STAR GAZING AT TFF #49
Who might be joining us mere mortals in the San Juans in just a few weeks? Working from my current Ten (Plus) Bets list, here are some possibilities (listed by film) with past TFF Guests indicated with ***:
Armageddon Time: Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins (who may have been a Tribute recipient had there been a TFF #47) and Jessica Chastain.
Bones and All: Timothee Chalamet, Taylor Russell***, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark Rylance, Chloe Sevigny***.
Empire of Light: Colin Firth*** (Tribute 2010), Olivia Colman, Toby Jones.
One Fine Morning: Lea Seydoux***.
The Pale Blue Eye: Christian Bale***, Henry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Robert Duvall
TAR: Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong
Women Talking: Jesse Buckley, Rooney Mara*** (Tribute 2015), Clare Foy, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand.
The Wonder: Florence Pugh.
Hot prospects for Tributes include Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Olivia Colman and Frances McDormand.
THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION TRAILER
TFF "Usual Suspect" Mark Cousins has a couple of projects that could make a splash at TFF #49. One is an updating of sorts of his The Story of Film. That film is The Story of Film: A New Generation and comes 10 years after the original. The new version has a new trailer which dropped last week. Here that is via YouTube:
"Depicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe."
I wouldn't be stunned if both films were screened at the fest.
ARMAGEDDON AT NYFF
The New York Film festival has announced that James Gray's Armageddon Time will play as a "Main Slate selection". The announcement from NYFF is a little bit cagey with its language about the premiere status of the film:
"The premiere has been designated a special 60th anniversary screening event celebrating the history of the festival, featuring Gray and cast in attendance, along with NYFF filmmakers and supporters who have been integral to the festival’s success."
There's no actual mention of its premiere status despite using the word premiere" in the announcement. If the film isn't playing TFF/TIFF then New York could and likely would bill it as an North American premiere. Also, the "60th anniversary screening event" language makes me think that the film plays somewhere else before NYFF.
So I'm going to stand pat, for the moment anyway, that Armageddon Time still screens at TFF #49.
A COMPASSIONATE SPY APPEARS CONFIRMED
Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel continues to be a fount of info regarding festival season. In one of his later posts he seems to confirm that Steve James' A Compassionate Spy is headed for Telluride:
"Then there’s Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” set to premiere at Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Chicago."
I reported here a week ago that the documentary looked like it was headed to TFF #49 based on a Chicago Tribune story which included this:
"Though the filmmaker could not confirm the near-future for his latest project, many world premieres start at Venice and then go straight to a U.S. premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado a few days later."
And:
"James wrapped up principal photography in April, and his producers at Participant Media suggested submitting the film for Venice (Aug. 31-Sept. 10) and Telluride (Sept. 2-5)."
PS...another doc that Jordan mentions is Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" has also been announced as NYFF's Centerpiece and os absent any premiere designation for that fest as far as I can tell.
That leads me to think that we might consider it as a TFF #49 prospect. The film focuses on the work of photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler family (Purdue Pharma).
Goldin's story was recently included as a part of the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.
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Bale was a Tribute recipient in 2017
ReplyDeleteThanks for the catch. I shouldn't have missed that. It has been corrected.
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