Sep 10,2009
‘The Last Station’ finally feels the love
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YAY! finally news on The Last Station 
Hopefully it will get released in theatres soon now. Make sure to read the rest of the article.
The closer you look at the movies playing in the annual Telluride Film Festival, the more you start to see a trend: Almost all share a long and difficult journey to this remote Colorado mountain town.
Last year’s most prominent Telluride premiere, “Slumdog Millionaire,” which went on to win the best picture Oscar, might be the perfect illustration of this phenomenon — a movie that scrambled to find financing, was largely rewritten from English to Hindi at the last minute and saw its American distributor close shop just as production wrapped. The rags-to-riches twists at this year’s festival, which wrapped up Monday, may not be as dramatic, but among the roughly two dozen features that premiered were any number of films whose path to the projection booth had been anything but easy — with festival darling “The Last Station”
Adapted from Jay Parini’s historical novel “The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy’s Last Year,” director Michael Hoffman’s movie has been in the works for almost two decades. When Parini’s book about Tolstoy and his relationship with his wife, Sophia, was published in 1990, actor Anthony Quinn believed it not only was the perfect source material for a movie, but also that he should play Tolstoy. The “Zorba the Greek” actor enlisted a then up-and-coming producer, Bonnie Arnold, to shepherd the project, but for every step forward, there was an equal step back. There were any number of screenplay revisions and false starts, but even Quinn’s death in 2001 couldn’t shake Arnold’s belief in the project. “I always thought it would be a good movie,” she said. “So I really didn’t give up, ever.”……
