ANOTHER CANNES SPECULATION
Indiewire posted its "wish list" for Cannes this week. The list of 37 films is sort of a combination of films that their team think have a reasonable chance of making the cut for films which will be announced on April 12th (just three weeks away) and films that the authors would like to see make the list...some wishful thinking in some quarters, I suspect.
Among the 37 titles, the films that seem to me to make the most sense of playing both in Cannes and then in Telluride three and a half months later are:
Ash Is the Purest White
Beautiful Boy
Burning
Cold War
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Everybody Knows
If Beale Street Could Talk (will this really be ready for Cannes?)
The Little Stranger
Loro
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Non Fiction
The Other Side of the Wind
Peterloo
Radegund (yea, I know, it's been on some earlier Cannes lists...and Malick hasn't shown any inclination to come to Telluride -that I know of- since a 1998 inclusion as a producer of Endurance...but...)
Sunset
The Indiewire complete list and post is here.
OSCAR PREDICTIONS FROM AWARDS WATCH
Erik Anderson of Awards Watch posted his first list of potential Oscar films for the coming year earlier this week. As you might expect, a veritable plethora of films are included that have legitimate shots at TFF #45 consideration. Among the top ten films he lists as Best Picture possibilities are these that might be worth thinking about as TFF titles:
Black Klansman
First Man
Widows
Backseat
If Beale Street Could Talk
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Mary Queen of Scots
Among the films Anderson lists as "Other Contenders" that also seem to have some T-ride potential:
Beautiful Boy
Boy Erased
Everybody Knows
The Front Runner
Gloria (could Sebastian Lelio return to Telluride with the English language remake of the film that he had at TFF in 2013?)
Kursk
Loro
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Mid 90s
Old Man and the Gun
On the Basis of Sex
Peterloo
Roma
The Sisters Brothers
The Women of Marwen
The complete article from Anderson is here.
THE OTHER SIDE GETS MUSIC
Composer Michel Legrand via Wellesnet.com
Orson Welles last film gets closer and closer to being finished. In addition to speculation that it will play Cannes, this week also had reports that music legend Michel Legrand has composed the music for the film.
Wellesnet.com and Variety both reported that story earlier this week.
Other news culled from Twitter indicates that the recording of that orchestration has been occurring this week as well.
All of that contributes to the notion that the film will play in France in may and that we may well see it in the San Juans come Labor Day weekend.
Another note: Legrand was a 2007 TFF tribute recipient.
That's your MTFB for this Thursday. I'll have more on Monday.
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