TEN BETS #6-POST TORONTO'S FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE VENICE LINEUP
Here's a look a last week's Ten Bets and Other Possibilities with films that I believe the TIFF announcement on Monday revealed as films that will play T-ride and highlighted in yellow.
1) The Holdovers/Alexander Payne
2) Poor Things/Yorgos Lanthimos
3) Saltburn/Emerald Fennell
4) Strangers/Andrew Haigh
5) Nyad/Chin and Vasarhelyi
6) Monster/Kore-eda
7) Anatomy of a Fall/Justine Triet
8) Fallen Leaves/Aki Kaurismaki
9) The Teachers' Lounge/Ilker Catak
10) The Pot-au-Feu/Trinh Hung
Other possibilities: The Zone of Interest/Glazer, The End/Oppenheimer, El Conde/Pablo Larrain, Freud's Last Session/Brown, The Royal Hotel/Green, Rustin/Wolfe, The American Buffalo/Burns and Shirley/Ridley.
The only film from the above list that the Monday TIFF list nuked from the lists above was Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster. Everything else among the Bets and Possibilities is still in play.
There were three other films that Toronto announced that I had been giving serious consideration to as potential TFF #50 choices that will not make it to T-ride:
La Chimera
Lee
The New Boy
How'd we get to this? Toronto's listed premiere status listed for each film selected.
If TIFF labels a film as a World Premiere or a North American Premiere that means no Telluride.
If TIFF labels a film an International or Canadian Premiere it means "Maybe" Telluride.
An "International Premiere" is defined as playing for the first time outside its nation of origin. So when you see that designation you also have to look at the nation it came from. If it is a film from the United States that means it will have played somewhere in the U.S. prior to its Toronto debut. Usually that can only mean one of three places: Sundance, Fantastic Fest or Telluride.
That's why I think The Holdovers, Rustin, Nyad, Wildcat and Fingernails will screen for the first time for the public at Telluride.
Fair Play was also announced as an International Premiere and hails from the U.S. but screened at Sundance.
Another International Premiere was A Difficult Year but it screened in its home nation of France.
A "Canadian Premiere" indicates that the film will have already screened somewhere in North America. That also usually means Sundance, Fantastic Fest or Telluride.
That's how we get to Cannes films Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest.
The Royal Hotel is listed as a Canadian Premiere and doesn't get the International label as it will not have screened in either of its "home" countries of The U.K. or Australia.
Finally Flora and Son is listed as a Canadian Premiere and played Sundance and maybe because it will not have played in one of its "home" countries Ireland, that's why it labeled Canadian rather than International.
As for Venice...their announcement never closes any film out of a Telluride possibility. What it can do is show you films that could make it. Then, a few week's later, when Venice announces its actual schedule you have to pay attention to the films that have been scheduled in the first three days or so. It's not as precise as the Toronto info but you can often get a good bead on a number of other films that will make the trip to the San Juans.
That said, here are Venice/Golden Lion competition titles announced Tuesday that we should watch for on Venice schedule release day:
Maestro/B. Cooper
Origin/.DuVernay
The Killer/Fincher
The Captain/M. Garrone
The Green Border/A. Holland
Poor Things/Y. Lanthimos
El Conde/P. Larrain
Ferrari/M. Mann
Day of the Fight/J. Huston
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar/W. Anderson
Daaaaaali!/Q. Dupiuex
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial/W. Friedkin
And FINALLY, with all that said, here is the sixth iteration of my "Ten Bets" for TFF #50:
1) The Holdovers
2) Nyad
3) Anatomy of a Fall
4) The Zone of Interest
5) The Royal Hotel
6) Rustin
7) Wildcat
8) Fingernails
9) Saltburn (see below)
10) The Pigeon Tunnel (see below)
Other possibilities: Fallen Leaves, Poor Things, The Teachers' Lounge, The Pot-au-Feu, The End, El Conde, Freud's Last Session, Shirley, The American Buffalo.
SALTBURN FOR TFF #50 CONFIRMED BY BARBERA
Barry Keoghan in Saltburn via World of Reel
Much like last year, Venice chief Alberto Barbera has spilled some tea regarding a film that he says will platy at TFF #50. Barbera says that Emerald Fennell's much sought after Saltburn will screen first at Telluride.
World of Reel reported that Barbera revealed the Saltburn news via an interview with Screen Daily. WOR Editor-in-Chief Jordan Ruimy writing:
"Venice’s Alberto Barbera basically confirming my original intel, three hours later. “Saltburn” is going to Telluride"
That's good enough for me. Saltburn is in. Here's the link to the World of Reel story.
TORONTO DOCS ANNOUNCEMENT POINTS TO MORRIS
The Toronto International Film Festival announced the documentaries selected for its lineup on Wednesday and based on premiere designation it looks as if Errol Morris' film about famed spy novelist...and real life spy John le Carre will play as a part of the program for TFF #50. The film is titled The Pigeon Tunnel.
Morris is a multiple-time presenter at T-ride with offerings such as Tabloid, Wormwood, The B-Side and more. Plus his position as a member of the "Esteemed Council of Advisors" suggests that his latest doc venture would be a likely choice for T-ride.
The TIFF designation of the film as an International Premiere is a strong indication that The Pigeon Tunnel is headed for the San Juans.
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Thank you for this! And thanks for explaining the varieties of premieres. I had no idea.
ReplyDeletestrangers in telluride? or 2024?
ReplyDeleteDan...you're welcome.
ReplyDeleteAnon...That's up in the air. There has been a lot of silence about Strangers.