CANNES SPEC HEATS UP
With the official announcement of the Cannes Film Festival lineup now just two weeks away (June 3), the guessing game about what films make the list is warming up. As always here, a reminder that, historically, Cannes and Telluride have had a substantial overlap of films in their official selections.
Now, does that continue in this year where we still have Covid concerns, that traditional sharing of titles may be lessened, increased, skewed...
But I'm going to run for awhile on the assumption that there will be that connection between the two fests that has been true for quite some time and that's an average of about 8 or so films that play both.
Just this past week I ran across big "Cannes lists" from Indiewire, Screen Daily and World of Reel and put together a list of TFF possibilities that popped up.
All three publications included: Jacques Audiard's Paris 13th District and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. However, Screen Daily reports that Searchlight has not yet committed to premiering on the Croisette and is still gaming out what it feels would be the best release strategy for the highly anticipated film.
Many films that I feel have a shot at TFF #48's lineup are listed in two of the publications including:
Asghar Farhadi's A Hero (IND, WOR)
Andrea Arnold's Cow (IND, SD)
Michelangelo Frammartino's The Hole (IND, SD)
Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday (IND, SD)
Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth (IND, WOR)
Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground (IND, SD)
Ari Folman's Where Is Anne Frank (IND, WOR)
Mia Hansen Love's Bergman Island (WOR, SD)
Francois Ozon's Everything Went Fine (WOR, SD)
Sean Penn's Flag Day (WOR, SD)
{IND= Indiewire WOR = World of Reel SD= Screen Daily}
The complete articles from each publication are linked below:
Check them out and see what other titles you think might screen at Cannes before coming to Colorado on Labor Day weekend.
A LOOK AT SPC
Today we continue our stroll through film distributors that have had strong presences over the last five years at Telluride,. Last Monday I got that started with a look at Netflix which has had 16 (maybe 17) films play at TFF in that time span. Matching it (or nearly matching it ) has been Sony Pictures Classics with 16 films in five years.
Beyond the five year limitation I placed on looking at recent TFFs and distributors, SPC and Telluride's relationship has been much longer than that. So, unless the world stops spinning, you can expect to see some SPC titles this year as in many others.
SPC is coming off a very successful one-two punch with last year's The Father picking up two Oscars among six nominations (Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor and Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton for Best Adapted Screenplay) and The Truffle Hunters, which didn't make the Oscar final list of five nominated documentary feature films but won a number of critics' awards and was universally beloved.
Currently in SPC's hands and with what seems to be Telluride potential:
Clint Bentley's Jockey
Ty Roberts 12 Mighty Orphans
Andreas Koefoed's The Lost Leonardo
Julie Cohen and Betsy West's Julia
Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday
Benjamin Millepied's Carmen
And then there's a couple of real wild cards:
Zachary Fuhrer's John Prine: Hello in There which I really thought was going to play TFF #47 last year and then it was not on the announced list. I swear I saw someplace that it was going to be released or pop-up at some other fest virtually...but I can't find any evidence that happened. SPC acquired the doc in February of 2019. So???
And then there's Pedro Almodovar's latest Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers). Its IMDb Pro entry says it's a 2022 release and that it's "filming" as of March 10th. But after Almodovar's triumphant return to Telluride screenings with Pain and Glory at TFF #46...who knows? OK, it's much more likely that it screens at next year's Cannes and then maybe TFF #49.
At this point I have no strong intell or intuitions about any of these SPC films. If you made me I might point at Julia, Mothering Sunday and Jockey and I'd likely throw in the Prine doc because I'm stubborn.
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