VENICE THOUGHTS
News this week that writer/director Damien Chazelle (whose La La Land and First Man both played TFF) has been named the Jury President for the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion competition. As a part of reporting that story Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel included a compilation of films he says have a real shot at making the Venice lineup. TFF watchers take note as the Venice/Telluride connection is historically almost, but not quite, as pronounced as the Cannes/T-ride connection.
Over the past ten years Venice and Telluride have, on average, shared 6-7 films per year. As a consequence, paying attention to Venice titles and also when they get scheduled for their initial screening in Italy can often give us clues as to what may play both places. Thus, the interest in Ruimy's ruminations. He lists 25+ films. Here's my take on the Telluride prospects for some of them if Ruimy is correct.
Most Likely: The Holdovers (Payne)
Decent Chance: Strangers (Haight), Poor Things (Lanthimos), The Royal Hotel (Green), El Condo (Larrain)
Could Be: Priscilla (Coppola), Challengers (Guadagnino), Saltburn (Fennell), The Bikeriders (Nichols)
Wishes: Maestro (Cooper)
THE KILLER NOT PLAYING?
Photo via IMDb
One of my "most hoped for" titles for TFF #50 is David Fincher's The Killer starring Michael Fassbender but World of Reel reported this week that the buzz is that it may skip fall fests altogether. In his latest update about the film, WOR 's Jordan Ruimy writes:
"Last month, I posted a reaction to Fincher’s upcoming film. It was very positive. From what I understood, Netflix hadn’t made a decision on whether or not this would go to festivals such as Venice and Telluride, but they’re leaning towards skipping them."
"Last month, I posted a reaction to Fincher’s upcoming film. It was very positive. From what I understood, Netflix hadn’t made a decision on whether or not this would go to festivals such as Venice and Telluride, but they’re leaning towards skipping them."
Now, I have always thought that The Killer's TFF chances were slim but this latest dash of cold water seems to make it even more unlikely. I guess it's worth noting that the tidbit from WOR is not definitive as the phrase is "leaning towards skipping'...but...well...
PHOTOS
First looks at:
MAY/DECEMBER (Haynes)
TRAILER FOR SQUARING THE CIRCLE
We have a trailer for Anton Corbijn's Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) that played at TFF #49:
ASSESSING THE 60'S
Speaking of World of Reel, Jordan has asked me to submit a ballot for his upcoming post about the greatest films of the 1960's. I think that is likely to be posted this week sometime. Previously Ruimy has posted lists for the 1970's, 80's, 90's, 00's and the 2010's. I've been fortunate enough to have been included in all but the 80's list.
I started with a list of around 20 films and then culled it down to the ten that Ruimy requested. Here's what I voted for in alphabetical order:
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Apartment
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Strangelove
The Graduate
The Hustler
Lawrence of Arabia
Midnight Cowboy
To Kill a Mockingbird
They Shoot Horses Don't They
We'll see where they end up later this week. My guess is that 2001 comes in at the top spot.
Here's Jordan's last post teasing the 1960's poll which includes links to all of the previous decades' polls.
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