ALL ABOUT CANNES AND TELLURIDE
THE CRITICS
As the 76th Cannes Film Festival ramps up (it opened on Tuesday) I thought I'd focus a bit on things I look at to gauge a film's chances at playing T-ride after debuting in France. As I have written before, there are, on average, 7-8 films that premiere at Cannes and then have their North American Premiere in the San Juans over Labor day weekend.
One data point I pay attention to is Reini Urban's collection of the critical response to Cannes' films. Urban has been doing this annually since 2010. So, to get a sense of what those critical composite ratings can tell us, I ran down the results of the last ten years (excluding the Covid year of 2020). Turns out that an average of four films from the Cannes critical top 25 make the trek to Telluride. The Cannes/Telluride connection from this top 25 each year ranged from a high of seven films in 2013 to a low of two in 2012 and 2016. Here's the breakdown with a film's position in the ratings:
2012:
1) Amour
6) No
2013:
1) Blue Is the Warmest Colour
4) Inside Llewyn Davis
5) The Missing Picture
11) All Is Lost
15) The Lunchbox
20) The Past
25) Nebraska
2014:
9) Two Days, One Night
15) Red Army
23) Leviathan
24) Mr. Turner
2015:
3) Carol
14) Son of Saul
15) Hitchcock/Truffaut
2016:
1) Toni Erdmann
11) Graduation
2017:
5) Faces/Places
8) Tesnota
24) The Rider
2018:
4) Shoplifters
7) Cold War
9) Girl
19) Birds of Passage
20) Border
2019:
1) Parasite
3) Pain and Glory
5) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
23) A Hidden Life
2021:
13) Red Rocket
15) A Hero
19) The French Dispatch
21) Bergman Island
2022:
1) La Pupille
2) Aftersun
6) Close
11) Broker
15) Godland
18) One Fine Day
So, I'll be keeping an eye on Urban's composite critical response. As a matter of fact, the collection has already started even this early in the fest with some critics already having benefited from pre-fest access.
Early, early films that I have on my T-ride watch list that are in the top 25 (with only 6-10 critics collected thus far) include: May/December, La Chimera, The Book of Solutions, The New Boy, The Old Oak and Club Zero.
Stay tuned.
THE PALME D'OR AND TELLURIDE
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Someone usually asks me every year about the odds of Cannes' Palme d'Or winning film making the Telluride lineup and that answer is about half the time. Since 2003, here are the Palme winners that have crossed the Atlantic and screened in the mountains of southwest Colorado:
2003: Elephant
2005: L'enfant
2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2009: The White Ribbon
2012: Amour
2013: Blue Is the Warmest Colour
2018: Shoplifters
2019: Parasite
So, by this metric, it would seem that this year's Palme winner might be a film to keep an eye on for Telluride since we haven't had that occur since 2019.
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