Over your Oscar hangover yet?
LOOKING AHEAD
What an Oscar night for the Telluride Film Festival.. Between Moonlight, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Arrival and The White Helmets it was an extraordinary night for TFF #43. Count 'em up...13 Oscars between the aforementioned films including Moonlight's Best Picture surprise win (BP at Telluride for the seventh straight year and eight of the last nine):
Moonlight-3
La La Land-6
Manchester-2
Arrival-1
The White Helmets-1
But Oscar night is behind us and that can only mean one thing and that is that it's time to put away The Film Awards Clearinghouse and go back to the business of Michael's Telluride Film Blog...trying to determine the lineup possibilities for TFF #44...
To that end, you might note that I bought my pass yesterday. I'll be applying for press accreditation within the next month or so...with the notion of bringing you the best coverage possible in the run-up and then presentation of the 2017 iteration of TFF.
So...let's get serious.
Awards Circuit has posted their 50 Most Anticipated Films and let's parse that list for possible Telluride titles for Labor Day.
#39-The Current War- Alejandro Inarritu protege Alfonso Gomez Rajon directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battling over electricity. From The Weinstein Company, I could see this film as the Weinstein's return vehicle for Telluride.
#38-Downsizing- Matt Damon stars in an Alexander Payne film. That could be sufficient to get it a berth at TFF
#27-Suburbicon-George Clooney directs a script co-written by the Coen Brothers and with a stellar cast: Damon (again), Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac and Julianne Moore...oh my. This might be a hope more than a real Telluride play. but I've thought since Clooney was a tribute recipient in 2011 that he would return and this could be the vehicle for that to happen. Paramount is distributing (this as well as Downsizing) so let's have a Matt Damon double feature. Maybe a Damon tribute?
#24- Battle of the Sexes- Billy Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs in the person of Emma Stone and Steve Carell. They've both been to T-ride. Bring 'em back say I with this film that I think I've had on the radar for a couple of years. It could mark the return to Telluride of Fox Searchlight.
#17-Wonderstruck-Todd Haynes directs. Does he return after Carol's play a couple of years ago. Julianne Moore stars (as mentioned above, she's also in Suburbicon) A Moore tribute? Yes please. From Amazon...which made a splash at Telluride in 2016 with Manchester by the Sea.
#10-Molly's Game-Aaron Sorkin directs Jessica Chastain in his directing debut. Maybe more a desire than a realistic possibility...but...
These seem to me to be the best shots. Take a look at the entire 50 film list plus some other titles here;
Awards Circuit's 50 Most Anticipated Films
OSCAR POST-MORTEMS
Here's a link or two to podcast coverage of the Oscar ceremony from Sunday night:
Oscar Podcast #52 from Awards Watch
Awards Daily Podcast
AND FOR FUN...
Here is the "Honest Trailer" take for the nine films nominated for Best Picture this year. It's entertaining:
Entertainment Weekly Honest Best Picture Trailers
More on Monday...
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