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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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