STEVE MC QUEEN'S BLITZ-OFF THE TABLE?
I wrote in the MTFB May 30th post:
"I'd reallllly...love for Blitz to get to TFF and McQueen has a solid past with the fest, but...given the story is about the blitz of London by the Nazis in WWII, I can see McQueen wanting to hold the World Premiere as a part of the London Film Fest in October."
Now, we're hearing that Blitz may not be in play for TFF or Venice adding some credence to the possibility of my theory.
Jordan Ruimy writing for his website Word of Reel has been following this Blitz situation this past week posting on June 10th an article headlined: Where Is Steve McQueen's Blitz?
Then yesterday Ruimy had more to say in an article titled: Blitz Not Submitted to Venice or Telluride. In that piece Ruimy writes:
"...until I hear anything different, it looks like “Blitz” might not premiere on the Lido. Same with Telluride, which is said to still be in hot pursuit of the film."
A couple of takeaways here. First, if Ruimy is correct then Blitz is seemingly off the TFF table. BUT...that last sentence suggests that T-ride is still on the hunt to land the film.
Here's where I am. Unless we find out more between now and next Thursday when my first "Ten Bets" for Telluride will be posted, Blitz will not be on that list. But, I'm keeping the door open the slimmest of cracks on the basis that Ruimy's correct and the fest is still trying to get it.
SCREEN DAILY'S VENICE SPECULATION
I've been through the article trying to pick out films that might make their initial bow in Italy and then do the quick turnaround to come to Colorado. From their list, here are the films that I think have the best shot at that (in the order they appear on the article):
Luca Guadagnino's Queer
Pablo Larrain's Maria
Edward Berger's Conclave
Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante
Walter Salles' I'm Still Here
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths
Joshua Oppenheimer's The End
Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson
As a side note, Screen Daily included Steve McQueen's Blitz as a Venice possibility but see the above story.
BIKERIDERS RIDING INTO THEATERS NEXT WEEK
I've made no secret of the fact that I really enjoyed Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders last year at TFF #50 but, admittedly, that feeling wasn't universal. In my polls post-fest, my group of industry pros ended with it ranked 9th of the 12 films that had enough eyeballs on it. The People's Telluride poll had it at 10th of 16 and the Composite poll landed it at #8 out the 10 films that met the criteria for making that field.
It seems, however that critics have embraced it a bit better. Metacritic has it it with a respectable 73 and its Rotten Tomatoes score is a better than respectable 84.
At any rate, the film opens next week in theaters and consequently we're seeing a lot of P.R. about it ahead of that. Here's a taste:
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