FINAL CANNES SPECULATION
All of the anticipation about what films will be selected for the 77th Cannes film Festival comes to a conclusion on Thursday when the bulk of the films that have been invited will be revealed. The unveiling is set for 11:00 AM Paris time. That should mean I'll have the skinny in Thursday morning's regularly scheduled post. A quick note here, however, is that may mean that Thursday's post doesn't go up as early in the morning as it usually does.
With that, here are the final two Cannes spec pieces that I'll pass along with my guesses from those lists which films seem most Telluride-ish. From Indiewire and Ioncinema.
From Indiewire:
Bird- Dir: Andrea Arnold
The End- Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer
Juror #2- Dir: Clint Eastwood
Marcel and Mister Pagnol- Dir: Sylvain Chomet
Megalopolis- Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
Oh, Canada- Dir: Paul Schrader
Queer- Dir: Luca Guadagnino
Rumours- Dir: Guy Maddin
Parthenope- Dir: Paolo Sorrentino
And from Ioncinema:
Anora- Dir: Sean Baker
Bird- Dir: Andrea Arnold
Emilia Perez- Dir: Jacques Audiard
Hard Truths- Dir: Mike Leigh
Parthenope- Dir: Paolo Sorrentino
The End- Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer
And here are three films that are included on Ioncinema's list and have been on others that I've not included previously on my guess list but...do have a slim possibility of a T-ride play"
The Shrouds- Dir: David Cronenberg
The Most Valuable Commodity- Dir: Francois Ozon
When Autumn Comes- Dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Let's see what happens on Thursday!
AMY ADAMS FILM BACK IN THE GAME?
I had written off Marielle Heller's Nightbitch starring TFF tribute recipient Amy Adams (2016) last year amid reports that Searchlight was unsure what to do with the film. I had included it in early TFF #50 speculation owing to Adams past tribute and that Heller had Can You Ever Forgive Me? at TFF 2018 and that film earned three Oscar nominations (Best Actress for Melissa McCarthy, Best Supporting Actor for Richard E. Grant and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jeff Whitty and Nicole Holofcener) All that seemed like a confluence of factors that made for a solid case that we'd see it announced for the TFF #50 lineup. But noop.
Now comes news that Searchlight has announced an awards friendly release date of Dec.6th. That makes me think that a TFF #51 play could be in the cards.
The hubbub last year was that the film sounds, well...weird. The IMDb description is fairly innocuous:
"A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn."
Left unsaid in that description is that the "surreal turn" is that the woman believes that she's turning into a dog.
What motivated Searchlight to finally decide to release the film in the awards window? I have no real proof but I wonder if the response to Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things (also from Searchlight) convinced them that "weird" was okay?
JANET PLANET TRAILER, POSTER AND RELEASE DATE
A24 has just released a trailer and poster for Annie Baker's Janet Planet which screened at TFF #50. The film will be released on June 21st. Here's the trailer from YouTube:
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