REMINDERS AS WE HEAD INTO 2019
I took a quick step back at the last couple of months and have re-posted 2019 speculative pieces (with an update here and there) about what films might be in consideration to make the lineup at TFF #46:
THE PLAYLIST 100 (from my Dec. 6th post)
The annual review of their 100 most anticipated films for the new year came down for The Playlist earlier this week and, as you might expect, I have culled the list for films that seem like they should be on our radar for TFF #46.
The staff specifically mentions Telluride as a possible destination for only three films:
#39: Pale Blue Dot (now titled: Lucy in the Sky)
#26: The untitled Noah Baumbach project
#11: The Last Thing He Wanted
Among the other 97 films listed, the following are the ones that seem to me to be most likely:
#100: The Glorias: A Life on the Road
#91: Resistance
#79: My Zoe
#66: Mainstream
#64: Against All Enemies
#63: The Woman in the Window
#59: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (not likely as production has been delayed)
#52: Motherless Brooklyn
#40: The Goldfinch
#34: You Are My Friend (Now titled: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
#33: Antlers
#30: Ema
#29: Waiting for the Barbarians
#24: The King
#20: Radegund
#19: Bergman Island
#17: The Truth
#15: The Laundromat
#13: Triple Frontier (off the list, release dated for Mar. 13th)
#7: Little Women
#2: The Irishman
The complete list of 100 films (plus some honorable mentions) from The Playlist is linked here.
WELLS AND RUIMY (from my Nov. 26th post)
I saw that Jeff Wells/Hollywood Elsewhere and Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel had both created and published lists of anticipated 2019 titles...which seems like bait I can't ignore. Sooo...
I took a look at both lists (which share a huge number of titles) and here are twelve films that seem/sound like they might be candidates for inclusion for TFF #46:
All You Need Is Love. The project (with Beatles music as a central part of the film) could make TFF #46 because it's from Danny Boyle who has had a significant history with the fest: Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Steve Jobs. The film is currently scheduled for U.S. release on Sept. 13th.
The True American from Pablo Larrain...if it's ready. Larrain, like Boyle, has had a strong history with TFF: No, Neruda. Both this and the above mentioned Boyle project are produced by Annapurna Pictures which has also had a presence at Telluride: Foxcatcher, Destroyer.
You Are My Friend (now titled A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood): From Marielle Heller who just has had her Telluride introduction with Can You Ever Forgive Me? The film stars Tom Hanks (who was at TFF with Sully in 2016) as Fred Rogers. The film has an awards and TFF friendly release date of Oct. 18th.
Little Women: Greta Gerwig's anticipated take on the Louisa May Alcott classic. With the reception that her directorial debut Lady Bird received at TFF in 2017 you have to think this is a real possibility. Scheduled for release on Dec. 25th.
The Woman in the Window: director Joe Wright's follow-up to his 2017 Darkest Hour which played TFF and earned six Oscar nominations and won two including Gary Oldman's Best Actor win. The film is set for release on Oct. 4th. The film's plot sounds much a take on Hitchcock's Rear Window and the cast is ridiculously stunning: Julianne Moore, Amy Adams and Gary Oldman.
NOPE...SET TO DROP AT SUNDANCE: Velvet Buzzsaw: From writer-director Dan Gilroy. I'm mostly thinking this could play because Gilroy re-teams with his Nightcrawler co-conspirators Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. The film is set in the contemporary art scene and is described as a horror/thriller. Netflix is producing which doesn't hurt its TFF chances if the recent past is any indication.
Pale Blue Dot (now titled Lucy in the Sky) Fargo (the TV version) guru Noah Hawley jumps into feature film making with Natalie Portman starring as an astronaut having issues once she returns from space. The film is from Fox Searchlight which means we have to consider it a TFF possibility.
Bergman Island: Mia Hansen-Love's latest project and a with her TFF pedigree (Goodbye First Love, Things to Come), a film we should consider. Mia Wasikowska and Vicky Krieps star.
AGAIN...NOPE...RELEASE IS IN MARCH NOW....Triple Frontier: a long gestating project from J.C. Chandor. It's been developed by Netflix and stars Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac among others about an attempt to overturn the drug trade in South America. Chandor was in T-ride in 2014 with All Is Lost and both Affleck (Argo) and Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) have been as well.
And then here are these three huge projects...
The Goldfinch: The film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Donna Tartt. John Crowley, who broke through with Brooklyn in 2015, directs. The cast includes Nicole Kidman (this year at TFF with Destroyer and Boy Erased) and Sarah Paulson. The film is from Amazon and is set for release on Oct. 11th which makes a T-ride play possible.
Radegund: Terrence Malick's latest and a film I have been waiting for from him for some time now...surprise, surprise. The true story of a German conscientious objector in World War II could appear in 2019...or not. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a selection for Cannes.
The Irishman: Martin Scorsese's Netflix joint. Probably an unrealistic dream for a Telluride play but a guy has to hope. DeNiro, Pacino, Pesci and Keitel and more. The best chance that it plays is that it is from Netflix which, again, doesn't hurt its chances for Telluride. Netflix has to be happy, at least so far, with how Roma played TFF which probably helps too.
The complete Hollywood Elsewhere post is here.
The complete World of Reel post is here.
150 FOREIGN FILMS
Ioncinema has undertaken the mammoth task of laying out 150 foreign films to anticipate in 2019. The list is ongoing and not yet complete at their site.
Among the early films listed are Xavier Dolan's Matthias and Maxime, Michel Hazanavicius' The Lost Prince and Zhang Yimou's One Second which all could make a splash over Labor Day weekend in Telluride.
Here's the first of the links from Ioncinema.
GOLDEN GLOBES ON SUNDAY
I honestly have no real idea how these 90+ HFPA members are going to play this on Sunday. If I had to guess, I'm thinking A Star Is Born is likely to have a big night.
Here's a reminder of the TFF films/performers who are nominated for Golden Globes:
The Favourite (5): Best Film-Musical or Comedy, Best Actress-Musical or Comedy (Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Stone and Weisz), Screenplay
Roma (3): Foreign Language, Direction, Screenplay
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2): Best Actress-Musical or Comedy (McCarthy), Best Supporting Actor (Grant)
Boy Erased (2): Best Actor-Drama (Hedges), Best Song
First Man (2): Best Supporting Actress (Foy), Best Score
Destroyer (1): Best Actress-Drama (Kidman)
The Old Man and the Gun (1): Best Actor-Musical or Comedy (Redford)
Girl (1): Best Foreign Language Film
Shoplifters (1): Best Foreign Language Film
TFF #45 films earn 18 Globe nominations. I'll have some sort of breakdown and commentary in Monday's post.
THE PLAYLIST POLLS 52 DIRECTORS ON THE FILMS OF 2018
The Playlist recent posted an article titled "52 Directors Pick Their Favorite Movies of 2018". The results are not particularly surprising...Roma is named as the favorite from eight directors including Guillermo Del Toro, Pedro Almodovar, Lynne Ramsay, Rebecca Miller and Edgar Wright.
Several of the respondents listed films in alphabetically order. Some listed favorite performances or moments. One even included mention of a couple of plays.
Also mentioned by at least one director as their favorite 2019 film from among Telluride offerings: The Favourite, First Man, Cold War, The Other Side of the Wind and TFF #44's First Reformed.
The complete article from The Playlist is here.
That's MTFB for this first Thursday in 2019. Happy New Year to all!
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