TEN (20) BETS FOR TELLURIDE #9
Here's your penultimate Ten Bets list for TFF 2018 beginning, as always with a review of last week's Ten (20) Bets:
1) The Old Man and the Gun
2) Roma
3) First Man
4) The Front Runner
5) Destroyer
6) The Favourite
7) Cold War
8) Dogman
9) Shoplifters
10) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
11) Non-Fiction
12) Boy Erased
13) White Boy Rick
14) Peterloo
15) The Other Side of the Wind
16) Meeting Gorbachev
17) Free Solo
18) Graves Without a Name
19) Birds of Passage
20) Girl
And now, the latest Ten (20) Bets:
1) The Front Runner
2) The Old Man and the Gun
3) First Man
4) Roma
5) Destroyer
6) The Favourite
7) Cold War
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
9) Shoplifters
10) Boy Erased
11) Non-Fiction
12) White Boy Rick
13) Dogman
14) Peterloo
15) The Other Side of the Wind
16) Meeting Gorbachev
17) Free Solo
18) Graves Without a Name
19) Birds of Passage
20) Girl
Other films still in play:
Angels Are Made of Light, The White Crow, Watergate, Ghost Fleet, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, On the Basis of Sex, He Dreams of Giants, The Biggest Little Farm, Cheney (Backseat), Nothing Like a Dame, Mary Queen of Scots, The Aspern Papers.
I might mention here that I have heard via very, very hush-hush sources about two or three additional titles that are not listed anywhere above may pop up at Telluride. I may be able tell you next week...maybe not.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE TALKS FIRST MAN WITH THR
First Man director Damien Chazelle is basking in the spotlight of presenting the opening film for the Venice Film Festival, after which we are morally certain, he will wing his way to Colorado to screen the eagerly awaited film at TFF #45 (will he bring along the film's star Ryan Gosling?)
The Oscar winning director of La La Land offers up the true story of man's first moon landing through the lens of astronaut Neil Armstrong (who had strong roots in Telluride). Other cast members who would be cool to see in T-ride include Corey Stoll who plays Buzz Aldrin, Claire Foy who is Armstrong's wife Janet and Kyle Chandler who plays Deke Slayton.
As a part of the run up to the big lift off for the film coming next week, The Hollywood Reporter has a huge feature on Chazelle this week.
The complete story is linked here.
NEW POSTERS FOR THE FAVOURITE AND ROMA
I have to admit that one of the films that I am most intrigued by among the list of films that I'm saying will play in Telluride next week is Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite. The trailer looks interesting and I'm a sucker for Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.
In addition to those factors is the claim from Indiewire's Anne Thompson a few days back that The Favourite might be the early favorite to win Best Picture.
Needless to say, it's on my list to catch next week in the mountains.
The film got a new international poster yesterday and here it is:
You have to admit...it is unique.
Also adding a new poster yesterday was another film that is getting huge buzz prior to screening at all four fall film fests (T-ride, TIFF, Venice and NYFF). Alfonso Cuaron's Roma's new poster is spare but maybe that's the point:
Roma is also high on my list for next week.
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
For the seventh consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride. All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".
When the time comes, you can send those ratings to me in any of the following ways listed as contact info for me listed below.
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
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