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KATE will now WINSLET be joined (pictured by Susan far right) Sarandon who (right) in director Roger Michell’s film Blackbird, based on the Danish movie Silent Heart, about an unwell mother who tries to bring her two daughters together. Dianne Keaton had been set to make the picture but had to withdraw — for personal family reasons, not professional ones.

mountains RALph Telluride above FIeNNeS, Film Denver, Festival who Colorado, is attending up in for the the the first screening of his film The White Crow, which he directs and also appears in. It’s about Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the west in 1961. Oleg Ivenko portrays Nureyev in the picture, that has a screenplay by David hare. The White Crow will also be shown at the BFI London Film Festival on October 18. IT LOOKS like a bumper year for Telluride, an old mining town set high in the San Juan peaks. Yorgos Lanthimos’s new movie The Favourite, should be a highlight. It stars Olivia Colman as Queen Anne, with Rachel Weisz as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and Emma Stone as Abigail Masham, a servant who vies with Sarah for the Queen’s ear, as it were. I’m hearing from those who have caught it that it’s a comedic beauty of a film that flips the usually stale Brit historical picture on its head. I also hear it will have maiden aunts sending for the smelling salts. If you want to see for yourself, The Favourite will be shown at the London Film Festival on October 18 at a special gala. Other Telluride films include Destroyer with Nicole Kidman, Mike Leigh’s brilliant Peterloo, Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased, Alfonso Cuaron’s autobiographical Roma, and Robert Redford’s last acting project, The Old Man & The Gun.