Posting a little later than normal today...It's a Monday. What can I say?
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
This reminder...Now that TFF #49 has concluded...you know what to do! Send in your ratings of the films you saw. The deadline for ratings is this Thursday, Sept. 15th.
Remember to rate as follows: 1 to 5 scale with 1 meaning it was bad and 5 means it was great.
Email them to mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
TFF #49 AND VENICE
TFF #49 films were well rewarded at the conclusion of the Venice Film Festival:
Golden Lion (Best Film in Competition) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed/Laura Poitras
Silver Lion for Best Direction: Luca Guadagnino/Bones and All
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Cate Blanchett/TAR
Marcello Marstroianni Award for Best Young Actress/Actor: Taylor Russell/Bones and All
Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin also landed two top prizes with Colin Ferrell picking up Best Actor over a very lauded performance from Brendan Fraser in The Whale and McDonagh won for Best Screenplay.
ALEXANDER PAYNE'S THE HOLDOVERS MAY STILL RELEASE IN 2022
Jordan Ruimy/World of Reel is reporting that Alexander Payne's The Holdovers might still make a run at a release date before the end of the year.
As you may recall, I wrote about the possibility that the new film might make a sneak appearance at Telluride which did not happen.
Ruimy, citing reporting from Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline , tells us that the film starring, Paul Giamatti, was to have been screened for possible distributors this past weekend at the Toronto Fest. That begs the question...if it's ready to screen for possible distributors, why didn't it play TFF? The word I heard was that the film wasn't "ready" but it WAS ready one week later?
Here's the reporting from World of Reel about the film's "readiness for Telluride" and then the story suggesting that it would be/was screened over the weekend at TIFF.
BREAKING NEWS: THE HOLDOVERS ON BRINK OF SALE TO FOCUS FEATURES
This morning, after having posted this story, we found out that Focus Features is on the verge of closing a $30 million dollar deal to acquire The Holdovers.
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A quick note that one more TFF film got a prize at Venice: KD Jameson's FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE, the doc about Jonas Mekas, won Best Documentary. (It played at the Backlot.)
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