NARROWING THE FIELD
I teased on my April 11th post that I have been asked to be a part of a "Best of the Decade" project and posted the list of 20 films I came up with to work from.
The completed project is set to come out next month sometime and as the organizer has let the cat out of the bag, I am assuming that I can too.
If you're on Twitter you may have seen this tweet the last week from Jordan Ruimy who runs the World of Reel website:
As you may remember from my earlier post, these were my top 20 2010 films:
2010- True Grit
2011- The Tree of Life, Shame, A Separation
2012- Lincoln, The Life of Pi
2013- 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Inside Llewyn Davis
2014- Birdman, Foxcatcher, The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015- Son of Saul, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road
2016- Moonlight, La La Land
2017- Lady Bird, Dunkirk
2018- Roma
And further...time to winnow my list down from 20 to 10. Chronologically, here are my 10 best of the 2010's:
2010- True Grit
2011- The Tree of Life, Shame, A Separation
2013- 12 Years a Slave, Inside Llewyn Davis
2014- Birdman
2015- Son of Saul
2017- Lady Bird, Dunkirk
I'll have my top five soon...
NUGGETS ABOUT THE IRISHMAN
Joe Pesci and Martin Scorsese on the set of The Irishman (via Phillip Vaughn/Shutterstock and Indiewire)
Perhaps the most anticipated film of 2019 is Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. The film is being produced by Netflix which gives at least some hope that it could possibly make the Venice/Telluride couplet in a few months.
Recently Indiewire's Zack Sharf wrote about an interview with one of the film's producers: Jane Rosenthal. Rosenthal revealed some small bits of information and insight about the upcoming mob flick from the director of Goodfellas and The Departed.
You can find that story linked here.
FREMAUX AND CANNES' INSIGHTS
Cannes Film Fest artistic director Thierry Fremaux had a conversation over the weekend with Indiewire's Eric Kohn about the 2019 lineup for the venerable festival.
Among topics discussed: Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in ...Hollywood, The Truth and Rocketman.
And it should come as no surprise that there are further films that will be added to the various sections that make up the total program for Cannes #72.
The Kohn/Fremaux interview is linked here.
That's your MTFB for this Monday and I'll have more for you on Thursday...
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