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SAME HEADLINE YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE

I have been refused journalist accreditation for TFF #49.  Again.  The last time I was accredited was 2018.  Regular readers have seen this before and my annual commentary.   I'm going to forgo that this year.  Suffice to say, I must really be persona non grata vis-a-vis the festival. 

TORONTO WEIRDNESS

The Toronto International Film Festival is being a bit cagey and unconventional this summer.  TIFF has already announced four World Premiere films that they have scheduled. Meaning they won't be at Telluride:

Green Onions: A Knives Out Mystery-which is the big get of the four announced films

Brother

Bros

On the Come Up

It nearly goes without saying that I haven't had any of these four titles on my watchlist/guess list for TFF #49.

I haven't yet heard when TIFF will drop an announcement with a big chunk of their slate.  History suggests that is likely on June 26th.  But with this new strategy of easing out a single title every few days...who knows?

MTFB SHOWS UP IN OTHER PLACES

Over the past few days a couple of outlets that you have seen mentioned here in the past have mentioned MTFB on their sites.  Both Sasha Stone at her Awards Daily site and Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel refenced and linked to yours truly as they both posted pieces that looked at Telluride and possible films that will play for TFF #49.

Here's the link to the Awards Daily post.

Here's the link to the World of Reel post.

Jordan also reports that Noah Baumbach's White Noise, which I had thought would be  slam dunk for TFF #49, seems to be off the table.  Jordan had previously reported that the film was shaky for fall fests and it appears that it has become even shakier. Check his story on that here.

INDIEWIRE'S SCREEN TALK TALKS FALL FESTS

Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson in this week's Indiewire's weekly Screen talk podcast spent a good amount of time discussing the looming fall fest landscape.  They talk about several films and fests.  Of interest to MTFB readers is that the mention Alejandro Inarritu's Bardo and James Gray's Armageddon specifically on the context of TFF #49.  

Both films currently sit on the latest incarnation of  MTFB's Ten Bets.  Bardo at # 6 and Armageddon time at #8.

Check out this edition of Screen Talk here.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT-POSTER!

The TFF #49 poster drop happened last Thursday after my regular MTFB posting.  I added a special additional post later in the day on Thursday but of you didn't see that, here's that announcement again:

BERKELEY, CA - Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5, 2022) today presents its 2022 Festival poster, designed by Leanne Shapton.  

Leanne Shapton is a Canadian author, artist, graphic novelist and publisher living in New York City with her daughter. She is the art editor at The New York Review of Books and co-founder of J&L Books, a non-profit publisher specializing in art and photography. Shapton’s first work, Was She Pretty?, was a nominee for the Doug Wright Award in 2007. Her second book, Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, was optioned by Plan B/Paramount in 2009 with Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman attached to star. Shapton’s book Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critic’s Circle Award for autobiography and was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012. She is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

“I was delighted to be asked to make a poster for the 49th Festival. Some of my favorite artists have done one, and I think my favorite is by the incredible production designer Dean Tavoularis,” remarks Shapton. “I was in the middle of a book cover assignment when Julie Huntsinger asked, and leapt at the instruction to include the word SHOW. I love hand-painted letterforms and the strength single words can have and how they name, and so wrote out the word about twenty-five times in my favorite green.”

“If a breath of fresh air could be conveyed in an image, this is what Leanne has accomplished in our beautiful poster for TFF 49,” comments Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “Without even indicating that this was the hoped-for point of view, she delivered our sentiment for this year. Leanne has conjured an elegance that is neither fussy nor contrived, not unlike the very best films. We’re thrilled to introduce her gorgeous work to our SHOW community and the world.”

Posters are an annual tradition of the Festival, and Shapton joins a prestigious list of artists who have been selected by, and who have shared their talents with Telluride Film Festival. Past poster artists include Yann Legendre, Laurent Durieux, Christian Marclay, Dean Tavoularis, Ed Ruscha, John Mansfield, Julian Schnabel, Dottie Attie, Doug and Mike Starn, David Lance Goines, Chuck Jones, David Salle, Alexis Smith, Jim Dine, Seymour Chwast, Frederic Amat, Francesco Clemente, Dave McKean, Gary Larson, Chip Kidd, John Canemaker, Mark Stock, Laurie Anderson, William Wegman, Ralph Eggleston, Maira Kalman, Dave Eggers, Lance Rutter, Edwina White and Luke Dorman. 

49th Telluride Film Festival posters are available for purchase now on the TFF website at www.telluridefilmfestival.org.

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