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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