SNOWDEN TEASE
I have mentioned Oliver Stone's Snowden in passing as an outside possibility for Telluride, Among the factors that suggested that it could play were the fact that Stone has played Telluride before-1997 U-Turn- and that Snowden is under the Open Road banner...which had a better than average Telluride outing last year with a little film called Spotlight.
But, on the other hand, Stone has not been back to Telluride in the intervening years. He seems to have been satisfied with playing his films since '97 in other places:Any Given Sunday-'99-didn't premiere at a festival, Alexander-'04-No fest premiere, World Trade Center-'06-Venice, W.-'08-Austin Film Fest, Wall Street-Money Never Sleeps-'10-Cannes, Savages-'12-no fest premiere.
News dropped on late Friday that raised my eyebrows just a little, however, as Snowden was announced for the San Sebastian Film Fest. That fest opens Sept. 16th. According to the reports the film will be having its European premiere at San Sebastian. That designation tells us that the film could play Telluride, Toronto or both. Screen Daily reached the same conclusion in their story about the announcement:
http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/san-sebastian/oliver-stones-snowden-to-get-european-premiere-at-san-sebastian/5106571.article?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562
The Hollywood Reporter also reported on he announcement last Friday:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stones-snowden-san-sebastian-909266
Bottom line is that I am thinking that Snowden is now 50/50 for Telluride. Maybe an Oliver Stone tribute.
EUROPEAN PRODUCERS: THE BRITISH: PART ONE
We begin our look at European production companies that have had strong relationships with Telluride over the past decade or so and what that could mean in as far as TFF #43 is concerned. We start today with Film 4.
Film 4's presence at Telluride in recent times looks like this:
2006: Deep Water
2007: When Did You Last See Your Father, Brick Lane
2008: Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, Slumdog Millionaire
2009: No film
2010: Another Year, Never Let Me Go
2011: Shame
2012: No film
2013- Under the Skin, 12 Years a Slave, Starred Up
2014- Mr. Turner
2015- Carol, Suffragette, 45 Years, Room
And their participation in films that are in some form or another on my Telluride watch list: American Honey, Una and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Based on their past, it seems like at least one of these three films is probably going to make the lineup.
Tomorrow we'll review BBC Films.
COULD WE SPEND ETERNITY IN TELLRUIDE
Director Tran Ahn Nu Hung hasn't played Telluride but that could change this year with his starry french multi-generational film Eternity. Though the film has no current U.S. distribution, The Playlist reports that it seems a probable choice for Venice. Could it also make the Telluride lineup? Possibly. Over the weekend, we saw the release of a french language trailer with subtitles. It's here:
Eternity trailer via YouTube
Here's the story from The Playlist:
That'll do to start the week. More tomorrow.
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