TEN BETS #2 FOR TFF #45
Time for the second installment of MTFB's Ten Bets for this year's Telluride Film Festival. These are the ten films that I believe, for this moment, to be the most likely to make the lineup for the 45th edition of The SHOW.
Last week's Ten Bets was:
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) The Other Side of the Wind
3) Peterloo
4) Capernaum
5) Cold War
6) The Old Man and the Gun
7) Sunset
8) Burning
9) The Front Runner
10) Beautiful Boy
Here's this week's Ten Bets:
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) The Other Side of the Wind
3) Cold War
4) Capernaum
5) Beautiful Boy
6) Burning
7) Boy Erased
8) Peterloo
9) The Old Man and the Gun
10) The Front Runner
Other films in the hunt:
Sunset, The Sisters Brothers, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Dogman, On the Basis of Sex, Girl, Happy as Lazzaro, Shoplifters, He Dreams of Giants, First Man, Widows, A Star Is Born, Cheney (Backseat), Roma, At Eternity's Gate, Everybody Knows.
HISTORY PROJECT: THE THIRD TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
I'm closing in on the conclusion of my project to expand the history section of this site as I cast an eye back to the third Telluride Film Festival that ran from Sept. 3-6, 1976.
TRIBUTES:
Chuck Jones, King Vidor and King Kong
SHOWS:
The Big Parade
Billy the Kid
Blue Jeans
Chulas Fronteras
The Crowd
Dersu Uzala
The Fire Within
Greaser's Palace
Heart of Glass
King Kong
La Marquise D'o
The Lost World
Lumiere
Maitresse
Most Dangerous Game
Music and People of the Northeast
Pastoral Hide and Seek
Phantom Tollbooth
Signs of Life
Spirit of the Beehive
Stories from the Jungle Book
Street Scene
The Thief
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
The Wedding March
A Well Spent Life
Wild Horse Mesa
Wild Oranges
GUESTS:
Robert Downey
Werner Herzog
Ed Lachman
Louis Malle
Barbet Schroeder
Fay Wray
THE DISTRIBUTORS 2018: SPECIAL HOUSES
I'm taking a quick look at specialty distribution companies that have had some Telluride successes over the past few years each of which has a film that stands a shot at making the Telluride lineup:
Magnolia
2006- Severance
2007- Terror's Advocate, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Redacted
2012- The Hunt, A Royal Affair
2015- Viva
Oscilloscope
2008- Kisses
2011- We Need to Talk About Kevin
2016- Lost in Paris
Strand Releasing
2010- Cameraman
2011- Bonsai
2012- Paradise: Love
2013- The Missing Picture
2014- Dancing Arabs
2016- Mifune: The Last Samurai
Here's what they have:
Magnolia has Cannes Palme D'or winner and critical success Shoplifters. I actually think this film has a good chance to make TFF #45. So much so that if I had a #11 on today's Ten Bets, Shoplifters would be there.
Oscilloscope has Margarethe Von Trotter's Searching for Ingmar Bergman which also seems like a good fit for TFF. It also played at Cannes.
Strand Releasing's best shot appears to be Cannes entry Sorry Angel. Of the three films I'm looking at, it seems like the least likely but it's not an impossibility.
Chances:
Shoplifters- 45%
Searching for Ingmar Bergman- 40%
Sorry Angel- 20%
Monday, a look at films that seem like Telluride possibles that still lack a U.S. distributor.
Have a good weekend!
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