4 Days...
AN INVITATION FOR YOU
Come and join me for a Michael's Telluride Film Blog soiree called: "The Guide to the Ride; The Flow of the SHOW" on Friday, Sept. 2 from 5:00 to 5:30 PM in The River Club in Telluride. Larry and Mitzi Mallard of the Club will be our hosts and I am told that refreshments will be provided. The River Club is located at 550 Depot in Telluride. That's 4 blocks west of the Gondola station. Come by and say hello and we'll talk a little film.
TEN (AND MORE) BETS
Last Week's Ten (and more):
The Descendants
1) The Descendants
2) Into the Abyss
3) The Artist
4) A Trip to the Moon
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin
6) Le Havre
7) Prohibition
8) Shame
9) Drive
10) The Birds Upstairs
Here's the "or more"
11) Goodbye First Love
12) Dark Horse
13) The Skin I Live In
14) The Kid with a Bike
15) The Lady
16) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
17) W.E.
18) Coriolanus
This week's Ten (and more) Bets (in order of likelihood):
The Artist
1) The Descendants (dir. Alexander Payne, Stars: George Clooney)
2) Into the Abyss (dir. Werner Herzog)
3) The Artist (dir. Michael Hazanavicius, Stars: Jean Dujardin)
4) A Trip to the Moon (compiled by Serge Bromberg)
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin (dir. Lynne Ramsay, Stars: Tilda Swinton)
6) Le Havre (Dir. Aki Kaurismaki)
7) Shame (dir. Steve McQueen, Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan)
8) Goodbye First Love (dir. Mia Hansen-Love)
9) The Skin I Live In (dir. Pedro Almodovar, Stars: Antonio Banderas
10) Footnote (dir. Joseph Cedar)
And the "And More"
A Dangerous Method
11) A Dangerous Method (dir. David Cronenberg, Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley)
12) Prohibition (dir. Ken Burns & Lynn Novick)
13) The Birds Upstairs (short/dir. Christopher Jarvis)
14) Drive (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan)
15) Dark Horse (dir. Todd Solondz, Stars: Christopher Walken, Selma Blair)
16) The Kid with a Bike (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes)
17) The Lady (dir. Luc Beeson, Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis)
18) Martha Marcy May Marlene (dir. Sean Durkin, Stars: Elizabeth Olsen)
Films still possible that would make my list to see (but for which there's no good intell about RE; Telluride):
W.E.
The Ides of March
Coriolanus
Notes:
Descendants...I have thought it would be at T-ride for more than a year. Payne on record as submitting it. Everybody thinks it will be there.
Into the Abyss: Herzog is a regular, Ioncinema says it's in.
The Artist: Weinstein Co., Cannes hit, Ioncinema says it's in, everyone thinks it's playing.
A Trip to the Moon: Bromberg is a regular, he's said he wants it there, fits the fests bill of unusual and restorations
We Have to Talk About Kevin: Cannes, Ioncinema and now Jeffrey Wells all but confirming it.
Le Havre: Cannes fave, Jarvis Films has the distribution and a history with Telluride
Shame: Daily Mail says it's in, director Steve McQueen also...see below
Goodbye First Love: Ioncinema says it's in.
The Skin I Live In: Tapley thinks it, Almodovar has history with TFF, IMDb lists it's US premiere as Sept. 3 at TFF
Footnote: (new to the Ten Bets, but I've had it on the Telluride radar since it won the screenplay award at Cannes) Comment on Jeff Wells Hollywood Elsewhere is the source (see below)...I believe it.
A Dangerous Method: Tapley's vibe is what has this back on my "bets"
Prohibition: I have a difficult time believing that Burns has a new doc ready and at least part of it doesn't show at The SHOW.
The Birds Upstairs: A short animated film that I include due to a tweet from the film maker that he's got something in this year's fest.
Drive
Drive: This drops this week because no one is talking like it could be in Telluride. My original insight came from Ioncinema. But I have had people remind me that this screened at Comic Con...soooo...it drops down.
But, man, I really want to see it and living in the Oklahoma Panhandle, it could be a really long time before it gets anywhere close to where I get a chance....come on Tom, Gary and Julie!
Dark Horse: Solondz has been a Telluride mainstay in the past.
The Kid with a Bike: The Dardennes Brothers have a good Telluride history and this film was well received at Cannes.
The Lady: I've intuitively felt like this was a Telluride possibility for a while now. And over the weekend the Jeffrey Wells column and comments for it that you can access below has me wondering if this is the film he references toward the end of his post. from what I can dig up "The Lady" would fit his description:
"I'm told that at least one movie that currently has no firm 2011 release date but is a semi-likely 2011 awards contender will play Telluride. The movie being referred to, by the way, is not Albert Nobbs, even though it hasn't yet landed a U.S. distributor."
Further research indicates that the film could also be: "Wuthering Heights," "360," "The Deep Blue Sea," or "The Eye of the Storm." There are most likely others that fit Wells' description.
Martha Marcy...Tapley seems pretty confident.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is off the list...too many people, including Tapley are just flat saying it will NOT be in Telluride...too bad.
As to W.E., Ides and Coriolanus...I'm crossing my fingers for all three but, realistically, even one of them would be cool.
"Ten Bets" could be jumpy this week depending on what we find and what, if anything leaks out...I'll post as warranted, perhaps more than once a day...stay tuned!
MORE SHAME
Shame
I think we've reached the point that we can be confident that this film will be showing this weekend in Telluride. As I pointed out on Friday, The Daily Mail Online says it's playing. Over the weekend director Steve McQueen removed any doubt with a "statement" posted to IndieWire's "Shadow and Act" for the "Telluride screening." Pretty much says it all.
Here's the link to McQueen's Statement:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/archives/director_steve_mcqueen_releases_directors_statement_for_shame_screening_at_/#
PROCESS STORIES
Have you ever wondered?
Well, if you have, take a look at these two stories. The first is from The Telluride Daily Planet as they interview TFF co-directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger about how it all works. I found it fascinating. Maybe you will too.
http://www.telluridenews.com/articles/2011/08/28/news/doc4e59b2e53d875839155214.txt
Also an interesting story in Variety this weekend about the dance that film festivals, directors and production companies go through to program for the fall film fest season. The article was a little difficult to get to, but this should get you there if you're interested:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118041874?refCatId=13
ECHO CHAMBER
You know cliches are cliches for a reason...and the one about it being a small world...well...
Above I have referenced Jeffrey Wells Hollywood Elsewhere post about his first trip to Telluride this week. You can take a look at it yourself at this link:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/08/fair_warning_1.php
It's interesting, fun to read...informative (as you can see today, I have referenced material from him for today's edition of my blog, properly attributed). What's weird is if you click on the linkage " summary of a recent "Telluride Best Bets" tweet " it will take you to Friday's edition of Michaels' Telluride Film Blog.
Kind of makes me dizzy...
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