TIFF IN A WEEK
The word is that the Toronto International Film Festival will have their first announcement of films for their fest a week from today. For those of you that have been reading this space for a long time, you know what that means. For those of you that are new or have been casual readers, here's why that's important:
TIFF will announce each film complete with its "premiere status". (Venice will too). When they do that [as we have seen with New York's announcement that Last Flag Flying is a world premiere, so it will not be seen at Telluride] that will tell us some things that allow us in many cases to determine whether a film will/won't or could play TFF #44. New York's recent announcement that Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck will be its Centerpiece as a "New York" premiere indicates an almost certainty of a Telluride play.
Fort example, if George Clooney's Suburbicon is announced as a World Premiere next Tuesday at TIFF that means it will not play Telluride. If it's a North American premiere...no Telluride.
If a film is an International premiere...that depends on where else it has already played or will be announced to play. If it's a Canadian Premiere and didn't play Sundance or Tribeca...it's almost certainly headed to Telluride.
Toronto won't announce it's whole lineup but it's crucial to note that the overlap between Toronto and Telluride is historically impressive. Last year the fests shared 22 titles. That level of crossover may not quite happen this year owing to TIFF's announcement earlier that they will program 20% fewer titles this year so that should mean a bit less of an overlap.
TIFF will have other announcements each week as we wind down the summer and we'll need to pay attention to each just as we'll need to scrutinize announcements from Venice, New York and London.
But don't sweat figuring that all out...That's what MTFB is here for. I'll probably have a special Wednesday edition next week to analyze the TIFF announcement.
THE USUAL SUSPECTS 2017
As I do each summer...here's a look at some of the people that often have projects that land at Telluride, what this year's project is and an assessment of that project's chances of making the TFF #44 lineup:
Ken Burns: Vietnam documentary...25%
Werner Herzog-Exec. Prod. on A Gray State...10%
Alexander Payne-Downsizing...80%
Paul Schrader-First Reformed...10%
Wim Wenders-Submergence...20%
Todd Haynes-Wonderstruck...85%
Alejandro Inarritu-V.R. Installation Carne y Arena...30% (if I could believe that Telluride could find a suitable venue...)
Michael Haneke-Happy End...50%
Stephen Frears...Victoria and Abdul...30%
Lynne Ramsay-You Were Never Really Here...50%
Errol Morris-The Lure...35%
Agnes Varda-Visages/Villages...70%
Ritesh Bakta-Our Souls at Night...20% (see below)
Aki Kaurismaki-The Other Side of Hope...35%
Sebastain Lelio-A Fantastic Woman...40%
MR. OSIASON SAYS...
Jason Osiason is a friend of MTFB and a cinephile to make note of. He digs as deep as anyone I know with regard to film world so when he makes a practice of sussing out/predicting what will happen there, you'd do well to take note.
Jason has been posting his predix for Telluride choices this summer and, in a spirit of providing my readers with as big a picture as possible, here are his latest comments re: TFF #44:
Jason also added Scott Cooper's Hostiles as a possible and You Were Never Really Here as "hard to believe these don't go".
REDFORD AND FONDA AT VENICE
The Venice Fest announced yesterday that Robert Redford and Jane Fonda will be honored there and their film Our Souls at Night from director Ritesh Bakta will World Premiere there on Sept. 1.
MTFB friend Kenny Miles points out that, despite the WP at Venice, that the film could play there and make the jump to Telluride for Sunday and Monday screenings. He also makes the point that the film was filmed in Colorado which he believes boosts its chances for a SHOW spot. That point is very well taken.
My original response was to think that the Venice announcement made the film's TFF #44 appearance unlikely but Mr. Miles analysis makes some sense. So, I'm not ruling out the film's chances for a T-ride play.
Here's the story of the Venice selection from The Wrap.
That's your Tuesday...more will be here on Thursday...
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