VARIETY'S LOOK AT VENICE HOPEFULS...CLUES FOR TFF ?
Yesterday Variety's Nick Vivarelli posted an examination of possible/probable Venice Fest choices. It's interesting in light of the Venice/Telluride trail that has grown up in the last few years. There are lots of possibilities to chew on in the article and I'll get to those...but...
One of the more intriguing sections of the post is a list of seven films which have won the Best Director Oscar (and were Best Picture nominated with three winning that honor as well) that premiered in Venice:
2013: Gravity
2014: Birdman*
2016: La La Land
2017: The Shape of Water*
2018: Roma
2020: Nomadland*
2022: The Power of the Dog
(* indicates Best Picture winner)
Of note to TFF fans is that they all made the run from Venice to the San Juans.
A big part of the post is focused on Netflix films that he reports are "in the Venice mix". They include Alejandro Inarritu's Bardo, Noah Baumbach's White Noise, Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Romain Gavras' Athena.
From that list Bardo seems most likely to do the Venice/Telluride Shuffle with White Nose close behind. Blonde has stirred controversy but I could still see it as a TFF #49 possibility. The Gavras film is new to the conversation.
Other films that Vivarelli mentions that I feel like could be on flights from Italy to Colorado include:
Florian Zeller's The Son, Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All and Todd Fields: TAR.
SEARCHING SPC
The second distributor to look at as we get closer to TFF #49 is Sony Pictures Classics. SPC has a long tradition at Telluride and has averaged four titles per fest since I started attending in 2006. Last year SPC had The Duke and Julia at TFF #48.
SPC's most likely title for TFF is Florian Zeller's The Son. There are several reasons. Zeller's The Father was a selection for the "Fest That Wasn't" in 2020. Anthony Hopkins won his second Best Actor Oscar for it and Zeller won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. An additional reason could be that Telluride regular Laura Dern is a cast member (along with Hugh Jackman who was a T-ride guest in 2018 with The Front Runner).
Also very likely for Telluride from SPC is Mia Hansen Love's One Fine Morning which SPC picked up at Cannes. Hansen-Love also has a good track record with TFF. One Fine Morning stars the currently red hot Lea Seydoux who could return to T-ride for the first time since 2013's Blue Is the Warmest Color.
One other possibility from SPC is the modern day re-telling of the opera Carmen.
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