750,000
I kind of teased this a little bit in my last post. MTFB passed its 750,000 view over the weekend. Three quarters of a million views! That makes my head explode just a little bit.
MTFB's first appeared on August 8th 2008 (8/8/08). Today marks the 2115th post since I started this thing meaning that each post has averaged 355ish views. The single most viewed post was Jan. 18, 2018. That post focused on precursors that were upcoming for the 90th Oscar ceremony and a Variety piece featuring Greta Gerwig and Saorise Ronan talking about Lady Bird.
50 FOR CANNES
Eric Kohn and the gang at Indiewire has put together a list of 50 films that the billas films they'd "like to see" at Cannes in May. The heading on the email link for the story from Twitter calls them predictions though.
As I have said many times, the Cannes/Telluride connection is very real. Last year the Cannes/Telluride crossover was nine films by my count:
Armageddon Time
Broker
Close
Godland
Holy Spider
One Fine Morning
Tori and Lokita
Le Pupille
Aftersun
Last year from Indiewire's 50 film wish list I culled 15 "possible" crossover films and from that list, seven actually made the trip: Armageddon Time, Broker, Close, Holy Spider, One Fine Morning, Tori and Lokita and Women Talking.
Bones and All was the only film on last year's Indiewire list that made the Telluride lineup (and from Venice not Cannes) that I didn't have in the 2022 version of this post.
The Indiewire post starts with the caveat that everyone is assuming that Killers of the Flower Moon will screen out of competition at Cannes as well as Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I'm already frequently on record that I'm making blood sacrifices in my backyard to get Killers to TFF but that I think the chances are slim. Not impossible...but slim. Of course Indy 5 releases on June 30th.
They also mention Pedro Almodovar's short film Strange Way of Life which is tipped to be the opening night film. I actually think there is a reasonable possibility that it does make the TFF #50 lineup.
That said...here are what I think are the best shots at Cannes-then-Telluride films for the 50th edition of The SHOW from the Indieiwire list:
The Book of Solutions/Michel Gondry
Dead Leaves/Aki Kaurismaki
La Chimera/Alice Rohrwacher
Io Capitano/Matteo Garrone
Monster/Hirokazu Kore-eda
The New Boy/Warwick Thornton
May/December/Todd Haynes
Poor Things/Yorgos Lanthimos
The Royal Hotel/Kitty Green
Tokyo Toilet/Wim Wenders
The Zone of Interest/Jonathan Glazer
MEANWHILE...VENICE
Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel posted a Venice spec piece on Saturday and it has some interesting ideas. Venice and Cannes have nearly the same level of crossover to Telluride with Venice averaging (over the last decade) 7.3 films making the Venice/Telluride double dip.
Last year there were 10 films that accomplished the double play:
Bardo
Bobi Wine
Bones and All
A Compassionate Spy
Desperate Souls: Midnight Cowboy...
Fragments of Paradise
Living
TAR
March on Rome
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
So what does Jordan have that could (or that I want to) make the Venice/Telluride connection?
Poor Things/Yorgos Lanthimos
AND/Yorgos Lanthimos
The Killer/David Fincher
Blitz/Steve McQueen
How Do You Live?/Hayao Myazaki
The Holdovers/Alexander Payne
Maestro/Bradley Cooper
Challengers/Luca Guadagnino
Strangers/Andrew Haigh
Ruimy also mentions a couple of other films that could be in the mix for Venice first and then T-ride: Sofia Coppola's Priscilla and Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest.
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