Ten Bets #8 for TFF #48 / New York Announcement Revelations / Meanwhile... / A Journal for Jordan Teaser

     TEN BETS #8 FOR TFF #48

2021 continues to be the most difficult year to suss out films that are likely to play Telluride.  Largely because, up to this point, there has been a much smaller overlap between films chosen for major fests that have announced most if not all of their lineup (New York and Toronto).  Films announced for Venice have yet to get an official release of their schedule which can indicate films that could play there and still play at Telluride-though that's not an exact science either.

Nevertheless, we martial on with a new re-shuffling list of Ten Bets for TFF #48 films.  This week's new bets reflect information from stories included below,

Here's last week's Ten Bets and Other Possibilities:

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe

3) Petite Maman/Sciamma

4) The Card Counter/Schrader

5) Spencer/Larrain

6) Something from Mark Cousins***

7) Julia/Cohen and West

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) The Rescue/Garbus

10) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

Other Possibles: The French Dispatch, Muhammad Ali, The Hand of God, Cow, The Last Duel, Encounter, tick, tick..BOOM, Dune, Antlers, Being the Ricardos, C'mon C'mon, Hallelujah/Leonard Cohen, Red Rocket, Last Exit: Space, Flee, King Richard, The Lost Daughter, Becoming Cousteau, Three Minutes-A Lengthening, Don't Look Up.

***Mark Cousins projects that could play:

The Story of Looking

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The Story of Film: The Next Generation

And this week's Ten (+5) Bets are:

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe

3) Petite Maman/Sciamma

4) The Card Counter/Schrader

5) Spencer/Larrain

6) Something from Mark Cousins***

7) A Hero/Farhadi

8) C'mon, C'mon/Mills

9) The Rescue/Chin and Vasarhelyi

10) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

11) Julia/Cohen and West

12) Hallelujah-Leonard Cohen Doc/Geller and Goldfine

13/ Becoming Cousteau/Garbus

14) Cyrano/Wright

15) Il Buco/Frammartino

Other Possibles: The French Dispatch, Muhammad Ali, The Hand of God, Cow, Encounter,  Antlers, Being the Ricardos, Red Rocket, Last Exit: Space, Flee, King Richard, The Lost Daughter, Three Minutes-A Lengthening, Bergman Island, Vortex, Don't Look Up, Dune.

***Mark Cousins projects that could play:

The Story of Looking

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The Story of Film: The Next Generation

NEW YORK ANNOUNCEMENT REVELATIONS

The New York Film Festival filled out its lineup on Tuesday leaving us with clues about possible TFF #48 titles.  They had previously announced their three Gala presentations: The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Power of the dog and Madres Paralelas.  

Here's what we think the NYFF tea leaves show us:

Possibly in/still alive to play T-ride:

A Chiara

Il Buco

The First 54 Years

Petite Maman

Prayers for the Stolen

Unclenching the Fists

The Velvet Underground

Vortex

No Telluride:

Ahed's Knee

Drive My Car

France

Hit the Road

In Front of Your Face

Introduction

Memoria

The Worst Person in the World

A couple of other notes: 

1) The French Dispatch which had been previously announced for New York is nowhere to be found in the official lineup announced today nor was it announced for Toronto.  Here's a July 12th story from The Hollywood Reporter saying that the film would screen in NYFF on Sept. 24th which is opening night.  That's odd as the opening night film has been announced as Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth.  A July 13th story in Vogue clams the NYFF screening will be a "U'S' Premiere"  but that's the only reference to that premiere designation that I can find.

2) There seems, now to be a little confusion about the status of Mia Hansen-Love's Bergman Island.  After its Cannes screening, Toronto announced it as an International Premiere which should mean that it will not have played Telluride.  However, NYFF announced it Tuesday with no Premiere status as opposed to listing it as a U.S. Premiere, a designation for many films and one that should be true for Bergman without a T-ride play.  It begs the question as to why NYFF didn't list with any premiere status.

MEANWHILE...

Variety, among others, reported yesterday afternoon that Lin Manuel Miranda's directorial debut- ticj, tick...BOOM will World Premiere and open The AFI (American Film Institute) Film Festival on Nov. 10th.

That means that a film that had developed a fairly convincing Telluride profile will not be making a stop at TFF #48.

Here's the Variety story.

Also biting the Telluride dust is Ridley Scott's The Last Duel which we found out earlier this week will make its bow in Venice on Sept. 10th with a tribute to Scott being part of the festivities.

I suppose there's an extreme outside chance that The Last Duel plays at Telluride and then does Venice afterwards.  That seems very unlikely, though.

Here's Deadline with the story of Scott being feted.

A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN TEASER

Denzel Washington's A Journal for Jordan has a teaser from Sony.  That appeared yesterday.  The film is set to be released on Dec. 22nd.

According to IMDb Pro, this is the description of the film:

The project, "Journal for Jordan," is based on Dana Canedy's essay, which describes a 200-page journal penned by her fiancé, 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, for their son. The 48-year-old soldier was killed in Baghdad in October, one month shy of finishing his tour of duty. He had left for the Middle East before his son was born.

Here's the teaser from YouTube:

The film has an outside shot at a TFF slot.

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