Don't think I posted this here:

Best actress Oscar race could be heating up in Telluride
By all accounts this year's best actress race has been looking awfully thin with few surefire contenders.

I would say two films featuring veteran stars that had their first-ever public screenings at Telluride on Friday night would also boast strong female contenders in the 2009 Oscar wars: Helen Mirren and the aforementioned Blethyn. Oscar "Queen" Mirren stars opposite Christopher Plummer in a take-no-prisoners performance as Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sofia, in "The Last Station," a compelling period drama which also features great work from "Atonement's" James McAvoy. Blethyn is heartbreakingly magnificent opposite the equally fine Sotigui Kouyate (Berlin Fest best actor) as a distraught woman searching for her missing daughter in the low-key but emotional knockout "London River." It says a lot about the state of the independent film business now that neither movie, even with potential academy fodder, is coming into the final stretch of the season with a distributor -- yet. Both Mirren and Blethyn could find traction, particularly in a thin year for lead actresses, should their films connect with a company willing to pick up their movies and get them open in New York and L.A. before year's end -- no easy task in this economic environment.
-- Pete Hammond
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/season/2009/09/best-actress-race-could-be-heating-up-in-telluride-by-pete-hammond.html

BTW I did a Twitter search on TLS and Telluride and wouldn't you know it...the one negative review of TLS is the one everyone is circulating and quoting. I sent some tweets with links to the other good reviews so when people search on Telluride or TLS those will appear as well. Grrrrr.