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ROGER IN ACTION

One of my favorite moments at this year's Telluride SHOW was getting the opportunity to hear and then meet the amazing Roger Corman. Just a wonderful man who has made so much of what we think of as great cinema possible because he produced/directed classic B movies that gave some our most talented film makers their chance to get in and learn the business of film making.

Now comes word (as of yesterday) that Mr. C has new plans. Re-visiting his glorious past, The Hollywood Reporter says that the 86 year old legend is going to produce 8 low budget re-make/adaptions of Edgar Allan Poe stories...yes please. Here's the post:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roger-corman-remake-edgar-allan-404165

AMOUR

Michael Haneke's "Amour" is at the front of the Best Foreign Language Film pack. Barring some weirdness, it's your likely Oscar winner in that category. Its distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, has bigger plans including possible nominations for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Actress and Actor. These are all possible to varying degrees...the Emanuelle Riva nomination for Best Actress being the most likely, but none of them are impossibilities. It will be interesting to see how often it shows up when nominations are announced on Jan. 10. I currently have it at #8 on The FAC Best Picture chart, which if The Wrap is to be believed (see story below) is exactly where the cut off point would be. Riva is at #4 for Best Actress, Jean Louis Trintignant is it #7 for Best Actor, Haneke is #3 for Original Screenplay and #7 for Direction. In my post Telluride polls of film critics/bloggers "Amour landed at #10 and The People's Telluride poll listed it at #6.

The Daily Beast has a new look at the film up this week and talked to Haneke as a part of that. You can find it here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/19/amour-the-year-s-best-foreign-film-courts-oscar.html

Also from The Carpetbagger at The New York Times:

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/michael-haneki-finds-his-brando/?smid=tw-nytimesmovies&seid=auto

And The Wrap:

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/director-michael-haneke-amour-death-and-puzzle-open-window-70101

NO

Pablo Larrain's "No" starring Gael Garcia Bernal was one of this year's Telluride entries that is getting a good deal of mention as a possible Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. "No" currently sits at #4 on the latest review of that category in the Film Awards Clearinghouse, meaning it would be one of the five nominated pictures. In our critics' poll after the festival "No" was ranked #12. The People's Telluride poll ranked it at # 21.

It dropped an English language trailer this week and announced a U.S. premiere date as well.

Here's the trailer:

And accompanying posts about the premiere date and the trailer from Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere, The Wrap, SlashFilm Entertainment Weekly and The Playlist:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/12/finally_5.php

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/gael-garcia-bernal-beats-dictator-words-no-trailer-video-69756

http://www.slashfilm.com/no-trailer-using-commercial-tricks-to-enact-political-change/

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/12/19/prize-fighter-chile-oscar-foreign-film-no-director-pablo-larrain/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-u-s-trailer-for-pablo-larrains-cannes-sensation-no-starring-gael-garcia-bernal-20121218

BARBARA

Another TFF #39 foreign film that is making some noise in terms of a potential nomination for Best FLF is the German entry "Barbara". It's at #8 on the FAC and was rated at #7 by the People's poll after the festival.

The Playlist posted an article about director Christian Petzold this week. You can find that here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/barbara-director-christian-petzold-talks-the-influence-of-klute-reveals-what-he-plans-to-do-next-20121217

ARGO

I've added this week's post from Kristopher Tapley at InContention/HitFix as he talks to Director Ben Affleck and writer Chris Terrio:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/ben-affleck-and-chris-terrio-on-argo-the-middle-east-and-the-root-of-all-drama

OSCAR MATTERS

I've included two very informative posts from earlier this week that explain the Best Picture nominating process in detail. It will make your head hurt. Also, Steve Pond from The Warp says it will be 8 films this year. The other post is from Gold Derby:

http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/8-best-picture-nominees-thats-what-our-simulation-shows-exclusive-69696

http://www.goldderby.com/news/3761/oscars-complicated-counting-of-best-picture-ballots-explained.html

Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil and Michael Musto talk Oscar in this video:

http://www.goldderby.com/videos/oscars/types-derby-talk/

COMING ATTRACTIONS: AUGUST?

There's very little secret that I'd love to see the big screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winning play "August: Osage County" show up at the SHOW next Labor Day.

I read it fairly early on...and caught the play in New York before it closed. It also doesn't hurt that it's set in my native Oklahoma and shot, in part, here in the state.

Could it play Telluride? That's only a maybe at best.

IMDb lists it in post production...and you know that its distributor, The Weinstein Company, is going to want it to be in the thick of Oscar discussions for 2013. Those two factors probably help...but they don't make it a lock by any means.

Yes. The Weinsteins did bring both "The Artist" and "The King's Speech" to T-ride on the way to Oscar glory. But, this past year, TWC was in T-ride with only "The Sapphires". Their big Oscar guns ("The Master", "Django" and "Silver Linings Playbook") went other directions.

I also wonder if there might not be some blowback from the whole "Master" not being in Telluride situation, regardless of what hat story actually was.

Finally, TWC has Lee Daniel's "The Butler" and James Gray's "Nightingale" also as potential awards contenders that may or may not be in the Telluride mix. I rather think "Nightingale" more than "The Butler" considering Gray's attendance at part of last year's fest with a bit of the film to show during the Marion Cotillard tribute.

So...50-50 maybe.

One other factor that may be in play...George Clooney is one of the films producers. A good deal of that side of the equation (i.e. the film makers and their decision about wanting to be in Telluride) may rest on whether Mr. Clooney enjoyed his tribute weekend at TFF #38. I tend to believe that he did and that probably gives T-ride a chance at landing the film.

Picture (from left) Julianne Nicholson, Julia Roberts and Ewan MacGregor from the location shoot here in Oklahoma in October via JustJared and FanPop.com

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