Welcome back from your weekend. It's Monday, August 21, 2017...ten days to TFF #44...
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
I started seeing some social media mention on Friday that Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F. Donovan was probably not going to be ready for exhibition. Indiewrie confirmed that in a post on Friday afternoon.
The film's french distributor is sourced in the article specifically saying that the film won't be ready for Toronto which necessarily also means that it wouldn't be ready for the earlier occurring TFF #44. John F. Donovan has been on my dwindling list of films that could still pop up at Telluride but that changes now.
One other note about Toronto; they do have one more round of films to be announced Tuesday. Last week one of the major film outlet had suggested that TIFF was finished naming films but a friendly reader messaged me with the news that TIFF wasn't quite done which made more sense to me as I had gotten used to TIFF making their announcements in five installments. So, look for a final wave of films and parsing coming tomorrow.
Consequently, my list of films which might still make The SHOW is now:
Final Portrait
L'amant Double
Marshall
Mary Magdalene
Our Souls at Night
The Snowman
Wonder
You Were never Really Here
CRAZY IDEAS RE-VISITED
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
I started seeing some social media mention on Friday that Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F. Donovan was probably not going to be ready for exhibition. Indiewrie confirmed that in a post on Friday afternoon.
The film's french distributor is sourced in the article specifically saying that the film won't be ready for Toronto which necessarily also means that it wouldn't be ready for the earlier occurring TFF #44. John F. Donovan has been on my dwindling list of films that could still pop up at Telluride but that changes now.
One other note about Toronto; they do have one more round of films to be announced Tuesday. Last week one of the major film outlet had suggested that TIFF was finished naming films but a friendly reader messaged me with the news that TIFF wasn't quite done which made more sense to me as I had gotten used to TIFF making their announcements in five installments. So, look for a final wave of films and parsing coming tomorrow.
Consequently, my list of films which might still make The SHOW is now:
Final Portrait
L'amant Double
Marshall
Mary Magdalene
Our Souls at Night
The Snowman
Wonder
You Were never Really Here
CRAZY IDEAS RE-VISITED
Four things that are really far-fetched but...you never know...
Alejandro Inarritu's VR installation Carne y Arena. It's played at Cannes and the L.A. County Museum.
Denis Villenueve surprises by showing up with, at a minimum, scenes from Blade Runner 2049. Maybe the whole film.
William Friedkin is feted and shows The Devil and Father Amorth plus the recently restored Sorcerer and perhaps even The Exorcist.
David Lynch drops the final two episodes of Twin Peaks:The Return in Telluride prior to them airing on Sunday night, Sept. 3rd on Showtime.
Final word: make all these crazy ideas happen...
A TRAILER FOR AI WEI WEI'S HUMAN FLOW
One of the documentaries we expect to see in Telluride in a few days is Ai Wei Wei's Human Flow. The film is known to bow in Venice and we then think it'll make the trip to southwest Colorado. Wei Wei focuses on the global refugee crisis after having filmed in nearly two dozen countries according to Indiewire which reported over the weekend that the doc has a trailer.
And here it is from YouTube:
That's Monday. More tomorrow...
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