Ten Bets/Tinker Trailer/Kevin Too/Animated Offering?/15,000

I'm being proactive today!  Hope everyone had a great weekend.

The 38th Telluride Film Festival Countdown: 25 Days

THIS WEEK'S TEN BETS

Last week's list of ten films I feel the most strongly about being on the TFF #38 program:

1) The Descendants
2) The Artist
3) We Have to Talk About Kevin
4) Drive
5) A Trip to the Moon
6) Gazing into the Abyss
7) Prohibition
8) Shame
9) Le Havre
10) The Kid with a Bike

Last week's positioning on the list was fueled in part as a result of tweets from Ioncinema during the announcements for the Toronto lineup.  This week, the list fluctuates due to the announcement that "The Artist" is headed to the Montreal World Film Festival this month.

1) The Descendants (I'm telling you it's a lock ladies and germs)
2) Gazing Into the Abyss
3) A Trip to the Moon
4) The Artist
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin
6) Le Havre
7) Prohibition
8) Drive
9) Shame
10) The Kid with a Bike/Dark Horse (tie)

TINKER TRAILER...

Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has a new trailer out over the weekend.  It looks good.  Here's the link to the story and trailer from First Showing.net:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/watch-second-thrilling-uk-trailer-for-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/

Additionally, I continue to think that TTSS has somewhere in the neighborhood of a 50/50 chance to be in Telluride.  That feeling got a little boost as the result of a post from Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere yesterday.  Wells seems to think that TTSS almost has to be at either Telluride or New York and he implies that he's pretty sure that Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" is likely to be the NYFF closer...which would leave Telluride as the last fest standing for a U.S. film fest presentation for TTSS prior to its scheduled opening on Nov. 18.

Here's the link to the Jeffrey Wells post:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/eliminations.php

And Tinker's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/


KEVIN HAS A TRAILER TOO

The Playlist posts a story and link to the trailer for Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin."  The film stars Tilda Swinton (in what is said to be a possible Oscar nominated role) and John C. Reilly as parents dealing (or not) with the aftermath of violence committed by their son.

The film was fairly well received at Cannes and I have it currently at #5 on the list of Ten Bets for this week.
Here's your link to The Playlist story with the trailer included:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/watch_international_trailer_provides_first_look_at_lynne_ramsays_we_need_to/

Kevin's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/


ANIMATION AT TELLURIDE

A Tweet this weekend from Jarvis Films leads me to add "The Birds Upstairs" " to the list of probable films this year.  It's an animated short.

Quoting the tweet here:

JarvisFilms (@JarvisFilms)

8/5/11 10:47 PM

"Incredibly honored to be part of the Telluride Film Festival this year!"

After an inventory of the Jarvis Film website, it's my guess that "The Birds..." is the film that makes the cut for T-ride.
The Jarvis Films website is at:
http://www.jarvisfilms.com/

The Birds IMDb page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1709146/
 15,000

And finally, this blog passed 15,000 views over the past weekend.  5,000+ since April 26th.  Thanks to everyone that takes a look and apologies for all the things I get wrong.

Tomorrow!