Wednesday, August 27, 2025

FINAL BETS FOR TFF #52 / Telluride Reveals Free Screenings ( and its Guest Director)

 FINAL BETS FOR TFF #52



Here they are.  MTFB's Final stab at what Telluride will unveil tomorrow.  As I wrote on Monday...I'm not as solid as I'd like to be about this year's "Bets".  Nevertheless, here we go:


1) Hamnet/Zhao
2) It Was Just an Accident/Panahi
3) Sentimental Value/Trier
4) Ballad of a Small Player/Berger
5) The Secret Agent/Filho
6) Nouvelle Vague/Linklater
7) Bugonia/Lanthimos
8) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
9) The History of Sound/Hermanus
10) Jay Kelly/Baumbach 
11) Tuner/Roher
12) The Mastermind/Reichardt
13) Cover-Up/Poitras
14) Ghost Elephants/Herzog
15) Hamlet/Karia
16) Pillion/Lighton
17) La Grazia/Sorrentino
18) Resurrection/Bi Gan
19) Blue Moon/Linklater
20) The American Revolution/Burns
21) Merle Haggard: Highway 99/Hawke
22) Secret Oscar Isaac Documentary/??? (Turns out it's King Hamlet)
23) The Young Mother's Home/Dardennes Brothers
24) A Private Life/Zlotowski
25) Urchin/Dickinson


Other possibilities: All That's Left of You, Barrio Triste, The Drama, Die My Love, At the Sea, A Magnificent Life, Mother Mary, Pressure, Bucking Fastard, Megadoc, Train Dreams, Pluribus, The Savant.


Now, I'm hitting the road!  See you in The Ride!



TELLURIDE REVEALS FREE SCREENINGS (AND ITS GUEST DIRECTOR)

The Telluride Daily Planet published a flyer today that reveals some screenings as well as the choices of films to screen from Guest Director Ezra Edelman:

The flyer confirms the Merle Haggard documentary (#21 on the Final Bets) and Ken Burns American Revolution (#20 on the Final Bets).  Also Adam Curtis' five part documentary Shifty and Paul Phelan's doc Learning to Fly.





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