Day 2: Telluride Tries to Survive Life During Wartime - Page 3

What you might not know
• “Lifetime During Wartime” is also a song in the movie, but if you’re expecting Talking Heads, you might be disappointed. This version was written by Tony Award-winning songwriter Marc Shaiman with lyrics by Solondz, and is performed twice, with Joy on a bed singing sweetly while plucking an acoustic guitar and Andy asking “Was your song about me?” (Reubens is shown with Henderson.) Then folkie Devendra Banhart is heard singing it over the final credits. For good measure, there's music from classical composers such as Handel and Vivaldi.
• One of the great TV villains in recent seasons, Omar Little from HBO’s The Wire, was played by Michael K. Williams, who makes a ruthlessly funny appearance here in the opening scene as Joy’s husband Allen. He also has a role in The Road, which made its Telluride premiere Sunday following a tribute to Viggo Mortensen.

High on Telluride
• Director Werner Herzog, always a Telluride favorite who is on the festival’s “esteemed council of advisors,” has two films showing Sunday. He and star Nicolas Cage will attend two screenings of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Then Herzog will present an 11 p.m. sneak preview of My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done, a David Lynch-produced film about a presentation of Sophocles’ Orestes that goes terribly wrong. It stars Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny.
• The sneak preview of Up In The Air, starring George Clooney, was well-received while reportedly hundreds of pass-holders were turned away. Festival guest director Alexander Payne was almost kept out, until a staffer came to his rescue. Before the screening, director Jason Reitman announced to the crowd he was celebrating his fifth wedding anniversary.

Check out Day 2 festival photos, including Carey Mulligan, the breakout star of An Education.

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