BERLIN TITLES OF NOTE
The Berlin Film Festival ran from Feb. 15-23. That fest, as I have noted here, seems to have become a staple for films that then find their way into the Telluride lineup six and a half months later. Now that our Oscar fever has broken, I thought I'd take one more quick look at the Berlin lineup and isolate films that might replicate the experience of films such as Taxi, Fire at Sea, Gloria and The Counterfeiters. Over the last few years the average of Berlin Fest to Telluride films has been 2-3 films.
I have posted articles from Variety, Indiewire and The Film Stage that inspect this year's Berlin crop and here what seem to be the most likely candidates foe T-ride inclusion:
A Fantastic Woman-Sebastian Lelio (produced by Pablo Larrain) Film Stage and Variety
The Other Side of Hope-Aki Kaurismaki Film Stage, Indiewire and Variety
On Body and Soul-Ildiko Enyedi (Golden Bear winner) Indiewire, Variety
Spoor-Agnieszka Holland-Variety
The Party-Sally Potter-Variety
And here are the links to those articles:
The Film Stage
Indiewire
Variety
CANNES SPECULATION
So...Oscar's over, Sundance is over, Berlin is over...South by Southwest takes off starting tomorrow so that can only mean that it's time to get into some serious speculation about the films that will be a part of the Cannes Film Festival.
As I have written on many occasions the Cannes-Telluride connection is substantial and averages a crossover of 7-8 films per year with most of those titles coming from the Palme d'Or competition slate. Anyone who is serious about trying to puzzle out the Telluride lineup has to take note of the films that are possible for and then do make the lineup of Cannes.
So buckle up friendo...
I took a look at Cannes speculation from recent posts in The Hollywood Reporter and Cineuropa and compiled the following list of a dozen films that could play Cannes and have potential to make the trip to Telluride.
Making both lists:
Les Gardiennes-Xavier Beauvois
Happy End-Michael Haneke
Wonderstruck-Todd Haynes
Le Redoubtable-Michel Hazanavicius
Mektoub is Mektoub-Abdellatif Kechiche
Loveless- Andrey Zvyaginstev
From the THR article:
Victoria and Abdul-Stephen Frears
Submergence-Wim Wenders
From the Cineuropa article:
Downsizing-Alexander Payne
You're Not Really Here-Lynne Ramsay
Roma-Alfonso Cuaron
Here are links to the Cannes spec posts:
The Hollywood Reporter
Cineuropa
AWARDS CIRCUIT'S BEST PICTURE PICTURE
And finally, continuing to cast a predictive gaze toward films that might comprise the TFF #43 program, Awards Circuit, one of the Oscar prediction outlets that I follow, has posted its first take on possible Best Picture candidates for Oscar #90. Clayton Davis lists 40 films (plus some additional possibilities) and so I cast my eyes there in the search to discern what plays at the 2017 edition of The SHOW.
Among the Top Ten:
#5 Battle of the Sexes
#6 The Current War
#8 Downsizing
From 12-20:
#16 Wonderstruck
From 21-40
#24 Lean on Pete
#29 The Shape of Water
#37 You Were Never Really Here
Hopes that might not be completely crazy:
#2 Suburbicon
#14 Molly's Game
Here's the link to the first forecast of Oscar players from Awards Circuit.
That's all for this Thursday. I'll have more on Monday.
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