TEN BETS #6
We've got some shuffling of the players this week following the news from Venice announcing its lineup. First here's your re-cap of last week's Ten Bets:
1) One Fine Morning/Hansen-Love
2) The Son/Zeller
3) Close/Dhont
4) Armageddon Time/Gray
5) Bardo/Inarritu
6) TAR/Fields
7) Women Talking/Polley
8) Aftersun/Wells
9) The Pale Blue Eye/Cooper
10) The Master Gardener/P. Schrader
Others Possibilities: Broker/Kore-eda, Showing Up/Reichardt, Tori and Lokita/Dardennes, Holy Spider/Abbasi, The Forger/Peren, She Said/M. Schrader, Tuesday/Oniunas-Pusic, The Fire Within/Herzog, The U.S. and the Holocaust/Burns, The Wonder/Lelio, Blonde/Dominik
And here's this week's updated Ten Bets:
1) Bardo/Inarritu
2) TAR/Fields
3) Bones and All/Guadagnino
4) Armageddon Time/Gray
5) Close/Dhont
6) Aftersun/Wells
7) One Fine Morning/Hansen-Love
8) The Son/Zeller
9) She Said/M. Schrader
10) The Pale Blue Eye/Cooper
Others Possibilities: Master Gardener/P. Schrader, Women Talking/Polley, Broker/Kore-eda, Showing Up/Reichardt, Tori and Lokita/Dardennes, Holy Spider/Abbasi, The Forger/Peren,Tuesday/Oniunas-Pusic, The Fire Within/Herzog, The U.S. and the Holocaust/Burns, The Wonder/Lelio, Blonde/Dominik, The Whale/Aronofsky, White Noise/Baumbach. Dreamin' Wild/Pohlad, March on Rome/Cousins
WILD TUESDAY-PART ONE
It was a wild Tuesday afternoon earlier this week as separate interviews with Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera stirred the fall film fest pot by dropping some Telluride news. First the confirmations (it would seem).
In an interview with Variety's Nick Vivarelli, Barbera revealed that Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Bardo, Todd Field's TAR and Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All will be making the jump from Venice to Telluride (hence those films jumping to the top of this week's Ten Bets above).
Here's the quote from the Varity interview:
"One that is going [to Telluride] is”Tar,” as are the Iñárritu and Guadagnino films."
In the same paragraph, Barbera says that there will not be as large a Venice/Telluride crossover as has been the case in past years:
"My impression is that there will be fewer films going from Venice to Telluride this year — not that there aren’t any... But in past years there were more, which has resulted in Venice being a bit less “top-heavy” this year."
So Barbera isn't saying that there aren't others in addition to Bardo, TAR and Bones but fewer. I did a little digging and discovered that approximately 67 films have made the trek from Venice to Telluride over the past 10 years. Peak years were 2021 and 2018 with nine films moving form Italy to Colorado. Weak years were 2019, 2014 and 2012 with 4. The average, as you can deduce, is 6-7 films each year.
So...likely there will be an addition or two beyond the three Barbera revealed.
Prior to the Venice announcement there had been strong speculation that those films might include Baumbach's White Noise, Aronofsky's The Whale and Zeller's The Son. In my Special Post from Tuesday morning with the Venice lineup, I indicated several other films that might be in line to make the trip from Venice to T-ride:
Argentina 1985
Athena
Blonde
A Couple
No Bears
Dreamin' Wild
Master Gardener
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Il Viaggio
Best bets to also move from Venice to The SHOW: White Noise, Master Gardener and The Son.
WILD TUESDAY-PART TWO
And if that wasn't enough...Barbera had an interview with Deadline.com that was posted Tuesday. Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture screen captured the electrifying news and posted it to Twitter:
Making it easier to read:
"There was only one film we couldn't see, which was the Spielberg film [The Fabelmans]. They decided to go domestic with Telluride. It was a film that all the fall festivals wanted to see but no one got to see it internationally other than Toronto."
Needless to say my Twitter feed lit up.
A few minutes later the story was re-posted with the sentence "They decided to go domestic with Telluride" edited out.
I saw both versions with my own eyes.
Now, I will admit that I reached out to Deadline to confirm and/or clarify the sentence. It was after that email that the edit occurred that eliminated the Telluride mention.
So, what gives? Seems like these are the possibilities:
Barbera got it wrong.
Deadline got it wrong.
Telluride screened it and decided not to invite it...thus preserving its World Premiere status for Toronto.
Telluride screened and Universal then decided not to go to T-ride after all.
Telluride does have it and TIFF's WP status is flawed.
It was pointed out to me that this could be a repeat of last year when TIFF announced Kenneth Branagh's Belfast as a World Premiere only to have it bow at Telluride first. Could that be the case with The Fabelmans?
The icing on the cake was a Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel post late on Tuesday in which he says no Fabelmans at The SHOW per a TFF source:
"I’m here to tell you, let’s please stop the speculation. A Telluride source has confirmed to me that “The Fabelmans” is not going to that festival."
TORONTO-AN EVOLVING LIST
.jpeg)
TIFF is using a drip-drip-drip method of announcing World Premieres that they haven't used before. As that list grows, I will be posting so we know which films are at TIFF and won't be at TFF#49. Those announced to date are:
Green Onions: A Knives Out Mystery
Brother
Bros
On the Come Up
The Woman King
My Policeman
The Fabelmans (see above)
Catherine Called Birdy
The Swimmers
and Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel says The Greatest Beer Run Ever will also be a TIFF World Premiere.
And there are reports that TIFF will announce some more titles today.
SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS
Teaser for Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio which was released earlier this week via YouTube
A list of films that haven't really been talked about for Telluride but...who knows? Maybe?
The Good Nurse
GDT's Pinocchio
See How They Run
Raymond and Ray
Dreamin' Wild
Tuesday
Moonage Daydream
Spoiler Alert: He Dies at the End
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com
TWITTER @TheMTFB OR @Gort2
MTFB's Facebook Page
MTFB is published on Mondays and Thursdays
No comments:
Post a Comment