PETER BOGDANOVICH 1939-2022
Peter Bogdanovich died on Thursday. Over the past 20+ years he was a frequent presence at The SHOW beginning with his choice to Guest Direct the festival in 1998. That year he programmed: Orson Welles Touch of Evil. Bogdanovich's own Directed by John Ford was also featured at the 25th TFF.
Bogdanovich returned to T-ride a number of times thereafter including 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2018. He was part of my first Telluride in 2006 as he was back at the fest with Directed by John Ford again.
His film legacy included: The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc? Paper Moon, Saint Jack and Mask among others. He was twice Oscar nominated for The Last Picture Show as Best Director and co-writer with Larry McMurtry.
On a different note, although never an attendee (at least to my knowledge) of the Telluride Film Festival, I have to also note the passing of Sidney Poitier. Truly a giant in the world of film.
NSFC AND THE GOLDEN GLOBES
The National Society of Film Critics and The Golden Globes announced their winners for films from 2021 over the weekend.
THE NSFC
The NSFC announces winners and runners-up through third place (and the vote totals for each). Here are the TFF #48 films/performers that were named winners or runners-up.
Best Picture: #2 Petite Maman #3 The Power of the Dog (Drive My Car was named Best Picture.
Best Direction: #2 Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog, #3 Celine Sciamma/Petite Maman
Best Nonfiction Film: #1 Flee, #2 Procession, #3 The Velvet Underground
Best Cinematography #2 The Power of the Dog
Best Supporting Actress: #1 Jesse Buckley/The Lost Daughter
Best Actor: #2 Benedict Cumberbatch/The Power of the Dog, #3 Simon Rex/Red Rocket
TFF regulars Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Bogdanovich both received notice being named winners of the NSFC Film Heritage Award.
THE GOLDEN GLOBES WINNERS
A modified version of the Golden Globes was held last night as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association continues to try to rehabilitate itself into the awards power that it has been over the last several years. Absent a television presentation, the HFPA "announced" their awards via social media. TFF #48 winners in Bold.
Best Picture/Drama: The Power of the Dog
Best Picture/Musical or Comedy: West Side Story
Best Direction: Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog
Best Actress/Drama: Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos
Best Actor/Drama: Will Smith/King Richard
Best Actress/Musical or Comedy: Rachel Zegler/West Side Story
Best Actor/Musical or Comedy: Andrew Garfield/tick, tick...BOOM
Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose/West Side Story
Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee/The Power of the Dog
Best Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh/Belfast
Best Non-English Language Film: Drive My Car
Best Animated Film: Encanto
Best Score: Dune
Best Song: No Time to Die/No Time to Die
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE, DIRECTION AND MORE
Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, International Feature, Animated Feature and Documentary Feature. These categories were last predicted here on Dec. 27th. As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.
BEST PICTURE
1) Belfast (1)
2) The Power of the Dog (2)
3) West Side Story (3)
4) Dune (4)
5) Licorice Pizza (5)
6) King Richard (6)
7) CODA (7)
8) Don't Look Up (8)
9) tick, tick...BOOM (9)
10) The Tragedy of Macbeth (Alt.)
Alternates: Being the Ricardos and The Lost Daughter
BEST DIRECTION
1) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog
2) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast
3) Denis Villenueve/Dune
4) Steven Spielberg/West Side Story
5) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza
Alternates: Ryusuke Hamaguchi/Drive My Car and Maggie Gyllenhaal/The Lost Daughter
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1) Drive My Car/Japan (1)
2) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (3)
3) A Hero/Iran (2)
4) Flee/Denmark (4)
5) The Hand of God/Italy (5)
Alternates: Compartment #6/Finland and I'm Your Man/Germany
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
1) Encanto (1)
2) Flee (2)
3) The Mitchells vs. The Machines (3)
4) Luca (4)
5) Raya and the Last Dragon (5)
Alternates: Belle and Sing 2
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1) The Rescue (2)
2) Flee (1)
3) Summer of Soul (3)
4) Attica (4)
5) Ascension (Alt.)
Alternates: Procession and Faya Dayi
THE FILM STAGE'S 100 MOST ANTICIPATED
The Film Stage posted its list of 100 films for 2022 (maybe). As you might expect, I have culled it for TFF #49 possibilities. Here they be:
100) Babylon
94) Peter Von Kant
89) Red, White and Water
83) All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
81) The Wonder
72) Monica
68) The Son
66) Maestro
63) The Holdover
51) Bones and All
48) Poor Things
45) R.M.N.
43) White Noise
28) The Killer
26) The End
24) Asteroid City
21) The Zone of Interest
20) Broker
15) The Master Gardener
12) One Fine Morning
11) Blonde
10) Women Talking
8) Tar
3) Showing Up
1) Killers of the Flower Moon
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