Cannes and Oscar Analysis/Cannes and the Critical Response: Final/"Dheepan": View of a Palme d'Or Winner/"The Club" Could Meet in Telluride/"Black Mass Trailer #2

CANNES AND OSCAR ANALYSIS (and a word or two about Telluride)

I have posted links to three different film sites with post-Cannes Oscar analysis: Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood, Sasha Stone/Awards Daily and Peter Knegt/Indie Wire.  I have also put together a list from each of the three of their anticipated Oscar candidates that I think have some shot at playing at Telluride:

Anne: "Carol", "Macbeth", "Tulip Fever", "Youth", "Son of Saul", "Dheepan", "The Assassin" and "Amy"

Sahsa: Not Cannes-centric...but...her current Top Ten" includes "The Revenant", "Steve Jobs", "Trumbo", and "Carol".


Peter: "Carol", "45 Years", "Son of Saul", "Youth", "Demolition", "Genius", "Trumbo", "The Revenant", "Steve Jobs" and "Suffragette".

Check out their complete analysis with these links (And a more than casual mention from Anne and Sasha about TFF):


http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/cannes-awards-contenders-from-the-weinstein-slate-to-son-of-saul-20150525

http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/05/the-state-of-the-race-on-the-hunt-for-important-men-doing-important-things/

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2016-oscar-predictions-best-picture-20150312


CANNES AND THE CRITICAL RESPONSE-FINAL

Meanwhile, the critical response is in from Cannes and despite winning the Palme d'Or, Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan" was not often near the top of the competition films.  I have linked the four international critics compilations with each groups collective top three from the main competition films:

http://www.todaslascriticas.com.ar/cannes

1) "The Assassin"
2) "Carol"
3) "Mountains May Depart"

http://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/2015

1) "The Assassin"
2) "Carol"
3) Mountains May Depart"

http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/cannes/cannes-screens-final-jury-grid-topped-by-carol-the-assassin/5088615.article

1) "The Assassin" and "Carol" (tie)
2) "Son of Saul" and "Mountains May Depart" (tie)
3) "Mia Madre"

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2015-cannes-critics-panel-full-grid

1) "Carol"
2) "Mia Madre"
3) "Son of Saul"


"DHEEPAN" VIEW OF A PALME D'OR WINNER

Clip from Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or winner "Dheepan"

Audiard's "Dheepan" was clearly a surprise winner for the Palme.  The film was rated #7 (of the 19 competition films) by the Ioncinema critics, #6 by Screen Daily, #7 by rurban's critics and #8 by Argentina's todaslascriticas.  They're respectable numbers but nowhere close to the critical adoration heaped on "The Assassin" and "Carol".

Nevertheless, the reception was good enough for me to believe that it's a very probable Telluride entrant.  

Here's the story that The Playlist posted to go along with the release of the above clip of the film:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-first-clip-from-jacques-audiards-cannes-drama-dheepan-has-a-secret-20150519


"THE CLUB" COULD MEET IN T-RIDE

Pablo Larrain was in Telluride in 2013 with the Gael Garcia Bernal starrer "No" in 2012.  Larrain's new film has just been picked up for U.S. distribution by Music Box Films.  Music Box had Oscar winner "Ida" and "Fifi Howls from Happiness" in 2013 and Mark Cousin's "The Story of Film: An Odyssey" in 2011 but was absent in 2014.

Still, I think that "The Club" has a 50/50 shot at making the Telluride playlist in September.  Variety has the story here:


http://variety.com/2015/film/news/music-box-pablo-larrains-the-club-1201506162/



"BLACK MASS" TRAILER #2

New "Black Mass" Trailer via YouTube

We saw a new trailer spring up online for Scott Cooper's "Black Mass" this week. The film stars Johnny Depp as notorious gangster/murderer Whitey Bulger.  That's what you see above.  "Black Mass' is one of four Warners films that are in the mix for serious notice at the end of the year and also might make the trip to T-ride.  

I'm on record suggesting a likely Warners return to Telluride this year after having had a serious presence  in 2012 with "Argo" and 2013 with "Gravity" and "Prisoners".  The trick is trying to ferret out which of the four films that could make the trip will make the trip.

The "Warners Four" are: "Black Mass", "Midnight Special", "Our Brand is Crisis" and "In  the Heart of the Sea".

News about the new clip is included here from Awards Daily and Variety:

http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/05/johnny-depp-in-black-mass-new-teaser-trailer/


http://variety.com/2015/film/news/johnny-depp-black-mass-offical-trailer-parenting-advice-1201504214/



More on Monday when Michael's Telluride Film Blog goes full time.  Beginning Monday MTFB will post five times a week on Monday through Friday through the end of this year's TFF.