TFF #47 WOULD HAVE ROCKED!
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic the "what would have been" list of TFF #47 films that were released on Monday morning would have been a formidable lineup:
Features:
After Love/Khan
All In: The Fight for Democracy/Garbus and Cortes
The Alpinist/Mortimer and Rosen
Ammonite/Lee
Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer/Tarkovsky
Apples/Nikou
The Automat/Hurwitz
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart/Marshall
Charlatan/Holland
Concrete Cowboy/Staub
Dear Mr. Brody/Maitland
The Duke/Michell
The Father/Zeller
Fireball/Herzog and Oppenheimer
Ibrahim/Guesmi
Mainstream/Coppola
Mandibules/Dupieux
MLK/FBI/Pollard
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World/Lindstrom
Never Gonna Snow Again/Szumowska
Nomadland/Zhao
Notturno/Rosi
Pray Away/Stolakis
There Is No Evil/Rasoulof
To the Moon/O'Sullivan
Torn/Lowe
The Truffle Hunters/Dweck and Kershaw
Truman and Tennessee an Intimate Conversation/Immordino
The Way I See It/Porter
Tributes were to have been: Kate Winslet/Ammonite, Chloe Zhao/Nomadland and Anthony Hopkins/The Father. Solid!!!
ODDS AND ENDS
Well, it has been weird throughout the summer trying to determine what we would be programmed by Telluride. Now we know. Thoughts:
1) The last Ten Bets (#4 posted on Monday prior to the surprise drop of the Telluride list ended up with six of the ten films being named: Ammonite, Fireball, Nomadland, Notturno, There Is No Evil and The Truffle Hunters.
2) Misses were the two Steve McQueen films: Lover's Rock and Mangrove, which, as it turns out will be playing the New York Film Fest along with a third film from McQueen's Small Axe collection. As a matter of fact, Lover's Rock has been named the opening film for NYFF.
Also missed The French Dispatch...which I still think might have been on Telluride's list at one point but with Searchlight's decision to pull it from its October release date, you have to think it's headed for Berlin or Cannes next year. And the other whiff: The Secrets We Keep.
3) Pleased to see that one of my "also possibles" made the lineup which was the Garbus/Cortes voting rights documentary now titled: All In: The Fight for Democracy.
4) Other films that I had played with as possibles at some point along the way that ended up making the grade: Charlatan, The Duke, Mainstream and MLK/FBI.
5) That list of tributes...man oh man. would have been super pumped for the Anthony Hopkins as well as the Kate Winslet. Deep bodies of great work from both of them.
6) From the first Ten Bets I went 5/10. Ammonite, All In: The Fight for Democracy, Nomadland, Fireball and There Is No Evil.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS...
We've known for some time that Telluride organizers have been planning a "Telluride from Los Angeles" drive-in screening of Nomadland on Sept. 11th somewhere in the greater L.A. area. The word has been that director Chloe Zhao and star Frances McDormand would be attending. Additionally, the film is set to premiere that same day as a part of both the Venice and Toronto fests and will be the centerpiece presentation for the New York Film Fest.
What's new is this passage from Rebecca Keegan's story/interview about the TFF lineup announcement on Monday:
Telluride will host a drive-in screening in Los Angeles on Sept. 11 for the Chloé Zhao Searchlight movie Nomadland, which was to have shown at the festival as part of a tribute to the filmmaker. Zhao and Nomadland star Frances McDormand will both attend the drive-in, and at least one additional potential event for another film that would have premiered in the lineup is also in the works.
Does that echo the AP story that I included in last Monday's regularly scheduled post that suggested a Telluride "drive-in series"? Maybe, though the wording in the Keegan story-"potential event"- hints that maybe it will be something else. Also interesting is the language that says" at least one" suggesting that there could possibly be more than one additional event.
It will be fun to see what this might be.
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