MORE CANNES THOUGHTS
With a week left until the announcement of the lineup for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, I've added a look at analysis from Deadline as to what may be in and out.
Those films that Deadline mentions that feel like a Telluride possibility include:
Parthenope- Dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Bird- Dir: Andrea Arnold
Conclave- Dir: Edward Berger
Touch- Dir: Baltasar Kormakur
Deadline also mentions Frances ford Coppola's Megalopolis is still possible but uncertain due to Coppola's aiming for an IMAX release.
The piece also includes a listing of a number of films that have had Cannes speculation that likely will not be in France in May including:
Pablo Larrain's Maria
Sean Baker's Anora
Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths
Luca Guadagnino's Queer
Joshua Oppenheimer's The End
Ali Abbasi' The Apprentice
Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez
And one other surprising Telluride related nugget: Deadline suggests that Jeff Nichol's The Bikeriders which played at TFF #50 might actually get a slot at Cannes. Author Andreas Wiseman writes:
"Another movie in the wildcard section of this discussion is Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, which is being discussed by insiders for a potential slot somewhere in the lineup. On paper, this seems an unlikely choice given that it launched at North American festivals and at London last year but Nichols has history with Cannes and the starry movie isn’t released until June. The door isn’t shut on this one."
That would be a wild reversal of the often occurring Cannes to Telluride pipeline.
THE CANNES-OSCAR SCOREBOARD
Beginning with my March 14th post I have been scouring early Oscar predictions and Cannes spec pieces for clues about films which could be potential selections for TFF #51. I'll have a couple of more Cannes looks on Monday next week prior to the actual announcement from France. right now, though, these are the films that have shown up on the lists most frequently and how many times they've been mentioned:
Magalopolis (7)
Bird (6)
Conclave (6)
Maria (6)
Parthenope (5)
The End (5)
The Apprentice (5)
Blitz (5)
The Piano Lesson (5)
Queer (5)
Emilia Perez (4)
The Actor (4)
The Nickel Boys (4)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (4)
Anora (3)
Hard Truths (3)
SNL 1975 (2)
Oh, Canada (2)
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