CANNES OPENING IMMINENT-TOP POSSIBILITIES
Set photo from Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest
The 76th Cannes Film Festival is just hours away from its opening and MTFB continues to monitor the pre-fest buzz for films that could make the trans-Atlantic crossing from France to southwestern Colorado on Labor Day weekend.
As frequent readers know, traditionally many films make the Cannes/Telluride Two-Step each year. On average (based on the last 12 years) there are 7-8 films that make that double-play. Last year nine films made the trip including Aftersun, Armageddon Time, Broker, Close, Holy Spider and The Pupils.
As we near the start of this year's fest on The Croisette, Indiewire has published their list of "Most Anticipated" titles. Looking at that, here's another stab from that list at what might SHOW up at T-ride:
La Chimera/Rohrwacher
Fallen Leaves/Kaurismaki
Killer of the Flower Moon/Scorsese
May/December/Haynes
Monster/Kore-eda
Strange Way of Life/Almodovar
The Zone of Interest/Glazer
As always, I'll be keeping track of the critical reaction from Cannes as that can sometimes point to the viability of films moving forward. Here are the dates that some of the films of interest will be having their initial public screening:
In Palme competition:
Monster 5/17
The Zone of Interest 5/19
May/December 5/20
Perfect Days 5/25
La Chimera 5/26
The Old Oak 5/26
Others not in Palme Competition:
Occupied City 5/17
Strange Way of Life 5/17
Anselm 5/17
The New Boy 5/19
Killers of the Flower Moon 5/20
Cobweb 5/25
Closing night ceremonies will take place on May 27th.
WOR AND THE BEST OF THE 60'S -PART TWO
Last Thursday I wrote about participating in World of Reel's poll of the greatest films of the 1960's. Since that post WOR head man Jordan Ruimy has published the individual ballots of all 130+ people who participated. That let me see how my list of ten great films of the 60's stacked up with everyone else.
Here's my list of ten and where they landed within the top 40 that Ruimy posted last week:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1)
The Apartment (9)
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Strangelove (3)
The Graduate (5)
The Hustler
Lawrence of Arabia (4)
Midnight Cowboy (17)
To Kill a Mockingbird
They Shoot Horses Don't They
As to the films that I listed that did not make the Top 40, here's the number of ballots they had with this note, it took 7 ballots to make the Top 40.:
Cool Hand Luke-5
The Hustler-5
To Kill a Mockingbird- 6
They Shoot Horses Don't They-3
LOOKS AT: POOR THINGS, COBWEB AND ANSLEM
POOR THINGS TEASER
I will admit that I am fascinated by what this Yorgos Lanthimos film might be. Additionally, I'm a big fan of Emma Stone The IMDb description:
"The incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Dafoe)."
Here's the teaser from YouTube that was released by Searchlight on May 11th:
COBWEB
I have Director Kin Jee-woon's Cobweb as an outside shot to make the lineup for TFF #50. It play's in an Out-of-Competition slot.
The IMDb Desription:
"an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative."
Here's the trailer with subtitles from YouTube:
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