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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In terms of TV, TFF also screened WORMWOOD in 2017
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