Tom Luddy, “Irreplaceable” Mentor & “Spirit Of The International Film Community,” Celebrated At NYC Tribute
deadline.comFilmmakers and executives, creatives of music, theater and art remembered Tom Luddy as friend and mentor, tastemaker and cultural force who deployed an astonishingly vast network to nurture talent and bring people and projects together over decades.
The co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival passed away in February. “I am thinking of getting a tattoo of you on my arm,” said Irish director Mark Cousins at tribute event at the Paris Theatre over the weekend. “Here is Hitchcock on my arm, and here is and Kira Muratova.
Maybe you would fit between the two?” He added, “For the rest of my life, I will see partly through your eyes. I miss you and I love you.” “Tom Luddy was a constant presence.
The sun around which so many of us have revolved,” said Ken Burns. The two met when Burns screened Huey Long at Telluride in 1985. “For the next 35-plus years, he would champion my work with a ferocity that surprised me and touched me, and fed, in that subtle way he did with every filmmaker, my confidence and energy to persist.” The documentary filmmaker was joined at the mic by Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker, producer Rosalie Varda, the daughter of Agnès Varda, theater director Peter Sellars and Criterion President Peter Becker.
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