MORE ABOUT THE VENICE SCHEDULE
If you missed it on Friday, the Venice Film Festival released its actual screening schedule, which, as many of you know, can be parsed for clues about the potential films that may play both there and at Telluride.
Friday's schedule release came after my original post for the day and so my update which included that missed some depth and nuance that I can get to today.
To reiterate, Films that are scheduled early enough or late in enough for their initial screening have demonstrably then had enough tie to play at both festivals. Past fests have shown that. Adding in what we think we already know from the revelations primarily from New York and Toronto allows some informed conjecture.
So starting with those premises we can include and exclude films from our list of TFF possibles.
I divide Venice into three "windows" to do this. "Early", "Middle" and "Late". Films that land in the "Early" window could have the chance to play Venice and then come to Telluride. This year Venice's "Early" window in Aug. 29-Sept. 1...this is all arbitrary on my part. It's my best guess that Sept. 1 is the latest a film could play in Italy and still be a part of T-ride. The "Middle" window runs Sept. 2-4-or, in other words, the end of TFF. Films that debut here are off the TFF table. The "Late" Segment runs from Sept. 5-9. Films that bow at Venice during this stretch could play Telluride and then go to Venice.
As I write this I believe that we have a relatively good idea of four films that will play Telluride and also play Venice: Downsizing, The Shape of Water and Human Flow all in Venice's "Early" period and Wormwood in its "Late" period.
Other films of interest in the "Early" period: First Reformed, The Devil and Father Amorth, Lean on Pete and Our Souls at Night. Other films of interest in the "Late" period: Sweet Country and Mektoub My Love.
Films from the "Middle" period that we're already thinking will NOT play Telluride (another factoid that bolsters this set of guesses): Suburbicon, Victoria and Abdul, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Darren Aronofsky's mother! which we also think will not play at T-ride is set to bow on Sept. 5.
Films of Telluride interest that landed in the "Middle" section at Venice and thereby would seem to be no-go now for The SHOW: The Leisure Seeker, Foxtrot, The Private Life of a Mad Woman and Woodshock.
Finally add in a couple of clues that Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera has been reported as saying. First, that the two fests will share seven or eight titles and second that the only non-World Premiere at Venice is Errol Morris' Wormwood.
Since we already think we know of four films that leaves three of four to come from the "Early" or "Late" periods.
I think both Sweet Country and Mektoub My Love are eliminated as the comment about Wormwood would indicate that both of these films will be World Preeming that late in the Venice lineup. That means the three to four additional films would come from the "Early" window.
In order, then, here are my best guesses as to the chances of those four films to make the trip:
1) First Reformed
2) Lean on Pete
3) Our Souls at Night
4) The Devil and Father Amorth
In fairness, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's Under the Tree could also be in play for a Telluride spot as it plays in the "Early" segment as well and has, to the best of my knowledge, not been programmed at this point in another festival in a way that would disqualify it from TFF #44 consideration. However, the other films have, for various reasons, a more pronounced Telluride profile.
LOOKS AT DOWNSIZING AND MOLLY'S GAME
Entertainment Weekly's fall film preview issue landed Friday and EW put a couple of their interviews online which included first looks at both Alexander Payne's Downsizing and Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game.
I think Downsizing is a Telluride lock. Molly's Game is more of a wish list item at the moment.
The pic from Downsizing:
And from Molly's Game:
The online interviews for the accompanying stories are from Alexander Payne here and for Molly's Game: Jessica Chastain here.
Other possible/probable TFF #44 films that are highlighted in the issue include:Battle of the Sexes, First They Killed My Father, Our Souls at Night, Wonderstruck, The Snowman, Roman Israel Esq., Wonder, Molly's Game, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour. The Shape of Water, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Happy End, and Downsizing.
The EW Fall Film Preview is on sale now.
That's your Monday. More to come tomorrow and later this week including a new set of announced films from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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