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Thursday, March 7, 2024

My TFF Saved / MTFB Oscar Update: The Penultimate Picks for the Final Seven Categories / Cannes Speculation Heating Up / Interviews and Profiles

MY TFF SAVED




For those who have been following the saga of "no passes for the Patterson's for TFF #51", I am pleased to report that disaster has been averted.  I can't get into what was involved but as of today's post it appears that MTFB will be physically at Telluride over Labor Day weekend complete with pass in hand.

My deepest appreciation for everyone who reached out with suggestions about how to resolve the issue.  Your advice and friendship mean the world to me.

See you in The Ride in late August/early September!


MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: THE PENULTIMATE PICKS FOR THE FINAL SEVEN






Here's your MTFB Update for the remining seven Oscar categories that I have not updated in this latest round of predictions.  TFF films are in Bold.

COSTUMES




1) Poor Things (1)
2) Barbie (2)
3) Killers of the Flower Moon (3)
4) Oppenheimer (4)
5) Napoleon (5)

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Maestro (1)
2) Poor Things (2)
3) Oppenheimer (3)
4) Golda (4)
5) Society of the Snow (5)

VISUAL EFFECTS

1) The Creator (1)
2) Godzilla Minus One (2)
3) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (3)
4) Napoleon (4)
5) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (5)

SOUND




1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) The Zone of Interest (2)
3) Maestro (3)
4) The Creator (4)
5) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (5)

ANIMATED SHORT

1) War Is Over (1)
2) Letter to a Pig (2)
3) Ninety Five Senses (3)
4) Pachyderme (5)
5) Our Uniform (4)


DOCUMENTARY SHORT

1) The Last Repair Shop (1)
2) The ABCs of Book Burning (2)
3) Nai Nai and Wai Po (3)
4) The Barber of Little Rock (4)
5) Island in Between (5)

LIVE ACTION SHORT

1) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (1)
2) The After (2)
3) Red, White and Blue (3)
4) Knight of Fortune (5)
5) Invincible (4)


Comment: Very stable predictions over the past couple of weeks.  Only two of these categories seem all but locked: Makeup/Hair and Animated Short.  The rest are very, very competitive.

Final Oscar predictions for all 23 categories will up on Sunday hours before the ceremony.


CANNES SPECUALTION HEATING UP




Frequent readers of MTFB know that the Telluride Film Festival annually screens a substantial number of films that have screened at Cannes.  If you're serious about trying to determine some of the films that will possibly make the TFF lineup, you have to pay attention to films that stop in France first.

Last year, the films that screened both fests included: Anatomy of a Fall, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera, Occupied City, Perfect Days, The Taste of Things, and The Zone of Interest.

So, I have been sifting through some pieces that are spitballing what may and may not be at Cannes that also seem to have the kind of pedigree to make the Labor Day trip to Colorado.  Looking at posts from Variety,  Deadline.com and World of Reel.

Reportedly Cannes will announce the bulk of the 2024 lineup on April 11th.

Variety speculates that the following films could be Cannes bound (and these are the ones that seem to have early TFF potential):

Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez 
Ali Abassi's The Apprentice
Paolo Sorrentino's Parenthope
Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness
Andrea Arnold's Bird
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

Variety says that Steve McQueen's Blitz is off the table for Cannes.

Deadline is in agreement with Variety in terms of Emilia Perez, Parenthope, Kinds of Kindness, Bird and Megalopolis.  In addition to those they include a couple of other films that "feel" possible for Telluride:  Balthazar Kormakur's Touch and Edward Berger's The Conclave.

Deadline also concurs with Variety reporting the unlikelihood of Blitz playing Cannes and adds other doubtfuls (that could be TFF possibles): 

Clint Eastwood's Juror #2
Pablo Larrain's Maria
Paul Schrader's Oh Canada
Joshua Oppenheimer's The End
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths.

And from World of Reel's constantly evolving list of Cannes possibilities that might also be TFF contenders...agreement on:

Kinds of Kindness
Megalopolis
Bird
Emilia Perez
Parenthope
The Apprentice
Touch
The Conclave

Three additional titles from WOR's list that I would include as TFF possibilties:

Sean Baker's Anora
Julian Schnabel's In the Hands of Dante
Guy Maddin's Rumors

So there's some titles to chew on.

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