MORE THOUGHTS ON THE CANNES LINEUP
The Playlist published its 21 film Cannes wish list this week and. as you might expect, I'm parsing their expertise for hints, clues and desires as regards the films that could double up between Cannes and Telluride.
From their list:
Michael Haneke's Happy End
Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck
Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here
Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete
From the concluding section of their article...what they label as "Honorable Mentions":
Andrey Zvyagnistev's Loveless
Lazlo Nemes' Sunset
Alexander Payne's Downsizing
Ari Folman's Where Is Anne Frank
Michel Hazanavicicus' Le Redoubtable
Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio
Wim Wenders" Submergence
George Clooney's Suburbicon
Stephen Frears' Victoria and Abdul
Xavier Beauvois' Le Gardiennes
Ziad Doueiri's L'Insulte
The complete post from The Playlist is here.
SOME TIDBITS ABOUT MOONLIGHT AND LA LA LAND
During each Oscar season in the rush to get material posted in the midst of the non-stop deluge of stories, posts, articles and releases, some things get shuffled to the bottom of the pile. Not because they're inherently less informative or useful but mostly because of the limits of time and space.
With the horse race that Oscar #89 turned out to be between Berry Jenkins' Moonlight and Damian Chazelle's La La Land. the following stories stayed in my inbox but never made it into the blog. So I'm correcting that here and now: Here are a few posts regarding Moonlight:
Barry Jenkins other film festival from The Playlist
How I Write-Barry Jenkins' video from The New York Times
Jenkins' student short film Josephine via The Playlist.
Musical homages/references video in La La Land from Indiewire.
BIG NEWS FROM FILM LAND THIS WEEK
A couple of announcements that probably don't mean anything in terms of TFF #44 but were interesting to film lovers, I suspect. Terry Gilliam has confirmed that filming has begun on his long gestating passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He's been after this for years...and has begun filming in the past. Here's hoping that he can get all the way to the end...and that it is more cohesive than many of his past efforts have been.
And...Stephen Spielberg has shelved The Kidnapping of Edgardo Motara which was supposed to be his next project in favor of a quickly developing project titled The Post based on The Pentagon Papers case and how it was handles by The Washington Post in the early '70's. Tom Hanks is set to play Post editor Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep is on board to play Post owner/publisher Katherine Graham. The word is that will begin filming in May and be released THIS YEAR...wow.
Terry Gilliam/Don Quixote story from The Playlist.
Speilberg Switches Projects from Awards Watch
That'll do for this Monday. More on Thursday...
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