ANNOUNCEMENTS THE NEXT TWO DAYS...
The Toronto International Film Festival begins to announce its 2018 lineup tomorrow. It'll be the biggest set of clues and hints about what could be chosen for The SHOW of the entire summer. The key is to look at the premiere status for a film.
A film listed as a World or North American Premiere means, unless there is some sort of unanticipated change, those films will not make an appearance at Telluride. A Canadian Premiere designation almost guarantees a T-ride play unless it is a film that has played at Sundance.
An International Premiere designation is murkier and usually requires some digging and even then it can be difficult to pin its meaning down definitively.
Then on Wednesday, Venice will announce the bulk of its lineup. As I have written before, the key about Venice is often when a film is scheduled and we probably won't know that for a few weeks. Premiere status for Venice can tell us some things if a film is not listed as a World Premiere.
Meanwhile, we expect announcements from both New York and Fantastic Fest in the next couple of weeks or so.
Come on back here to MTFB for the latest news and analysis as we try to piece together a lineup for Telluride.
I would point out that over the past five years the MTFB success rate by the time we get to the end of the summer has been 91/95 or 96%.
VENICE - ADDITIONAL RUMORS
Last Friday we had a look at rumored titles that might be named later this week as films that would play Venice. Why is that important? The Venice-Telluride connection has become an increasingly relevant statistic.
Last year the two fests shared eight films. Some played early in the Venice lineup and then moved to Telluride. Some films played Telluride first and then moved to Venice.
The Twitterverse added fuel to the fire this weekend with increased speculation about films that could be announced that may also play T-ride including Laszlo Nemes Sunset, Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers, Olivier Assassyas' Non Fiction, Mike Leigh's Peterloo, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate and the Coen Brothers six part mini-series for Netflix, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs:
Now, if the Coen's Buster Scruggs somehow makes the Telluride lineup...
PREDICTING TORONTO
Barry Hertz writing for The Globe and Mail took a weekend stab at predicting some of the buzziest titles that could be announced tomorrow for the 2018 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
In the lengthy article he names several films that are also on the MTFB watch list for TFF #45 For example:
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
The Sisters Brothers
Widows
Mary Queen of Scots
Boy Erased
A Star Is Born
On the Basis of Sex
The Front Runner
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
The Other Side of the Wind
Everybody Knows
Ash Is the Purest White
Burning
Shoplifters
It's worth noting that TFF and TIFF often share as many as 20 or more titles.
The complete article from Hertz is linked here.
Meanwhile, Peter Howell, critic for The Toronto Star in a series of tweets has predicted these six films for TIFF:
If Beale Street COuld Talk
First Man
Burning
Capernaum
Mary Queen of Scots
Cold War
That's MTFB for this Monday. More tomorrow. I may even have a special late post that includes some of the news from Toronto.
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