SCORSESE NEWS
We had a couple of interesting nodes of Scorsese news in the past 24 hours. The first, and most immediate in terms of TFF was the word yesterday that Scorsese's The Irishman will world premiere as the opening film for the New York Film Festival. That happens three weeks after Telluride. The world premiere designation means that the film will not have played at TFF #46.
The news isn't a shock and was what I expected to happen assuming the film was finished with the de-aging effects that were reported to be the thing slowing it down.
The Irishman is planned for a theatrical release and then is scheduled to begin streaming on Netflix, which produced the film.
Here are a couple of stories with the news of The New York selection from:
Indiewire
Awards Daily
In other Scorsese news I saw where he is in my home state of Oklahoma scouting locations for his upcoming adaptation of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon. Flower Moon news in the last day or two also included the revelation that Robert DeNiro will be joining Leonardo DiCaprio in the cast of the film.
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Here's news of the casting announcement from Indiewire and also news of Scorsese beginning to scout from The Playlist
NORTON TALKS MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
Edward Norton recently spoke with Rolling Stone about his upcoming directorial, acting and writing effort for expected TFF #46 film Motherless Brooklyn. The Rolling Stone article focuses on the use of a new song from Radiohead's Thom Yorke.
Norton stars as a detective who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome and who is tasked with solving the mystery of the murder of his mentor in 1950's New York.
The interview with Norton from The Stone is linked here.
BURNS COUNTRY BLITZ CONTINUES
Documentarian Ken Burns continues to plow the ground to prepare the way for his PBS doc, Country Music. The latest is a Variety story that was posted yesterday.
That Variety story is linked here.
Burns was a part of a panel discussing the film that also included Roseanne Cash, Marty Stuart and Dwight Yoakam.
The film is set to bow on PBS on Sept. 15th.
That's the truncated MTFB for this Tuesday... I'm expecting Toronto to announce Canadian titles for their fest tomorrow but the likely impact of that announcement in as far as divining Telluride films is minuscule.
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/ken-burns-country-music-1203284222/
CURRENT TEN BETS...
10) The Truth
9) Ford v. Ferrari
8) The Two Popes
7) Pain and Glory
6) Uncut Gems
5) Judy
4) Motherless Brooklyn
3) Marriage Story
2) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1) Parasite
That's the Monday MTFB. More tomorrow...
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