TELLURIDE #43 TEN BETS #6-TORONTO-VENICE AFTERMATH
After hearing form Toronto, Venice and even a tidbit from New York gave me a lot of fuel to mix for this week's Ten Bets. It also allows me to expand the Ten Bets to include more than ten films predicted for Telluride in 2016.
Last week's Ten Bets (which I updated on Monday before the TIFF announcement) looked like this:
10) The Unknown Girl
9) Arrival
8) Things to Come
7) American Honey
6) Moonlight
5) La La Land
4) The Salesman
3) Toni Erdmann
2) The Red Turtle
1) Fire at Sea
Close: Lion, Aquarius, Denial, A Monster Calls, 20th Century Women, Paterson, Dog Eat Dog, Manchester by the Sea, Bleed for This, The Sense of an Ending.
Now, here's the latest Ten Bets for TFF #43:
13) Fire at Sea
12) Moonlight
11) The Red Turtle
10) Manchester by the Sea
9) Maudie
8) Frantz
7) Una
6) Neruda
5) Bleed for This
4) Arrival
3) Things to Come
2) La La Land
1) Toni Erdmann
Close: Aquarius, Dog Eat Dog, The Sense of an Ending, The Unknown Girl.
OTHERS TAKE A LOOK AT TIFF AND VENICE
I'm passing along a couple of posts from yesterday that broke down the information that we've gleaned over the past few days. I have included the analysis from Variety's Kristopher Tapley and Greg Ellwood from AwardsCampaign.com
Tapley suggests a good deal of the same things you'll have read here. Additionally, he writes that we might additionally see Cannes Palme d'Or winner I, Daniel Blake as well as The Unknown Girl. He also suggests that Warner Brothers is likely to return to TFF with something from the slate of The Accountant, Live by Night or Sully. I'd like that.
Here's Tapley's post:
http://variety.com/2016/film/in-contention/oscar-contenders-venice-telluride-toronto-film-festivals-1201825632/
Ellwood tells us that he believes the possibility of some "sneaks" may be back in play for Telluride and suggests that the premiere designation status, after having been a very clear indicator for the past three years, might not be as clear cut this time around.
The first exception he mentions is for Garth O'Connor's Lion form The Weinstein Company. Jim Sheridan's The Secret Scripture, Ewan McGregor's American Pastoral and Paul Verhoeven's Elle. He also questions both Telluride passes of Herzog's Salt and Fire and Farhadi's The Salesman.
I'd happily endorse any and all of these "exceptions" but my feeling is that the "honest" premiere status designation is probably still strongly in play.
Read Ellwood's story here:
http://awardscampaign.com/2016/07/28/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-2016-toronto-film-festival-galas-and-special-presentations/
DREAMS OF JACKIE
I mentioned in yesterday's post that Pablo Larrain's Jackie, which was announced for Venice, could be a TFF possibility that would mean that Larrain was presenting two films at the same fest. You have to be a bit dubious about the chances as it is a very rare case over Telluride's history when a film maker has done that. Not impossible, but extremely rare. I think Werner Herzog has done it. Maybe David Lynch.
SO it could happen...
Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere suggested yesterday that he thought it could/would happen:
http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2016/07/jackie-venice-debut-ought-to-indicate-telluride-showing-especially-with-pablo-larrain-already-booked-for-rocky-mountain-appearance-with-neruda/
Wells wasn't the only one thinking it could happen as the theory was bandied about on the interweb yesterday. We'll see. I'm hoping that it DOES make the trip between T-ride and Venice.
COULD TELLURIDE SEE EIGHT DAYS A WEEK?
A second trailer for Ron Howard's Beatles documentary, Eight Days a Week, dropped yesterday and though I have discounted the chance that it could play in the San Juans in September. But...
The timing works. The film is to be released on Sept. 15. The Playlist, reporting on the trailer release yesterday suggested that in might play "a couple of fall festivals before then". That only includes Telluride, Venice and Toronto. Venice seems to be out since the doc wasn't announced yesterday. So...
TFF has had a Beatles-esque presence at past fests with the refurbished Help in 2007 and the George Harrison doc Living in the Material World in 2011.
Hulu...the T.V. Hulu...is distributing and I'm not sure what that means but I do think that Netflix opened the door to that kind of distrib being a part of the fest last year and Amazon looks to be joining that group this year so why not Hulu too?
So...bring it on along with former Beatle and one of the producers of the film, Sir Paul McCartney.
Here's the new trailer via YouTube:
And here's coverage of the trailer release:
http://theplaylist.net/hit-road-new-trailer-ron-howards-beatles-eight-days-week-20160728/
http://www.slashfilm.com/eight-days-a-week-trailer-2/
http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/new-trailer-for-ron-howards-doc-the-beatles-eight-days-a-week/
That will do it for this crazy, crazy week. Come back Monday.
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