Telluride: Day 2 Movies

 Movie #2: Tribute to Roger Corman

I never like the idea of starting a day of movies with a tribute. Tributes can be very boring.  Short clips that are meant to explicate a body of work. Yawn.

This tribute was a documentary rather than a series of clips and it turned out to be one of our favorite films of the entire festival. Never heard of Roger Corman? See it anyway! Or be decapitated by a giant shark and dunked in goopy blood!


Movie #3: The Sapphires

A film festival favorite, and for a while our favorite. This film will certainly have broad appeal. It is about an Aboriginal girl group (of singers) that entertained the troops in Vietnam. Based on a true story.


Movie #4: Amour

Although this movie was shown early in the festival, there was significant buzz, right from the get-go. The word was that it was a great but terribly sad film. It's about an elderly couple struggling after the wife has a stroke.  Tanya could not bear to watch it, stayed home, and doesn't regret it. I went, cried and don't regret it.  The film feels as though it was shot in real time. In other words it is a film that takes its time.  No car chases.  Beautiful film.

Movie #5: Argo

This was our sneak peek of the festival. A sneak peek is a film that has its world premiere here, but opens "officially" somewhere else (and later). My guess is that many people came to the film just to see Ben Affleck run down the aisle to introduce the film.  This is the story of the Iran hostage crisis.  It was a well done, exciting thriller, based on fact, of course. Great entertainment. We both thoroughly enjoyed it.

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