Anne Thompson pets 'Fur' at Telluride

Movies with major Oscar potential are making their debut this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival: "Little Children," "Fur," "The Last King of Scotland," "Venus," "Infamous," "Volver" and "Babel" among them.

At her blog, Anne Thompson of the Hollywood Reporter raves about "Fur," the biopic about photographer Diane Arbus starring Nicole Kidman: "I was expecting a weird movie about a woman photographing freaks and instead saw an exquisitely crafted love story. It played well for the Telluride crowd Saturday morning, which tends toward the older art-house side. Instead of making a conventional Diane Arbus biopic, New Yorker Steve Shainberg, who grew up with her photos in his house because his novelist uncle was friends with Arbus, has crafted an imaginative portrait of the period in her life when Arbus, 35, took a dive off the deep end. She stopped assisting her husband in his portrait studio and started taking her own photographs. How did that transformation happen?" Read More - CLICK HERE!

Photo: Nicole Kidman stars as the tragic, edgy photographer who committed suicide in 1971.
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