TEN BETS #4 FOR TFF#44
Here's my last "Ten Bets" before the clarity that will descend next week as Toronto and Venice begin to announce their lineups. As the rest of the summer unfolds into early fall Toronto will continue to add film selections weekly and we'll add to that selections from New York and London and end up with a fairly comprehensive and largely correct listing of films for Telluride's 44th edition.
As a reminder here's last week's Ten Bets:
1) Wonderstruck
2) Visages/Villages
3) Loveless
4) The Florida Project
5) A Fantastic Woman
6) Battle of the Sexes
7) 120 BPM
8) The Other Side of Hope
9) You Were Never Really Here
10) Downsizing
And this week's:
1) Wonderstruck (with a trailer out yesterday...see below)
2) Downsizing
3) Visages/Villages
4) Loveless
5) Battle of the Sexes
6) The Florida Project
7) You Were Never Really Here
8) A Fantastic Woman
9) The Other Side of Hope
10) The Current War
Other possibles: 120 BPM, The Shape of Water, The Rider, Loving Vincent, mother!, Happy End, Redoubtable, The Death of Stalin, Ken Burns Vietnam
On Monday...MTFB's "Telluride Wish List"...yes, there are films that I wish for.
WONDERSTRUCK REVEALS A TRAILER
Todd Haynes film based on Brian Selznick's novel has been sitting on top of the MTFB Ten Bets for the last two weeks. It opened the first "Ten Bets" at #3. Suffice to say that I strongly believe it will play TFF #44. So I was excited yesterday evening to discover that the Cannes competition film dropped a trailer. Here it is from YouTube:
Wonderstruck trailer release coverage from:
The Film Stage
Indiewire
Entertainment Weekly
mother! HAS A NEW DATE
I'm not sure what it portends but Darren Aronofsky's mother! has been scheduled for anew release date a full month earlier than it had been originally planned. The film was set for an Oct. 13th date but that changed yesterday with a move up to Sept. 15th.
Variety pointed out that it could still mean a play for the film at Telluride, Venice and even Toronto.
Aronofsky's Black Swan played Venice, Telluride and Toronto in 2010 but that was with a December release date. Black Swan earned five Oscar nominations including a win for Natalie Portman for Best Actress and nominations for Best Picture and Best Direction.
The film stars Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem.
In other mother! news...word is that a trailer appeared in some theaters that were playing Dunkirk yesterday which means we could expect to see it soon.
Gotta tell you, I kind of think it might show up at The SHOW now.
Further coverage of the move for mother! is here from:
SlashFilm
AND WE END WHERE WE BEGAN
We started this week with the awful news of the passing of George Romero and Martin Landau and it only feels right to end there as well.
Former TFF Co-director Gary Meyer put together a fantastic reminder, reverie and recognition of the two men at Eat, Drink, Films. Check it out here.
That's all for this Friday. Enjoy your weekend...I'm in Salem, Oregon through Sunday night at The Salem Art and Festival. If you're around, drop by and say hello.
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