Stories from the Telluride Film Festival, 2007. Paul talks to surrogate father figures Leonard Maltin and Werner Herzog (who was showing his Antarctica doc, Encounters at the End of the World). Karina weighs in on Brian DePalma’s divisive Iraq film, Redacted. Kevin eventually gets a chance to ask Sean Penn about directing Into the Wild.
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Encounters at the End of the World, Redacted, Into the Wild
With the Toronto Film Festival beginning tomorrow, we’ve just about concluded our Telluride coverage. Here are some highlights. You’ll find a full guide to our Telluride reportage, minus Friday’s upcoming all-Telluride episode of FilmCouch, after the jump.
Kevin interviews Sean Penn about his Telluride directorial triumph, Into the Wild.
Karina has a detailed preview of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.
Paul talks to Werner Herzog about “life, risk and how his mom quit smoking.”
“In Superbad, Michael Cera fantasizes about a world in which ‘girls weren’t weirded out by our boners, but actually wanted to look at them.’ Juno takes place in that world.” Karina reviews the Festival’s biggest buzz-getter, and Paul interviews director Jason Reitman.
We love People on Sunday. Paul says the 1929 silent film “contains the most seductive first kiss I’ve ever seen on film. No joke.” Karina looks at the historical context.
“It’s true that I was in a rather fragile, sleep-deprived state at the time, but even now, the morning after, as it were, I still love this film.” Kevin’s talking about I’m Not There. He also talked to that film’s director, Todd Haynes.
“When I was 20 years old, I moved from Chicago to San Francisco, and I did it for George Kuchar.” Karina offers some thoughts on the experimental legend/Telluride honoree.
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Paul caught up with film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, who shared with me what he’s really excited to see at Telluride this year.
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At some point between hearing Leonard Maltin talk about wanting so badly to see The Big Parade and handing me a copy of his newsletter (did anyone know Maltin has a newsletter?), I realized we were kindred spirits.
What gives me even more hope is, in the land of Telluride, a movie geek with a mission can be sexy. Kevin overheard a couple gushing and preening themselves as they worked up the courage to meet Mr. Maltin after me.
“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, to the right, to the right. Three o’clock… Leonard… Maltin.”
