Telluride, Colorado 7:51am, Mountain Time
Actually I have to go. It is the last day of the film festival. 8:30, I have a breakfast meeting in the Sheradon on Colorado Ave. The internet here in the Ice House is very slow. Later there is a picnic in Town Park. Tomorrow at 6:00am a bus will get us to Montrose airport, where the charter will get us to New York. In the charter I will have time to write about the 40th Telluride Film Festival in the mountains of Colorado. Her are some images, if they upload:
This is the new Werner Herzog Cinema for 650 people. The rest of the year the Werner Herzog is an ice skating venue:
One more thing. This is a fruit I have never seen before.
A cross between apricot and plum, the Dapple Dandy Pluot:
It’s sunny every morning and there is rain and thunderstorm every afternoon,
so I bought this hat in the angler store: (not to put on outside the US)
Now it is 12:14 Mountain Time and I found out it is Labor Day.
I just went to a Q&A for the Cannes winner “Blue Is the Warmest Color”, also known as the lesbian porn, or “La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2” –– directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, with Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, and Jérémie Laheurte. The film is really good. And really long. Everybody complaines about the sex scenes. But the sex scenes are very good. Sex and art are hard to show in movies. Léa Seydoux plays an artist in the film and her art is really horrible. But the rest is very good. Why are there no mobile phones in the film?
Here they are with my friend Colin MacCabe translating the French (Léa Seydoux in a RUN DMC t-shirt):
and here is the poster:
It’s 5:10pm Mountain Time. I just had lunch with Salman Rushdie. Colin is a very old friend of his. Salman told this nice strory about Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. First of all it is “movable” not “moveable”, a mistake they took from Hemmingway’s notes because the book was published after his death. It’s full of Hemingway’s personal accounts, observations and stories of the 1920s in Paris. “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
More tomorrow:
