TEN BETS #5 FOR TFF #52
Here's last week's Ten Bets:
1) It Was Just an Accident/Panahi
2) Sentimental Value/Trier
3) Bugonia/Lanthimos
4) Hamnet/Zhao
5) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere/S. Cooper
6) Sirat/Laxe
7) Blue Moon/Linklater
8) After the Hunt/Guadagnino
9) The Young Mothers' Home/Dardenne Brothers
10) Rental Family/Hikari
Other possibilities: The History of Sound, The Ballad of a Small Player, The Love That Remains, The Secret Agent, Jay Kelly, Left-Handed Girl, Frankenstein, Eleanor the Great, Pressure, Marty Supreme, Die My Love, The Mastermind, The American Revolution.
And now for the updated Ten Bets:
1) Hamnet/Zhao
2) It Was Just an Accident/Panahi
3) Sentimental Value/Trier
4) Bugonia/Lanthimos
5) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere/S. Cooper
6) Blue Moon/Linklater
7) Sirat/Laxe
8) The Young Mothers' Home/Dardenne Brothers
9) The History of Sound/Hermanus
10) After the Hunt/Guadagnino
Other possibilities: The Ballad of a Small Player, The Love That Remains, The Secret Agent, Jay Kelly, Left-Handed Girl, Frankenstein, Eleanor the Great, Pressure, Die My Love, The Mastermind, The American Revolution.
Changes in this week's Ten Bets informed by announcements yesterday from Toronto (see below). Marty Supreme falls out of "possibilities" amid reports that it will skipping all fall fests.
I'm expecting more announcements coming from other fests next week which should really begin to clear the picture for TFF #52.
TORONTO ADDS 11 MORE TITLES...WE DEDUCE!
Yesterday the Toronto International Film Festival announced 11 more titles for their 2025 edition. Their premiere designations tell us about films that now seem to be (mostly) ruled out and one that seems to be confirmed for Telluride. Per Variety here are those films and their designations.
Galas:
The Choral | Nicholas Hytner | UK
World Premiere | Gala Presentation
Homebound | Neeraj Ghaywan | India
North American Premiere | Gala Presentation
Hamnet | Chloé Zhao | UK
Canadian Premiere | Gala Presentation
A Private Life | Rebecca Zlotowski | France
North American Premiere | Gala Presentation
Roofman | Derek Cianfrance | USA
World Premiere | Gala Presentation
She Has No Name | Peter Ho-Sun Chan | China
North American Premiere | Gala Presentation
Special Presentations:
Franz | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic/Germany/Poland
World Premiere | Special Presentation
The Lost Bus | Paul Greengrass | USA
World Premiere | Special Presentation
Rental Family | HIKARI | USA/Japan
World Premiere | Special Presentation
Steal Away | Clement Virgo | Canada/Belgium
World Premiere | Special Presentation
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | USA
World Premiere | Special Presentation
Takeaways: Looks like Chloe Zhao's Hamnet is headed to Telluride. Looks like Hikari's Rental Family is not. I've had Hamnet in the Ten Bets from the jump this year. I just put in Rental Family last week but its World Premiere designation means that it won't be at Telluride. The question that raises is does that mean that Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? a real TFF #52 possibility from Searchlight? Because it feels like that's Searchlight's best shot now.
Couple of other things: A Private Life, Roofman and Franz were films I had sort of considered as possible TFF candidates and aren't now.
The mystery about Wake Up Dead Man's International Premiere designation for the BFI/London Fest remains...weird. I've said it before...the International Premiere designation is "squishy".
None of the other films announced by Toronto were on my radar as Telluride candidates.
AFTER THE HUNT HAS A TRAILER
Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt moved up into this week's Ten Bets. Mostly because its Amazon-MGM's big shot this year and Rental Family dropped out. Now I'm sort of thinking that it does Venice early and then Telluride. Maybe a Julia Roberts tribute?
World of Reel wrote about it yesterday saying:
“After the Hunt” is set to hit screens on October 10 via Amazon/MGM. As mentioned, it’ll probably hit Venice in September, and probably have a fall rollout in other fests, maybe Toronto and Telluride."
Also perhaps signaling that the film is soon to be announced for Venice, Amazon-MGM dropped a trailer yesterday. Here that is from YouTube:
I think it looks intriguing.
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