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FINAL TEN (PLUS) BETS FOR TFF #50

Here are my final "bets" for the TFF #50 lineup.  Over the past few years this final list has normally been off by one or two titles.

1) The Holdovers

2) Poor Things

3) Saltburn

4) The Zone of Interest

5) Anatomy of a Fall

6) Nyad

7) Rustin

8) The Royal Hotel

9) Wildcat

10) Fingernails

11) All of Us Strangers 

12) Fallen Leaves

13) Perfect Days

14) El Conde

15) Janet Planet

16) The Promised Land

17) Orlando, My Political Biography

18) The Pigeon Tunnel

19) The Bikeriders

20) Daddio

21) Occupied City

22) They Shot the Piano Player

23) The Taste of Things

24) La Chimera

25) The Settlers

Other possibilities: Without Blood, The American Buffalo, About Dry Grasses, The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, The End, Freud's Last Session, Tuesday and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.

A LOOK AT LISTS

Lots of sources have begun laying out their "Must See" lists for fall films.  Included among them are lists from The Film Stage, Indiewire, The Playlist and World of Reel.  I compiled likely Telluride films from each of those lists to get a sense of what films might be hot tickets this weekend.

A total of eight probable TFF films made all four of the lists:

All of Us Strangers

The Bikeriders

El Conde

Fingernails

The Holdovers

Poor Things

Saltburn

The Zone Interest

Anatomy of a Fall made three of the lists missing only the World of Reel.

Films with two mentions:

Nyad

Rustin

Films with a single mention include:

Fallen Leaves

Janet Planet

Occupied City

Orlando, My Political Biography

The Pigeon Tunnel

The Royal Hotel

Wildcat

SOME STARS COULD BE IN TOWN?

Dakota Johnson at Telluride in 2021.

Over the weekend SAG/Aftra released a statement encouraging films that have an interim agreement with the organization to allow their talent to attend upcoming film festivals.

I scoured the updating list from Deadline.com for films that we think are playing Telluride as well as for films at Venice.

I spied two TFF #50 possibilities that have an interim agreement in place.  One is Christy Hall's Daddio which stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn-both of whom have attended Telluride previously and the other was Ethan Hawke's Daddio.  Hawke has been to Telluride on a number of occasions.

Venice films that have an interim agreement are Sofia Coppola's Priscilla and Michael Mann's Ferrari..

MY TOP TEN

Going into the week, my top ten films at the moment to try to catch are (in alphabetical order):

All of Us Strangers

Anatomy of a Fall

El Conde

Fallen Leaves

The Holdovers

Nyad

Poor Things

Rustin

Saltburn

The Zone of Interest

Honorable Mention: Fingernails, The Bikeriders, The Settlers and Janet Planet.

We'll drive part way tomorrow and roll into Telluride Wednesday afternoon.

SEE YOU IN THE 'RIDE!

LATE BREAKING

 A number of readers reached out to me yesterday with the news of the free screening in Elks Park on Wednesday of Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz.

In the past you could reliably infer some things about TFF tributes from the selection of films scheduled to run in Elks Park prior to the start of the fest but that has proven to be not necessarily the case in the past couple of years.  Last year's screenings were the documentary Navalny and Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.  Neither of them pointed  to the tributes to Cate Blanchett, Sarah Polley and Mark Cousins.

So for those of us who have gotten used to discerning Guest Directors and who would read this as Martin Scorsese getting a tribute (and a likely screening of Killers of the Flower Moon)...hold on.

Additionally, some buzzing in my ear has me sold that the three tributes will go to three different foreign directors.  Marty's not foreign.

Sooo, I still am subscribing to the notion that KOTFM doesn't screen in Telluride.

That said, we still don't know who the Guest Director(s) might be.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE FOR TFF #50

For the 11th non-consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.

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