The Circuit

Sunday's day-long rain finally broke to sun on Monday morning, as Telluriders stumbled to the kiosk to get the day's schedule of films.  Monday's screening are left open in order to slot the most popular films of the lineup.

Along with "I've Loved You So Long," Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" is easily the fest's most talked about and commercial film.  The rags-to-riches story of a "slumdog" who may or may not win millions on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," had a standing-room only screening yesterday.  As Boyle introduced the film (pictured), staff packed the Galaxy theater with badgers, who doubled up against the walls, finding any place to sit or at least lean against.  Some remarked it's easily Fox Searchlight's next hit, though other notable fest guests bristled at the film's cliches of Indian life. 

Other films today reflect more of the fest's hits include "I've Loved You So Long," "Happy-Go-Lucky," "Flame and Citron," "Hunger," and Bent Hamer's "O'Horten."