David Fincher, Danny Boyle accomplish their missions
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?Directors David Fincher and Danny Boyle came to the Telluride Film Festival with very different motivations for their fundamentally dissimilar films. But both will leave the festival having accomplished pretty much exactly what they needed to do.
Fincher, the director of “Fight Club,” “The Game” and “Se7en,” appeared at the 35th annual film festival to receive an opening-night career tribute award. In addition to his 167-minute director’s cut of last year’s “Zodiac,” the filmmaker brought with him about 20 minutes of footage from “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the decades-in-development reworking of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about the reverse aging of a boy born as an old man.
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