LATE BREAKING: CANNES #72 POSTER HONORS VARDA
Just released is the poster for the 72nd edition of Cannes featuring late film maker Agnes Varda. Here it is:
FINAL SET OF PROGRAM DEDICATIONS
Here’s the last set of program dedications from TFF that I can find. It appears that the fest began the feature of dedicating programs in 1990.
So, to complete the list I begin sharing last week here are the first few dedications from 1990-1997:
#24 1997- James Stewart
#23 1996- Louis Malle
#22 1995- Kathleen Tynan
#21 1994- Dennis Potter
#20 1993- Gary Essert
#19 1992-Nestor Almendros and Marion Zunz
#18 1991- Joel McCrea
#17 1990- Michael Powell
PETERLOO ARRIVES
Mike Leigh’s historical epic that played at TFF 45 last Labor Day opened in the United States Last weekend. As a result there has been a modicum of P.R. material appearing to coincide with it release.
The film was modestly received at T-ride and critically since then.
Leigh talked about the film in a recent post from J. Don Birnam writing for Awards Circuit. You can find that interview linked here.
MORE CANNES SPEC
Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has a post up with more speculation/predictions about which films will be named Thursday to the lineup for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
Included among the titles is the first mention that I’ve seen that Cannes might include if Jay Roach’s examination former of Fox News head Roger Ailes.
The film, titled Fair and Balanced, is reported by IMDb as “expected Dec. 20th and stars John Lithgow as Ailes.
Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman also star.
Also mentioned in the Wells article Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, Pablo Larrain’s Ema, Danielle Lesowitz’s Port Authority, Cristi Puiu’s Manor House and Marco Bellochio’s The Traitor.
Any of those films might be part of a Cannes-Telluride one-two punch.
As many of you know, Cannes and Telluride will often share an average of 7-8 films so this week’s Cannes lineup announcement should give us a lot to ponder as we look forward to TFF #46.
Wells’ post can be found here.
THE BURNS COUNTRY TOUR CONTINUES
(Photo of Johnny Cash from Episode 5 of Country Music via Sony Music Archives and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The Ken Burns Country Music Tour (at least that's what I', calling it) to bring attention to his forthcoming documentary about the history of country and western music in the United States is making another stop. This time in Pittsburgh on Wednesday of this week. As a part pf that stop, Burns did a solid interview with Scott Mervis for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Burns doc is scheduled to launch on PBS a couple of weeks after the Telluride Film Festival (Sept. 15th) leading me to think that Telluride might be the final stop on "the tour".
The Post-Gazette article can be seen here.
That's a wrap on your Monday MTFB. I'll be back on Thursday. That post may well come a little later in the day so that I can do a bit of an entry on the Cannes lineup which will largely be announced that day.
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