The co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival passed away in February.
Here is Hitchcock on my arm, and here is and Kira Muratova.
Maybe you would fit between the two?
Rosalie Varda, daughter of Agnès Varda, speaking at a tribute to Tom Luddy
He added, For the rest of my life, I will see partly through your eyes.
I miss you and I love you.
The sun around which so many of us have revolved, said Ken Burns.
The two met when Burns screenedHuey Longat Telluride in 1985.
Cousins, Werner Herzog, Alexander Payne, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Francis Ford Coppola delivered tributes via video.
It went on to win the 2007 Oscar for Best International Feature.
That is only one story.
There are so many, he said.
Luddy has always given me personal courage and always made me a better person.
Those mentors are irreplaceable.
Luddys gifts also extended to speaking Russian and playing a mean round of golf.
Payne said he had been rereading email exchanges with Luddy.
I told him I was having dinner with Krzystzof Zanussi.
This was our beloved Tom, the holy spirit of the international film community.
Luddys legacy, according to Sellars: Anyone you admire, hey call them.
That was Toms beautiful way to live life.
Telluride Festival Director Julie Huntsinger introduced the memorial.
He knew my mother almost as long as I did, said Rosalie Varda at the tribute.
They kept in touch, like close friends do.
Their conversation never stopped.
It was a chosen family of cinema.
Bill Pence, who founded the festival with Luddy, passed away in 2022.
