VENICE THOUGHTS
Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel posted a list of "20 hot festival titles this fall" on Saturday. The context for the list of films is within Ruimy's discussion of the Venice festival and the number of possible American films that could make that lineup. Many of them are on my TFF #52 "watch list".
Here's Ruimy's list with what I think are the most serious Telluride possibilities indicated with ***.
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)***
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Untitled WH Thriller (Kathryn Bigelow)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)***
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)***
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
The Way of the Wind (Terrence Malick)
Father Mother Brother Sister (Jim Jarmusch)
The Ballad of A Small Player (Edward Berger)***
Hamnet (Chloe Zhao)***
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)***
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Kogonada)
Roofman (Derek Cianfrance)
At the Sea (Kornél Mundruczó)
The Drama (Kristofer Borgli)
The Lost Bus (Paul Greengrass)
Deliver Me From Nowhere (Scott Cooper)***
Huntington (John Patton Ford)
Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)***
NEGLIA ON CANNES AND TELLURIDE
Matt Neglia, who heads up Next Best Picture, published via "X" on Friday a list of Cannes films that he thinks could also play Telluride. It looks like this:
The Chronology Of Water
Die My Love
It Was Just An Accident
Left Handed Girl
The Love That Remains
The Mastermind
My Father’s Shadow
Nouvelle Vague
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Urchin
Young Mothers
I have frequently mentioned Chronology of Water, Die My Love, It Was Just an Accident (or A Simple Accident), The Love That Remains, The Mastermind, and Young Mothers.
Post Cannes I have warmed to the notion of Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent for T-ride.
I'm back and forth on Nouvelle Vague. Linklater has, to the best of my knowledge, never been to The SHOW but with both Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon...I could see a Linklater double bill and a possible tribute.
Other films that Matt names, Left Handed Girl, The Father's Shadow and Urchin...we'll see.
I think there could be other Cannes players that make the trip. Sirat and Eleanor the Great come to mind. Remember, though, Matt was on the ground in France and probably has a better sense of what's going on as a result.
A LOOK AT DEL TORO'S FRANKENSTEIN
Netflix had what they call TUDUM. It's their annual sort CinemaCon thing. Anyway, as a part of that there was a presentation for Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming imagining of Frankenstein. The film stars Oscar Isaac (as Victor Frankenstein) who was at the TUDUM presentation, as well as Christoph Waltz and Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth. Netflix dropped a trailer for the film as a part of the event and then very quickly put it up online. Here it is from YouTube:
INTERESTING COMMENT TO THE BLOG
Over the weekend some anonymous person posted a comment to last Thursday's MTFB. It really caught my attention because it's a poem about me and the blog. And whoever this is knows their stuff. I approved the comment and you can find it on the 5/29/25 post. I've also re-posted it here:
"In Oklahoma classrooms he was once all the rage, A master of drama, debate and stage. Now each Labor Day he ascends to the peak, Where cinephiles gather and the big stars all sneak. With a blog as his weapon, a hunch as his guide, He guesses the films they try hard to hide. Reads gossip like scripture, decodes all the lines.
The SHOW bosses in Berkeley grit teeth in dismay, As his summer "BEST BETS" always steal the day. But Michael just shrugs, lets critics all chatter-- To him it's just the puzzle that truly must matter. So let's raise a toast, with blog posts in hand, To the Teacher who does what few understand."
Thanks to the unknown author.
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