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Thursday, July 29, 2021

Ten Bets #6 for TFF #48 / Titles Disappearing from Consideration / New Toronto and New York Addition and Subtraction / Trailers for Possibles

 TEN BETS #6 FOR TFF #48



Not a lot to change in the Ten Bets for this week.  There are a couple of changes in the Other Possibilities list (see next section below)

Last week's Ten Bets:

1) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe
2) Petite Maman/Sciamma
3) The Card Counter/Schrader
4) Something from Mark Cousins***
5) The Power of the Dog/Campion
6) The Velvet Underground/Haynes
7) Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)/Almodovar
8) Julia/Cohen and West
9) A Hero/Farhadi
10) Spencer/Larrain


Other Possibles: Dune, The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley, Where Is Anne Frank?, Blonde, Cow, House of Gucci, The Last Duel, Mothering Sunday, Encounter, Muhammad Ali, The Hand of God, Don't Look Up, tick, tick..BOOM, Antlers, Being the Ricardos, Titaine, C'mon C'mon, The Humans, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Red Rocket, Last Exit: Space, Flee, King Richard.

***Mark Cousins projects that could play:

The Story of Looking
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
The Story of Film: The Next Generation


This week's new Ten Bets:

1) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe
2) The Power of the Dog/Campion
3) Petite Maman/Sciamma
4) The Card Counter/Schrader
5) Something from Mark Cousins***
6) Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)/Almodovar
7)  Julia/Cohen and West
8) Spencer/Larrain
9) A Hero/Farhadi
10) The Velvet Underground/Haynes


Other Possibles: Dune, The French Dispatch, Muhammad Ali, The Hand of God Where Is Anne Frank?, Cow, The Last Duel, Encounter, tick, tick..BOOM, Antlers, Being the Ricardos, Titaine, C'mon C'mon, Hallelujah/Leonard Cohen, Red Rocket, Last Exit: Space, Flee, King Richard, 7 Prisoners, The Lost Daughter.

***Mark Cousins projects that could play:

The Story of Looking
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
The Story of Film: The Next Generation


TITLES DISAPPEARING FROM CONSIDERATION


(Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara on the set of Nightmare Alley via IMDb)



Notes on interviews with Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera who reveled that both Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley and Ridley Scott's House of Gucci both were to have been in the Venice lineup but will not be ready in time.

You have to conclude, by extension, that if neither film is ready for Venice that they will not be playing Telluride either since the two fests occupy the same dates on the calendar.

Here's the Barbera interview from Variety in which, among other items, he reveals that Nightmare Alley isn't ready.  Also...see the Toronto story below.

Additionally, Variety reported last night that Andrew Dominik's Blonde will move to 2022 thereby almost certainly off the Telluride list.  The Variety story is here.


NEW TORONTO AND NEW YORK ADDITION 







The Toronto International Film Festival added Galas, Special Presentations and Contemporay Wprd Cinema selections yesterday.  Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog was added as a "Canadian Premiere".  Earlier this week the New York Film Festival named it as its choice for its centerpiece.  The NYFF announcement reveals that presentation will be the film's "New York premiere":

"Film at Lincoln Center announces Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog as the Centerpiece selection for the 59th New York Film Festival, making its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 1."

The dual announcements mean that The Power of the Dog is all but locked for a Telluride bow after its screening in Venice.



Meanwhile, the announcement from TIFF also took Mothering Sunday and The Humans out of consideration for T-ride.  Mothering Sunday was announced as a North American Premiere while The Humans will be a World Premiere.  Those designations indicate that neither will be playing at Telluride.


TRAILERS FOR POSSIBLES

THE CARD COUNTER




PARLELAS MADRES (PARALLEL MOTHERS)



KING RICHARD








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