The Venice Film Festival announced the films in its lineup in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition and Horizons. From those three categories there are two films that we strongly believe will be announced by Telluride organizers as having been scheduled for TFF #47: Nomadland and Notturno.
TFF #47 possibles from Competition:
Guest of Honor/Adam Egoyan
Dear Comrades/Andrei Konchalovsky
Out of Competition/Fiction:
The Duke/Roger Michell
Out of Competition/Non-Fiction:
Sportin' Life/Abel Ferrera
Crazy, Not Insane/Alex Gibney
Hopper/Welles/Orson Welles
City Hall/Frederick Wiseman
Horizons:
Mainstream/Gia Coppola
Now we await news from Toronto and New York as well as the ultimate TFF announcement. Could that came tomorrow?
I have lined multiple articles with the complete Venice lineup (save for films that me still be added and that could happen) along with their analysis:
TORONTO LINEUP ANNOUNCED
Here's the list of films that the Toronto International Film Festival announced earlier today:
180 Degree Rule (Farnoosh Samadi | Iran)
76 Days (Hao Wu, Anonymous, Weixi Chen | USA)
Ammonite (Francis Lee | United Kingdom)
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark)
Bandar Band (Manijeh Hekmat | Iran/Germany)
Beans (Tracey Deer | Canada)
Beginning (Dasatskisi) (Dea Kulumbegashvili | Georgia/France)
The Best is Yet to Come (Bu zhi bu xiu) (Wang Jing | China)
Bruised (Halle Berry | USA)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman | USA)
Concrete Cowboy (Ricky Staub | USA)
David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee | USA)
The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane | India)
Enemies of the State (Sonia Kennebeck | USA)
Falling (Viggo Mortensen | Canada/United Kingdom)
The Father (Florian Zeller | United Kingdom/France)
Fauna (Nicolás Pereda | Mexico/Canada)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer | United Kingdom/USA)
Gaza mon amour (Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser |France /Germany/Portugal/Palestine/Qatar)
Get the Hell Out (Taochulifayuan) (I-FanWang | Taiwan)
Good Joe Bell (Reinaldo Marcus Green | USA)
I Care A Lot (J Blakeson | United Kingdom)
Inconvenient Indian (Michelle Latimer | Canada)
The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili | USA)
Lift Like a Girl (Ashya Captain) (Mayye Zayed | Egypt/Germany/Denmark)
Limbo (Ben Sharrock | United Kingdom)
Memory House (Casade Antiguidades) (João Paulo Miranda Maria | Brazil/France)
MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard | USA)
The New Corporation: An Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott | Canada)
New Order (Nuevo orden) (Michel Franco | Mexico)
Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois) (Philippe Lacôte | Côte d’Ivoire/France/Canada/Senegal)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao | USA)
No Ordinary Man (Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Canada)
Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi | Italy / France / Germany)
One Night in Miami (Regina King | USA)
Penguin Bloom (Glendyn Ivin | Australia)
Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó | USA/Canada/Hungary)
Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre) (Lili Horvát | Hungary)
Quo Vadis, Aïda? (Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina/Norway/The Netherlands/Austria/Romania/France/Germany/Poland/Turkey)
Shadow In The Cloud (Roseanne Liang | USA/NewZealand)
Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman | USA/Canada)
Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon | France)
A Suitable Boy Mira Nair | United Kingdom/India
Summer of 85 (Été 85) (François Ozon | France)
The Third Day (Felix Barrett, Dennis Kelly | United Kingdom)
Trickster (Michelle Latimer | Canada)
True Mothers (Asagakuru) (Naomi Kawase|Japan)
Under the Open Sky (Subarashikisekai) (Miwa Nishikawa|Japan)
Violation Madeleine (Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | Canada)
Wildfire (Cathy Brady | United Kingdom/Ireland)
Thoughts: The TIFF list includes a slew of the Cannes Selected list. Such as Another Round, True Mothers and Summer of '85.
TFF #47 expected films Ammonite, Nomadland and Notturno were all on the TIFF list.
Some titles here (in addition to the Cannes titles listed above) that I think could end up on Telluride's list when it is revealed:
Mira Nair's A Suitable Boy
Werner Herzog's Fireball
Frederick Wiseman's City Hall
Sam Pollard's MLK/FBI
VIEWS OF VENETIAN CHOICES
Here's a look from The Film Stage of some of the stills/teasers/trailers from films announced for Venice including a trailer for Giancarlo Rosi's Notturno which is expected as a TFF #47 announcement:
And this till from Frederick Wiseman's City Hall...which I think has a shot to be the on the TFF #47 list:
WHITHER THE FRENCH DISPATCH AND ON THE ROCKS?
You have to wonder.
The French Dispatch was/is expected to be named as a choice for TFF #47 per reporting from Indiewire but the word from multiple sources the Wes Anderson film has been delayed indefinitely. Does that mean it still shows up when TFF announces what would have been the lineup for edition #47?
And then there's the news that Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks was wooed heartily by the Venice Fest and A24 said nay-nay.
That according to an Eric Kohn/Indiewire interview of Venice Artistic Director Alberto Barbera on July 28th. That complete interview is linked here.
Seems to me that also takes On the Rocks out of being named to the TFF list whenever we see it.
MEANWHILE A CORRECTION:
I guess Pixar's Soul will NOT be in the TFF #47 announcement after all. Back on July 20th I reprinted this reporting from Anne Thompson Indiewire story entitled Film Festivals 2020: Here's What We Do Know:
The Telluride 2020 program, sources say, includes such titles as Francis Lee’s lesbian romance “Ammonite” (also a TIFF selection, as well as Cannes), Gianfranco Rosi’s Middle East documentary “Notturno,” Chloe Zhao’s road movie “Nomadland” (Searchlight) starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (October 16, Searchlight), Steve McQueen’s anthology films “Mangrove” and “Lovers Rock” (BBC, Amazon Prime), and Pixar’s animated “Soul” (November 20, Disney).
However, when I was checking back on that story for today's MTFB post I discovered that it has been re-written. Please note the underlined and highlighted segment:
The Telluride 2020 program, sources say, includes such titles as Francis Lee’s lesbian romance “Ammonite” (also a TIFF selection, as well as Cannes), Gianfranco Rosi’s Middle East documentary “Notturno,” Chloe Zhao’s road movie “Nomadland” (Searchlight) starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (October 16, Searchlight), and Steve McQueen’s anthology films “Mangrove” and “Lovers Rock” (BBC, Amazon Prime). Not included was another Cannes selection, Pixar’s animated “Soul” (November 20, Disney), which should turn up in Toronto and New York.
So, for the time being, no Soul can be expected on the TFF #47 list.
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