Invite/New York Slate/Master Tease/Yellow/Coming Attractions

Good Friday to Everybody!


INVITE

Consider this your pass to join me for the Second Annual (?) "Guide to the 'Ride; Flow of the SHOW".  We'll be gathering at The River Club on Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00 pm and we'll talk film, the festival and what to expect...and there will be refreshments.  Come along...bring a friend!

NEW YORK SLATE

Right on time (it was Aug. 17th last year, I think) the New York Film Festival which had already announced its opener, centerpiece and closer has announced the rest of their lineup and if the recent past is any guide we can expect that 8-12 of those titles will have played at Telluride...


HitFix says it thinks that Brian DePalma's "Passion" is a potential Telluride choice but otherwise none of the other blog posts I have accessed about New York's lineup explicitly mention TFF #39.  Nevertheless, looking at the announced group of films there seem to be several that have a good chance to have played T-ride.

Here's the NYFF lineup per Thompson on Hollywood:

Opening Night Gala Selection
LIFE OF PI
Director: Ang Lee

Centerpiece Gala Selection
NOT FADE AWAY
Director: David Chase

Closing Night Gala Selection
FLIGHT
Director: Robert Zemeckis

AMOUR
Director: Michael Haneke

ARAF – SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu

BARBARA
Director: Christian Petzold

BEYOND THE HILLS (După dealuri)
Director: Cristian Mungiu

BWAKAW
Director: Jun Robles Lana

CAESAR MUST DIE (Cesare deve morire)
Directors: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

CAMILLE REWINDS (Camille redouble)
Director: Noémie Lvovsky

THE DEAD MAN AND BEING HAPPY (El muerto y ser feliz)
Director: Javier Rebello

FILL THE VOID (Lemale et ha'halal)
Director: Rama Burshtein

FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Director: Alan Berliner

FRANCES HA
Director: Noah Baumbach

THE GATEKEEPERS (Shomerei Ha’saf)
Director: Dror Moreh

GINGER AND ROSA
Director: Sally Potter

HERE AND THERE (Aquí y Allá)
Director: Antonio Mendez Esparza

HOLY MOTORS
Director: Leos Carax

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
Director: Roger Michell

KINSHASA KIDS
Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg

THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (A Última Vez Que Vi Macau)
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

LEVIATHAN
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Director: Abbas Kiarostami

LINES OF WELLINGTON (Linhas de Wellington)
Director: Valeria Sarmiento

MEMORIES LOOK AT ME (Ji Yi Wang Zhe Wo)
Director: Song Fang

NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET (La Noche de enfrente)
Director: Raul Ruiz

NO
Director: Pablo Larrain

OUR CHILDREN (À perdre la raison)
Director: Joachim Lafosse

PASSION
Director: Brian De Palma

SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Après Mai)
Director: Olivier Assayas

TABU
Director: Miguel Gomes

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Vous n'avez encore rien vu)
Director: Alain Resnais

Among these titles the most Telluride-esque are probably:

Amour, Beyond the Hills, Caesar Must Die, Frances Ha, The Gatekeepers, Holy Motors, Hyde Park on Hudson, Like Someone in Love, No, Passion, Something in the Air and You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.

I have linked a load of posts concerning the NYFF selections here:


http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/amour-hyde-park-on-hudson-and-more-set-for-ny-fest

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/nyff-announces-33-new-titles

http://moviecitynews.com/2012/08/the-film-society-of-lincoln-center-announces-main-slate-of-selections-for-the-2012-new-york-film-festival/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/amour-something-in-the-air-beyond-the-hills-more-added-to-new-york-film-festival-slate-20120816

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/cannes-winner-amour-joins-new-york-film-fest-lineup-52361



MASTER TEASE

Well, you know just when I thought I was out they pull me back in...

Cinema Blend, among a billion other websites (including this one) was all about hooking readers up to the second full trailer for "The Master" the last couple of days.  The difference...they're still thinking it's a T-ride possibility.  Here's the text from the post:


"Anderson’s screening the film in select cities ahead of its pre-destined screenings at the prominent fall film festivals (Venice, Toronto and possibly Telluride)."

Here's the link to the full post from Cinema Blend:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Master-Clip-She-Wrote-Me-Letter-32514.html

Oh, and then there's this comment to MTFB concerning yesterday's post:

Anonymous said...

"I think "The Master" shows up at TFF if they can do it on 70mm... that's still a pretty special opportunity a lot of people won't have had yet (if ever)."

 

Now that just makes me a little dizzy and kind of crazy.  We know from friends of the blog that have reached out to us that Telluride HAS done 70mm in the past.  We know that Jeff Wells has heard that there might be some 70 mm prep going on in T-ride as we speak...though I couldn't get a whiff of it when I was there this past weekend...

So...keep the flame alight...maybe "The Master" still has a shot.


YELLOW

Some months back I indicated that if it was ready that Nick Cassavettes new film "Yellow" might find its way to Telluride...which would be cool since I have a former student who did some extra work on the filming here in Oklahoma (though she now thinks she may well have been edited into non-existence).  Nevertheless, with the announcement this week that it will be a part of the lineup for Toronto we know that it is, in fact, ready.  So maybe it shows at THE SHOW.  The Playlist has a set of new photos from the film here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-images-from-nick-cassavetes-drug-drama-yellow-with-sienna-miller-20120814


Yellow's IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588898/


COMING ATTRACTIONS

The last time Sean Penn directed a film was 2007 and it was "Into the Wild" which appeared at Telluride #34.  Now news that he has signed on to direct again and since reports were that he enjoyed the experience in 2007 you have to believe that there's  a chance we see it for TFF #40 or 41.

The project is titled "Crazy for the Storm" and is detailed here by The Wrap:
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/sean-penn-talks-direct-first-film-wild-51491


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