Final Look at Oscar Experts Best Picture Predictions: Screen Rant / Best Picture Scoreboard / Interviews from The New York Film Festival (Jay Kelly and Sentimental Value) / Final Trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

 FINAL LOOK AT OSCAR EXPERTS BEST PICTURE PREDICTIONS: SCREEN RANT

 Here's a last look at what Oscar Experts are predicting for Best Picture,  These come from Screen Rant and were updated last Friday (TFF films are in Bold):

1) Hamnet

2) One Battle After Another

3) Sinners

4) Sentimental Value

5) Marty Supreme

6) A House of Dynamite

7) Wicked: For Good

8) The Secret Agent

9) Avatar: Fire and Ask

10) Jay Kelly

So Screen Rant has four TFF #52 films in the final ten for Best Picture which would tie for the record number of Telluride films nominated for BP in a single.

Stay tuned for my first jump into the prediction pool on Monday with my takes on Best Picture and Direction.

Here's the link to the Screen Rant prediction page.

BEST PICTURE SCORECARD

Let's update our chart of the all of the BP predictions we have gathered so far.  To this point with input from Gold Derby (GD), The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Variety (V),  Awards Watch (AW),  Awards Radar (AR), Next Best Picture (NBP), The Contending (TC) and Screen Rant (SC),  here's where TFF #52 films stand for BP predictions:

Hamnet (8): GD, THR, V, AW, AR, NBP, TC, SR

Sentimental Value (8): GD, THR, V, AW, AR, NBP, TC, SR

Jay Kelly (7): GD, THR, AW, AR, NBP, TC, SR

Bugonia (5): GD, THR, V, AR, TC

It Was Just Accident (5): GD, THR, AW, NBP, TC

The Secret Agent (4): THR, V, NBP, SR

Frankenstein (2): V, AW

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2): AW, AR

INTERVIEWS FROM THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

From YouTube:

Noah Baumbach, George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern for Jay Kelly.

Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach for Sentimental Value and Jay Kelly.

FINAL TRAILER FOR SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

Just ahead of its Oct. 24th release comes the final trailer for Scott Cooper's Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Here it is from You Tube:

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 OSCAR RACE 2026-THE EXPERTS:THE CONTENDING

I'm beginning to close down my round-up of some of the Oscar prediction websites and their view of which films will be best picture nominated with a focus on what TFF #52 films are in play.  Today we look at Mark Johnson of The Contending.  Mark is also featured as an Oscar Expert for Gold Derby.  Here's how he is handicapping the nominations for BP.  (TFF #52 films are in Bold):

1) One Battle After Another

2) Hamnet

3) Sinners

4) Sentimental Value

5) Wicked: For Good

6) It Was Just an Accident

7) Marty Supreme

8) House of Dynamite

9) Jay Kelly

10) Bugonia

So Mark has five TFF films getting nominated which would be an all time record for number of TFF films nominated for BP in one year.

BEST PICTURE SCORECARD

Let's update our chart of the all of the BP predictions we have gathered so far.  To this point with input from Gold Derby (GD), The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Variety (V),  Awards Watch (AW),  Awards Radar (AR), Next Best Picture (NBP) and The Contending (TC), here's where TFF #52 films stand for BP predictions:

Hamnet (7): GD, THR, V, AW, AR, NBP, TC

Sentimental Value (7): GD, THR, V, AW, AR, NBP, TC

Jay Kelly (6): GD, THR, AW, AR, NBP, TC

Bugonia (5): GD, THR, V, AR, TC

It Was Just Accident (5): GD, THR, AW, NBP, TC

The Secret Agent (2): THR, V, NBP

Frankenstein (2): V, AW

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2): AW, AR

NYFF INTERVIEWS FOR TFF FILMS

Via YouTube:

JAFAR PANAHI FOR IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Interviewed by Martin Scorsese)

JEREMY ALLEN WHITE AND SCOTT COOPER FOR SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

VISITATIONS:

Harris Dickinson for Urchin from Time.com

Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent from Anne Thompson of Indiewire

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 CHECKING THE OSCAR EXPERTS: NEXT BEST PICTURE

With the New York Film Festival comes to a conclusion this weekend, we continue our series of check-ins with a variety of Oscar prognosticators on the Best Picture race with Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture.  Neglia just updated his predictions last Wednesday.  Here's the films he currently predicts will be Best Picture nominated (TFF #52 films are Bold):

1) One Battle After Another

2) Sinners

3) Hamnet

4) Marty Supreme

5) Sentimental Value

6) Jay Kelly

7) It Was Just an Accident

8) Song Sung Blue

9) Wicked: For Good

10) Avatar: Fire and Ash

So Matt has a record tying four TFF films predicted to be nominated for Best Picture.

Here is the link to Next Best Picture's Oscar Predictions.

BEST PICTURE SCOREBOARD

Let's update our chart of the all of the BP predictions from the accumulated predictions we have gathered so far.  To this point with input from Gold Derby (GD), The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Variety (V),  Awards Watch (AW),  Awards Radar (AR) and Next Best Picture (NBP) here's where TFF #52 films stand for BP predictions:

Hamnet (6): GD, THR, V, AW, AR, NBP

Sentimental Value (6): GD, THR, V, AW, AR, NBP

Jay Kelly (5): GD, THR, AW, AR, NBP

Bugonia (4): GD, THR, V, AR

It Was Just Accident (4): GD, THR, AW

The Secret Agent (2): THR, V, NBP

Frankenstein (2): V, AW

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2): AW, AR

TRAILERS FROM BUGONIA, PILLION AND IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU

From YouTube:

BUGONIA

PILLION

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU

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CHECKING THE OSCAR EXPERTS: AWARDS RADAR

As the New York Film Festival passes its halfway point, we continue our series of check-ins of a variety of Oscar prognosticators on the Best Picture race with Joey Magidson of Awards Radar .  Magidson just updated his predictions last Wednesday.  Here's what he currently will be Best Picture nominated (TFF #52 films are Bold):

1) One Battle After Another

2) Hamnet

3) Sentimental Value

4) A House of Dynamite

5) Sinners

6) Jay Kelly

7) Bugonia

8) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

9) Wicked: For Good

10) Avatar: Fire and Ash

So Magidson is currently predicting five TFF #52 films to pick up BP nominations which would be the most TFF BP noms in a single year.

Other TFF #52 films that are within striking distance per Magidson:

11) It Was Just an Accident

18) Frankenstein

19) Blue Moon

BEST PICTURE SCOREBOARD

To this point with input from Gold Derby (GD), The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Variety (V),  Awards Watch (AW) and Awards Radar (AR) here's where TFF #52 films stand for BP predictions.

Hamnet (5): GD, THR, V, AW, AR

Sentimental Value (5): GD, THR, V, AW, AR

Jay Kelly (4): GD, THR, AW, AR

Bugonia (4): GD, THR, V, AR

It Was Just Accident (3): GD, THR, AW

The Secret Agent (2): THR, V

Frankenstein (2): V, AW

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2): AW, AR

NEW TRAILER FOR DEL TORO'S FRANKENSTEIN

From YouTube:

VISITATIONS

Jay Kelly Q+A from the New York Film Festival with Clooney, Sandler, Dern, Baumbach and More

Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater for Blue Moon from The Making Of

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value from Pop Culture Confidential

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CHECKING WITH OSCAR EXPERTS: AWARDS WATCH

We continue today with our rundown of Oscar gurus and their early line Best Picture nominee predictions as we move through the New York Film Festival which will end the wave of the four major fall film fests: Venice, Telluride, Toronto and NYFF.

Today's view comes from Erik Anderson who runs Awards Watch.  Here are his current predictions for Best Picture.  TFF #52 films are Bold.

1) One Battle After Another

2) Hamnet

3) Sinners

4) Sentimental Value

5) Jay Kelly

6) Marty Supreme

7) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

8) It Was Just an Accident

9) Frankenstein

10) Wicked: For Good

Other TFF #52 in the 11-20 spots:

13) The Secret agent

15) Bugonia

This set of predictions would put six TFF #52 titles in the list of ten nominees which would be a TFF record.

The complete list from Awards Watch as well as Best Direction predictions can be found here.

SCOREBOARD FOR BEST PICTURE 

To this point with input from Gold Derby (GD), The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Variety (V) and Awards Watch (AW) here's where TFF #52 films stand for BP predictions.

Hamnet (4): GD, THR, V, AW

Sentimental Value (4): GD, THR, V, AW

Jay Kelly (3): GD, THR, AW

Bugonia (3): GD, THR, V

It Was Just Accident (3): GD, THR, AW

The Secret Agent (2): THR, V

Frankenstein (2): V, AW

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (1): AW

CLIP: BORN TO RUN FROM SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

From 20th Century Studios and YouTube, a clip of Born to Run:

VISITATIONS

BEHIND THE SCENES OF SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

From YouTube:

PAUL MESCAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SOUND FROM INDIEWIRE:

Paul Mescal on The History of Sound.

NEW POSTERS

JAY KELLY:

SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE:

FRANKENSTEIN:

PILLION:

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CHECKING WITH OSCAR EXPERTS: VARIETY

We started with last Thursday's post to transition from predicting the films that would play Telluride to focusing on which TFF #52 films might be players in the 2025-26 awards season.  We began with Scott Feinberg of  The Hollywood Reporter and today we look at the Best Picture predictions from Variety's Clayton Davis, senior awards editor.  Here are Davis's current top ten picks to get nominated for best Picture (TFF 352 films are in bold and are listed in order of most likely to less likely:

1) Hamnet

2) One Battle after Another

3) Sinners

4) A House of Dynamite

5) Wicked: For Good

6) Sentimental Value

7) Marty Supreme

8) Frankenstein

9) The Secret Agent 

10) Bugonia

Other TFF #52 films in the Top Twenty are:

13) It Was Just an Accident

15) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

17) Jay Kelly

So in this scenario five TFF #52 films would be Best Picture nominated which would be a first for that to occur.

Davis's current picks are linked here.

NEW TRAILER FOR JAY KELLY

From Netflix this morning, the release of a new trailer for Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern.  Jay Kelly is in theaters on Nov.14th.

VISITATIONS

Director Edward Berger on Ballad of a Small Player for The Hollywood Reporter.

Kelly Reichardt, John Magaro, Bill Camp and others for The Mastermind at the New York Film Festival.

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WE TURN THE PAGE

We've made the run of post-festival ratings with the reportage of results from my annual poll of the People, the Professionals and then the Composite of both together.  Hamnet did very, very well...as it should.  So, as has become the custom here at MTFB, we turn the page to what happens now in awards season to the films that made up the TFF #52 lineup.

EARLY LINE ON OSCAR BEST PICTURE NOMINEES

I did quick inventory of  a variety of Oscar prediction websites in search of an early line on the Best Picture competition.  The quick line looks like this:

1) Hamnet

2) One Battle After Another

3) Sinners

4) Sentimental Value

5) A House of Dynamite

A few other TFF #52 films could also be in play such as The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident, Bugonia and Jay Kelly.

This far out, however, some contenders haven't been considered as they haven't been seen by anyone yet. That list of films would include: Wicked: For Good, Avatar: Fire and Glass, Marty Supreme and Is This Thing On?.

Additionally Gold Derby has assessed the early race this way:

1) Hamnet

2) Sinners

3) One Battle after Another

4) Sentimental Value

5) Wicked: For Good

6) Marty Supreme

7) A House of Dynamite

8) Jay Kelly

9) Bugonia

10) It Was Just an Accident

Gold Derby's complete list of Best Picture predictions is linked here.

Finally, checking in some specific Oscar prognosticators, here's where Scott Feinberg of  The Hollywood Reporter is on Best Picture:

Frontrunners:

1) Hamnet (Focus)

2) Sentimental Value (Neon)

3) Sinners (Warner Bros.)

4) A House of Dynamite (Netflix)

5) The Secret Agent (Neon)

6) Jay Kelly (Netflix)

7) It Was Just An Accident (Neon)

8) Bugonia (Focus)

9) Train Dreams (Netflix)

10) Roofman (Paramount)

And again, to point out, Feinberg does not add films to the list until he's actually seen them.  At the time of this post that included One Battle After Another among others.

Here's the link to Feinberg's complete list.

CHARACTER POSTERS FROM BLUE MOON

Sony Pictures Classics released character posters from Richard Linklater's Blue Moon featuring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Canavale:  Here they are:

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The Composite Telluride / Visitations: Paul Mescal

THE COMPOSITE TELLURIDE

We cap off the run of posts that highlight the way people rated the films at Telluride today with what I call The Composite Telluride in which I add up a film's ratings from both The People and the Pros.  This year 11 films had enough responses from both groups to make this list.  There are three films that made one list but didn't make The Composite because they failed to get enough people to see them from one group or the other.  Those were Nouvelle Vague which didn't make the People's list and If I Had Legs I'd Kick you as well as A Private Life which weren't seen by enough Pros.

So, here's the Composite.  Each title is listed with it's composite rating (on a scale of 10) and its positions on the Pro list then the Peoples list.

1) Hamnet 9.19 [1-1]

2) Sentimental Value 8.79 [2-3]

3) It Was Just an Accident 8.58 [3-4]

4) Bugonia 7.85 [9-2]

5) Jay Kelly 7.79 [4-8]

6) The History of Sound 7.67 [5-7]

7) [TIE] Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 7.30 [8-6]

7) [TIE] Tuner  7.30 [10-5]

9) Blue Moon 7.12 [7-10]

10) Frankenstein 6.64 [12-9]

11) Ballad of a Small Player 6.11 [11-13]

After these additions the All Time Composite Top Ten looks like this:

1) (TIE) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013 (Won Best Picture)

1) (TIE) Argo (9.25) 2012 (Won Best Picture)

3) Roma (9.20) 2018 (Won Best Foreign Language Film)

4) (TIE) Moonlight (9.19) 2016 (Won Best Picture)

4) (TIE) Hamnet (9.19) 2025 (???)

6) Birdman (9.18) 2014 (Won Best Picture)

7) Parasite (9.11) 2019 (Won Best Picture)

8) Stories We Tell (9.10) 2012

9) Poor Things (9.04) 2023 (Nominated Best Picture)

10) (TIE) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013

10) (TIE) Anora (8.97) 2024 (Won Best Picture)

So Chloe Zhao's Hamnet lands tied with Moonlight for the fourth best Composite score of all time.

An expanded  list of The Composite and updated All Time ratings for all three categories (Pros, Peeps and Composite) can be found on the "Film Ratings from Past Fests" page.  The tab for that is above.

One last thing.  The top 10 films that were most viewed as a percentage of the total number of people who rated films for The People's Telluride.

1) Hamnet 86%

2) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 78%

3) Sentimental Value 67%

3) Bugonia 67%

5) Jay Kelly 66%rin

6) Blue Moon 64%

7) Tuner 63%

8) Ballad of a Small Player 58%

9) Frankenstein 56%

10) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 44%

VISITATIONS: PAUL MESCAL

Paul Mescal on Hamnet and The History of Sound from The Rolling Stone.

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The People's Telluride / RIP Robert Redford 1936=2025 / New Trailer for Springsteen

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

Running a tad late today...apologies.

Here's my compilation of film ratings from TFF attendees for TFF #52.  Respondents were asked to rate each film they saw on a 1-5 scale with 1 being not-so-good and 5 being "way good".  Over 60 attendees responded to the poll.  The traditional requirement for inclusion is that a film had to have been seen by a third of the respondents.  13 films met that criteria.  Here they are in order of their average rating:

1) Hamnet 4.55

2) Bugonia 4.37

3) Sentimental Value 4.30

4) It Was Just an Accident 4.23

5) Tuner 4.16

6) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 3.80

7) The History of Sound 3.79

8) Jay Kelly 3.78

9) Frankenstein 3.77

10) Blue Moon 3.43

11) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 3.42

12) A Private Life 3.35

13) Ballad of a Small Player 3.22

So, essentially universal agreement between the Peeps and the Pros regarding Hamnet, Sentimental Value and It Was Just an Accident.  Pretty big differences between the two groups on Bugonia, Tuner and Frankenstein.

The Composite Telluride is coming on Monday as well as updates to all three categories all time top ten films.

RIP ROBERT REDFORD 1936-2025

Robert Redford died on Tuesday.  He was 89.  He was also a giant having amassed a bevy of great performances in great films, as well proving himself a fantastic director and producer.  And, of course, he was the founder of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival.

He was an Oscar winner for directing Ordinary People.  He was also nominated five other times:

Producer for Ordinary People, Direction and Producer for Quiz Show and Best Actor for The Sting.

A partial list of notable films in which he acted:

Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

The Candidate (1972)

The Way We Were (1973)

The Sting (1973)

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Electric Horseman (1979)

The Natural (1984)

Out of Africa (1975)

A River Runs Through It (Narrator) (1982)

The Horse Whisperer (1998)

All Is Lost (2013)

There were many more.

Direction:

Ordinary People (1980)

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Quiz Show (1994)

The Horse Whisperer (1998)

And others.

I was fortunate enough to catch his Q+As in 2013 for All Is Lost for which Redford received the Telluride Silver Medallion and then again in 2018 for The Old Man and the Gun.

Robert Redford at his  TFF Tribute in 2013.

Like I suspect many of you, I have spent the last couple of days re-watching some of his films: All the President's Men, A River Runs Through It, The Great Waldo Pepper.  I've got more to do.

It's really difficult to adequately describe how much of a effect he had in the film world.  As I wrote above; he was a giant.  The film industry would have been a a vastly different place without his career.  We also owe him an immense amount gratitude for his environmental activism.

As always in cases like this, we are lucky to have his body of work to remind us of his greatness.

NEW TRAILER FOR SPRINGSTEEN

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THE PROFESSIONAL'S TELLURDE

They're back.  It's time to reveal the results of MTFB's annual poll of film industry professionals who agreed to rate the films on a 1-5 scale and allow me then to collate and average those scores.  The pros are a mix of critics, awards experts and other industry insiders.  To make the list this year a film had to be rated by at least half of the Pros.  That threshold allowed a dozen films to make the list.

Here are the Pros for TFF #52:

Erik Anderson/Awards Watch

J. Don Birnam-Jorge T/SplashReport.com

Josh Bis/Seattle Film Critics Society and TheSunBreak.com

Christina Jeurling Birro/Pop Culture Confidential

Clayton Davis/Variety

Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter

Mark Johnson/The Awards Alchemist

Dave Karger/Turner Classic Movies

Scott Kernan/Awards Daily

Tomris Laffly/Film Critic and Journalist

Joey Magidson/Awards Radar

Ryan McQuade/Awards Watch

Will Mavity/Next Best Picture

Clarence Moye/The Contending

Matt Neglia/Next Best Picture

Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com

Chris Willman/Variety

Anonymous

And here are your Professionals average ratings:

1) Hamnet 4.64

2) Sentimental Value 4.49

3) It Was Just an Accident 4.35

4) Jay Kelly 4.01

5) The History of Sound 3.88

6) Nouvelle Vague 3.76

7) Blue Moon 3.69

8) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 3.50

9) Bugonia 3.48

10) Tuner 3.14

11) Ballad of a Small Player 2.89

12) Frankenstein 2.87

Just missing out on making the list because they were one pro shy of the threshold were The Secret Agent, La Grazia and A Private Life.

Historically, Hamnet's 4.64 will put it in the Professionals all time top ten at #7 and because there is a tie for the 10th spot, no film drops out of this top ten.

New all time PROs Top Ten Films

1) Moonlight (4.87) (16) (Won Best Picture)

2) Parasite (4.75) (19) (Won Best Picture)

3) Roma (4.73) (18) (Nominated Best Picture)

4) Birdman (4.72) (14) (Won Best Picture)

5) 12 Years a Slave (4.70-tie) (13) (Won Best Picture)

6) Central Park Five (4.70-tie) (12)

7) Hamnet (4.64) (25)

8) Foxcatcher (4.63) (14)

9) La La Land (4.58) (16) (Nominated Best Picture)

10) Poor Things (4.53) (23) (Nominated Best Picture)

10) Anora (4.53) (24) (Won Best Picture)

TELLURIDE WINS TORONTO

The Toronto International Film festival's People's Choice Award for 2025 was won by Chloe Zhao's Hamnet.  Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein was second and Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man took third.

As you can see above, Hamnet scored well with the Professionals at Telluride and we'll reveal The People's Telluride results on Thursday.

VISITATIONS

Scott Cooper for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere from Entertainment Weekly.

Paul Mescal and Oliver Hermanus for The History of Sound from Indiewire.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-FINAL CALL

This is the final call for film ratings from The People.  You folks who watched films at TFF #52.  The deadline to rate is 5:00pm PDT this evening.  Email them to me at mpgot@gmail.com.

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 CRITICAL CONSENSUS

I am posting Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores as of yesterday for many TFF #52 films:

Ballad of a Small Player     MC: 51     RT: 69    Combo: 120

Blue Moon                          MC: 78     RT: 97    Combo: 175

Bugonia                               MC: 74     RT: 92    Combo: 166

Frankenstein                        MC: 75     RT: 80    Combo: 155

Hamnet                                MC: 88     RT: 89    Combo: 177

The History of Sound          MC: 62     RT: 66    Combo: 128

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You    MC: 82     RT: 93    Combo: 175

It Was Just an Accident       MC: 88     RT: 98     Combo: 186

Jay Kelly                             MC: 66    RT: 86     Combo: 152

La Grazia                             MC: 69    RT: 76     Combo: 145   

The Mastermind                  MC: 79     RT: 89    Combo: 168

Nouvelle Vague                   MC: 72     RT: 88    Combo: 160

Pillion                                  MC: 85     RT: 100  Combo: 185

A Private Life                      MC: 66     RT: 69    Combo: 135

The Secret Agent                 MC: 87     RT: 100  Combo: 187

Sentimental Value:               MC: 89    RT: 95     Combo: 184

Spingsteen: Deliver Me...    MC: 69    RT: 100   Combo: 169

And ordered by combined Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes score:

1) The Secret Agent: 187

2) It Was Just an Accident: 186

3) Pillion: 185

4) Sentimental Value: 184

5) Hamnet: 177 

6) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You: 175 (tie)

6) Blue Moon: 175 (tie)

8) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere: 169

9) The Mastermind: 168

10) Bugonia: 166

11) Nouvelle Vague: 160

12) Frankenstein : 155

13) Jay Kelly: 152

14) La Grazia: 145

15) A Private Life: 135

16) The History of Sound: 128

17) Ballad of a Small Player: 120     

I'll have my own set of Professionals deliver their verdict in Monday's post.

TRAILER AND CLIP

From YouTube:

Trailer for Nouvelle Vague:

Clip from The History of Sound:

 VISITATIONS

Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal on Hamnet from Deadline.               

Daniel Roher on Tuner from The Hollywood Reporter.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE #13

You've have a few days left to get your ratings in for The People's Telluride.  At the moment we're at about half the respondents (maybe a bit more) that normally participate each year.  Additionally, the Pros are doing their part and I plan to have the The Professionals ratings up a week from today.

Again, email me a list of the films you saw and rate each on a 1 to 5 scale.  1 means it was very bad, 5 means you thought it was terrific.  Decimals are fine.

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

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The People's Telluride / Many Trailers / The Film Stage's 50 Films

 THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

You've got a week left to get your ratings in for The People's Telluride.  At the moment we're at about half the respondents (maybe a bit more) that normally participate each year.  Additionally, the Pros are doing their part and I plan to have the The Professionals ratings up a week from today.

Again, email me a list of the films you saw and rate each on a 1 to 5 scale.  1 means it was very bad, 5 means you thought it was terrific.  Decimals are fine.

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

MANY TRAILERS

During and after the fest there were a number of teasers/trailers released for TFF #52 films.  Here are some of those from YouTube:

MEGADOC

THE SECRET AGENT

BUGONIA

HAMNET

URCHIN

THE FILM STAGE'S 50 FILMS

The Film Stage published a list of 50 films to see this fall along with their release dates.  As you might expect a number of TFF #52 films made the list.  Here are those that did in chronological order:

The History of Sound 9/12

Megadoc 9/19

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 10/10

Urchin 10/10

It Was Just an Accident 10/15

Ballad of a Small Player 10/15

Blue Moon 10/17

The Mastermind 10/17

Frankenstein 10/17

Bugonia 10/24

Nouvelle Vague 10/31

Sentimental Value 11/7

Jay Kelly 11/14

The Secret Agent 11/26

Hamnet 11/27

Included as "Other films to see" are:

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 10/24

La Grazia 12/5

The complete Film Stage post is linked here.

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