The final trio of films I caught at this year’s Telluride fest, which is slowly winding down this holiday, were a bit of Cannes catch-up. The first, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Biutiful,” I responded to yesterday. The other two come from Sony Pictures Classics, which has a whopping five films in play here, and will have nine at Toronto later in the week.
Before getting to those reactions, though, I have to say that this year’s program has been absolutely wonderful. I’m only on my second year, but long-timers seem to concur that festival directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger really outdid themselves this time.
I’ll talk more in the way of wrapping things up sometime later tonight or tomorrow. For now, I have just enough time to offer up these capsules, update the predictions sidebar and contenders section, hopefully make it to an interview with Darren Aronofsky (which may have to wait until post-fest) and prepare for a 3:30 departure. The latest Off the Carpet column will come later.
Let’s get on with it…