TEN BETS FOR TFF #45
Here's the fourth installment of MTFB's Ten Best for TFF #45. It's the last one that happens this year before announcements from major film fests that will give us some solid evidence about what we can expect to see over Labor Day weekend.
Last week's Ten Bets were:
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) The Other Side of the Wind
3) Capernaum
4) Beautiful Boy
5) Cold War
6) The Old Man and the Gun
7) Widows
8) Boy Erased
9) Roma
10) The Front Runner
The latest Ten Bets:
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) The Other Side of the Wind
3) Capernaum
4) Roma
5) Widows
6) Cold War
7) Beautiful Boy
8) The Old Man and the Gun
9) Boy Erased
10) First Man
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, The Front Runner, A Star Is Born, Cheney (Backseat), At Eternity's Gate, Everybody Knows, Nothing Like a Dame, The Favourite, Peterloo, Burning
This week's Ten Bets has been influenced by news of the positioning of Steve McQueen's Widows for the London Fest, First Man for Venice and Roma for New York.
VENICE SPECULATION AND TELLURIDE
The Venice Film Fest will announce the bulk of its lineup on Wednesday next week. With the Venice announcement requires us to pay attention next week and also later. What I mean is that the premiere status about a film in the Venice announcement has limited value. Of greater interest is the placement of a film in the Venice schedule which we won't find out for a few weeks yet. Films scheduled the first or last three days can often make a Telluride appearance either before or after a Telluride play. Still, we may be able to eliminate some films and keep others in consideration for TFF based on what we see from Italy.
Variety posted a big Venice prediction piece yesterday. The article claims that Venice will program the following films of Telluride interest:
The aforementioned First Man (opener), The Sisters Brothers, Beautiful Boy, Roma, The Favourite and Peterloo. A couple of other notes: Paul Greengrass' Norway is set for Venice per the Variety post which means we should probably take it seriously as a TFF possibility. Variety also reports that A Star Is Born is likely but not a lock for Venice. More on A Star Is Born below.
The last piece of news from all of this is reporting that both Barry Jenkins If Beale Street Could Talk and Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased will NOT play Venice. In the case of Beale Street, that news almost assuredly means that the film will have its first screening in T-ride. In as far as Boy Erased is concerned, the lack of a Venice play could indicate that it premieres at Telluride, Toronto, New York, L.A., London or AFI. I think Telluride is the most likely but it's not clinched by any means.
The complete Variety piece is linked here.
A STAR IS BORN COULD BE OFF THE TABLE
Amidst the Venice speculation is the note that Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born will probably screen in Venice out of competition. Both Indiewire and Deadline reported yesterday that the film is expected to premiere in Venice on Friday, Aug. 31st. That date doesn't preclude a Telluride play but it's at the outer limit of Venice's opening period of time to still allow a play at Telluride.
More telling about A Star Is Born's future is Deadline's report that it is expected to have its North American premiere at Toronto which would mean that it will bypass T-ride. It's not definitive but it seems close.
Other notes from the Deadline story are claims that both Roma and The Other Side of the Wind will play TFF #45 and there is an implication that Alfonso Cuaron may be a tribute recipient.
The Deadline article is here.
The Indiewire reporting is here.
AND WHERE IS THE POSTER???
For the second year running, we are deep into the summer and have no official poster release for TFF #45...What up?
That's your MTFB for this Friday. More to come Monday...and a lot more to come next week. Have a great weekend!
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