TEN BETS #3 FOR TFF #50
Here's the third iteration of my "Ten Bets" for TFF #50. As I post this morning we are just a couple of weeks away from the clarity that announcements from the Toronto International Film Festival can provide. TIFF announces its first wave of Galas and Special Presentations along with their revealing "premiere status" on that day.
TIFF announcement days are always exhilarating and heart breaking. Exhilarating because it's often the first hard evidence of a film's disposition vis-a-vis Telluride and heartbreaking because inevitably films that I want to play Telluride are discovered on that day as World Premieres for TIFF and thus will not make the trip to southwest Colorado.
So that's coming on July 19th. I'll attempt a little social media coverage on the 19th as information becomes available and then have a full on report on my regular posting day on July 20th.
All that said to get to this week's Ten Bets.
As a reminder, here are last week's Ten Bets:
1) The Holdovers/Payne
2) May December/Haynes
3) Nyad/Chin and Vasarhelyi
4) Strangers/Haigh
5) Poor Things/Lanthimos
6) Monster/Kore-eda
7) Anatomy of a Fall/Triet
8) El Conde/Larrain
9) Saltburn/Fennell
10) The End/Oppenheimer
Other possibilities: The Zone of Interest/Glazer, Freud's Last Session/Brown, The Teachers' Lounge/Catak, The Royal Hotel/Green, Rustin/Wolfe, The American Buffalo/Burns, Priscilla/Coppola and Shirley/Ridley.
And here's the update, the third Ten Bets for TFF #50:
1) May December/Haynes
2) Poor Things/Lanthimos
3) Strangers/Haigh
4) The Holdovers/Payne
5) Monster/Kore-eda
6) Saltburn/Fennell
7) Nyad/ Chin and Vasarhelyi
8) Anatomy of a Fall/Triet
9) El Conde/Larrain
10) The Teachers' Lounge/Catak
Other possibilities: The Zone of Interest/Glazer, Fallen Leaves/Kaurismaki, The End/Oppenheimer, The Pot-au-Feu/Hung, Freud's Last Session/Brown, The Royal Hotel/Green, Rustin/Wolfe, The American Buffalo/Burns, Priscilla/Coppola and Shirley/Ridley.
NEW TRAILER FOR KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Apple dropped a new trailer for my most anticipated film for 2023, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. The film is set for limited release on Oct. 6th and then opens wide on Oct. 20th.
My guess, at this point is that Killers maybe plays the New York Film Festival prior to its release and bypasses both Telluride and Toronto. I hope my assessment is way off.
As many know, I did a day of background work on the film. I can tell you that I'm not in either trailer. Here's the new one:
FINCHER'S THE KILLER AND VENICE?
Michael Fassbender on the set of The Killer (via IMDb)
By and large I have discounted any possibility that David Fincher would return to Telluride this year with The Killer starring Michael Fassbender. Up to now I have surmised that the film produced in part by Paramount and Plan B and distributed by Netflix likely wouldn't play any festival though its planned Nov. 10th release date would allow it to.
However, Jordan Ruimy's World of Reel reported on Sunday (7/2) that the door might still be open for the film to screen at Venice:
"On Friday, I was rather stunned by an Italian source telling me that Netflix is now thinking of bringing David Fincher’s “The Killer” to Venice.
This source told me, “negotiations are underway, Barbera did see it and he wants it in competition. I’m not sure if he will be able to get it as the odds are 50/50 right now since Netflix would rather premiere it closer to the November release.”
Now, if the door is open for Venice, could it also be open for the jump to Telluride? Fincher was the recipient of a Telluride tribute back in 2008 where Zodiac was screened in its entirety and scenes from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button were screened so he's been in the San Juans before.
Personally I'm still very skeptical that The Killer lands in Colorado and frankly I tend to buy the conventional wisdom that if The Killer plays a fest at all it will probably be New York.
But I'd like to be wrong.
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