TEN (PLUS) BETS #10 AT TFF #50
Time for your penultimate look at the best bets for films that will be announced by the Telluride Film Festival on Wednesday, August 30th. I'll have a final set of bets on Monday and then, of course, I'll post the announced lineup on Wednesday next week.
Here's a review of last week's Bets:
1) The Holdovers
2) Nyad
3) The Zone of Interest
4) Anatomy of a Fall
5) Saltburn
6) Poor Things
7) The Royal Hotel
8) Rustin
9) Wildcat
10) Fingernails
11) All of Us Strangers
12) The Bikeriders
13) Fallen Leaves
14) Perfect Days
15) El Conde
16) Janet Planet
17) The Promised Land
18) Orlando, My Political Biography
19) The Pigeon Tunnel
20) Without Blood
Other possibilities: Daddio, They Shot the Piano Player, The Settlers, The End, The American Buffalo, The Pot-au-Feu, Freud's Last Session, About Dry Grasses, La Chimera, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Tuesday and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.
And here's the new Ten (Plus) Bets:
1) The Holdovers
2) Poor Things
3) Nyad
4) The Zone of Interest
5) Anatomy of a Fall
6) Saltburn
7) Rustin
8) The Royal Hotel
9) Wildcat
10) Fingernails
11) All of Us Strangers
12) The Bikeriders
13) Fallen Leaves
14) Perfect Days
15) El Conde
16) Janet Planet
17) The Promised Land
18) Orlando, My Political Biography
19) The Pigeon Tunnel
20) Daddio
21) Occupied City
22) They Shot the Piano Player
23) The Taste of Things
24) The Settlers
25) La Chimera
Other possibilities: Without Blood, The American Buffalo, About Dry Grasses, The End, Freud's Last Session, Tuesday and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.
LOOKS AT NYAD
Vanity Fair had access to a slew of stills from Chin and Vasarhelyi's biopic about long distance swimmer Diana Nyad starring Annette Bening as Nyad and also starring Jodie Foster.
I have included a couple here but there are a bunch more at the link above.
NO KOTFM AT T-RIDE
World of Reel's Jordan Ruimy has lowered the boom on hopes that Martin Scorsese would be at Telluride next week with Killers of the Flower Moon. Writing on his website on Tuesday:
"I posted my Telluride predictions and, in the process, also acknowledged the possibility that Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” might show up. Well, scratch that off, it’s not going. It’s been confirmed by a knowledgeable source."
There had been significant chatter that the Martin Scorsese film would be a part of Telluride's 50th edition but alas, that appears not to be the case.
AWARDS WATCH TALKS TELLURIDE
The post includes a lengthy list of possible players for TFF #50 as well as some analysis (and a kind link to MTFB).
In the article Erik incudes a lot of what you'll see above in today's Ten (Plus) Bets. He does include a few films worth noting/commenting on .
From his "World Premieres" list he includes:
*The Creator-see below
*Freud's Last Session-which I have dogged kept on as a "possibility" since the very first Ten Bets but about which we have heard almost nothing.
*A Difficult Year-Toronto lists it as an International Premiere and France is listed by TIFF as its nation of origin. IMDb says it premiered in Nice, France back in May.
*Food Inc. 2- this makes a lot of sense as the original Food Inc. played Telluride in 2008.
Meanwhile, Ryan McQuade was joined Anderson, Sophia Ciminello and Christina Juerling Birro on the Awards Watch podcast and the entire podcast is Telluride-centric.
Among the tidbits there:
The group agrees with my assessment that All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt might be that case of a Sundance film that plays The SHOW but the they also include Flora and Son and Fair Play as possibilities as well.
Also suggested as possible choices for TFF #50 are Food Inc. 2. Also mentioned is Gareth Edwards' The Creator. The Awards Watch crew does include on the basis of its "Texas Premiere" designation from Fantastic Fest but we learned just a couple of days ago that the film or portions of it will be screening at 10 IMAX theaters nationwide next week. That might explain its "Texas Premiere" designation.
There's also some fun speculation about who will get a tribute.
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE IS BACK
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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