The New York Film Festival's full Main Slate announcement on Tuesday allowed us to interpret information about possible TFF #49 selections but mostly at the margins. It also posed a couple of mysteries.
That said, here's a review of last week's Ten (Plus) Bets:
1) One Fine Morning/Hansen-Love
2) Women Talking/Polley
3) Broker/Kore-eda
4) Holy Spider/Abbasi
5) The Wonder/Lelio
6) Empire of Light/Mendes
7) Good Night Oppy/White
8) Bardo/Inarritu
9) TAR/Field
10) Bones and All/Guadagnino
11) Armageddon Time/Gray
12) The Pale Blue Eye/Cooper
13) A Compassionate Spy/James
14) Close/Dhont
15) Aftersun/Wells
Others Possibilities: Master Gardener/P. Schrader, Showing Up/Reichardt, Tori and Lokita/Dardennes, The Forger/Peren,Tuesday/Oniunas-Pusic, The Fire Within/Herzog, The U.S. and the Holocaust/Burns, Blonde/Dominik, Dreamin' Wild/Pohlad, March on Rome/Cousins, Argentina 1985/Mitre
And here is the latest Ten (Plus) Bets:
1) One Fine Morning/Hansen-Love
2) Women Talking/Polley
3) Broker/Kore-eda
4) Holy Spider/Abbasi
5) The Wonder/Lelio
6) Empire of Light/Mendes
7) Armageddon Time/Gray
8) Bardo/Inarritu
9) TAR/Fields
10) Bones and All/Guadagnino
11) Good Night Oppy/White
12) The Pale Blue Eye/Cooper
13) A Compassionate Spy/James
14) Aftersun/Wells
15) Close/Dhont
Others Possibilities: Tori and Lokita/Dardennes, The Forger/Peren, Tuesday/Oniunas-Pusic, The Fire Within/Herzog, The U.S. and the Holocaust/Burns, Dreamin' Wild/Pohlad, March on Rome/Cousins, Argentina 1985/Mitre, The Story of Film: A New Generation/Cousins, Athena/Gavras
See the next section for New York analysis and its effect or lack thereof.
NEW YORK ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE
In the run-up to yesterday's announcement NYFF had already announced White Noise, Armageddon Time, Till and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed as various special presentations. From those announcements I had gleaned that White Noise, Till and The Inspection were off the list for a Telluride screening, Cagey wording for the Armageddon Time announcement and lack of a premiere designation for All the Beauty made me think that those films could still be TFF possibilities.
With yesterday's announcement, here's what I think we can say:
Lack of any premiere status makes me believe that Armageddon Time, TAR, One Fine Morning and Aftersun are headed to TFF #49.
Premiere status for Master Gardener (North American premiere) and Showing Up (North American premiere) tell us that both films will NOT be at Telluride. Other films that I had as borderline Telluride possibilities that will not make the trip to the San Juans: EO, No Bears, R.M.N., Return to Seoul and Stars at Noon.
There were also films with no premiere status that likely will NOT be T-ride players because they played at Sundance: All That Breathes and Descendant.
Mysteries:
1) Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was listed in some NYFF's release materials without a premiere designation and in others as a U.S. premiere. Confusing? Of course. My feeling is that the documentary probably IS a U.S. premiere at NYFF and not bound for T-ride. We'll see.
2) Joanna Hogg's The Eternal Daughter has no premiere status which lead me to think for awhile on Tuesday that it could be at T-ride. Then a sharp-eyed MTFB reader reminded me that the film has a North American premiere status for Toronto. Now, it's my belief that Eternal Daughter will probably play Fantastic Fest and that would account for its lack of premiere status in the NYFF announcement.
3) Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave has no NYFF premiere status either. Perhaps it is also headed to Fantastic Fest? I tend to believe the Toronto North American premiere status and thus no Telluride.
4) Ruben Ostlund's Cannes Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness also has no NYFF premiere status but like Decision to Leave is listed by Toronto as a North American premiere. Like Decision to Leave, I suspect that TIFF's designation is correct and so Triangle of Sadness isn't headed to T-ride.
5) She Said was not announced as a part of NYFF's "Main Slate". Back on August 1st I reported that She Said was going to land at NYFF and as a World Premiere. That came from reporting from Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel.
Now, NYFF likely has some other films to add but it seems more than weird that She Said wasn't a part of the Main Slate of films announced Tuesday.
So, it seems to me that She Said may be more uncertain as a NYFF WP than previously thought.
On the other hand...can you say NYFF "secret screening"?
TEASER FOR BONES AND ALL
The peeps behind Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All dropped a teaser late yesterday afternoon. I'm expecting the film to SHOW at TFF #49 based upon an interview with Venice Film Fest head Alberto Barbera in which he claimed that the film would be at Telluride.
Here's the teaser from YouTube:
MARSHALL FLORES TRACKING THE FILMS AND FESTS
Awards Daily's Marshall Flores has been tracking all of the news regarding fall film fests. That chart is here:
Films that have landed at at least three of the fests (*Telluride, Cannes, Venice, Toronto and New York) are:
Armageddon Time*
Broker*
Decision to Leave
The Eternal Daughter
Holy Spider*
One Fine Morning*
Saint Omer
Films on the list that "technically" could still be in play for Telluride:
Blonde (though the word continues to be it'll be at Venice only)
Close
Don't Worry Darling (noop)
Golda (with Helen Mirren...late word from Ruimy last night is it"ll be out in 2023)
She Said (though rumored to WP at NYFF...no announcement yet...secret screening?)
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NYFF’s press release re its Main Slate stated “Currents, Revivals, Spotlight, and Talks sections will be announced in the coming weeks.” My best guess is that She Said will be announced w/i the next two weeks as a NYFF Spotlight film accompanied by a Talk with the main cast and the journalists they portray.
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