Beanpole Back In? / Motherless Blitz Is On / Varda Has a Date / IMDb Reveals ? / Current Bets

Tuesday...One Week...3 Days...

BEANPOLE BACK IN?

If you've been reading this space closely the last few days, you know that there has been some confusion concerning whether either Beanpole or The Truth might play Telluride after both films were listed as North American premieres last week in an announcement of films for the Toronto International Film Fest.

I'd had Beanpole as fairly certain for TFF #46 as a result of its status as "New York" premieres in the NYFF announcement of their lineup back on Aug. 8th.

Now Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere says Beanpole is in for Telluride after all.  Here's a screenshot from his site that he posted last night:

So...Beanpole goes back on the Bonus Bets list on Friday and I am still thinking The Truth has a real shot to be at TFF #46 after it opens the Venice Fest next week.

Well's complete post is linked here.

MOTHERLESS BLITZ IS ON

I'm morally certain that Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn will screen in Telluride next week.  The film is known to be set to screen at Toronto (where it is listed as an International Premiere) and New York.  Clearly as a run up to what will be its first public screening at TFF #46, the film was all over the P.R. trail yesterday.

Katey rich writing for Vanity Fair talked to director/screen writer and star of the film Edward Norton.  That article was posted yesterday by VF and you can find it linked here.  Included in that article are the first looks of the period set film that IMDb lists as a Crime/Drama.

The IMDb logline tells us that the film focuses on a private detective who has Tourette's Syndrome and is striving to solve the murder of his partner.  Also starring in the film are Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis and Leslie Mann.

Both The Playlist and Indiewire piggy-backed on the Vanity Fair story (as I'm doing).  You can find their added reportage linked here:

Indiewire

The Playlist

In addition to the photo above, VF also included these stills from the film:

Motherless Brooklyn is set to be released on Nov. 1st.

VARDA HAS A DATE

Janus Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to distribute the final film of Agnes Varda's career-Varda by Agnes- and have announced that the film...which will be playing Telluride (he says authoritatively-based on its status for the New York Film Fest as a "New York" premiere)...will open in the U.S. on Nov. 22nd in New York.  The film will then expand nationally in the following weeks.

Janus also announced that a massive retrospective of Varda's career will be launched at Lincoln Center in NYC on Dec. 20th.

Coverage of the date announcement was provided yesterday from The Hollywood Reporter and The Playlist.

IMDB REVEALS...

Yesterday an eagle eyed follower of MTFB pointed out to me that some films have a Telluride date included in there IMDb release date profile.  The initial discovery was on IMDb Pro but after some skulking about, I found that it was also discernible on the more easily accessed IMDb website.  

The specific film that the reader was pointing to was Ford v. Ferrari.  I was able to find the same TFF conformation for Marriage Story, The Two Popes and Uncut Gems.  

I also ran through every film that I have currently in the latest Ten Bets and Bonus Bets but only these four came up with Telluride listed in their release plans.

Suffice it to say that I'll keep going back to this source over the next few days to find out if it will reveal any more TFF #46 information.

Check date info for yourself as follows:

Ford v. Ferrari

Uncut Gems

Marriage Story

The Two Popes

CURRENT TEN BETS AND BONUS BETS

10) The Aeronauts
9) Ford v. Ferrari
8) The Two Popes
7) Judy
6) Pain and Glory
5) Uncut Gems
4) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3) Motherless Brooklyn
2) Marriage Story
1) Parasite


Bonus Bets:

Bonus 1) Varda by Agnes
Bonus 2) First Cow
Bonus 3) A Hidden Life
Bonus 4) The Report
Bonus 5) The Kingmaker
Bonus 6) The Climb
Bonus 7) Waves
Bonus 8) Lyrebird
Bonus 9) Verdict


THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

For the eighth consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".


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Not an Official Journalist but Still a Guru / Trafficking in Rumor / TFF Is in Men's Journal's Top Ten / Quick Notes

Tuesday.

NOT AN OFFICIAL JOURNALIST BUT STILL A GURU

As many of you know, I was denied "journalist" status for this year's festival.  That happened over three weeks ago.

But, I have been asked back by Movie City News to participate again this year as one their Gurus of Gold.  I'll be tasked with making "educated" predictions for this year's Oscar season.  MCN Guru guru Ray Pride emailed me, as well as other past Gurus, last Thursday.

As you might expect, I accepted the invitation.

I'm not sure yet when the Guru-ing will commence but you can be sure I'll be letting you know here when I do know.

Incidentally, it's also likely that I'll be writing an occasional Oscar-centric article or two for another film-centric web outfit but I'm going to keep that under cover until that's more assured.

TRAFFICKING IN RUMOR

Sooo...I'm relatively certain that I have a line on another film that will be playing the 46th iteration of the Telluride Film Festival.  This is one of those "All the President's Men" things.  I have two independent sources telling me that a film that is currently NOT an expected title, is currently NOT on my latest Ten Bets or Bonus Bets list but IS a film that I mentioned before.

I can also tell you that this mystery film is curiously related to a film that we are very sure will play the fest.

I'm hesitant to name the film without one more piece of corroboration and I'm spooking around for that.

Should the film pan out, it could well be an Oscar player (at least a couple of Oscar prediction sites have the film in their early predictions list).

More as it develops...if it develops.

TFF IS IN MEN'S JOURNAL'S TOP TEN

Men's Journal recently published an article entitled "The 10 Best Summer Festivals in America" and making the list is the one and only Telluride Film Festival.

The article names TFF as "one of the most prestigious" film festivals.

The article also includes the following fests:

Summerfest-Milwaukee, WI.

Taste of Chicago-Chicago, IL.

Vermont Brewers Festival, Burlington, VT.

The Great Taste of the Midwest, Madison, WI.

Made in America Music Festival, Philadelphia, PA.

Feast Portland, Portland, OR.

Wanderlust Festival, Chicago, IL.

Beer, Bourbon and BBQ-Multiple Locations

Newport Folk Festival, Newport, VA.

The complete article with links to all of the festivals is linked here.

QUICK NOTES

***The New York Film Fest is supposed to announce the rest of their main slate films today at noon eastern time.  I'll likely post an update here with the ramifications of that announcement as soon as possible.

***Jordan Ruimy wrote at World of Reel yesterday that Agnes Varda's swan song-Varda by Agnes-will play Telluride as well as Toronto and New York.  The NYFF announcement later today may provide a confirmation.  We'll see.

***Deadline reports that Gavin O'Connor's The Way Back (formerly Torrance) starring Ben Affleck has been moved by Warners to March, 2020.  That likely means we can take it off the list of possible films for TFF consideration.


Here's the current Ten Bets with Bonus Bets:


10) The Aeronauts
9) Ford v. Ferrari
8) The Two Popes
7) Pain and Glory
6) Uncut Gems
5) Judy
4) Motherless Brooklyn
3) Marriage Story
2) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1) Parasite

"Bonus Bets":

Bonus 1) The Truth
Bonus 2) Varda by Agnes
Bonus 3) First Cow
Bonus 4) Family Romance LLC
Bonus 5) Country Music


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Late Breaking: Cannes #72 Poster Honors Varda / Final Set of Program Dedications / Peterloo Arrives / More Cannes Spec / The Burns Country Tour Continues

Good Monday to everyone.  Writing on my phone today as I have been art showing in Texas.

LATE BREAKING: CANNES #72 POSTER HONORS VARDA

Just released is the poster for the 72nd edition of Cannes featuring late film maker Agnes Varda.  Here it is:

FINAL SET OF PROGRAM DEDICATIONS

Here’s the last set of program dedications from TFF that I can find.  It appears that the fest began the feature of dedicating programs in 1990.
So, to complete the list I begin sharing last week here are the first few dedications from 1990-1997:


#24 1997- James Stewart
#23 1996- Louis Malle
#22 1995- Kathleen Tynan
#21 1994- Dennis Potter
#20 1993- Gary Essert
#19 1992-Nestor Almendros and Marion Zunz
#18 1991- Joel McCrea
#17 1990- Michael Powell



PETERLOO ARRIVES

Mike Leigh’s historical epic that played at TFF 45 last Labor Day opened in the United States Last weekend. As a result there has been a modicum of P.R. material appearing to coincide with it release.
The film was modestly received at T-ride and critically since then.

Leigh talked about the film in a recent post from J. Don Birnam writing for Awards Circuit.  You can find that interview linked here.



MORE CANNES SPEC

Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has a post up with more speculation/predictions about which films will be named Thursday to the lineup for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.

Included among the titles is the first mention that I’ve seen that Cannes might include if Jay Roach’s examination former of Fox News head Roger Ailes.
The film, titled Fair and Balanced, is reported by IMDb as “expected Dec. 20th and stars John Lithgow as Ailes.
Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman also star.
Also mentioned in the Wells article Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield,  Pablo Larrain’s Ema, Danielle Lesowitz’s Port Authority, Cristi Puiu’s Manor House and Marco Bellochio’s The Traitor.

Any of those films might be part of a Cannes-Telluride one-two punch.
As many of you know, Cannes and Telluride will often share an average of 7-8 films so this week’s Cannes lineup announcement should give us a lot to ponder as we look forward to TFF #46.
Wells’ post can be found here.



THE BURNS COUNTRY TOUR CONTINUES

(Photo of Johnny Cash from Episode 5 of Country Music via Sony Music Archives and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

The Ken Burns Country Music Tour (at least that's what I', calling it) to bring attention to his forthcoming documentary about the history of country and western music in the United States is making another stop.  This time in Pittsburgh on Wednesday of this week.  As a part pf that stop, Burns did a solid interview with Scott Mervis for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Burns doc is scheduled to launch on PBS a couple of weeks after the Telluride Film Festival (Sept. 15th) leading me to think that Telluride might be the final stop on "the tour".

The Post-Gazette article can be seen here.


That's a wrap on your Monday MTFB.  I'll be back on Thursday.  That post may well come a little later in the day so that I can do a bit of an entry on the Cannes lineup which will largely be announced that day.


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More Program Dedications from Past Fests / Best of the Decade / News from Cannes

Good Thursday film fans.



MORE PROGRAM DEDICATIONS FROM PAST FESTS

Spurred by the recent death of Agnes Varda and my speculation that we might find the 46th TFF program dedicated to her when we show up in the San Juans in late August, I began chronicling the people who have had past fests dedicated to them as far back as I can find them in the actual TFF programs.

In my last post I was able to list dedications for the last ten years of the festival (2009-2018).  Today that listing continues with a look at dedications from 1999-2008:

#35 2008- No dedication
#34 2007- Edward Yang and Ulrich Muhe
#33 2006- Jody Goodman
#32 2005- G. Cabrera Infante
#31 2004- Fay Wray
#30 2003- Stan Brakhage
#29 2002- Chuck Jones
#28 2001- Richard Farnsworth
#27 2000- John Berry
#26 1999- Albert Johnson


I'll have he next flight of program dedications in Monday's post.


BEST OF THE DECADE

I was recently asked to contribute to a survey of the best films of the decade (2010-2019).  So I have been pondering what might end up on my list.  I have been tasked with naming five films.  To that end, I have started the process by creating a list of 20 films to winnow down to the five.

As you might expect, the original list of 20 is heavy with films that played at Telluride but it's not exclusively TFF films.

Here's the working list at the moment listed chronologically by year:

2010- True Grit
2011- The Tree of Life, Shame, A Separation
2012- Lincoln, The Life of Pi
2013- 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Inside Llewyn Davis
2014- Birdman, Foxcatcher, The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015- Son of Saul, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road
2016- Moonlight, La La Land
2017- Lady Bird, Dunkirk
2018- Roma

Of the 20 films seven of them are films the did not screen at Telluride.

Got to get it down to five...not going to be easy.


NEWS FROM CANNES

Ahead of next week's reveal of the bulk of titles that will play the Cannes Film Festival was the announcement this week that the venerable french film fest will open with the latest from Jim Jarmusch.  His film The Dead Don't Die will be the opening night film.  The film plays on Tuesday, May 14th to open the 72nd edition of Cannes.

The Dead Don't Die is described as a zombie comedy and stars Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny as well as Steve Buscemi and Tom Waits.

Jarmusch appears to have been involved with Telluride thrice in the past in 1984 with Stranger than Paradise; in 1989 with Mystery Train and in 1993 with Coffee and Cigarettes, the third short in the series was released that year.

The film has been off my Telluride radar for some time as it will open in the U.S. on June 14th.

I have linked the announcement news from Indiewire and the IMDb page for The Dead Don't Die is linked here.


That's your MTFB for this Thursday.  Come back on Monday for more.


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The TFF Program and Dedications / Trial by Fire Trailer and Release Date / Francis Ford Coppola Announces Megalopolis

Good Monday and welcome to the start of another week in April 2019...


THE TFF PROGRAM AND DEDICATIONS

With the passing of film legend Agnes Varda a few days back, MTFB has spent some time re-visiting her career. 

I wondered last week in this space if Varda might be honored by TFF with a dedication in the 2019 program.  I mentioned that the festival has done that before and cited 2018's program dedication to Pierre Rissient. 

And that got me to thinking...how often has the fest dedicated the program?  When and to whom?  It seemed to me to be a natural extension to seek some answers to those questions especially since I have spent some time trying to put together some of the festival's past and preserve it here.  Sooo...

I have gone to the programs themselves to see what the record shows and here's what I have discovered from the past decade's programs...the following dedications:

#45 2018- Pierre Rissient
#44 2017- Sam Shepard
#43 2016- Paul Cox and Abbas Kiarostami
#42 2015- Peter von Bagh
#41 2014- Stanley Kauffmann and Peter O'Toole
#40 2013- Les Blank, Roger Ebert, George Gund, Donald Richie
#39 2012- Bingham Ray and Jan Sharp
#38 2011- Richard Leacock and Arthur Penn
#37 2010- Max Palevsky
#36 2009- Horton Foote and Budd Schulberg

I'll keep going back to older programs and continue this search for the next couple of posts.


TRIAL BY FIRE TRAILER AND RELEASE DATE

Ed Zwick's Trial by Fire which was one of two films that played in Telluride last Labor Day inspired by articles written by David Grann (the other was The Old Man and the Gun) has a trailer and a release date-May 17th.  That according to both trailer-track.com and FirstShowing.net.

Here is the trailer linked from YouTube:

 Trial by Fire stars Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern.


FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA ANNOUNCES MEGALOPOLIS

Photo via Rob Latour/Shutterstock and Deadline

Over the weekend the film interweb was abuzz with the announcement from Francis Ford Coppola that he will begin filming a long gestating dream project entitled (at least at the moment) Megalopolis.  The film is characterized in reporting from Deadline.com's Mike Fleming Jr. as "a sprawling film as ambitious as Apocalypse Now.

Coppola is reported as saying the filming will begin this year.

With Coppola's fairly recent return to Telluride (with Apocalypse Now Redux and The Cotton Club) you have to wonder if a TFF screening of the new film might be something that could be a part of a future fest lineup.

The Deadline.com article is linked here.



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More on Agnes Varda / Report from CinemaCon: The Goldfinch / New Title for Radegund / Thanks to World of Reel for the Invitation

Good Thursday to all...


MORE ON AGNES VARDA

Photo via Indiewire

The death of film making pioneer Agnes Varda has continued to send reverberations through the film community and the honorifics and reminiscences continue to appear online and in major publications.  As I did on Monday, I have linked a few more of those here:

From the Cannes Film Festival official site

Manohla Dargis for The New York Times

Jude Dry for Indiewire with comments from female film makers including: Greta Gerwig, Ava Duvernay, Lena Dunham and a dozen others.


REPORT FROM CINEMACON: THE GOLDFINCH

Part of the cast of The Goldfinch at CinemaCon (via Indiewire)

CinemaCon attendees got the first look at a trailer for John Crowley's adaptation of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch earlier this week.

The film is certainly on my watch list as a potential choice by TFF programmers for this year's fest.  The film is scheduled for U.S. release on Sept. 13th and is from the combination of Warner Bros. and Amazon Studios.  The combination of factors means that it could play any or all of the combination of Telluride, Venice and Toronto.

Kate Erbland writing for Indiewire filed this report from CinemaCon detailing the roll out of the first filmed images of the film.


NEW TITLE FOR RADEGUND

Amid fevered speculation that Terrence Malick's new film will be announced as a competition film for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on April 18th came news this week that its title has officially been changed. 

The film has been discussed for months with the working title Radegund.  However, Indiewire's Zack Sharf reported on Tuesday that the film will now be titled A Hidden Life.

The film follows the true story of World War II Austrian Conscientious Objector Franz Jagerstatter who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.

Sharf's story from Indiewire is linked here.

A Hidden Life is on my TFF #45 watch list.


THANKS TO WORLD OF REEL FOR THE INVITATION

I got a nice invite from Jordan Ruimy of the World of Reel website to participate in a project he is currently working on.  I don't want to give away what it is until Jordan is ready to unveil it but I did want to publicly give him a thank you and a shout out and tell you that something is in the works.

You can take a look at World of Reel by clicking here.

And thanks again for including me Mr. Ruimy.



That's today's MTFB.  Thanks for taking the time to give it a look.  More on Monday.

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Agnes Varda 1928-2019 / Garrone's Big Weekend

I hope it is a good day for you today...


AGNES VARDA 1928-2019

Hard news over the weekend as cinephiles the world over learned of and mourned the passing of  revered filmmaker Agnes Varda.

Varda was a giant of European cinema as one of the prominent voices that emerged with the French New Wave.

Varda was an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary for her 2017 collaboration with artist JR: Faces Places which played at TFF #43.  Varda also was a recipient of an Honorary Oscar.  She was among TFF's first tribute recipients being recognized at the 4th Telluride Film Festival.  Here's a snap of the entry for her tribute from the official TFF #4 program:

Tributes and reminiscences poured in from the film community from around the world over the weekend and I have linked several of those below:

Peter DeBruge/Variety

Mekado Murphy/The New York Times

Melanie Goodfellow/Screen Daily

Zack Sharf/Indiewire

Rhett Bartlett/The Hollywood Reporter

Jordan Raup/The Film Stage

Peter White/Deadline

MOMA Curator Laurence Kardish writing for Indiewire

Multiple sources from The Guardian

And here is Varda's IMDb page with video tribute

It wouldn't surprise me that Varda could have the TFF #46 program dedicated to her in five months much like Pierre Rissient last year.  I had already thought that some version of her latest and last film, Varda by Agnes (listed by IMDb as a television series),  which screened at the Berlin Fest in February, might show up as a part of the TFF #46 program and with her death, I suspect that becomes even more likely.  That is unless the producers/distributors choose to release it in the U.S. before Labor Day weekend.

One other note...among my favorite things to stumble across as I was preparing this story was the IMDb entry for Varda's 1967 documentary short Uncle Yanco which featured none other than Tom Luddy.  Yes.  There's a picture and a credit and the description mentions that the two were friends.  Here's the pictorial evidence:

               

GARRONE'S BIG WEEKEND

Word this weekend that Matteo Garrone's Dogman, which played TFF #45 fared very well at the David di Doantello Awards picking up nine trophies out of a total of 15 nominations including Best Picture, Direction and Screenplay.  The David di Donatello Awards are described by Varitey as Italy's equivalent of the Oscars.

Variety's coverage of those awards is linked here.

Meanwhile, almost simultaneously, we got our first glimpse of Garrone's next project...a live action version of Pinocchio starring Oscar winner Roberto Begnini.

Here's a pic of Begnini as Pinocchio's creator Geppeto:

Still via Greta De Lazzaris via The Hollywood Reporter

THR reports that Garrone plans to wrap principal photography by May... which could mean that with a quick turnaround...maybe people might see it as early as Labor Day...just saying...

Coverage is linked here from:

The Hollywood Reporter

The Playlist

That's a wrap for this sad Monday.  I'll have more on Thursday...


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Cannes Catches Up to Tellluride: Honoring Agnes Varda/"Hateful Eight" Photos/New "Youth" Trailer/Views from "The Sea of Trees"/More "Inferno" News/Tales of "Tales of Tales"

God Monday to All.  Hope you had a great Mother's Day weekend...



CANNES CATCHES UP TO TELLURIDE: HONORING AGNES VARDA

Telluride honored film maker Agnes Varda back in 1977.  It was the fourth edition of the Telluride Film Festival meaning that Varda was one of the fests earliest tribute recipients.  Also honored that year were Michael Powell and Ben Carre.

Varda was feted and several of her films were screened over the course of that weekend.

Now comes word that the Cannes Film Fest will catch up with Telluride some 38 years later as Varda will be awarded an honorary Palme d'Or this year.  I've included the link to the festival's official announcement as well as Varda's IMDb page:

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/61348.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889513/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1



"HATEFUL EIGHT"  PHOTOS

It looks increasingly less likely that we will have the chance to see Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" in Telluride over Labor Day.  Some journos have flat out said that it won't be ready in time for fall fests.

I've said all along that it was a long shot for TFF #42 anyway as Tarantino's festival resume is very small.  "Reservoir Dogs" played many fests including Sundance, Cannes and Toronto,  but Tarantino was an unknown commodity.  "Pulp Fiction" played Cannes, Lorcano, New York and a few others. Certainly fewer than "Pulp Fiction" did.

"Jackie Brown" played Berlin.  "Kill Bill 1",  "Kill Bill 2" played a couple of smaller fests.  "Death Proof" had Tarantino back at Cannes in 2007.  "Inglorious Basterds" played Cannes and Berlin and "Django" played no fest schedule.

So, the notion that "Hateful" would play Telluride was really based on two things alone: the fact that the movie was made in/near Telluride and that The Weinstein Company is distributing.

The film is still set for a late 2015 release in Israel.  IMDb currently has no set date for the film anywhere else.  I can actually see a scenario in which the film is finished and held for Cannes next year and then a late 2016 release.  No one has said that, in as far as I'm aware, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised.

Nonetheless, Entertainment Weekly had a slew of photos from the film that then spread like wildfire throughout the internet over the weekend.  Check the numerous links below:

Via The Film Stage

From Entertainment Weekly:

http://www.thewrap.com/hateful-eight-first-look-at-samuel-l-jackson-kurt-russell-and-jennifer-jason-leigh-in-character-photo/

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-look-at-quentin-tarantinos-hateful-eight/

http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/more-first-look-photos-for-tarantinos-the-hateful-eight-uncovered/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-images

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/15-pictures-from-quentin-tarantinos-the-hateful-eight/


NEW "YOUTH" TRAILER

Paolo Sorrentino's "Youth" stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel and has already generated a good deal of pre-Cannes Palme d'Or buzz.  Palme winners have about a 50/50 chance of landing in Telluride  over the last decade or so.

Palme winners of late that played Telluride:


2003: "Elephant"
2005: "The Child"
2007: "4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days"
2009: "The White Ribbon"
2012: "Amour"
2013: "Blue is the Warmest Color"

Last year's Palme went to "Winter Sleep" which didn't play at The SHOW so this year's winner might be more likely.

"Youth" has a new trailer that you can catch here via The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-michael-caine-and-harvey-keitel-have-a-bromance-in-new-trailer-for-paolo-sorrentinos-cannes-bound-youth-20150507


VIEWS FROM "THE SEA OF TREES"

Speaking of the Palme and past winners (as I did above)  Gus Van Sant's "The Sea of Trees" which is in competition this week at Cannes released some new images as well this past weekend.  Take a look:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-new-photos-of-matthew-mcconaughey-naomi-watts-ken-watanabe-in-gus-van-sants-sea-of-trees-20150507



MORE "INFERNO" NEWS

I reported in my last post that Werner Herzog's next project would be shopped at Cannes to pick up financing,  That happened between my Thursday post and today as the film has drawn backing.

Check the story from The Dissolve:


http://thedissolve.com/news/5641-cannes-deal-roundup-distributors-snap-up-snazzy-so/


TALES OF "TALES OF TALES"

And. as has been the pattern over the last few days...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-2-tv-spots-and-lots-of-new-images-for-matteo-garrones-the-tale-of-tales-with-salma-hayek-20150508



That's all for now...more on Thursday after the Cannes Festival is under way!