TFF #45 TEN BETS #3
Here's the third installment of the summer's Ten Bets for TFF #45, an ongoing assessment of the films that I feel are the most likely to make the Telluride lineup.
Last week's Ten Bets were:
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
This week's list:
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
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, A Star Is Born, Cheney (Backseat), At Eternity's Gate, Everybody Knows, Nothing Like a Dame, The Favourite, Peterloo, Burning
TRAILER FOR MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
As promised, we got a trailer release yesterday for Josie Rourke's Mary Queen of Scots which stars Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie locked in a tussle for the English crown. The film is being distributed by Focus Features and is slated for U.S. release on Dec. 7th.
Here's the trailer from YouTube:
And I have linked coverage here from:
MORE ON WIDOWS IN LONDON
The BFI-London Film Fest dropped a huge announcement yesterday (covered in my post from yesterday) that Steve McQueen's Widows, starring Viola Davis and Colin Farrell, will open their festival on Oct. 10th.
Of immediate interest to Telluride fans was the published designation of the film's status for that screening as its International Premiere. My understanding of that designation is that it means that the BFI-London screening will be the film's first outside of its nation of origin.
There was some back and forth yesterday in some online circles about whether that means a Telluride play, a Toronto play or both.
If the "IP" designation means what I think it means, a Telluride play is happening with no Toronto (also no Venice). But as a friend emailed me yesterday when the news was breaking..."International premiere-but who knows what that means anymore?" So, you know, the point there is that the term may be more flexible than it used to be.
All of that plus McQueen's track record with Telluride, was enough for me to place Widows on my Ten Bets list this week (for the first time) at #7.
Here's linked coverage of the BFI-London announcement from yesterday:
The Guardian (which specifically suggests Telluride is possible)
ANOTHER NOTE ABOUT ACQUISITIONS
I mentioned yesterday that Magnolia Pictures hadn't had a film at TFF since 2015. Eagle-eyed friend of the blog Kenny Miles messaged me with the info that Magnolia partnered with Amazon on Ai WeiWei's documentary Human Flow last year. Thanks to Kenny for the info!
That's wrap for this week on MTFB. More to come on Monday...from...somewhere in Colorado...
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