The People's Telluride / Statistical Re-hash / What I Saw / Now What?

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

Well Friends...

It is time.  If you haven't already sent in your ratings for TFF #51 films that you saw, now's the time.  A reminder about the process.  Email me a list of the films you saw and rate each on a 1 to 5 scale.  1 means it was very bad, 5 means you thought it was terrific.  Decimals are fine.

The DUE DATE for ratings is SEPT. 13TH.

EMAIL YOUR RATINGS TO: mpgort@gmail.com

I'm planning on posting The People's  results on Monday, Sept.16.

STATISTICAL RE-HASH

TFF 2024 was a reasonably good year for MTFB.  From the final "bets" that were posted on Wednesday last week, after the addition of The Apprentice as a sneak, MTFB was 25 of 25 for films playing TFF #51.  Additionally, five of the films listed as "other possibilities" made the lineup as well.

From the original "Ten Bets" posted back on June 20th, seven films made the lineup: Anora, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Emilia Perez, Bird, Maria, The End and Conclave.  Also from the list of "Other Possibilities" in that post were: The Piano Lesson and Nickel Boys.

Also, MTFB wasn't too bad at the Tribute speculation.  I'd been talking about the Saoirse Ronan/Outrun possibility for months.  Managed to guess the Thelma Schoonmaker notion based on the pre-fest screening of After Hours at Elk's Park and Jacques Audiard had been on my really short list of possible directors that could be tributed.

WHAT I SAW

Ultimately I saw seven films.  It's an uncommonly small number for me at the fest but long "standing in line" times were necessary to avoid the risk of being shutout.  I was commonly in line three hours before the posted screening time.  As I result I made all seven I chose to see but that drastically reduced the number of films I could see.

If anything rivaled line conversation about the films it was the convo about accessibility.

My films in the order I saw them:

Conclave:  Liked it quite a bit  Good performances across the board. 3.75/5

Nickel Boys: I have been seeing the critics responding enthusiastically...me...not so much.  I respect the notion of inventive film making but, for me, Ross's choices often got in the way rather than enhancing the story he was telling. 3/5

Zuwarski v. Texas: This was the pick of the fest for me.  Powerful.  Seek it out. 5/5

Saturday Night:  Jason Reitman hits it out of the park.  Funny and Frenetic. 4.5/5

Emilia Perez: Terrific;  Super performances from the lead cast.  Inventive in a way that worked from my perspective. 4/5

September 5:  Excellent telling of the sports reporters at the 1972 Munich Olympics who had to turn into news reporters. 4/5

Memoir of a Snail:  Also outstanding. 4/5

What I missed that I would have liked to gotten in:

Anora

Carville: winning Is Everything, Stupid

Casa Bonita Mi Amor

The End

Maria

The Outrun

The Piano Lesson

Piece by Piece

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Will & Harper

NOW WHAT?

Well, collate the ratings from The People and The Pros and report back on those.  Also, collate both sets of ratings into The Composite Telluride.  I'll have all of that done and posted over the 10-14 days.

I'll also turn the attention of MTFB to the Oscar/Awards prospects of the films that played this past weekend.  As a part of that I'll soon begin posting my own predictions for Oscar glory.  Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 17th and the ceremony itself will be Mar. 2nd.

EMAIL:  mpgort@gmail.com

X (Twitter) @TheMTFB OR @Gort2 

Bluesky: @gort2.bsky.social

MTFB's Facebook Page

MTFB is published on Mondays and Thursdays

If you would like to be added to the MTFB e-mail list send an email to mpgort@gmail.com