Variety critic Todd McCarthy susses the just-wrapped Telluride Film Festival, and reports in the final graph on the skunk that got into the 70mm screening of Jacques Tati‘s Playtime: “At about the hour-and-45- minute mark, a great rustling commenced on the Galaxy Theater’s main floor, followed by outright panic and a stench that was unmistakable: A skunk had somehow made its way into the cinema and was scurrying around under the seats — another Telluride first that would be hard to reproduce anywhere else.” And by the way, here’s McCarthy’s Little Children review.
