TELLURIDE DOMINATES VENICE
Films that played TFF #45 were well represented among the films that won major prizes at this weekend's conclusion of the Venice Film Festival with Alfonso Cuaron's Roma winning the biggest of the prizes as it was named winner of the Golden Lion.
The Favourite also scored winning the Grand Jury prize (largely regarded as the runner-up prize to the Golden Lion) as well as Best Actress for Olivia Colman's performance as Queen Anne.
Additionally, the Dareen Aronofsky produced Virtual Reality presentation: Spheres was named Best VR. Spheres played at TFF #45 last week.
Complete winners from Venice are here from Variety and also from Indiewire.
THE FIRST GURUS
With the Toronto International Film Festival in full swing and both Telluride and Venice in the books for 2018, The Gurus of Gold have cast their first ballots attempting to discern this year's top candidates fro Best Picture.
Among the top ten vote-getters from "festival films" are Telluride '18 films: First Man, Boy Erased, Roma, The Front Runner and The Favourite. Also mentioned are The Old Man and the Gun and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The complete first wave of the Gurus is linked here.
THE FRONT RUNNER MAKES HISTORY
Jason Reitman's The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman as former Senator (and Presidential candidate) Gary Hart will make history as it will be the first major motion picture to released on national election day, Nov. 6.
The story from SlashFilm can be found here.
PODCASTS: SCREEN TALK ASSESSES POST-TELLURIDE
Indiewire's Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn are in Toronto but talking largely about what went down last week in Telluride with particular focus on Roma, The Favourite and First Man in the latest installment of ScrenTalk.
Here is the link to the podcast.
PODCASTS: VARIETY'S PODCAST FEATURES NICOLE KIDMAN
Kris Tapley's latest podcast was recorded at Telluride with Nicole Kidman who talks about both films that she had playing at TFF #45: Destroyer and Boy Erased. Kidman is getting some buzzy talk about possible Oscar nominations for both roles. Lead for Destroyer and Supporting for Boy Erased.
Here's the link to Tapley's Kidman Convo.
PODCASTS: AWARDS DAILY'S TELLURIDE WRAP-UP
And finally, here's the link to Sasha Stone's (Awards Daily) wrap-up from the Telluride Film Fest. The podcast features Mark Johnson of Awards Circuit, Jeff Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere and some other guy that may have accidentally stumbled into the same films they were seeing (yea, it's me).
Here's the link.
VOTE PEOPLE
We're coming down to the wire friends. If you want your reactions to films at TFF #45 to count, the deadline is Wednesday at 5:00pm EDT. Send the 1-5 ratings to me at any of the contact methods below:
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
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