THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
Well, here it is. The 2024 edition of MTFB's People's Telluride Poll. I'll address the parameters that guided the poll below but I suspect you want to get right to the results...
1) Zawurski v. Texas 4.64
2) Will and Harper 4.47
3) Anora 4.44
4) Conclave 4.34
5) Emilia Perez 4.30
6) A Real Pain 4.28
7) September 5 4.20
8) Memoir of a Snail 4.03
9) Saturday Night 4.02
10) The Outrun 3.74
11) Maria 3.68
12) The Apprentice 3.55
13) The Friend 3.51
14) Piece by Piece 3.40
15) The Piano Lesson 3.29
16) Nickel Boys 3.26
17) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight 3.16
18) The End 2.52
TFF #51 had a record response with more votes from The People than ever before. To make the list a film had to have been seen by at least 25% of the respondents to the poll. A 1 to 5 scale was used. I added all ratings up for each film and those that met the threshold then divided the total ratings points by the number of people who had responded with ratings for that film. That provided the average rating for each film above on the 5 point scale.
For fun the top five most "seen" films among the folks who responded with votes for the poll where:
1) Saturday Night which was seen by 82.4% of respondents. The rest of the top five were:
2) Conclave 74.3%
3) Anora 71.6%
4) September 5 and Nickel Boys at 50%
I really thought as the numbers were coming in that Anora was going to take the top spot.
Zuwarski's 4.64 will move it to #6 on the all time list of The People's Telluride. That will also keep Will & Harper from moving onto the top ten as its 4.47 average will just be outside the top ten behind The Two Popes and Poor Things tied for the 9-10 spots now with a 4.51 average. Will & Harper's 4.47 ties them with Roma and Room now at the 11-13 spots.
And a personal note, I want to thank so many of you that offered thoughts in response to my Sept. 3rd post and the questions that it posed. It was, as they say, affirming. I mean really affirming. Thanks TFF peeps!
TORONTO'S PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD AND TFF
Yesterday Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck surprisingly (at least to me) won the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award. Runner-up Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez which rated #3 on the TFF #51 Pro's Poll and #5 above for the People.
Second Runner-up was Sean Baker's Anora which you can see from this post and my previous post topped this year's TFF Pro's poll and was third on the just published People's Poll.
Josh Greenbaum's documentary, which played really well at Telluride (again, as you can see above) finished second in the voting for TIFF's People's Choice of Docs. Landing ahead of it was Tragically Hip: no Time for Rehearsal.
EARLY OSCAR PICKS FROM EXPERTS
The Hollywood Reporter's Awards executive Editor Scott Feinberg opens the 2024-25 Oscar season predicting these nominations for TFF #51 films (Scott is making predictions in the Big Eight categories as well as Animated, Documentary and International Features).
Emilia Perez (7): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Supporting Actress-2 (Saldana, Gomez), Original Screenplay, International Film.
Conclave (6): Best Picture, Direction, Actor (Fiennes), Supporting Actor (Tucci), Supporting Actress (Rossellini), Adapted Screenplay.
Anora (4): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Madison), Original Screenplay.
September 5 (4): Best Picture, Actor (Sarsgaard), Supporting Actor (Magaro), Original Screenplay.
Saturday Night (2): Best Picture, Original Screenplay.
A Real Pain (2): Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Culkin).
Piece by Piece (2): Best Picture, Animated Feature.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2): Best Direction, International Feature.
The Apprentice (2): Best Actor (Stan), Supporting Actor (Strong).
The Piano Lesson (2): Best Actor (Washington), Supporting Actress (Deadwyler).
Maria (1): Best Actress (Jolie).
Nickel Boys (1) Best Adapted Screenplay.
No Other Land (1): Best Documentary.
Hollywood Gate (1) : Best Documentary (from TFF #50).
That's 36 projected nominations for TFF #51 films in theses 11 categories.
NEW (INTERNATIONAL) TRAILER FOR ANORA
From YouTube:
REITMAN ON SATURDAY NIGHT
IndieWire's Kate Erbland talks to writer/director Jason Reitman about TFF #51 world premiering film Saturday Night. Here's the link.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
MTFB friend Alex Billington at his site FirstShowing.net has linked five mini-behind-the scenes featurettes from Adam Elliots' delightful and moving Memoir of a Snail. Variety has it currently #3 on its Animated Feature Oscar nominations predictions and The Hollywood Reporter has it a #10.
NOT A BLURB...BUT...
I have long dreamed of the day when my publicly posted response to a film gets blurbed in a trailer or a TV ad...and, of course that hasn't happened...yet.
Back in 2011 I freelanced for The Playlist and reviewed three films at TFF #38 and filed reviews for The Descendants, Albert Nobbs and Butter. I had nice things to say about The Descendants and Albert Nobbs (Butter not so much) and thought that might be the moment. It was not.
Since then I know it's unlikely as to tag a blurb with "of Michael's Telluride Film Blog" seems smallish. But you know...maybe someday. I've certainly been highlighted by other sites and blogs regarding that meat and bones of what the blog does.
But I did get a little closer as I found with Gold Derby's roundup of Jason Retiman's Saturday Night I find myself included as "more reactions". Evidence below:
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