed to ...

“Flash of Genius” Telluride Premiere
Published 9/2/2008 by Arieanna at Gilmore Girls News - #1 Community for Gilmore Girls
Lauren Graham’s latest movie, Flash of Genius, has started on a tour of film festivals. Right now it’s gone through a pretty big premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. You can check out some photos of Lauren Graham at the Telluride Film Festival here and here. The movie tells the story of Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wipers. While ti is a story of his invention, and of its theft & the coutroom drama that ensues, it’s also ...