NEWS FROM NEW YORK AND TORONTO
New York announced its Main Slate lineup on Tuesday and I had the ramifications up on Twitter fairly quickly and a Late Breaking post here on the blog by late Tuesday afternoon. By way of reminder, here's what I had Tuesday afternoon from NYFF:
New York Film Fest announcement seems to confirm or point to these films as Telluride players:
Marriage Story
Motherless Brooklyn
Beanpole
First Cow
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Woman on Fire
Varda by Agnes
Via Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture:
Not going to Telluride...
Atlantics
Bacurau
Fire Will Come
A Girl Missing
I Was at Home, But
Liberté
Martin Eden
Moneychanger
Oh Mercy!
Saturday Fiction
Sibyl
Synonyms
To the Ends of the Earth
The Traitor
Vitalina Varela
Wasp Network
Wild Goose Lake
Young Ahmed
Zombi Child
And it seems the only NYFF World Premiere is The Irishman.
Full disclosure...my tweet on Tuesday regarding Telluride films suggested or confirmed included The Whistlers. On Twitter it was pointed out to me by @BobertHarris that The Whistlers will U.S. Premiere will be at Fantastic Fest. That would explain the lack of premiere designation in the NYFF announcement. My apologies.
The above list reflects that realization.
The biggest info regarding films that now appear likely for Telluride were the inclusion of Varda by Agnes, First Cow and Beanpole.
Films that had been seriously on my TFF #46 radar that now seem certain to not be at Telluride are: Atlantics, Synonyms, Bacurau, The Traitor, Wasp Network and Young Ahmed. So...three up and six down.
Meanwhile, Toronto announced its ten film platform lineup with nine of the ten films listed as World Premieres thus ruling them all out. Martin Eden, the only film listed as an International Premiere underlines the NYFF announcement which had ruled it out for Telluride.
Honestly, the only Platform film that TIFF announced that I had thought might show at The SHOW was Sarah Gavron's Rocks.
So, that's what we learned on Tuesday from other fest announcements.
Here's the official lineup announcement from the Film Society of New York.
Additionally, from Indiewire, this is the Toronto Platform section news.
WORLD OF REEL AND HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE ADD TO THE STACK
Between Jordan Ruimy's latest Telluride spec post (yesterday) and Jeff Welles posting about it yesterday as well, it looks like we can probably add Terrence Malick's latest film, A Hidden Life to our list of Telluride probables. Wells says that he "was in fact told that it will screen at Telluride". That's a big get as far as I'm concerned.
Additionally, both Ruimy and Wells suggest that Scott Burns The Report is a real possibility. I'm thinking it's likely.
I can reveal that The Report was the film I was referencing in my post last Tuesday under the heading "Trafficking in Rumor".
I recall suggesting this Sundance title as my preferred film form that fest for T-ride to make an exception for in as far as its previous play in Utah. You can find that suggestion from me in my post from Jan. 31st.
Honestly, between the New York, Toronto announcements and Wells and Ruimy...the last couple of days have been a gold mine of useful information. Seems like the next thing we should hear is the actual schedule from Venice which I expect any day now.
Here's the link to the Hollywood Elsewhere post.
And to the World of Reel post, which graciously shouts out MTFB...thanks Jordan!
AND ONE MORE THING...
In addition to the detective work the last couple of days it has been a hell of a good time having responses from people guessing what the "Trafficking in Rumor" film might be.
Several readers dropped me a note in a variety of ways...Twitter, email note to Facebook with questions and guesses. Far and away the leading guess was Little Women.
Noop.
The clues that actually pointed to The Report were that it's "curiously related" to a film that we're "very sure" is playing the fest...which is, ironically Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story...as Adam Driver stars in both films. The other clue was that I had mentioned the film earlier...see the note above about my Sundance suggestion back on Jan. 31st.
Again, the buzz is that Little Women is not likely to play any fest prior to its Dec. 25th premiere date. That said, if you'd like to re-visit my fantasy scenario for the Greta Gerwig film, that was in my post from last Monday.
Here's the current Ten Bets with Bonus Bets:
10) The Aeronauts
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
"Bonus Bets":
Bonus 1) The Truth
Bonus 2) Varda by Agnes
Bonus 3) First Cow
Bonus 4) Family Romance LLC
Bonus 5) Country Music
Got a new Ten Bets plus Bonus Bets coming tomorrow!
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2 comments:
Is Seberg going to Telluride?
Could happen. Best evidence that it could is its schedule for the Venice Fest which leaves time for the Seberg crew to get from Italy to Telluride. It's not a clear indicator that it will but is encouraging.
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