LATEST TORONTO NEWS AND TELLURIDE
The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival reveled more of their selections yesterday and is my custom, I began parsing the information and premiere statuses for Telluride clues.
Here's what I think we can say...
First, and most attention grabbing, it appears that Wakefield from writer/director Robin Swicord (The Jane Austen Book Club, co-writer of The Promise...which I will mention in a bit) and starring Bryan Cranston will probably be playing Telluride. That stems from its classification as an International premiere in Toronto. An International Premiere means the first play outside of its nation of origin (which is the USA) so unless there is some other screening of the film someplace I can't track down, the most likely scenario is that it's coming to southwestern Colorado.
Now, there's no guarantee that Cranston make the trip to T-ride. We've been disappointed before when we thought an actor was going to make the trip and then didn't (Benedict Cumberbatch/Imitation Game...I'm looking at you). And to be sure, Cranston is a busy man as he is cast in the currently filming Power Rangers film. Still, I'm hopeful that he could be in town. Would be cool.
Wakefield's IMDb plot description says: "A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months". IMDb also does not list a current distributor for the film.
Other big news for additions to our T-ride spec list is that it looks like Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer will make an appearance at Telluride. The film was previously titled The Oppenheimer Strategies. The film has been on the MTFB radar since as early as last March because of Cedar's previous Telluride presence with his 2011 film Footnote. Norman was listed by TIFF as an International Premiere as well...see above for why I think this means a T-ride play.
Other things we learned, Wim Wenders The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez appears to be headed directly from Venice to Toronto as it was listed as a North American Premiere. Terrence Malick's The Voyage of Time appears to be doing the same.
The Promise, which we have been keeping an eye on of late is also not T-ride bound as it was announced as a World Premiere.
No other International or Canadian Premieres seem to be likely for Telluride.
One piece of weirdness. Pedro Almodovar's Julieta, was NOT listed last week by the New York Film Festival with ANY premiere designation which lead me to conclude it was probably Telluride-bound (or else it would probably be called a "U.S. Premiere by NYFF) was listed yesterday by TIFF as a North American premiere. So, it's now more likely that Julieta is going to play somewhere else in the U.S. after Toronto and before New York, thereby meaning no Telluride play.
If Toronto follows their traditional pattern, they'll have one more set of films added to the lineup next week.
TIFF coverage from yesterday is here:
http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/tiff-2016-i-daniel-blake-personal-shopper-julieta-the-unknown-girl-1201717188/
https://thefilmstage.com/news/tiff-2016-adds-voyage-of-time-certain-women-julieta-the-promise-and-more/
http://theplaylist.net/tiff-2016-adds-promise-christian-bale-voyage-time-20160816/
https://www.thewrap.com/toronto-film-festival-adds-james-franco-pedro-almodovar-ken-loach-movies/
ARRIVAL'S SECOND WAVE ARRIVES
We saw a great teaser and a few images last week from Denis Villenueve's Arrival and it definitely has our interest piqued. In all honesty, it's now the film I'm most excited about seeing if it plays Telluride as we presume from its announced status as a Canadian Premiere for Toronto.
Yesterday, the folks behind the hype parade for the film smacked us with two trailers and posters as well.
I'll be honest, I'm not watching the trailer(s). I loved the teaser last week, but that's all I want to know now. I'm going to try to keep the blinders on until I see it at The Zog (I assume).
Nevertheless, here's the trailer via YouTube:
And, the international trailer, also from YouTube:
And, to further whet your appetite...posters:
Check these stories for more news about Arrival, it's trailers and images:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2016/08/16/trailer-watch-arrival/
http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/arrival-trailer-amy-adams-denis-villeneuve-jeremy-renner-oscars-1201716795/
https://thefilmstage.com/trailer/aliens-appear-in-full-length-trailer-for-denis-villeneuves-arrival/
http://www.awardscircuit.com/2016/08/16/watch-new-trailer-posters-arrival-starring-amy-adams-jeremy-renner/
http://theplaylist.net/amy-adams-talks-aliens-new-full-length-trailer-denis-villeneuves-arrival-20160816/
http://www.thewrap.com/arrival-trailer-amy-adams-must-stop-all-out-war-in-first-full-video/
MISS SLOANE EMERGES
It's looking increasingly unlikely that John Madden's Miss Sloane starring Jessica Chastain will be playing Telluride. The film has always been a very outside chance with an announced release date of Dec. 9th...which is pretty deep in the season and no inclusion in either NYFF or Toronto (at least at this point) it seems to be improbable.
It's not impossible, however. So, I'm still trailing it mostly because I'd like for it to be at T-ride. We had a new image of the film published online yesterday.
Here's some of the online coverage from yesterday:
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/16/miss-sloane-jessica-chastain-gun-lobby-thriller
https://thefilmstage.com/news/first-look-at-jessica-chastain-in-gun-control-drama-miss-sloane/
http://theplaylist.net/first-look-jessica-chastain-oscar-contender-miss-sloane-20160816/
THE PEOPLE, THE PROS AND THE FOLLOW
Here's today's reminder to join your fellow Telluride Film Fest attendees and rate the films you see for MTFB. I'm asking you to rate each film you catch on a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being awful and 5 being great. Send those ratings via email (see below), comment to this blog, Twitter (see below). I'll compile them and let you know The People's consensus.
I'l also be doing The Professionals Telluride. I've asked a number of industry pros to rate the films as well and I'll be reporting their consensus as well.
Agreeing this year to participate are :
Alex Billington/FirstShowing
David Ehrlich/Indiewire
Greg Ellwood/AwardsCampaign.com
Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter
Eric Kohn/Indiewire
Mark Johnson/AwardsCircuit.com
Tomris Laffly/Film Journal
Kenny Miles/TheMovieBlog.com
Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com
Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Kristopher Tapley/Variety-InContention
Anne Thompson/Indiewire
There could be a couple of others.
And a reminder that you can now more easily follow Michael's Telluride Film Blog and the Film Awards Clearinghouse. I've set up a "FOLLOW" button on the blog page in the upper right hand corner. Just click on it for an easy way to get every post as we preview, view and then review TFF #43. Then you can follow the prospects of Telluride's films as they wend their way through awards season. Just click that "FOLLOW" button!
That's it for Wednesday...more to come tomorrow.
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