WORMWOOD TRAILER LANDS
Maybe the most mysterious likely inclusion in the TFF #44 lineup is Errol Morris' Wormwood. We got more info about it yesterday including the notes that it will be six episodes and that Netflix will drop it on Dec. 15th.
Oh, and there is also a trailer via YouTube:
Included here is Wormwood coverage from:
FOUNDAS FINDS NEW COTTON CLUB
Scott Foundas, who has been a Telluride festival or three Tweeted out a big surprise and reveal late last night.
TFF#44 will program a restoration of Francis Ford Coppola's Cotton Club. Here's the screen grab of two Foundas Tweets with the reveal:
And the second:
So if you have a yen for a restoration, looks like Telluride has your answer. Also, you have to think that Coppola would likely be in town to present.
SORROW ABOUT SEA SORROW
After reading the NYFF announcement stories in a number of different places, I concluded that Vanessa Redgrave's directing debut, the documentary Sea Sorrow, could be Telluride bound. That was based on the lack of any premiere status designation in the stories. Last night I discovered that the actual NYFF/Film Society of Lincoln Center website does, in fact, list it as a U.S. Premiere meaning that it will NOT be a player at TFF #44 after all.
Here's your evidence:
So...no Sea Sorrow. Apologies to all.
VIEWS OF THE FILM FIELD: AWARDS SEASON
The Playlist's awards guru Greg Ellwood has published a story that focuses on 13 films that he has highlighted as possible awards season dominators. Among them he has included Alexander Payne's Downsizing, Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.
Ellwood also sprinkles in some Telluride intimations ahead of Thursday's lineup reveal so you might to look for those.
The entire post is here.
VIEWS OF THE FILM FIELD: THE WOMEN DIRECTING
I came across a couple of stories that were focused on female directors that look to have films in the end of the year awards conversation and naturally I was interested in which of those films included by the authors could make a splash this weekend at Telluride.
Both Tomris Laffly writing for Film School Rejects and Kate Erbland at Indiewire examine the group of films from directors such as Angelina Jolie, Chloe Zhao and others that seem, at least as we stand on the precipice of the fall film festival season, could make the most awards noise.
Both writers include these films in their musings that I am thinking will be announced as part of the TFF #44 lineup on Thursday: First They Killed My Father, The Rider, Visages/Villages (Faces/Places) and Lady Bird.
Laffly also includes Battle of the Sexes which is co-directed by Valerie Faris.
Take a look at the complete articles. The Laffly/FSR article is here and the Erbland/Indiewire article is here.
VENICE AND TELLURIDE
Nick Vivarelli writing for Indiewire last week examined the dynamic between the three fall film fests that are set to launch over the next ten days with a particular focus on Venice and an ancillary focus on Telluride.
Vivarelli interviews Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera who talks considerably about the current state of the two fests and Toronto as well.
Vivarelli confirms that this year may have the largest crossover between the two fests that anyone can remember. Venice reportedly wanted both Last Flag Flying which will open the New York Fest in a few weeks and Hostiles which we believe will first screen at Telluride this weekend.
Read the entire Vivarelli piece here.
DON'T FORGET...THE FINAL LIST OF TELLURIDE PREDICTIONS WILL BE UP TOMORROW MORNING IN A SPECIAL EDITION OF MTFB.
ALSO, WE MAY GET ONE MORE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM TORONTO TODAY...STAY TUNED...
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