I start the summer posting protocol with the expansion of posts. Normally, I post on Monday and Thursday mornings but starting this week, I'll be adding posts on Tuesday and Friday as we move our way closer and closer to TFF #45 scheduled for this year from Aug. 31-Sept. 3.
Hope you enjoy and find the next three months of goo...useful.
WIDOWS PICS AND TRAILER
Any number of sources reported over the weekend that Steve McQueen's Widows had dropped stills and would be dropping a trailer today. I have included a couple of stills from The Film Stage here and will include the trailer in tomorrow's post.
I'm about 50/50 on Widows' chances of making the TFF #45 lineup. Working in its favor is the strong presence that McQueen has had at the fest over the years with screenings of Hunger ('08), Shame ('11) and 12 Years a Slave ('13) and personally, Shame and 12 Years are two of the best films that I have seen at Telluride. So that kind of track record suggests TFF #45 could happen.
Countering that are two factors. Widows, from all descriptions, sounds like a genre film which none of McQueen's previous Telluride films could be called and it's housed at 20th Century Fox, which has certainly had plenty of play at Telluride via its indie arm-Fox Searchlight, but 20th Century Fox itself...not so much.
So that's why Widows is a 50/50 prediction for TFF #45 at this point.
Trailer tomorrow here on the blog.
INDIEWIRE SCANS FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR PLAYERS
Anne Thompson posted a speculative piece on Indiewire Friday looking at films that she feels have the best inside track for a Foreign Language Oscar nomination as the summer begins. All five of what Anne lists as front-runners are films that played at Cannes and are all possible Telluride players.
They are:
Capernaum
Cold War
Everybody Knows
Happy as Lazarro
Shoplifters
Among other films listed as contenders that I feel, at least at this point, like T-ride players are: Ayka and Girl.
In an interesting twist, Anne does not include Lee Chang-dong's Burning. The film was the undeniable critical champ at Cannes but also received no prizes in the official competition.
I have it on my T-ride watch list because it scored so well with critics and because Chang-dong has played Telluride previously with Secret Sunshine and Poetry.
The complete article is linked here.
More tomorrow including, I hope, the Widows trailer.
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