UPS AND DOWNS
Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere tells us that James Gray's As Astra is NOT going to be playing Telluride. The information is not attributed but Jeff knows way more people than I do.
Wells also reported the same thing I had at the bottom of my post on Friday. That Andreas Wiseman had written for Deadline that Tom Harper's The Aeronauts is likely headed to the San Juans for Labor Day weekend.
Jeff also links a Pamela McClintock piece from The Hollywood Reporter that makes that same claim. That THR post is linked here.
And, for good measure, the Wells post from this weekend is linked here.
So, to re-cap, it seems that The Aeronauts is up and Ad Astra is down.
REVELATION FROM VENICE
Venice Film Festival head Alberto Barbera seems to have the "cow" out of the bag. Barbera claimed in an interview with Screen Daily that was published Friday that the only film that he wanted to program but could not was Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (I'm considering an online petition to change the title of this film) and that A24 had decided to screen the film only in America as it has not found an international distributor as yet. He also is flat quoted as saying that, as a consequence, the film is headed to Telluride.
First Cow also does not appear to have a U.S. release date.
Here's the Screen Daily linked.
THE SHOW
Just a bit of a rumination here.
When I began this thing in 2008 nobody else was messing around with trying to peg the films for Telluride. Sure, there were the occasional pieces that would pop up. One shot guesses that you'd find online but not a lot. And certainly nothing in any official way from big time media.
As the years have gone on, and especially with the decision from the Toronto Fest to require that they know what a film's actual status is regarding which fests it's going to play and then their further decision to publicly reveal that status in their programming announcements, it seems increasingly that the reticence from media to deduce the films that will play Telluride has begun to fade.
Last week Screen Daily, for instance, included an assessment that did exactly what I do and have done for several seasons, which is to sort of reverse engineer the announcement from TIFF to make claims about what goes to Telluride.
World of Reel and Hollywood Elsewhere have been all over essentially the same list that I've put together as has BBC News, The Wrap and a couple of hints from Pete Hammond at Deadline.com,
It's generally pretty accurate unless Toronto mis-labels a film's status (which has happened rarely) or, sometimes with regard to International premieres because that designation can get a little murky.
Nevertheless, it feels to me that more outlets are willing to do the same process and publish the results.
Not sure how I feel about that...
Here's the July 23rd Screen Daily article that does what I'm talking about.
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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Maybe others are doing it now, but you have such a grassroots love of this fest, that you will always be my go to. You started going just a year or two before me. I love your work up to Labor Day and historical comments on the Fest. You even have remarks on things to look for in years to come. Plus I don’t have to wade through all the other muck from the other outlets.
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