The Circuit

The Show-goers slowly filed into Telluride from on of the two roads in.  This year the talk in the vans wasn't about the slate, just announced hours earlier, but Obama's historic speech at the Dem convention. 

The roads in are single lane, and moving trucks creeping uphill in first gear added time to the trip, so much so that travelers started to worry they'd miss Telluride's de-facto opening night on CNN.

By the speech, the fest's main drag was bare as people crowded around condo TV's to watch. 

Tonight the fest opens with the Feed on Colorado.  At the same moment, the buzzed about "Kisses" screens over the mountain at the Chuck Jones Theater.  David Fincher gets his medal at 7pm, then Mike Leigh unspools "Happy-Go-Lucky."