On the first day of this year’s festival, many Telluride attendees prioritized screenings of high-profile films that already have distributors. But come Monday, more people (us) are able to branch out a bit and catch up on lesser-known games that aren’t yet supported. One such film, which just opened at the Werner Herzog Theater in the second screening of the festival, is titled September 5. (The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last Thursday and its North American premiere last Saturday, shortly before real-world tragedy heightened its relevance and timeliness.) Best of all: It may be the most powerful narrative film of the entire festival! This certainly left many festivalgoers – industry insiders and civilians alike – feeling excited as they left the venue.
If/when the 94-minute film – ABC Sports’ coverage of a terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics – gets a top distributor, it could be among the Oscar-winners Start a fierce competition. I’m talking about Best Picture (it’s hard to find 10 worthy nominees this year, but this one is important Sean Penn As a producer, it must be one of them), Best Director (Tim Fairbauma young Swiss filmmaker I had never heard of before), Best Actor (Peter Sarsgaardplaying the legendary ABC sports executive Ruane Arledgeand had never been nominated before), Best Supporting Actor (John MagaroPlaying the role of the network’s young coordinating producer in charge of Olympic coverage, Jeff Mason), Best Original Screenplay (Fielbaum and Moritz Binder) and at least the best production design.
Disappointingly, publishers have recently shied away from many valuable sales titles dealing with abortion, Ukraine and other politically sensitive topics. Donald Trumpso some may be hesitant to go anywhere near the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But I have no doubt that at least one of them will be smart enough to make a film in which there is no debate about who wronged whom and which also provides a fascinating, thrilling, and thrilling look at journalists, the business of journalism, A haunting look. it will be remembered all the president’s people, broken glass (Sarsgaard had a great role early on), good night and good luck and spotlight.
