MORE VENICE RUMBLINGS
Now that Cannes is well and truly underway...see the critical reactions so far in the next bloc...speculation about what films that might be playing Venice is heating up. As Venice spec heats up, so does the speculation about which films will play Venice and Telluride. As I have mentioned before, the two fests now commonly share 6-7 titles per year.
Variety's Nick Vivarelli posted on Thursday a piece titled: Beyond Cannes: Are Zendaya, Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper Already Packing Their Bags for Venice Film Festival?
His claim is that there are a number of films already lined up for Venice. Of the films mentioned in the article, a good number of them could be reasonable candidates to double-dip at Venice and T-ride including:
Poor Things/Lanthimos
Challengers/Guadagnino
Priscilla/S. Coppola
The Captain/Garrone
Maestro/Cooper
Nyad/Chin and Vasarhelyi
Saltburn/Fennell
The Book of Clarence/Samuels
CANNES CRITICS RESPOND
As Cannes is essentially at its midway point, here's a look at the critical response thus far with an eye toward what seem to be contenders for the Palme d'Or as well as a few other films a few other films of interest.
First, among the Palme d'Or competition films that have jumped to the fore in as far as the general critical reaction, at the top is Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest.
Reini Urban's Critics compilation has Zone with an 8.22 average (on a 10 point scale) and the top comp film with more than 10 reviews averaged. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster is second meeting that same criteria with a 7.69 average. Regular readers will know that I have been tracking both of those films as TFF #50 possibilities for some time. Also making some noise according to the Urban metric are Nuri Bilge Ceylan's About Dry Grasses (7.65), Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall (7.50) and Todd Haynes' May/December (also on the MTFB TFF #50) watch list.
Among other films that I am watching that also meet the above criteria are the ecstatic reactions for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the flower Moon (8.57)
Michel Gondry's The Book of Solutions 7.48
Steve McQueen's Occupied City 6.45
Wim Wenders Anselm 6.41
Other films from Cannes that are on my TFF radar but that haven't screened yet or have fewer than 10 reviews as yet:
Perfect Days (Wenders)
The Old Oak (Loach)
La Chimera (Rohrwacher)
Strange Way of Life (Almodovar)
I have my eye on a couple of other critical compilations that focus exclusively on Palme contenders. Those are from Ioncinema and the International Cinephile Society. Ioncinema uses a four point scale while ICS uses a five points scale.
The top five on the Ioncinema list thus far:
1) The Zone of Interest (Glazer) 3.9
2) About Dry Grasses (Ceylan) 3.4
3) May/December (Haynes) 3.3
3) Anatomy of a Fall (Triet) 3.3
5) Monster (Kore-eda) 3.2
5) Youth (Bing) 3.2
1) The Zone of Interest (Glazer) 4.18
2) Anatomy of a Fall (Triet) 3.67
3) May/December (Haynes) 3.50
4) About Dry Grasses (Ceylan) 3.46
5) Youth (Bing) 3.33
And finally from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes
Killers of the Flower Moon Meta: 91 RT: 97
The Zone of Interest Meta: 99 RT: 100
May/December Meta: 82 RT: 93
Anatomy of a Fall Meta: 90 RT: 100
Monster Meta: 79 RT: 100
TEN BETS IN A MONTH
Mark it on your calendars...MTFB's first Ten bets for the 50th edition of the Telluride Film Festival is headed your way on June 22nd. What might you expect? Mid-level prediction success! I looked back over the last 11 years (leaving out the Covid year of 2020) and here is my accuracy for each of the first time "Ten Bets" since I began formatting my predictions this way in 2011:
2011: 8/10
2012: 5/10
2013: 6/10
2014: 7/10
2015: 4/10
2016: 3/10
2017: 7/10
2018: 5/10
2012: 5/10
2013: 6/10
2014: 7/10
2015: 4/10
2016: 3/10
2017: 7/10
2018: 5/10
2019: 4/10
2020: No Fest
2021: 8/10
2022: 6/10
My average over the 11 years of "Betting" is 5.7 correct films from the first Ten Bets each year. Not bad but also not burning the house down either.
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com
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