SOME SERIOUS CANNES POSSIBILITIES
During the past week Deadline and Screen Daily each dropped a large article commenting on film titles that they feel have serious Cannes potential. As a matter of fact, they're the two deepest Cannes spec pieces that I've seen thus far.
As regular readers know, we parse the Cannes potential lineup to begin to glean thoughts as to which films might also be presented in September at T-ride.
So, lets's dive in beginning with the Screen Daily post which breaks down possibilities by various geographic regions. From those lengthy lists, I have highlighted some films that seem like candidates for TFF:
France: Mektoub is Mektoub, Redoubtable, The Guardians
UK/Ireland: Lean on Pete, You Were Never Really Here
Germany: Submergence
North America: Wonderstruck
Latin America: Roma
Eastern Europe: Loveless
The complete Screen Daily article is here.
Meanwhile. Pete Hammond posted a big Cannes piece on Wednesday that includes hard core speculation about:
Michael Haneke's Happy End
Alexander Payne's Downsizing
George Clooney's Suburbicon (though Hammond suggests a fall fest is, perhaps, more likely...Venice?)
Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck
Lynne Ramsay's You Where Never Really Here
Hammond also pours cold water on the Cannes spec of a number of films that we've been keeping an eye on this spring. Films that Hammond says will NOT be Cannes bound include: Wim Wenders Submergence, Stephen Frears' Victoria and Abdul, Alfonso Cuaron's Roma.
French films that Hammond suggests are in play for a berth include Mektoub is Mektoub, Redoubtable and The Guardians.
Other titles that Hammond highlights that stand out to me as having a shot at Labor Day in the San Juans include: Loveless, The Venerable W,
The complete Deadline post is here.
THE OTHER SIDE'S WORK HAS BEGUN
The people behind the effort to restore, edit, finish Orson Welles' final film The Other Side of the Wind have wasted no time getting right into the work.
We told you last week that Netflix had come on board with money and that all the legal ins and outs had been satisfied for the project to move forward. We also re-posted a photo of the thousands of feet of film arriving in Los Angeles for work to begin.
Now we have a clip of film as the film was readied and packaged for the delivery to L.A. this week. Yahoo had the film to begin with and Indiewire re-posted it.
Here's that story with the film included.
TOM LUDDY HONORED
Telluride Film Festival co-founder and continuing director Tom Luddy was announced as the recipient of The San Francisco Film Festival's Mel Novikoff Award. The award "acknowledges an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public's knowledge and appreciation of world cinema."
Luddy will receive the award in San Francisco on April 9th.
From The 60th SFIFF, here is the press release announcing the honor.
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