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Monday, October 2, 2023

Indiewire's Fall Film Fest Assessment / Mexico Chooses Totem / Poster for All of Us Strangers

INDIEWIRE'S FALL FILM FEST ASSESSMENT





Late last week Indiewire's Anne Thompson and Marcus Jones posted their assessment of fall film fest titles that they characterize "key players in the Oscar race".  Here are the Telluride titles that made that list arranged in order of their Metacritic score (included here in parentheses):

All of Us Strangers/Andrew Haigh (96)
The Zone of Interest/Jonathan Glazer (95)
Poor Things/Yorgos Lanthimos (91)
Anatomy of a Fall/Justine Triet (88)
Beyond Utopia/Madeliene Gavin (85)
The Holdovers/Alexander Payne (83)
The Taste of Things/Tran Anh Hung (80)
The Pigeon Tunnel/Errol Morris (78)
Cassandro/Roger Ross Williams (76)
The Teachers' Lounge/Ilker Catak (75)
The Promised Land/Nicolaj Arcel (74)
The Bikeriders/Jeff Nichols (74)
Perfect Days/Wim Wenders (72)
Rustin/George C. Wolfe (68)
Nyad/Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (65)
Saltburn/Emerald Fennell (59)


MEXICO CHOOSES TOTEM




Deadline, among other outlets, reports that Mexico has chosen Lila Aviles' Totem for consideration for the International Film Oscar.  The film joins a number of TFF #50 (and one TFF #49) titles that have entered the race.  As of this past weekend, here are the TFF films that have been put forward thus far:

The Monk and the Gun/Bhutan
The Promised Land/Denmark
Fallen Leaves/Finland
The Taste of Things/France
The Teachers' Lounge/Germany
Godland/Iceland (TFF #49)
Perfect Days/Japan
Totem/Mexico
The Zone of Interest/United Kingdom


POSTER FOR ALL OF US STRANGERS

Searchlight has dropped a new poster for Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers.  The film stars Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal and is currently set for release on Dec. 22nd.  Here's the poster:






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