A Mystery/Oscar Matters/Ginger, Rust, Amour and Royal/Coming Attractions

Happy Thanksgiving Telluride Film Festival fans!

As promised, I have a new blog post up this morning...before I get down to the serious business of thanking and eating...Turkey!  Pie!  Cranberry!  Did I mention pie?

A MYSTERY

A friend from San Francisco sent along an intriguing note this week.  He'd received an email from the TFF folks and it read, in part:

In keeping with our tradition, the Telluride Film Festival's special private screening on Saturday, December 8 will be kept a secret until the showing.  Of course we have been getting a lot of questions and though we cannot give amy clues that will help you guess what the movie is, we would like to provide some useful information.

This is the first showing in North America and there will be no others this year.  It opens in July 2013 at theaters so you will truly experience a sneak preview.

The film's director has previously brought a movie to the Telluride Film Festival and its writer and one of the stars have each been the recipient of Telluride Tributes.

The film has not yet been rated but we expect it will get an "R" for nudity.

The email also included a digital invitation with details and RSVP info.  My friend forwarded it to me to see if I might have any ideas what the film might be.  I'm still kicking it around...but haven't figured it out as yet.  Anyone have any ideas, guesses or wild speculation...comment or email me (mpgort@gmail.com).  

OSCAR MATTERS

     The latest Feinberg Forecast is here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/feinberg-forecast-updated-projections-14-389670

     The Hollywood Reporter's Actress roundtable with a number of probable/possible nominees is here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anne-hathaway-amy-adams-marion-391797

    And some further discussion of the THR actress roundtable from Anne Thompson here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/actresses-cotillard-watts-hathaway-weisz-field-hunt-adams-talk-fear-anger-nudity-gender-at-thr-roundtable


GINGER AND ROSA

Examiner.com talked to the director and actresses:

http://www.examiner.com/article/elle-fanning-alessandro-nivola-director-sally-potter-talk-ginger-rosa

RUST AND BONE

The New York Times talks to Marion Cotillard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/movies/marion-cotillard-on-rust-and-bone-from-jacques-audiard.html

Jacques Audiard talks to The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jacques-audiard-matthias-schoenaerts-talk-love-balance-bon-iver-in-the-making-of-rust-bone-20121121


AMOUR

Amour has its own website up and running here:

http://www.sonyclassics.com/amour/


A ROYAL AFFAIR

Alicia Vikander of "A Royal Affair" talks to IndieWire:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/alicia-vikander-talks-a-royal-affair-anna-karenina


COMING ATTRACTIONS

Word from Darren Aronofsky (via Twitter) that his new project "Noah" has wrapped.  Which led me to include it as this week's coming attraction.  Aronofsky had great success with his foray to Telluride with "Black Swan" in 2010.  It ended up with a a handful for Oscar nominations and a win for Natalie Portman.  So you'd think that his latest project might be a possibility.  Here are the several links from the past few months for "Noah":

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/back-to-back-terrence-malick-movies-means-no-noah-for-christian-bale-will-michael-fassbender-take-over

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2011/12/1/darren-aronofsky-wants-michael-fassbender-for-noah.html

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/russell-crowe-liam-neeson-circle-darren-aronofskys-noah-biblical-epic

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/darren-aronofskys-noah-greenlit-with-july-start-date-russell-crowe-locked-in-to-star

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/emma-watson-gets-biblical-with-darren-aronofskys-noah-20120607

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/an-evil-cloud-ray-winstone-looking-to-take-villain-role-in-darren-aronofskys-noah-20120611

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jennifer-connelly-officially-in-talks-for-darren-aronofskys-noah-20120618?utm_source=dlvr.it

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/anthony-hopkins-is-methuselah-in-darren-aronofskys-noah-20120709

http://www.hitfix.com/news/darren-aronofsky-tweets-photo-from-epic-noah-set

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/darren-aronofsky-finds-his-cain-abel-for-noah-20120730

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-look-russell-crowe-in-darren-aronofskys-noah/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-pic-from-noah-reveals-darren-aronofskys-ark-has-a-lot-snakes-in-it-20120925

http://www.justjared.com/2012/10/17/emma-watson-noah-set-with-russell-crowe/

"Noah's" IMDb entry is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959490/


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