I'M NOT TOO BRIGHT
Well, I'm silly. If you read last Thursday's post, you know I had a whole chunk about how I was thinking that the Val Kilmer documentary "Val" might be a Telluride selection. I even boldly put it into last week's Ten Bets at the # 9 spot.
It was less than 24 hours later that I found that Val has been dated (by Amazon) for an August release. That clearly puts the kibosh on that notion. I should have been better on my due diligence. Mea Culpa!
Anyway, I guess Amazon will have a limited release on July 23rd and Amazon subscribers will be able to see the film on August 6th.
TELLURIDE A HOT DESTINATION?
For the past several weeks, there has been a low level buzz that Telluride and Venice both will benefit from some reluctance on the part of film makers to make plans to debut a film in Toronto due to Canada's approach to Covid-19. Now, with the Delta variant raising numbers, there is some thought that could further push big name films to either Telluride or Venice or both,
Jeff Wells raises that notion in a post on his website Hollywood Elsewhere writing:
"The word along the Croisette is that certain distributors have either pulled their films out of the 2021 Toronto Film Festival or are seriously thinking about same. Why? Because (a) the Telluride and Venice festivals, unlike Toronto, are not leaning on streaming, and (b) distributors greatly prefer live-audience projection screenings."
We should be getting some serious hard info soon as Toronto is set to announce it's first wave of films on July 20th, a week from tomorrow. That assumes that TIFF announces films with their premiere status designated but I wonder if that will happen this year. TIFF has already named 13 films that will play there and did so with no premiere designation. So, who knows?
CANNES CRITICAL RESPONSE
As the second week of the Cannes Film Festival gets ready to launch, let's check in with how critics' panels are reacting to the Plame d'Or competition films.
Ioncinema's panel has Leos Carax's Annette on top. Here's the latest chart:
Screen Daily has Annette on top as well.
Reini Urban has Jauques Audiard's Paris 13th District on top but that's with only a single review.
Check back on Thursday for updated critical response.
A HINT ON A SHORT
I ran across a tweet this weekend that lead me to a news story about a short film called Mark of the Butterfly. The reason I mention it here is that the film maker Chris Carter seems to imply in the news article from South Carolina television station WLTX that the film could play T-ride. From the article:
"Carter has submitted Mark of the Butterfly to eight different film festivals. He says those festivals have strict rules about premiering it after submitting it. It will officially be able to be seen after the Telluride Film Festival in September."
So, he doesn't actually say that's it's playing Telluride but he sure implies it.
From the same article, here is the description of the film:
"It's about a high-powered attorney, who is one of the top attorneys in the state," explained Carter. "Now, she's up for a prestigious job as the district attorney, but she is suffering from lupus."
And, from YouTube, here's a trailer for the film:
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