Saturday, August 31, 2024

TFF #51 Day Two

Day One was successful inasfar as catching two of the films I really was hot for.  Saw Conclave and Nickel Boys.  Liked Conclave quite a bit.  Nickel Boys left me wanting it to be more.

For Day Two I'm aiming for the Texas abortion controversy documentary Zuwarski v. Texas and Saturday Night.  Not sure what else at this point.

The Apprentice will play tomorrow as one TBA  at the galaxy at 10:00pm.  The other TBA is A Real Pain at 10:30 am at the Chuck Jones.

With the addition of The Apprentice MTFB goes 25/25 in '24.  Also MTFB had six additional "possibilities" that came through: Santosh, Chain Reactions, A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, A Real Pain, One-on-One: john and Yoko and Leonardo DaVinci.

The last note about prognostication success...7 of the original 10 Bets from back in June made the lineup.  


Not bad.

Friday, August 30, 2024

TFF #51 Day One

 TFF #51 DAY ONE

Hello everyone from Telluride.

The Final Bets went 24 of 25.  The one miss was Ali Abssi's The Apprentice and I still think it might show up as a "sneak" before the weekend is over.  We'll see.

My priority films for the weekend are Conclave, Nickel Boys, Saturday Night and September 5.  After that there a lot of films I'm interested in.  I'll probably try to catch Conclave and Nickel Boys today and catch Saturday Night and September 5 tomorrow.



Thursday, August 29, 2024

TFF #51 Lineup Announced

Here's the official lineup for TFF #51

·      ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (d. Payal Kapadia, France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg, 2024)

·      ANORA (d. Sean Baker, U.S., 2024)

·      APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (d. Petra Costa, Brazil-U.S.-Denmark, 2024)

·      BETTER MAN (d. Michael Gracey, Australia, 2024)

·      BIRD (d. Andrea Arnold, U.K., 2024)

·      BLINK (d. Daniel Roher, Edmund Stenson, U.S.-Canada, 2024)

·      CARVILLE: WINNING IS EVERYTHING, STUPID! (d. Matt Tyrnauer, U.S., 2024)

·      CONCLAVE (d. Edward Berger, U.K., 2024)

·      DISCLAIMER (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.K.-U.S., 2024)

·      DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (d. Embeth Davidtz, South Africa, 2024)

·      EMILIA PÉREZ (d. Jacques Audiard, France, 2024)

·      IN WAVES AND WAR (d. Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, U.S., 2024)

·      JEAN COCTEAU (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2024)

·      LEONARDO DA VINCI (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, U.S., 2024)

·      MARIA (d. Pablo Larraín, Germany-Italy-U.S.-Hungary-France-Greece, 2024)

·      MARTHA (d. R.J. Cutler, U.S., 2024)

·      MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (d. Adam Elliot, Australia, 2024)

·      MISERICORDIA (d. Alain Guiraudie, France-Spain-Portugal, 2024)

·      NICKEL BOYS (d. RaMell Ross, U.S., 2024)

·      NO OTHER LAND (d. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Palestine-Norway, 2024)

·      ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (d. Kevin Macdonald, U.K., 2024)

·      PIECE BY PIECE (d. Morgan Neville, U.S., 2024)

·      SANTOSH (d. Sandhya Suri, U.K.-Germany-France, 2024)

·      SATURDAY NIGHT (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2024)

·      SEPARATED (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2024)

·      SEPTEMBER 5 (d. Tim Fehlbaum, Germany, 2024)

·      SOCIAL STUDIES (d. Lauren Greenfield, U.S., 2024)

·      THE END (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Ireland-Germany-Italy-Sweden-Denmark-U.K., 2024)

·      THE FRIEND (d. David Siegel, Scott McGehee, U.S., 2024)

·      THE OUTRUN (d. Nora Fingscheidt, U.K.-Germany, 2024)

·      THE PIANO LESSON (d. Malcolm Washington, U.S., 2024)

·      THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany-France-Iran, 2024)

·      THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT (d. Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos, U.S., 2024)

·      WILL & HARPER (d. Josh Greenbaum, U.S., 2024)

·      ZURAWSKI V TEXAS (d. Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault, U.S., 2024)

 

The following short films will screen in the main program:

 

·      A SWIM LESSON (d. Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, U.S., 2024)

·      ALOK (d. Alex Hedison, U.S., 2024)

·      THE TURNAROUND (d. Kyle Thrash, Ben Proudfoot, U.S., 2024)

Each year, Telluride Film Festival pays tribute to individuals whose artistry has significantly contributed to the world of cinema. The 2024 Silver Medallion Awards will be presented to award-winning French filmmaker Jacques Audiard (with EMILIA PÉREZ); Academy Award nominated actress Saoirse Ronan (with THE OUTRUN); and Oscar winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker. Each tribute program includes a selection of clips, the presentation of the Silver Medallion award, and an on-stage interview.

 

“This brief weekend of cinematic bliss reminds us every year that movies really are magic,” says Telluride Film Festival director Julie Huntsinger. “The process of assembling our line-up is both daunting and rewarding, and it never fails to bring the most fantastic sense of satisfaction once we’re finished. Our anticipation matches that of the audience. We’re delighted to now share what we found to be the most exciting, interesting and profound works on film of this year. Our Telluride Film Festival community is remarkable, and we’re so grateful for the passion and enthusiasm they bring. May the community of film lovers continue to grow and find their way to movie theaters everywhere.” 

 

Kenneth Lonergan, this year’s festival Guest Director, serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films. Lonergan presents the following film selections: 

 

·      ARCH OF TRIUMPH (d. Lewis Milestone, U.S., 1948)

·      BARRY LYNDON (d. Stanley Kubrick, U.K.-U.S., 1975)

·      DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (d. David Lean, U.K.-Italy-U.S., 1965)

·      GRAND HOTEL (d. Edmund Goulding, U.S., 1932)

·      MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (d. John Ford, U.S., 1946)

 

TFF annually celebrates a hero of cinema which preserves, honors, and presents important, meaningful films. This year’s Special Medallion award goes to French film company Les Films du Losange (with MISERICORDIA). 

 

Special Screenings and Festivities include BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (d. Jean Cocteau, France, 1946); CHARLES, DEAD OR ALIVE (d. Alain Tanner, Switzerland, 1969) presented by Alfonso Cuarón; FLY (d. Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz, U.S., 2024); HINDLE WAKES (d. Maurice Elvey, U.K., 1927) with live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin; PRINCE OF BROADWAY (d. Sean Baker, U.S., 2008); The SHOW Poster Gallery, a collection of curated posters representing the rich history of films screened at TFF, curated by MUBI and Posteritati; Elizabeth Cook: A Solo Performance; Poster Signing with Luke Dorman; Audi Drive Experiences, and The SHOW App, sponsored by CRITERION.

 

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers will screen the following programs, all free and open to the public:

 

·      A SUDDEN GLIMPSE TO DEEPER THINGS (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2024)

·      ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR! (d. Arthur Bradford, U.S., 2024)

·      CHAIN REACTIONS (d. Alexandre O. Philippe, U.S., 2024)

·      HER NAME WAS MOVIOLA (d. Howard Berry, U.K., 2024)

·      MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (d. David Hinton, U.K., 2024)

·      NOBU (d. Matt Tyrnauer, U.S., 2024)

·      RIEFENSTAHL (d. Andres Veiel, Germany, 2024)

·      THE EASY KIND (d. Katy Chevigny, U.S., 2024)

·      THE HEXAGONAL HIVE AND A MOUSE IN A MAZE (d. Tilda Swinton, Bartek Dziadosz, U.K., 2024)

·      THE SWALLOW (d. Tadhg O’Sullivan, Ireland, 2024)

 

We are delighted to welcome new sponsor WBD Access to Telluride Film Festival’s shorts section, Filmmakers of Tomorrow, which includes three programs curated by Barry Jenkins and Gregory Nava: Student Prints, screening six films from the best in student-produced work from around the globe; Calling Cards, five exceptional new works by promising filmmakers; and Great Expectations, an innovative, and monochromatic double feature. 

 

Telluride Film Festival’s Student Programs, generously supported by Six Senses Telluride, present students with the opportunity to experience film as an art and expand participants’ worldviews through film screenings and filmmaker discussions. The Student Symposium provides graduate and undergraduate students with a weekend-long immersion in cinema. The City Lights Project brings together high school students and their teachers from various schools to participate in a concentrated program of screenings and discussions. FilmLAB, in partnership with the American Film Institute, brings exceptional AFI Fellows to learn from world-class filmmakers in a masterclass setting. The FilmSCHOLAR program, created in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin, gives young film scholars and aspiring critics the opportunity to immerse themselves in a weekend of cinema and learn from some of the best voices in the field. 

 

Telluride Film Festival’s Talking Heads programs allow attendees to go behind the scenes with the Festival’s special guests. We are thrilled to associate new sponsor, Indian Paintbrush, with our Conversations series devoted to cinema and culture. The outdoor Noon Seminars feature a panel of guests discussing a wide range of film topics. These programs are free and open to the public. 

 

TFF is honored to feature some of the world’s most renowned consumer and entertainment brands and to engage a vibrant philanthropic community of passionate and committed donors. Together, they play a dynamic role in the life of the Festival and underscore TFF's commitment to quality, adventure, and distinction in the art of cinema. With great excitement TFF welcomes Audi as Exclusive Automotive Partner, Panavision as Festival Camera, Harkness Screens as Exclusive Screens Partner, and we remain exceptionally proud to enjoy Meyer Sound's extraordinary audio experience at the Galaxy, sponsored by Amazon MGM Studios, and the Werner Herzog Theatre, sponsored by Netflix.

 

“We are beyond grateful for our treasured long-term relationships and excited to welcome exceptional new partners to our festival environment,” says Huntsinger. "As we embark on the 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival, our corporate, institutional, and philanthropic supporters light the path ahead. Our ambitious $25M capital campaign welcomes major gifts to take us to the finish line as construction is now underway on our new forever home at Telluride's historic Nugget Building.” 

 

The "Nugget Project" is the most important step the Telluride Film Festival has ever taken to protect the future of film and the wonder of theatrical cinema, and will be a year-round cinema art center and home for our Telluride Film Festival community, including artist residencies, expanded education, event space, and a state-of-the-art Atmos Nugget Theater, thanks to our longtime, generous partners Dolby and Meyer Sound and charter donors Harkness Screens and Salter.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

MTFB EXTRA: FINAL BETS FOR TFF #51 / Emila Perez Trailer / Tidbits: Potential Guests, Tributes?, Guest Director???, Another Sundance Title? / The People's Telluride

FINAL BETS FOR TFF #51




Well, here we are.  24ish hours from Telluride's big reveal for the 2024 SHOW.  I'm driving somewhere in New Mexico as you read this.  Here is your final list of "Bets" to make the SHOW:

1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Saturday Night/Reitman
9) Maria/Larrian
10) The Outrun/Fingscheidt
11) Bird/Arnold
12) Disclaimer/Cuaron
13) Separated/Morris
14) Better Man/Gracey
15) Piece by Piece/Neville
16) September 5/Fehlbaum
17) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
18) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
19) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
20) The Apprentice/Abassi
21) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
22) Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns and McMahon
23) Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
24) Apocalypse in the Tropics/Costa
25) Misrecordia/Guiraudie


Other possibilities:

Santosh/Suri
Chain Reactions/Philippe
Homegrown/Premo
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
A Real Pain/Jesse Eisenberg
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
The Actor/Johnson


Last year I was 24/25 on the final bets.

Previous years of "Bets" track record:

2023: 24 of 25
2022: 24 of 25
2021: 24 of 25
2020: No fest
2019: 24 of 25
2018: 25 of 25
2017: 24 of 25
2016: 20 of 20

That's 165 0f 170 for a correct percentage of  97.05%

Come back tomorrow to see how I did.


 EMILIA PEREZ TEASER/TRAILER (with english subtitles)



TIDBITS





A REMINDER OF POTENTIAL GUESTS

Anora: Sean Baker, Mikey Madison
Conclave: Edward Berger, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini
Emilia Perez: Jacques Audiard, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofia Gascon, Adriana Paz
The End: Joshua Oppenheimer, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay
The Piano Lesson: Malcolm Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Dedwyler, John David Washington, Denzel Washington
Nickel Boys: RaMell Ross, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjunue Ellis-Taylor
Piece by Piece: Morgan Neville, Pharrell Williams
The Apprentice: Ali Abassi, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong
The Friend: Scott McGeehee, David Siegel, Carla Gugino, Naomi Watts, Bill Murray
Maria: Pablo Larrain, Angelina Jolie
Saturday Night: Jason Reitman, Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman, Nicolas Braun, Jon Batiste
Bird: Andrea Arnold, Barry Keoghan, Frank Rogowski
Better Man: Robbie Williams
Disclaimer: Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett, Sasha Baron Cohen, Kevin Kline
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight; Embeth Davitz
A Real Pain: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin


TRIBUTES?

Here are what feel like your possibilities:

1) Saorise Ronan
2) Thelma Schoonover
3) Jason Reitman
4) Jacques Audiard
5) Samuel L. Jackson
6) Ralph Fiennes
7) Angelina Jolie
8) Denzel Washington
9) Michael Shannon
10) Naomi Watts

Alternatives: John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci


GUEST DIRECTOR???

I don't know what to tell you.  

Multiple directors like last year?  I don't feel that.  That's an approach that the Fest took in anniversary years #40 and #50.

No Guest Director?  Maybe.  The Guest Director position hasn't always existed.  Its inception was 1988.  I just don't think that's likely.

A BIG NAME?  Maybe.  Spielberg?  Scorsese? Nolan?  If you wanted to make a big splash, holding that name for your official announcement would sure be a way to achieve that.  Cautiously, that's where I'm going to place my money.

ANOTHER SUNDANCE TITLE?




I'm not saying it's in for TFF #51 but I've been seeing/hearing low level background noise about a possible play for Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain.  I already think that The Outrun which played at Sundance is likely to screen at T-ride this weekend.  So, is a second "big" Sundance film possible?


THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-12TH EDITION




For the 12th year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.



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Monday, August 26, 2024

Maria Revealed / Elk's Park Films and Clues / Nickel Boys Screened / International Buzz / And Then There's This... / The People's Telluride-12th Edition

 MARIA REVEALED

Are you prepared for a return of Angelina Jolie to Telluride?  Looks like that's going to happen after Pablo Larrain's film Maria (starring Jolie) will screen in Venice on Aug. 29th and then head to the San Juans.

Vanity Fair had a couple of "first look" stills up at the end of last week.




ELK'S PARK FILMS AND CLUES

Long time TFFers know that in the past that the films that the fest chooses to screen in Elk's Park the two nights prior to the fest taking off on Friday often (but not always) provide clues as to who (or in the case of Apocalypse Now-what) will be getting Tributes.  The last really good year for predicting tributes based on Elk's Park films was 2019 when the free flicks were Bridget Jones's Diary, The Right Stuff and Star Wars: The Last Jedi which pointed to Renee Zellweger, Philip Kaufman and Adam Driver as tributees.  

Soooo...here's the flyer for the free films in Elk's Park:



After Hours: My bet is that if it signals anything that it's a tribute for Thelma Schoonmaker.  I'd be surprised but very excited if it were for Martin Scorsese...that's not impossible.  Or maybe it's the two of them together.  At any rate, should either or both be tributed I'd also count on a screening of David Hinton's Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger.  Scorsese is a producer of the doc (which did screen at Tribeca but TFF has presented docs from Tribeca in the past).  Schoonmaker is in the film as herself, the wife of Michael Powell, and she also is a producer.

Lady Bird: Does this validate my Saoirse Ronan theory that I first wrote about back on June 3rd?  It was my original thought that Ronan would get a tribute and that Steve McQueen's Blitz might screen at TFF as well as The Outrun.  The announcement that Blitz would world premiere in London made me alter that theory but...

I still think a Ronan tribute likely occurs and occurs with some clips from Blitz.

Hottest possibilities for a tribute beyond these two: Ralph Fiennes, Angelina Jolie, Jason Reitman, Jacques Audiard and Samuel L. Jackson.


NICKEL BOYS SCREENED




According to World of Reel's Jordan Ruimy  RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys has screened privately in London and the response appears to have been very good.  Ruimy writes:

"“Nickel Boys” just had a preview screening at London’s Curzon Soho. A few folks who attended the screening have chimed in on Letterboxd, and you can read their reactions near the tail end of this article. They’re all very positive."

Ruimy continues:

"This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel has been loaded with buzz for months. The film stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. "

Nickel Boys is currently #2 on my "to see" list for later this week.


INTERNATIONAL BUZZ


Pablo Larrain, director of Maria talks to Indiewire.

Screen Daily reports that Germany will submit Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig as its selection for the International Film Oscar.

Variety reveals that Cannes sensation All We Imagine as Light has set a U.S. release date of Nov. 15th.  It's very likely India's entry for the International Film Oscar.


AND THEN THERE'S THIS...

From the "Local News Network/Telluride, Colorado for Aug. 21st, a report that the fest has asked the Telluride Parks and Recreation Dept. for permission to offer tethered hot air balloon rides during the fest (in Town Park) and that the request is somehow related to a "program related event".  You can see the report yourself at about the 1:48 mark:


What "program" would hot air balloons be connected to?  I'm stumped.  One follower suggested over the weekend a connection to Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls with this balloon sequence (from YouTube):



The speculation then focused on the possibility of a Schnabel tribute and, I would assume, a screening of Hand of Dante.

A REMINDER: I WILL POST "FINAL BETS" FOR TFF #51 ON WEDNESDAY MORNING and then, of course, the actual lineup when it pops on Thursday morning.  MTFB will post daily from TFF #51.  Mostly during the fest I like to make sure to get the TBAs posted each night for the following day.  I sometimes will include what I think my itinerary will look like for each day and also an occasional comment or two about some of the film I've seen.


THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-12TH EDITION




For the 12th year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.




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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Ten (Plus) Bets #10 for TFF #51 / Looks at The Piano Lesson / Buzzworthy / The People's Telluride /

TEN (PLUS) BETS #10 FOR TFF #51




Here's the penultimate set of "bets" regarding what films will be announced for the Telluride Film Festival a week from today. 

Let me start today's list with a couple of notes.  First, there's a reasonably good chance that 2-3 films won't be included in the program you pickup at Brigadoon.  Over the last few years the festival has held back a few titles from the published program but then has added them as "sneaks".  Last year, for example, TFF #50 had three "sneaks", The Taste of Things, They Shot the Piano Player and Totem.  I had Piano Player at #22 on the final bets and The Taste of Things at #23.

Second note: I will post a "special" edition of MTFB next Wednesday, August 28th from the road as I'll be already headed to Telluride.  It will be the final list of titles that I'm saying will play TFF #51 done 24 hours before the fests big reveal on Thursday.  Of course, the regular Thursday post next week will be the official lineup announcement.

With that said, here's a refresher of last week's "Bets":

1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Saturday Night/Reitman
9) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
10) Piece by Piece/Neville

And a Bonus Ten Bets:

11) Separated/Morris
12) Better Man/Gracey
13) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
14) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
15) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
16) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
17) Maria/Larrain
18) Bird/Arnold
19) Disclaimer/Cuaron
20) Santosh/Suri

Other possibilities:

The Outrun/Fingsheidt
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Apocalypse in the Tropics/Costa
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
The Apprentice/Abassi
Chain Reactions/Philippe
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
Homegrown/Premo
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns, McMahon
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel


And here's this week's:


1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Saturday Night/Reitman
9) Maria/Larrian
10) The Outrun/Fingscheidt

And a Bonus Ten Bets:

11) Bird/Arnold
12) Disclaimer/Cuaron
13) Separated/Morris
14) Better Man/Gracey
15) Piece by Piece/Neville
16) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
17) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
18) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
19) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
20) The Apprentice/Abassi


Other possibilities:

Santosh/Suri
Apocalypse in the Tropics/Costa
Misrecordia/Guiraudie
Chain Reactions/Philippe
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
Homegrown/Premo
September 5/Fehlbaum
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns, McMahon
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel


LOOKS AT THE PIANO LESSON




We're expecting Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson to screen at TFF next week.  We're hoping that Samuel L. Jackson is along and we'd be really thrilled if producer Denzel Washington happened to show up as well.  Actually...put Denzel on the possible guest list as well as potential tribute recipient.

Anyway, Netflix dropped a poster and a trailer for the film earlier this week.  The poster is above.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:




Meanwhile, Vanity Fair dropped some first look photos of the film on Monday.  Here's a tease:




BUZZWORTHY




Hearing from good sources that Ali Abassi's The Apprentice, Nora Fingscheidt's The Outrun and Tim Fehlbaum's September 5 will appear at Telluride.


THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-12TH EDITION




For the 12th year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.




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Monday, August 19, 2024

It Always Happens... / Who to Tribute? / Guest Director? / 1.1 Miilion

 IT ALWAYS HAPPENS...



Last week, seemingly minutes after I pushed the button, news started spilling out all over the place.  New York announced its Spotlight film section and we also got news from Fantastic Fest, the Hampton's Film Fest and an interview with Venice Film fest director Alberto Barbera.  All of which confirmed, denied or added film titles to the "probably playing Telluride" pile of films.  Here's what each circumstance told us:

New York Spotlight:

Lack of a premiere status in the announcement likely confirms The Friend, Emilia Perez and Maria (more on that below) for TFF #51.

That non-premiere status for Apocalypse in the Tropics also suggests that the documentary about politics in Brazil will make it to Telluride.  That is underscored by the fact that it is playing at Venice and is scheduled for its premiere screening on Aug. 29th giving it enough time to make the jump to T-ride.

Fantastic Fest:

For Fantastic Fest you look for a "Texas" or "Austin" premiere status and then work back to see if any of those films screened at Sundance or Tribeca.  Eliminate those titles and then examine what's left and you can find out possible titles headed to The SHOW.

So, their announced set of films looks to confirm Anora and add Memoir of a Snail and Chain Reactions.  Like Apocalypse in the Tropics, Chain Reactions is set to play Venice on Aug. 29th so the same "they've got enough time to make it to T-ride" logic applies.

The Hampton Fest:

They revealed their selection of Michael Premo's Homegrown.  It's a documentary about the right wing in the USA. HIFF lists it as a "New York" premiere which suggests that it will play somewhere in the U.S./North America after Venice.  Toronto hasn't announced it which leaves only Telluride.  Homegrown is scheduled for an early afternoon screening in Venice on Aug. 30th (1:30 pm Venice time) which cuts it close but means it could make a flight to TFF.

And finally, Alberto Barbera:

For the third or fourth year in a row Barbera announces a film that will play Venice and then go to Telluride.  It's like he does it on purpose.  

In an interview with Rebecca Ford for Vanity Fair Barbera is quoted:

"Angelina (Jolie) will be on the first day, on Thursday the 29, and she will leave right after with [Maria director] Pablo Larraín to go to Telluride."

And not to put too fine a point on it but seems like Angelina Jolie will be in town again.  She was in t-ride in 2017 with First They Killed My Father.

That all came down on Thursday!

And by the way, as I was doing all the cross-checking between various fests for this I started to kind of  warm to the idea that Tim Fehlbaum's September 5 might sneak into Telluride as well.  Mostly because it's situated in the Venice schedule at the right time (Aug. 29th) and it sounds intriguing.  From IMDb:

"During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes."

The film stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Benjamin Walker.  

Here are the links:








WHO TO TRIBUTE?




We get to this point every year where, down to just a few days before the fest kicks off and assuming that we're pretty close to getting a lot of the titles right, it's fun to speculate who will be receiving a tribute.

Going through the latest offering of "Ten (Plus) Bets" from last Thursday, here are who seem like the most probable candidates listed by film:

Conclave: Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini
Emilia Perez: Jacques Audiard
The End: Michael Shannon
The Piano Lesson: Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington
Nickel Boys: Aunjunue Ellis-Taylor
Saturday Night: Jason Reitman
The Friend: Naomi Watts
Maria: Angelina Jolie
Bird: Andrea Arnold
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan

If I had to pin down who I feel like is the most likely from this list my top 5 would be:

1) Samuel L. Jackson
2) Ralph Fiennes
3) Angelina Jolie
4) Jacques Audiard
5) Isabella Rosselini

Any thoughts?  Let me know.

We'll know on Thursday, August 29th.

 
GUEST DIRECTOR?




While we're asking questions...where's the announcement about who is guest directing TFF this year?  

I did a little digging about when the fest has announced Guest Directors the past decade or so.  The answer for most of the last ten years has been the third week of June.  The only exceptions I could find in that time span was for 2015 when Rachel Kushner was announced on March 31st and the anniversary years of 2013 and 2023 when the fest used multiple guest directors and, as best as I can tell, only announced them when the full lineup was announced.

So, we're way past the third week of June and it seems very likely now that we aren't going to find out this year's Guest Director(s) until the lineup announcement on Thursday, Aug. 29th.  

Same as above, any thoughts?  Let me know.

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Ten (Plus) Bets #9 for TFF #51 / NYFF Spotlight Announcement / Some Other Possible Guests / New Poster for Saturday Night / The People's Telluride-12th Edition

 TEN (PLUS) BETS #9 FOR TFF #51



Well, with what purports to be the last set of announced films for Toronto on Tuesday and the release of the Venice screening schedule on Monday, we have some shifting occurring in this week's Ten (Plus) Bets for TFF #51.

Here was last week's Ten (Plus) Bets:

1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
9) Better Man/Gracey
10) Piece by Piece/Neville

And a Bonus Ten Bets:

11) Dahomey/Diop
12) Grand Tour/Gomes
13) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
14) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
15) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
16) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
17) The Apprentice/Abassi
18) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
19) Maria/Larrain
20) Saturday Night/Reitman

Other possibilities:

Separated/Morris
Oh, Canada/Schrader
Flow/Zibalodis
Santosh/Suri
Megalopolis/Coppola
Allegorie Citadine/ Rohrwacher and JR
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
The Outrun/Fingscheidt and/or Blitz/McQueen


This week's Ten (Plus) Bets:

1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Saturday Night/Reitman
9) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
10) Piece by Piece/Neville

And a Bonus Ten Bets:

11) Separated/Morris
12) Better Man/Gracey
13) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
14) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
15) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
16) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
17) Maria/Larrain
18) Bird/Arnold
19) Disclaimer/Cuaron
20) Santosh/Suri

Other possibilities:

The Outrun/Fingsheidt
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Apocalypse in the Tropics/Costa
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
The Apprentice/Abassi
Chain Reactions/Philippe
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
Homegrown/Premo
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns, McMahon
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel


NYFF SPOTLIGHT ANNOUNCMENT




The New York Film Festival announced the rest of the films playing in its Spotlight section yesterday and that offered up minimal clues regarding the TFF #51 lineup.  It does appear the one more Venice selection will also play Telluride as NYFF labeled the documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics (dir: Petra Costa) without a premiere status.  The film is slated to screen in Venice on Sept. 29th which would give it time to make it to T-ride.  The IMDb description says the film...

"Focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy."

Sound familiar?

Otherwise three other films we thought were playing TFF #51 seem to be confirmed by their lack of premiere status: Maria, Emilia Perez and The Friend.



SOME OTHER POSSIBLE GUESTS




Back on Aug. 5th I wrote a bit about what folks might turn up at TFF#51 as guests based on some of the films that looked like they could or would play as a part of the fest.

Today I'm adding a few more possibilities:

Better Man: Robbie Williams
Disclaimer: Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett, Sasha Baron Cohen, Kevin Kline
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight; Embeth Davitz


NEW POSTER FOR SATURDAY NIGHT

We have the release on Tuesday of a second poster for Jason Reitman's Saturday Night.  Here it is:



I'm pretty sure this is playing at TFF but I did see some references to a "world" premiere occurring in Toronto from some film media outlets on Tuesday.  TIFF continues to list it as a Canadian Premiere which is reassuring regarding its Telluride status.


THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-12TH EDITION




For the 12th year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.

I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.




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Monday, August 12, 2024

Venice Schedule Revealed / Saturday Night Poster and Trailer / Will Cuaron Return to Telluride? / Grand Tour Like Oh Canada? / Will Rasoulof Make It to Telluride?


VENICE SCHDULE REVEALED




The Venice Film Festival revealed its official screening schedule this morning.  That's of note to Telluride watchers as films scheduled early in that fest could potentially be able to cross the Atlantic and get to the Rockies in time for screenings at TFF.  Films scheduled after the first three days of Venice are essentially off the table.

Scheduled early enough to come to Telluride and that seem likely are:

Separated/Morris (8/29)
Disclaimer/Cuaron (8/29)
Maria/Larrain (8/29)
One to One: John and Yoko/Macdoanld and Rice-Edwards (8/30)
Babygirl/Reijn (8/30)

Notable films that look like they're scheduled too late to make T-ride:

The Order/Kurzel
The Brutalist/Corbet
The Room Next Door/Almodovar
Queer/Guadagnino
Joker: Foile A Deux



SATURDAY NIGHT LOOKS TO PLAY TELLURIDE

Matt Belloni writing in his "What I'm Hearing" newsletter for Puck.com dropped this on Friday:

"...today’s trailer for Jason Reitman’s SNL origin story, Saturday Night, got me unexpectedly excited for fall festival movies. It’s playing Telluride, which I don’t attend, and TIFF..."

There's no sourcing on the statement but it seems pretty definitive.  I'm looking for it to be confirmed as soon as Toronto announces its last set of titles this week.

Reitman's catalogue is replete with films that played T-ride starting with Juno in 2007.  Also at Telluride: Up in the Air (2009), Labor Day (2013) and The Front Runner (2018).  

Here's the poster and trailer:









WILL CUARON RETURN TO TELLURIDE?




Last Friday Toronto announced its Primetime Section devoted to television series that they will feature as a part of TIFF 2024.  Among those listed was Alfonso Cuaron's mini-series for Apple+ titled Disclaimer.  Why we note it here is that the show is listed as a Canadian premiere.  That raised some eyebrows.  Could that mean a play of some of the series at TFF #51?

It's possible.  TFF has programmed television/series in the past famously including Twin Peaks in 1989, Red Riding in 2009 and recently (TFF #49) Russia 1985-1999.  So it's not unprecedented that Telluride might be programming it.  Also, Cuaron having screened both Gravity and Roma at past TFFs doesn't hurt its chances.

Here's the description from IMDb:

"Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long-respected institutions. When an intriguing novel written by a widower, played by Kline, appears on her bedside table, she is horrified to realize she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past. A story that reveals her darkest secret. A secret she thought was hers alone."

Disclaimer is set to debut on Apple TV+ on Oct. 11th.  Here's the teaser from YouTube:



GRAND TOUR LIKE OH, CANADA?




It's another one of those.  Grand Tour was announced by New York without a premiere status leading me and others to believe that it would be a TFF selection.  But then, Toronto announced it as a North  American Premiere which indicates no Telluride play.  Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is also in that same situation and I'm inclined, at least at this point, to think that both play TIFF and neither plays Telluride.

Of course, I could be wrong.


WILL RASOULOF MAKE IT TO TELLURIDE?




We're pretty sure that Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig will be playing at TFF #51.  What we don't know is if its writer/director will be present for the screenings.  Variety reporting on Saturday that the Iranian filmmaker who successfully fled Iran isn't sure that he'll be able to travel outside of Europe.

In the interview (linked here) Rasoulof tells Variety reporter Nick Vivarelli:

"I plan to travel to the United States for film screenings. However, since I still don’t have a passport and have to travel with the documents provided with the help of the city of Hamburg, I wonder if I’ll be able to travel outside of Europe."

I'm no expert at international travel protocols but this sounds like a serious impediment.  Nevertheless, I'll be crossing my fingers that he'll be able to find a way to make it .



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Thursday, August 8, 2024

Clarity from New York and Toronto / Ten (Plus) Bets #8 for TFF #51 / Vanity Fair Looks at Saturday Night

CLARITY FROM NEW YORK AND TORONTO




Announcements on Tuesday from both the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival helped to sharpen the focus on what films are likely to be screening as a part of the 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival.

New York Fest reveals seemed to confirm earlier extrapolations that the following will play TFF #51:

All We Imagine as Light
Anora
Misrecordia
Nickel Boys 
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

In addition NYFF premiere designations signal that the following are also likely for TFF #51:

Dahomey
Grand Tour
No Other Land

Meanwhile, Toronto Centerpiece announcements tend to confirm The Seed of the Sacred Fig in addition to the inclusion of  Flow and Santosh as TFF #51 films.

Additionally, the fate of Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is once again, up in the air, as NYFF lists it with no premiere designation as opposed to a U.S. Premiere designation which would normally signal a Telluride play. Meanwhile Toronto's lineup lists it as a North American Premiere.  Both things can't be true.  I'm thinking Oh, Canada might be in TFF #51 after all.

With three weeks left we expect to hear more from both of these fests as well as nod or two from London.




TEN (PLUS) BETS #8 FOR TFF #51




Woooo...we ARE getting down to it for 2024!

Here's your now weekly prediction about what will be screening at the 51st Telluride Film Festival.  First a look at last week's predicted field:


1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
9) Better Man/Gracey
10) Piece by Piece/Neville

And a Bonus Five Bets:

11) The Apprentice/Abassi
12) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
13) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
14) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
15) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz

Other possibilities:

Maria/Larrain
Megalopolis/Coppola
Separated/Morris
Saturday Night/Reitman
Parthenope/Sorrentino
In the Hand of Dante/Schnabel
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns
The Actor/Johnson
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Harvest/Tsangari
Allegorie Citadine/ Rohrwacher and JR


And with three weeks remaining, here is this week's Ten+ Bets:

1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
9) Better Man/Gracey
10) Piece by Piece/Neville

And a Bonus Ten Bets:

11) Dahomey/Diop
12) Grand Tour/Gomes
13) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
14) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
15) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
16) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
17) The Apprentice/Abassi
18) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
19) Maria/Larrain
20) Saturday Night/Reitman

Other possibilities:

Separated/Morris
Oh, Canada/Schrader
Flow/Zibalodis
Santosh/Suri
Megalopolis/Coppola
Allegorie Citadine/ Rohrwacher and JR
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
The Outrun/Fingscheidt and/or Blitz/McQueen


VANITY FAIR LOOKS AT SATURDAY NIGHT





Vanity Fair's Anthony Breznican has written a big piece about Jason Reitman's Saturday Night.  That went up yesterday and includes a bunch of photos from the set.  The film is set to open on Oct. 11th.  

There have been rumors for awhile that it would screen at Telluride but there hasn't been any real evidence that that's true.  I could see it bypassing TFF and playing Toronto and/or New York.  On the other had, Reitman has so frequently been to Telluride that I have to believe that there's a better than fair chance that it DOES play TFF #51.  

The other film that falls into that category of uncertainty is Ali Abassi's The Apprentice.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they both make it to the San Juans.

Here's the link to the Vanity Fair article as well as a couple of stills from the article.








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Monday, August 5, 2024

Hints and Allegations / Who Could Be at TFF #51? / Looks at Possible Double Plays

HINTS AND ALLEGATIONS




I had a couple of readers send me information about possible confirmations/inclusions about films and/or attendees this past week.  

Back on July 23rd I posted an MTFB special about announcements from Toronto, Venice and New York.  One of the films I especially noted was Andrea Arnold's Bird as it was labeled as a North American Premiere on the TIFF official website but had been posted here on X as a Canadian Premiere.  However, MTFB reader Bobby Harris contacted me to reveal that TIFF's entry for Bird on the website has been changed to Canadian:



So, for me, that's going to mean that I'm putting Bird back on the Ten Bets/Possible list when it gets updated on Thursday.

Additionally, I had another reader reach out to convey intell about three possible attendees for TFF.  I'm going to be a little cagey here as to who/where the info came from as well as explicitly naming names-at least for now.  I will say that a couple of the names would confirm that Anora and Emilia Perez will play Telluride.  The third person's presence would indicate one or possibly two films neither of which are currently among the "Bets" or "Possibles".


WHO COULD BE AT TFF#51?





For fun, let's assume I'm right about almost everything playing at TFF #51; what star wattage could we see in town, on panels, doing Q&A's?

Anora: Sean Baker, Mikey Madison
Conclave: Edward Berger, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini
Emilia Perez: Jacques Audiard, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofia Gascon, Adriana Paz
The End: Joshua Oppenheimer, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay
The Piano Lesson: Malcolm Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Dedwyler, John David Washington, Denzel Washington
Nickel Boys: RaMell Ross, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjunue Ellis-Taylor
Piece by Piece: Morgan Neville, Pharrell Williams
The Apprentice: Ali Abassi, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong
The Friend: Scott McGeehee, David Siegel, Carla Gugino, Naomi Watts, Bill Murray
Maria: Pablo Larrain, Angelina Jolie
Saturday Night: Jason Reitman, Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman, Nicolas Braun, Jon Batiste
Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola, Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza. Dustin Hoffman
Parthenope: Paolo Sorrentino, Gary Oldman
Hand of Dante: Julian Schnabel, Oscar Isaac, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese
The Actor: Duke Johnson, Andre Holland
Harvest: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Caleb Landry Jones, Henry Melling
Bird: Andrea Arnold, Barry Keoghan, Frank Rogowski


LOOKS AT POSSIBLE DOUBLE PLAYS

Inspired by a "first look" post from World of Reel, here are some promo shots of films that will possibly screen at Telluride as well as Toronto or Venice: No guarantees that all of these make it to T-ride.

All We Imagine as Light:



Allegorie Citadine:



Bird:



Conclave:



Emilia Perez:



The End:



Maria:



Misrecordia:



The Piano Lesson:



Piece by Piece:



Separated:





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