Twenty Bets / More Trailers for Films Playing TFF #46 / Mr. Jones...Still in the Convo / The People's Telluride

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TWENTY BETS

Here's the next to last wagers about films that I believe are likely to make an appearance next week at the 46th Telluride Film Festival.  First, though, a reminder of what I had last week:

10) The Aeronauts
9) Ford v. Ferrari
8) The Two Popes
7) Judy
6) Pain and Glory
5) Uncut Gems
4) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3) Motherless Brooklyn
2) Marriage Story
1) Parasite


Bonus Bets:

Bonus 1) Varda by Agnes
Bonus 2) First Cow
Bonus 3) A Hidden Life
Bonus 4) The Report
Bonus 5) The Kingmaker
Bonus 6) The Climb
Bonus 7) Waves
Bonus 8) Lyrebird
Bonus 9) Verdict

The Truth and Beanpole drop out of the Bonus Bets as Toronto lists them both as North American premieres...but...I can tell you that there is some background noise that one or both might still be mis-identified in terms of that premiere status and that there is still some outside possibility that either one of them could still screen at Telluride.

And the remaining list of other possibles gets smaller:

Family Romance LLC, Country Music, Little Women, The Good Liar, Untitled Todd Haynes Project (Dry Run/Dark Water), Nomadland, Ad Astra, Molly, Matthias and Maxime, 1917.

Now, here is this week's latest Ten (20) Bets.  This week in alphabetical order:

The Aeronauts

1) The Aeronauts

2) Beanpole

3) The Climb

4) Country Music

5) Family Romance LLC

6) First Cow

Ford v. Ferrari

7) Ford v Ferrari

8) A Hidden Life

9) Judy
10) The Kingmaker

11) Lyrebird

12) Marriage Story

13) Motherless Brooklyn

14) Pain and Glory

15) Parasite

16) Portrait of a Lady on Fire

17) The Report

The Two Popes

18) The Two Popes

19 ) Uncut Gems

20) Varda by Agnes

Other possibilities that could land at T-ride:

Waves, Verdict, Little Women, The Good Liar, Untitled Todd Haynes Project (Dry Run/Dark Water), Nomadland, Ad Astra, Molly, Matthias and Maxime, 1917, Bombshell, Wasp Network, Chicuarotes, No One Left Behind, Mr. Jones.

The final Bets for TFF #46 will be posted Wednesday morning!

MORE TRAILERS FOR FILMS PLAYING TFF #46

From YouTube, new trailers for Motherless Brooklyn and The Report:


MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN

THE REPORT

MR. JONES...STILL IN THE CONVO

Variety reported yesterday that Agnieszka Holland's Mr. Jones has been acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S. distribution.  The film premiered originally in competition at the Berlin Festival in February and has played an additional half dozen international festivals since that time.

Since it has yet played in the U.S. nor has it been announced for Toronto... and considering that Holland has had a Telluride presence in the past (In Darkness, Burning Bush), Mr. Jones could still show up next Thursday when the TFF #46 lineup is released.

Mr. Jones is described at IMDb as being about:

 "A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s."

  

The film is scheduled for its non-festival debut in Poland on Oct. 25th.

I have linked the Variety story about the acquisition here.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

For the eighth consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings with any of the following contact methods:

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