Ten Bets/BBC Films/The Sapphires Pics/What Are We Doin' Tonight Marty?

God Monday Everyone...hope you had a great weekend!


TEN BETS #3

Here's a look at last week's "Ten Bets":


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


Here's this week's

"Song for Marion"

1) Amour
2) Rust and Bone
3) Beyond the Hills
4) Hyde Park on Hudson
5) Something in the Air
6) No
7) Song for Marion
8) On the Road
9) The Central Park Five
10) Serge Bromberg's Charlie Chaplin Project

The East and Midnight's Children dropped to make room for On the Road and the Bromberg project.  That's because I bumped into some bits and pieces of info this past week that made me re-evaluate On the Road's chances (which I have been decent anyway...even when it was bumped briefly from the "Ten Bets" list).  Other info leads me to believe, pretty strongly, that Serge Bromberg will be back in town on Labor Day.  I'm still also leaning toward "The Hunt", "Like Someone in Love", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and "Reality".




BBC FILMS

We're going to finish up our stroll through film production/distribution houses with history at Telluride this week and we'll be looking primarily at England.  Today's specimen is the BBC Films.

BBC Films at Telluride the past few festivals include:

2011: We Need to Talk About Kevin
2010: The First Grader, Tamara Drewe
2009: Bright Star, Fish Tank, An Education
2000: Shadow of the Vampire

BBC Films has been a relative newcomer to Telluride and, as you can see, the track record indicates that 2 films from them in a year is what might be expected.  So what does BBC Films have its fingers on that seems Telluride-like?

One film that I have already mentioned is Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut "Quartet".  That seems like a 50-50 candidate at best.

There's the Dakota Fanning vehicle "Now is Good" in which she plays a young woman dying of leukemia with a wish list that includes losing her virginity before she dies (which seems like it could play on a double bill with Fox Searchlight's Sundance success "The Sessions")...

There's the BIG adaptation of Dickens' "Great Expectations" with Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch and Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham directed by Mike Newell.



Those three films seem t like the most likely of the films currently listed for BBC Films by IMDb to be Telluride possibles and I have to say that I don't have a strong inclination that nay of them will actually make the trip across the pond for Labor Day weekend.  BBC Films does have other projects in the bag, but for one reason or another, they don't seem as likely as the three I have listed here.

So, perhaps, this is a year like 2008 or 2011 in which BBC films doesn't make the Telluride scene, or if they do, it's with one film only.

Tomorrow a look at the UK Film Council.


THE SAPPHIRES PICS

Another of the possible films that Harvey Weinstein and the crew at TWC could end up with on the Telluride program is their Cannes acquisition "The Sapphires" directed by Wayne Blair.

The film follows the fortunes of a 60's girl group from Australia.

The Playlist posted new photos and a information late last week and here's the link to that:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-images-from-the-weinsteins-the-sapphires-starring-chris-odowd-20120705#

"The Sapphires'" IMDb page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673697/


WHAT ARE WE DOIN' TONIGHT, MARTY?

That iconic line is from the Paddy Chayefsky penned/Delbert Mann directed "Marty" for which Ernest Borgnine won the Best Actor Oscar in 1956.  Borgnine died this weekend at the age of 95.  He also appeared in a number of other notable projects over the years including "The Dirty Dozen", "From Here to Eternity" and "The Poseidon Adventure".  For a kid rowing up with the relatively new medium of television in the early 1960's, he was Lt. Cmdr. McHale in the series "McHale's Navy".

His loss coupled with Andy Griffith's last week create a huge hole where a lot of television used to be.

Bloopers from "McHale's Navy" via YouTube

Ernest Borgnine 1917-2012.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/

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