"Thirty (32) That Could Play-Ranked/Mikey's Wish List/New Player/And Now the Craziness/Best of the Week

Good Saturday to All!  6 Days until The SHOW (Panhandle Express leaves in 5!)



YOUR INVITATION...

I want to make sure every reader knows that they (well, everyone) is cordially invited to a brief reception on Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00pm at The River Club (550 Depot) in Telluride.  The soiree is called "The Second Annual(?) Guide to the "Ride; The Flow of the SHOW".  We'll rub elbows and talk a little bit about what the weekend is going to hold for us.  Should be fun.  Hosts Mitzi and Larry mallard tell me that we can expect refreshments...maybe a little wine, maybe a nosh.



RANKING THE "THIRTY" (32) THAT COULD PLAY

Pics from Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone"...currently #1 on my "Ten Bets" list

This week's effort to identify 30 films beyond that "Ten Bets" list that have some chance of playing this week as a part of the 39th Telluride film Festival is repeated here and ranked according to what I think the film's chances are:

Here’s where we stand at the end of the week vis a vis that “Thirty That Could Play” (now 32 with yesterday’s additions of “Ginger and Rosa” and “The Act of Killing”) from most likely to least likely. Some of these will actually move into the “Ten Bets” list on Monday.

Frances Ha 85%
Argo 70%
To the Wonder 70%
Rainy Day Tales 65%
Something in the Air 65%
Song for Marion 65%
Ginger and Rosa 65%
The Sapphires 60%
Ernestine and Celeste 55%
Trouble with the Curve 55%
The Silver Linings Playbook 55%
The Hunt 55%
Reality 50%
Passion 50%
Hannah Arendt 50%
The Reluctant Fundamentalist 50%
The Act of Killing 50%
Cloud Atlas 50%
The Impossible 50%
Yellow 50%
At Any Price 45%
Killing Them Softly 45%
The Sessions 45%
Like Someone in Love 40%
Great Expectations 40%
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet 35%
The East 35%
Anna Karenina 30%
Promised Land 30%
The Angel’s Share 25%
The Master 25%
Quartet 25%


Of course, Thursday I also included an additional list of "possibles" just floating below these 32.  They included: "The Company You Keep", "A Late Quartet", "Arthur Newman", "Dangerous Liaisons", "Caesar Must Die" (look out for this one), "Everybody Has a Plan", "The Gatekeepers" (also this), "In the Fog", "Laurence Anyways", "Love is All You Need", "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Place Beyond the Pines", "Populaire", "Post Tenebras Lux", "Room 237", "Seven Psychopaths" and "The We and the I".

And, of course, there will be films I just don't even have on my radar at all that make the SHOW...What can I say?  It's not an exact science.

MIKEY'S WISH LIST

So, irrespective of their chances of playing...what 10 films would I MOST like to see programmed for this week?

1) The Master
2) The Sessions
3) Cloud Atlas
4) Rust and Bone
5) Hyde Park on Hudson
6) Amour
7) Argo
8) No
9) To the Wonder
10) The Silver Linings Playbook

Alternates: Song for Marion, The Sapphires, Quartet, Midnight's Children, On the Road

What would be a shocker???

Lincoln
Inside Llewyn Davis
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Django Unchained (which reportedly just wrapped a couple of weeks ago).


NEW PLAYER IN THE CONVO

News broke yesterday afternoon that Sony Pictures Classics had signed on to distribute Robert Redford's new film "The Company You Keep".  This has led to a good deal of speculation that it could pop up this week in Telluride (and I'd be pretty happy if it did).

Redford stars and directs.  The story centers on a man whose past is discovered and forces him to take flight.  Shia LeBoeuf and Julie Christie lead the rest of an incredible cast: Sam Elliot, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Stanley Tucci, Terrence Howard, Nick Nolte and Brit Marling...and that's not the complete cast.

Details in posts linked here from The Wrap, Thompson on Hollywood, The Playlist and Rope of Silicon:

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/robert-redford-keeps-company-sony-pictures-classics-53376

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/sony-pictures-classics-takes-redfords-venice-toronto-bound-the-company-you-keep

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/sony-pictures-classics-picks-up-robert-redfords-the-company-you-keep-starring-shia-labeouf-20120824

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/movie/company-you-keep/

Personally, I have reservations about the its chances because it's already set for Venice and Toronto but the SPC pickup means that you have to give it some consideration.

Here's "Company's" IMDb entry:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381404/


AND NOW THE CRAZINESS

I can tell we're down to less than a week because the annual insanity has begun.  What do I mean?  Well, I do this "what's going to be at Telluride?" thing for 6 months of the year (really year round, but with serious of purpose from March until the Festival) but now a lot of people are going to chime in.  Some of that has value.  The bloggers/reporters that I typically cite and that are by and large linked to on the right side of this blog are very good at this...but there will be plenty of folks over the next few days that aren't as reliable or who are just making stuff up that will claim some knowledge of what's going to be on the SHOW program.  It's entertaining, to a point.  And I diligently follow those trails to see if there really is anything there...but beware, my friends, not every claim about what's going to make the festival should be given credence (or rumor of what celebrity is already on the ground in Telluride...I swear I hear Brad Pitt every year).

Case in point: late yesterday a post showed up in a forum on one of the best blogs I follow that claimed to have essentially the whole T-ride program and then listed "it".  And there's enough that's believable in it that a casual observer might buy the whole thing (there's also some stuff listed that I wish WOULD be true...but am really skeptical about).  For example it claims "Hyde Park on Hudson"...and I think that's going to play. It claims "The Company You Keep" which is highlighted in the above story and has just become a real hot piece of Telluride speculation.

Well, you know, you get excited...then you really look at what it's claiming...and, well...it just doesn't stand up to serious scrutiny.  It claims things which are just factually untrue...like an "opening" and "closing" film.  Telluride doesn't really do that (or at least they haven't in the past).

So take it with a grain of salt my friends, even THIS BLOG...it's gonna get crazier before we get there!


BEST OF THE WEEK

Best of the week...shorter than normal since I covered a good portion of it above in the "32 That Could Play" section...


LAST TORONTO TITLES

The Toronto International Film Festival announced their last round of titles yesterday and they, not surprisingly, include a number of Telluride-likely projects including: "Amour", "Something in the Air"< "Beyond the Hills" and "Like Someone in Love".  Check these links for a variety of reports about the final films added to the TIFF lineup:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/michael-winterbottoms-everyday-premieres-at-tiff-amour-something-in-the-air-more-round-out-lineup-20120821

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/toronto-festival-adds-david-geffen-johnny-depp-javier-bardem-and-michael-haneke-52841

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118058104.html?cmpid=RSS|News|FilmNews

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-2012-bernardo-bertolucci-michael-haneke-masters-lineup-364265

PS...I don't think we'll see "The West Memphis Three" next week for two reasons...1) It was a Sundance debut and 2) topically, it's somewhat similar to "The Central Park Five" which I'm thinking is a virtual lock.  BUT, if by some happenstance it IS playing (maybe it's a theme doc year?) then maybe we see Mr. Depp in support of it before he jets to Toronto to do the same thing...which would be cool.



MARION

"Rust and Bone" trailer with subtitles

I feel good about the chances that we'll see Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone" show up next week.  I'd love to see Ms. Cotillard there in Telluride as well...tres bien!!!

Cotillard has this interview up yesterday with Jada Yuan of Vulture.com:

http://www.vulture.com/2012/08/marion-cotillard-rust-and-bone-interview.html





PASSION TRAILER

Trailer for DePalma's "Passion"

Also moving up on the is Brain DePalma's "Passion" which released a trailer yesterday...looks...intriguing?  It stars Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams.

Check the post from Rope of Silicon here:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-passion-trailer-brian-de-palma-mcadams-rapac/



FRANCES HA

Just yesterday I reported that Jeff Wells had posted that he was hearing the Noah Baumbach's and Greta Gerwig's "Frances Ha" was likely going to show at the SHOW next week.  Consequently I included it in the concluding (part 3) portion of my "Thirty That Could Play" and put its chances at 60%.

I'm bumping that up today.  I'm saying with very little equivocation, count on it playing.  So much so that "Frances Ha" will be somewhere on Monday's (and the final) "Ten Bets" list.

Wells also revisited the film yesterday at some length and you can find that post linked here:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/08/spiritual_buoya.php


"Frances" has an IMDb entry here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/



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