Tom Luddy, who co-founded the Telluride Film Festival and helped build it into one of the world’s premier festivals, dies at 79
“The world has lost a rare ingredient that we’ll all be searching for, for some time,” Julie Huntsinger, the festival’s executive director, said in a statement. “He called Telluride a labor of love for a very long time. We’re so much better off because of him and that labor. We at the Festival owe it to him to carry on his legacy; his commitment to and love for cinema, above all.”
“He was one of these people who had seen virtually every important film, and a lot of unimportant films, which had ever been made,” Steve Wasserman, a longtime friend of Luddy’s and publisher of Heyday Books who covered the Telluride Film Festival for The Times in 2000, told The Times Tuesday. Having befriended Coppola and George Lucas, Luddy began working with their production company, American Zoetrope, in 1979 and was instrumental in the company’s backing of Akira Kurosawa’s 1980 film “Kagemusha.” During his time at Zoetrope, Luddy supervised a revival of Abel Gance’s 1927 epic “Napoleon,” which played around the world, among numerous other projects in support of foreign and archival films.of Luddy noted, “The measure of Mr.
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