NOW ...DOWN TO BUSINESS
Oscar has come a gone...finally. Lot's of discourse now about the Oscar season being too long this year. I kind of have to agree.
MTFB is ready to move on to the primary effort for this space...noodling possible titles for TFF #53. That process has been lightly touched on since the turn of the calendar from 2025 to 2026 with a couple of looks at various "Most Anticipated" list of film for this year. We have also taken a snapshot of possible Cannes titles as the venerable French fest frequently is represented at Telluride often with six to eight titles.
As we move into this phase I have found looking at the "Too Early" Oscar predictions for the year to be useful as a predicting tool. I checked last year and that Oscar spec yielded up to seven films that eventually ended up on the TFF #52 lineup. We'll also continue to monitor the potential Cannes field until that announcement comes on April 9th. The fest itself will run May 12-23.
LATEST CANNES SPECULATION FROM WORLD OF REEL
Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel keeps a really good eye on the buzz concerning which films will premiere as part of the Cannes Film Festival. That's good for us as, on average, six to eight Cannes titles traditionally make their way to Telluride.
Consequently, we put our ear to the ground to his latest Cannes speculation piece posted on March 11th.
From his various sections, here are what seem to me the most probable candidates to play both Cannes and then T-ride:
Predicted Cannes Competition titles that might play TFF #53:
Bitter Christmas/Almodovar
Fjord/Mungiu
Jack of Spades/Coen
Minotaur/Zvyaginstev
All of a Sudden/Hamaguchi
Parallel Tales/Farhadi
Coward/Dhont
1949/Pawlikowski
Sheep in the Box/Kore-eda
Butterfly Jam/Bagalov
"Possibilities"
The Long Winter/Haigh
Let Love In/Van Groeningen
Bucking Fastards/Herzog
"French Contenders"
Moulin/Nemes
Among titles that Ruimy says are now "unlikely: for Cannes but that could still make a Telluride play:
Paper Tiger/Gray
The Way of the Wind/Malick
Untitled Mike Leigh Film
Digger/Inarritu
I'll take a look at early Oscar predictions in Monday's post.
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