Good Monday Everyone!
TEN BETS #2
Last week's "Ten Bets" and this week's don't show much change. Here's last week's:
1) Amour
2) Rust and Bone
3) Beyond the Hills
4) Hyde Park on Hudson
5) Song for Marion
6) No
7) Midnight's Children
8) The East
9) Something in the Air
10) On the Road
Now this week's:
1) Amour
2) Rust and Bone
3) Beyond the Hills
4) Hyde Park on Hudson
5) Song for Marion
6) No
7) Something in the Air
8) The East
9) Midnight's Children
10) The Central Park Five (see below)
Floating just below: "Like Someone in Love", "Reality", "On the Road and "The Hunt".
I'm a little more bullish on Olivier Assasyas' "Something in the Air" this week and a little less on Walter Salles' "On the Road".
IFC
Continuing what I started last week with a view toward distribution/production companies that have some connection to Telluride in the past and what that could portend for 2012. Today it's IFC.
Past IFC films that have played TFF:
2011: Into the Abyss, Pina
2010: Carlos, The Princess of Montpensier
2009: Life During Wartime, Vincere, Fish Tank, Red Riding Trilogy
2008: The Good, The Bad and The Weird, Gomorrah, Hunger, Flame and Citron
2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
2006: Jar City
So IFC has evolved into a consistent presence with films at Telluride over the past 5 years. Based on the recent past, one might expect 2-3 IFC distributed films in the San Juans over Labor Day weekend. What's in their quiver that has some Telluride-y essence?
Olivier Assasyas' "Something in the Air". Assasyas has been repped at T-ride in the past with "Irma Vep" in 1996 and with "Carlos" in 2010. IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1846472/
Walter Salles' "On the Road". Salles' T-ride resume: "Central Station" in 1998 and "The Motorcycle Diaries" in 2004. IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337692/
Abbas Kiorstami's "Like Someone in Love". Kiorstami at Telluride: 1997 with "Taste of Cherry".
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843287/
There are other films in the IFC stable but these appear to be the 3 with the best chance of being in Telluride.
CENTRAL PARK FIVE
Don't be surprised if Ken Burns' "The Central Park Five" Doc shows up at Telluride. His "Dust Bowl" was shown as a part of Mountainfilm so that takes it off the table in all likelihood. But CPF looks primed to be on the TFF slate. CPF was co-written, co-produced and co-directed by Burns, David McMahon (his son-in -law) and Sarah Burns (his daughter).
CPF looks at a case of criminal system malfeasance in NYC in 1989.
CPF's IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380247/
OSCAR CHANGES
The word came late last week that Oscar has some changes in rules. None of them appear to be big changes in major categories...but some for Original Song, Makeup, Visual Effects and Foreign Language Films.
I have linked two stories here...
From Kris Tapley at HitFix/InContention:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/academy-announces-changes-to-makeup-original-song-visual-effects-and-foreign-language-film-categories
Also from The Wrap:
http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/oscar-rule-changes-include-more-songwriters-bigger-vfx-shortlists-46021
More later...
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