Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticCall me crazy, stubborn or reckless, but until today’s announcement that the Telluride Film Festival has been canceled, I’d optimistically kept my reservation, holding out hope that the high-altitude fall fest — which has launched such best picture Oscar winners as “The King’s Speech,” “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight” — might happen after all.Passes went on sale in late February for the high-altitude sprocket opera, and within hours, they’d sold out.
A few weeks later, everything turned upside down as coronavirus outbreak exploded across the U.S., casting the fate of all 2020 film festivals in doubt.Even so, Telluride executive director Julie Huntsinger tells Variety that only a small fraction of this.
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