I'M BACK
After a ten day hiatus MTFB is back today after having spent Spring Break doing this and that. Spent some of the break in NYC. Saw Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird with Jeff Daniels. It's nearly perfect. Saw Bryan Cranston in Network...Cranston is phenomenal. Did some other stuff.
It was good to step away for a few days, but I'm back now as we head our way to the announcement of the films that will play at Cannes which really does begin the Telluride speculation season on some earnest. Here we go...
NETFLIX AND CANNES: THE BREAKUP CONTINUES
While I was away we found out that Netflix will again have zero films playing at the Cannes Film Fest in May. The impasse that created that situation last year has not been resolved and as such, Netflix apparently will not be bringing any films to France in any of the programs.
That was reported in a number pf places this past week including this from Variety.
In addition, as it turns out, the big fish in Netflix's barrel this season, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman reportedly wouldn't be ready anyway. It seems that there is still far too much effects work to be done. That according to Zack Sharf writing at Indiewire.
Sharf writes that a Venice premiere at this point seems the safest bet. That would still seem to leave the door open for a screening at Telluride much in the way Netflix played Cuaron's Roma last year (and Searchlight did Shape of Water the year before).
My take is still some serious wariness. Scorsese hasn't been at Telluride in decades. I wouldn't be surprised if it played Venice and Venice alone or skipped fests all together.
Still, Collider's Adam Chitwood suggests a run for the film through the Venice, Telluride, Toronto (maybe New York) gauntlet.
MALICK AT CANNES AND THEN...
And speaking of Cannes...there's a growing consensus that Terrence Malick will return to Cannes in May with his latest film Radegund. It's a film I have been stalking for quite some time mostly because it's Malick doing a film with a reportedly more traditionally narrative structure that tells the true story of an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II.
I'm hoping, that after a spate of films that haven't exactly been embraced (since Tree of Life) that this will be the path back to critical success for the auteur.
Charles Barfield writing for The Playlist suggests that Cannes will screen the new film. That story is linked here.
Should that come to pass, the questions would be: does it play any other fests and which distributor picks it up?
I'll keep an eye on it.
SCHILLER TALKS TELLURIDE, FILM AND MORE?
Friend of the blog and multi-hyphenate Christopher Schiller was featured this week on The Weekend Take podcast with Shawn Schaffer. Schiller runs down a number of topics including a love letter to the Telluride Film Festival.
You can find Schiller's guest stint and The Weekend Take podcast at iTunes at this link.
LUCY IN THE SKY TEASER
Here's the teaser from YouTube:
The Hollywood Reporter
First Showing
The Playlist
Indiewire
BURNS' COUNTRY MUSIC
The Asheville, NC Citizen Times reports that Ken Burns is going to screen some moments of his new documentary on country music in Asheville next week (on April 2 on the UNC-Asheville campus). It's yet another sign that, although the entire 16 hour doc may not be ready in its entirety, there's plenty of it to show to an audience.
This roll out in various parts in various places continues to make me think that a presentation of some of it over Labor Day weekend in T-ride is a realistic possibility.
The Citizen Times article is linked here.
NEW PIC OF HANKS AS ROGERS
And to celebrate what would have been Fred Rogers 91st birthday, TriStar released a new photo from the set of A Beautiful Day in the neighborhood starring Tom Hanks as Rogers.
Here's the new photo:
The film is directed by Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and is set for U.S. release on Nov. 22nd.
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