I feel as badly as the next guy about the wounds suffered by Netflix in Venice — the stunning 53% Metacritic grade for Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Bardo (which I’ll be seeing tonight) + the meh reception to Noah Baumbach’s White Noise.

Speaking as a staunch Inarritu fan over the last 22 years, it is my intention to be as fair and merciless and forgiving and open-veined as possible. “Too long” doesn’t bother me if the filmmaker is imbued or on fire. Inarritu is incapable of mediocrity.

Bones and All star Timothee Chalamet speaking to Variety‘s Nick Vivarelli on Venice red carpet: “To be young today…I can’t imagine what it is to grow up without the onslaught of social media. And at least here [in Bones] there are characters wrestling with internal blood lines [as opposed to struggling with] growing up with Instagram or Twitter…trying to figure out where they fit in with that.”

HE: I’m sorry and no offense but what’s Timothee saying? I for one would be horrified to be time-tripped back to the ’80s and the life of a cannibal. Thank God for the daily feed of social media streams, and of course HE’s contribution to that.

Chalamet: “I’m not casting judgement. You can find your tribe there.” But “it’s hard to be alive now. I think societal collapse is in the air. That’s why hopefully this movie will matter.”

Societal collapse because of the Trump faithful and the unfortunate likelihood of more random shootings (some politically motivated) and the probability of some form of civil war between bumblefucks and wokesters, he means….right?

9.2, 6:50 am: After 14 or 15 hours of somewhat uncomfortable travelling (including five hours on the carpeted floor at Washington National), HE pulled into Telluride yesterday afternoon around 4:15 pm.

What happened next was beyond thrilling. First the unpacking (I’m bunking at a spacious three-bedroom condo with Awards Daily‘s Sasha Stone), then a little shopping, then a 40-minute nap and finally an elegant dinner at La Marmotte, hosted by Santa Barbara Film Festival honcho and birthday boy Roger Durling.

Yes, that’s THR‘s Scott Feinberg to Roger’s right. The trio on the opposite side of the table (l. to r.) are Amazon’s Justin Balsamo, Netflix’s Kelly Dalton and IMAX’s Julie Fontaine.

What unannounced film will be shown at this afternoon’s Patrons screening at the Herzog? How can it not be Todd Fields‘ Tar, the film that everyone is dying to see after the unanimous Venice raves? The people want, demand…okay, they’re pleading for this.

I’ve never before stayed in a Telluride condo with a breathtaking view of the mountains; now I have.

Picking up the pass in an hour or so, and then the bus to the Telluride brunch. Three films today — the unannounced Patron’s screening around 2:30 or so, a 6 pm Sarah Polley tribute + screening of Women Talking, and finally Alejandro G.Inarritu‘s Bardo at 8:45 pm.