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I'M BACK

After a week long art show and five days in NYC, MTFB is back...and tired.  Here's the latest after a week away.

NEW BUGONIA DATE KEEPS TFF POSSIBLE

Focus Features announced this past week that they were bumping the release dates for Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugoina up a bit.  Focus now says a limited release will happen on Oct. 24th and then the nationwide rollout will begin a week later.

Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel writes that a Venice premiere is likely and the question for us becomes does it follow the same path as did The Favourite and Poor Things both of which did the Venice/Telluride two step.  What could make a difference is that Both The Favourite and Poor Things came from (Fox) Searchlight and Bugonia is being distributed by Focus.  It could be said that Searchlight and Focus have had similar presences at Telluride over the years.  Compare the last five years for each:

(Fox) Searchlight:

2024: A Real Pain

2023: All of Us Strangers, Poor Things

2022: Empire of Light

2021: The French Dispatch

2020: No Fest but...would have screened Nomadland

2019: A Hidden Life

Focus Features:

2024: Conclave, Piece by Piece

2023: The Holdovers

2022: TAR, Armageddon Time

2021: Belfast, The Card Counter

2020: No Fest but... would have screened The Way I See It

2019: No film.

So Searchlight has screened six films and would have had a seventh had Covid not interrupted.  Meanwhile, Focus screened seven and would have had an eighth in 2020.

As an additional side note...Emma Stone.  At Telluride for La La Land in 2016, Battle of the Sexes in 2017 and Tributed in 2018 with The Favourite.  

So, you know, maybe.

AND WHO WON'T BE AT TFF #52

That would be Alexander Payne as he will President of the Golden Lion jury for this year's Venice Film Festival.

Payne has been a frequent visitor to Telluride even in years when he doesn't have a film to screen there. He's been a Guest Director (2009) and attended an additional eight years sometimes with a film sometimes not..  Payne last attended for the 50th Festival in 2023.

The Venice Fest runs from August 27th-Sept. 6th.  TFF #52 runs Aug. 29th- Sept. 1st so Payne's duties as Jury President will mean he can't be in Telluride.

VIEWS FROM CANNES

Images from some of the films playing at Cannes that also seem to have some TFF possibility have been showing up online.  Here are some of those:

TRAILER FOR YOUNG MOTHERS

PHOTO FROM THE HISTORY OF SOUND

PHOTO FROM THE MASTERMIND

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MY TFF SAVED

For those who have been following the saga of "no passes for the Patterson's for TFF #51", I am pleased to report that disaster has been averted.  I can't get into what was involved but as of today's post it appears that MTFB will be physically at Telluride over Labor Day weekend complete with pass in hand.

My deepest appreciation for everyone who reached out with suggestions about how to resolve the issue.  Your advice and friendship mean the world to me.

See you in The Ride in late August/early September!

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: THE PENULTIMATE PICKS FOR THE FINAL SEVEN

Here's your MTFB Update for the remining seven Oscar categories that I have not updated in this latest round of predictions.  TFF films are in Bold.

COSTUMES

1) Poor Things (1)

2) Barbie (2)

3) Killers of the Flower Moon (3)

4) Oppenheimer (4)

5) Napoleon (5)

MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Maestro (1)

2) Poor Things (2)

3) Oppenheimer (3)

4) Golda (4)

5) Society of the Snow (5)

VISUAL EFFECTS

1) The Creator (1)

2) Godzilla Minus One (2)

3) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (3)

4) Napoleon (4)

5) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (5)

SOUND

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) The Zone of Interest (2)

3) Maestro (3)

4) The Creator (4)

5) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (5)

ANIMATED SHORT

1) War Is Over (1)

2) Letter to a Pig (2)

3) Ninety Five Senses (3)

4) Pachyderme (5)

5) Our Uniform (4)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

1) The Last Repair Shop (1)

2) The ABCs of Book Burning (2)

3) Nai Nai and Wai Po (3)

4) The Barber of Little Rock (4)

5) Island in Between (5)

LIVE ACTION SHORT

1) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (1)

2) The After (2)

3) Red, White and Blue (3)

4) Knight of Fortune (5)

5) Invincible (4)

Comment: Very stable predictions over the past couple of weeks.  Only two of these categories seem all but locked: Makeup/Hair and Animated Short.  The rest are very, very competitive.

Final Oscar predictions for all 23 categories will up on Sunday hours before the ceremony.

CANNES SPECUALTION HEATING UP

Frequent readers of MTFB know that the Telluride Film Festival annually screens a substantial number of films that have screened at Cannes.  If you're serious about trying to determine some of the films that will possibly make the TFF lineup, you have to pay attention to films that stop in France first.

Last year, the films that screened both fests included: Anatomy of a Fall, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera, Occupied City, Perfect Days, The Taste of Things, and The Zone of Interest.

So, I have been sifting through some pieces that are spitballing what may and may not be at Cannes that also seem to have the kind of pedigree to make the Labor Day trip to Colorado.  Looking at posts from Variety,  Deadline.com and World of Reel.

Reportedly Cannes will announce the bulk of the 2024 lineup on April 11th.

Variety speculates that the following films could be Cannes bound (and these are the ones that seem to have early TFF potential):

Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez 

Ali Abassi's The Apprentice

Paolo Sorrentino's Parenthope

Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness

Andrea Arnold's Bird

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

Variety says that Steve McQueen's Blitz is off the table for Cannes.

Deadline is in agreement with Variety in terms of Emilia Perez, Parenthope, Kinds of Kindness, Bird and Megalopolis.  In addition to those they include a couple of other films that "feel" possible for Telluride:  Balthazar Kormakur's Touch and Edward Berger's The Conclave.

Deadline also concurs with Variety reporting the unlikelihood of Blitz playing Cannes and adds other doubtfuls (that could be TFF possibles): 

Clint Eastwood's Juror #2

Pablo Larrain's Maria

Paul Schrader's Oh Canada

Joshua Oppenheimer's The End

Mike Leigh's Hard Truths.

And from World of Reel's constantly evolving list of Cannes possibilities that might also be TFF contenders...agreement on:

Kinds of Kindness

Megalopolis

Bird

Emilia Perez

Parenthope

The Apprentice

Touch

The Conclave

Three additional titles from WOR's list that I would include as TFF possibilties:

Sean Baker's Anora

Julian Schnabel's In the Hands of Dante

Guy Maddin's Rumors

So there's some titles to chew on.

Links to each of the posts:

Variety

Deadline

World of Reel

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Director Alexander Payne and Screenwriter David Hemingson for The Holdovers from The National Board of Review.

Sound Designer Johnnie Burn for The Zone of Interest from The Desert Sun.

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SAG AND DGA NOMINEES AND TFF

The Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild of America announced their nominees for excellence in film in 2023 yesterday.  Four TFF films received nominations from SAG for acting excellence totaling seven nominations:

The Holdovers: Paul Giamatti-Lead Actor, Da'Vine Joy Randolph-Supporting Actress.

Poor Things: Emma Stone-Lead Actress and Willem Dafoe-Supporting Actor

Nyad: Annette Bening-Lead Actress and Jodie Foster-Supporting Actress

Rustin: Colman Domingo-Lead Actor

I was surprised that Mark Ruffalo was not nominated for Poor Things and that PT also missed for Best Ensemble.

Meanwhile, the Directors' Guild also announced their five nominees yesterday and two TFFers made the list of five names.  Alexander Payne for The Holdovers and Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things were each nominated.  They were joined Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) and Greta Gerwig (Barbie).

The Sag Awards will be presented on Feb. 24th and the DGA will announce their winners on Feb. 10th.

The Producers Guils announces their nominees tomorrow.

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE

Today I'm updating the Screenplay, International Feature, Documentary Feature, Cinematography and Editing categories.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) The Holdovers (1)

2) Past Lives (3)

3) Anatomy of a Fall (4)

4) May December (5)

5) Maestro (-)

Alternates: Air, Saltburn, The Iron Claw.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) Poor Things (3)

3) American Fiction (2)

4) Barbie (-)

5) Killers of the Flower Moon (4)

Alternates: All of Us Strangers, The Zone of Interest, and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret. 

BEST DOCUMENTARY 

1) American Symphony (1)

2) 20 Days in Mariupol (2)

3) Beyond Utopia (3)

4) Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (4)

5) Four Daughters (5)

Alternates: The Eternal Memory, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project and Stamped from the Beginning.

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) The Zone of Interest (1)

2) Society of the Snow (3)

3) The Taste of Things (2)

4) The Teachers' Lounge (4)

5) Fallen Leaves (5)

Alternates: Perfect Days, 20 Days in Mariupol and Totem.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Poor Things (3)

4) Maestro (4)

5) The Zone of Interest (5)

Alternates: Saltburn, Barbie and The Color Purple.

FILM EDITING

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) Poor Things (3)

3) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)

4) Barbie (4)

5) The Holdovers (-)

Alternates: Maestro, Anatomy of a Fall and Air.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Jodie Foster and Annette Bening for Nyad from Netflix via YouTube.

Annette Bening for Nyad from Awards Watch.

Behind the Scenes for The Zone of Interest from The Hollywood Reporter.

Behind the Scenes for All of Us Strangers from FirstShowing.net.

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 OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION

Here's MTFB's  Oscar Update.  Today I'm updating the Best Picture and Direction categories.  The last prediction for these two categories were posted on Nov. 9th.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Barbie (3)

4) Poor Things (4)

5) The Holdovers (6)

6) American Fiction (5)

7) Maestro (7)

8) The Color Purple (-)

9) Past Lives (8)

10) The Zone of Interest (10)

Alternates:  Anatomy of a Fall, Air, May December

BEST DIRECTION

1) Christopher Nolan/Oppenheimer (1)

2) Martin Scorsese/Killer of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Greta Gerwig/Barbie (3)

4) Yorgos Lanthimos/Poor Things (4)

5) Jonathan Glazer/The Zone of Interest (5)

Alternates: Alexander Payne/The Holdovers, Cord Jefferson/American Fiction and Bradley Cooper/Maestro.

THE BIKERIDERS RIDING TO A NEW HOME

Variety and other outlets reported that New Regency and Disney/20th Century were looking for a partner to distribute Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders.  The film was originally set for a Dec. 1st release but was removed from the release calendar in the midst of the Actors' and Writers' strikes.

We have word from yesterday afternoon that Focus Features has snagged North American distribution rights and plans to release the film in 2024.  The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets, reported the deal.

The film stars Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer.

TRAILERS AND CLIPS: THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE, POOR THINGS AND SALTBURN

U.S. TRAILER FOR THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE

NEW U.K. TRAILER FOR POOR THINGS

CLIP FROM SALTBURN VIA INDIEWIRE

https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1726993876555284600

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES: GIAMATTI, DAFOE, DOMINGO AND MORE

POOR THINGS

Writer/Director Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things from Entertainment Weekly.

Willem Dafoe for Poor Things from Gold Derby.

RUSTIN

Colman Domingo and screenwriter Julian Breece for Rustin from Next Best Picture.

THE HOLDOVERS

Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers from The Playlist.

Actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers fromVulture.

Actor Dominic Sessa for The Holdovers from Gold Derby.

Producer Mark Johnson for The Holdovers from Awards Daily.

Cinematographer Eigil Bryld for The Holdovers from Awards Radar.

ALL OF US STRANGERS

Paul Mescal for All of Us Strangers from Awards Watch.

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal from Entertainment Weekly.

Writer/Director Andrew Haigh for All of Us Strangers from The Playlist.

Andrew Haigh for All of Us Strangers from Awards Watch.

SALTBURN

Barry Keoghan and Emerald Fennell for Saltburn from TheRinger.com

Writer/Director Emerald Fennell for Saltburn from Entertainment Weekly.

Emerald Fennell from SlashFilm.

NYAD

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster for Nyad from Awards Radar.

THE ZONE OF INTEREST AND ANATOMY OF A FALL

Sander Huller for both films from Awards Watch.

FALLEN LEAVES

Actors Alma Poysti and Jussi Vantanen for Fallen Leaves from Next Best Picture.

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Oscar Update: Supporting Acting / DOC NYC Announces Short Lists / Totem Trailer / Interviews and Profiles: Domingo, Payne, Dafoe and More

OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING

Here's your Oscar Update for today's post.  This is a check on predicted nominees for the Supporting Acting categories.  They were last posted here on Oct. 30th.  Previous positions on the MTFB Oscar Update is listed to the right in parentheses.  As always TFF films are Bold.

 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Da'Vine Joy Randoplh/The Holdovers (1)

2) Emily Blunt/Oppenheimer (2)

3) Jodie Foster/Nyad (3)

4) Danielle Brooks/The Color Purple (4)

5) Julianne Moore/May December (5)

Alternates: Taraji P. Henson/The Color Purple, Penelope Cruz/Ferrari and America Ferrera/Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Robert Downey, Jr./Oppenheimer (1)

2) Ryan Gosling/Barbie (2)

3) Robert DeNiro/Killers of the Flower Moon (3)

4) Mark Ruffalo/Poor Things (4)

5) Willem Dafoe/Poor Things (5)

Alternates: Charles Melton/May December, Dominic Sessa/The Holdovers, Sterling K. Brown/American Fiction.

I'll have updated Screenplay predictions in Monday's post.

DOC NYC ANNOUNCES SHORT LISTS

DOC NYC has announced three lists of documentaries for inclusion in its fest.  The choices are often seen as being predictive of eventual Oscar nominations.  The fest concludes today. These are the TFF films included on the various lists:

Documentary Feature:

American Symphony

Bobi Wine: The People's President

The Pigeon Tunnel

Shorts:

The Last Repair Shop

Winner's Circle:

Beyond Utopia

The complete lists are linked here from Variety.

TOTEM TRAILER

From Janus Films we saw the release this week of the official U.S. trailer for Totem, Mexico's selection for consideration for the International Film Oscar.  Here it is from YouTube:

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES:

Colman Domingo for Rustin from Awards Radar.

George C. Wolfe for Rustin from The Hollywood reporter's Awards Chatter Podcast.

Willem Dafoe for Poor Things from The Hollywood Reporter.

Alexander Payne for The Holdovers from Filmmakermagazine.com.

Errol Morris for The Pigeon Tunnel from Pop Culture Confidential.

Christos Nikou for Fingernails from The Academy Conversations via YouTube.

Cinematographer Lukasz Zal for The Zone of Interest from The Hollywood Reporter.

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Oscar Update: Lead Acting / Academy Convo for Nyad / TFF Films and Critics Choice Doc Awards / Magnolia Acquires Food Inc. 2 / Trailers: Perfect Days and They Shot the Piano Player / New Clip from Saltburn / Interviews and Profiles

OSCAR UPDATE: LEAD ACTING

Here's your Oscar Update for today's post.  This is a check on predicted nominees for the Lead Acting categories.  They were last posted here on Oct. 23rd.  Previous positions on the MTFB Oscar Update is listed to the right in parentheses.  As always TFF films are Bold.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Emma Stone/Poor Things (1)

2) Lily Gladstone/Killers of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Carey Mulligan/Maestro (3)

4) Margot Robbie/Barbie (4)

5) Annette Bening/Nyad (5)

Alternates: Sandra Huller/Anatomy of a Fall, Natalie Portman/May December and Fantasia Barrino/The Color Purple

BEST ACTOR

1) Bradley Cooper/Maestro (2)

2) Cillian Murphy/Oppenheimer (1)

3) Paul Giamatti/The Holdovers (4)

4) Colman Domingo/Rustin (3)

5) Leonardo DiCaprio/Killers of the Flower Moon (5)

Alternates: Jeffrey Wright/American Fiction, Andrew Scott/All of Us Strangers and Barry Keoghan/Saltburn.

ACADEMY CONVERSATION FOR NYAD

From AMPAS and YouTube here is an Academy Conversation with Nyad directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin:

TFF FILMS AND CRITICS CHOICE DOC AWARDS

Two TFF #50 films scored wins last night at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards.  Matt Heineman's American Symphony, which focuses on the lives of Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad, was winner for Best Musical Doc and Best Score.  The Short Doc winner also came from Telluride and that was Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot's The Last Repair Shop.

The big winner of the night was Davis Guggenheim's Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.  That film nabbed five awards including Best Documentary Feature.

A complete rundown of all winners is here from Awards Radar.

MAGNOLIA PICTURES ACQUIRES FOOD INC. 2

News this past week that TFF #50 entrant Food Inc. 2 has been acquired for distribution  by Magnolia Pictures.  The documentary is a sequel to 2008's Oscar nominated doc Food Inc. The director of the original film, Robert Kenner is joined for the sequel by co-director Melissa Robledo.

Deadline reports that Magnolia is eyeing a spring 2024 release.

TRAILERS: PERFECT DAYS AND THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER

From YouTube:

PERFECT DAYS

THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER

NEW CLIP FROM SALTBURN

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Alexander Payne on The Holdovers from Awards Watch.

Screenwriter David Hemingson on The Holdovers from Time.com.

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OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION

Here's MTFB's  Oscar Update.  Today I'm updating the Best Picture and Direction categories.  The last prediction for these two categories were posted on Oct. 16th.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Barbie (4)

4) Poor Things (3)

5) American Fiction (8)

6) The Holdovers (5)

7) Maestro (6)

8) Past Lives (7)

9) Anatomy of a Fall (-)

10) The Zone of Interest (9)

Alternates: The Color Purple, Air, Saltburn, All of Us Strangers

BEST DIRECTION

1) Christopher Nolan/Oppenheimer (1)

2) Martin Scorsese/Killer of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Greta Gerwig/Barbie (3)

4) Yorgos Lanthimos/Poor Things (4)

5) Jonathan Glazer/The Zone of Interest (5)

Alternates: Alexander Payne/The Holdovers, Cord Jefferson/American Fiction,  Bradley Cooper/Maestro and Justine Triet/Anatomy of a Fall. 

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS AND TFF

The European Film Academy announced its nominations for film excellence on Tuesday and a number of TFF films were in the mix:.  Here's the listing of EFA nominations earned by TFF films:

The Zone of Interest (5): Best European Film, Best Direction, Best Actress (Huller), Best Actor (Freidel), Best Screenplay.

Fallen Leaves (5): Best European Film, Best Direction, Best Actress (Poysti), Best Actor (Vatanen), Best Screenplay.

Anatomy of a Fall (4): Best European Film, Best Direction, Best Actress (Huller), Best Screenplay.

The Teachers' Lounge (2): Best Actress (Benesch), Best Screenplay.

La Chimera (1): Best Actor (O'Connor).

The Promised Land (1): Best Actor (Mikkelsen).

Here's the complete listing of all nominees from Ioncinema.

The EFA's winners will be announced on Dec. 9th.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES: 

Alexander Payne on The Holdovers from apnews.com.

Composer Mark Orton on The Holdovers from Screen Rant.

 

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OSACR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS 

Here's MTFB's first Oscar Update for the screenplay categories since the original set of predictions On Sept. 25th.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Barbie (1)

2) The Holdovers (2)

3) Past Lives (3)

4) Anatomy of a Fall (5)

5) Maestro (4)

Alternates: Saltburn, Air, May December.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Oppenheimer (1)

2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)

3) Poor Things (3)

4) American Fiction (4)

5) All of Us Strangers (-)

Alternates: The Zone of Interest, The Taste of Things, Origin.

Beginning this week I'll start providing Oscar Updates with every post focused on the Big Eight categories.

THE BIKERIDERS PICS

I advance of its Nov. 9th issue that will feature Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders, Total Film has posted some photos of the film.  The pics feature Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer.  Check them out here.

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES:

Alexander Payne on The Holdovers from Uproxx.

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Oscar Update: Supporting Acting / Trailers: Werner Herzog-Radical Dreamer / Interviews and Profiles: Payne, Haigh and More

OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING

Here's MTFB's first Oscar Update for the Supporting Acting categories since the original set of predictions On Sept. 25th.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Da'Vine Joy Randoplh/The Holdovers (1)

2) Emily Blunt/Oppenheimer (2)

3) Jodie Foster/Nyad (3)

4) Danielle Brooks/The Color Purple (5)

5) Julianne Moore/May December (4)

Alternates: America Ferrera/Barbie, Rosamund Pike/Saltburn, Viola Davis/Air and Taraji P. Henson/The Color Purple

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Robert Downey, Jr./Oppenheimer (1)

2) Ryan Gosling/Barbie (3)

3) Robert DeNiro/Killers of the Flower Moon (4)

4) Mark Ruffalo/Poor Things (2)

5) Willem Dafoe/Poor Things (5)

Alternates: Charles Melton/May December, Dominic Sessa/The Holdovers, Sterling K. Brown/American Fiction.

 

I'll update the screenplay categories next week.

TRAILERS: WERNER HERZOG-RADICAL DREAMER

From Shout Studios we have the U.S. trailer for TFF #49 entrant Werner Herzog-Radical Dreamer.  The documentary is set for release on Dec. 5th.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:  

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES: PAYNE, HAIGH AND MORE

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi on the set of Free Solo

Alexander Payne on The Holdovers from The Los Angeles Times.

Alexander Payne on The Holdovers from Uproxx.

Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers from Indiewire.

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin on Nyad from Indiewire.

Ilker Catak on The Teachers' Lounge from Awards Radar.

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American Symphony Leads Critics' Choice Doc Nominations / The Bikeriders Moves On /Trailer for The Zone of Interest / Featurette for Nyad / Trailer for The Last Repair Shop / Interviews: Payne, Huller, Morris, Triet and Baker / Last Note: KOTFM

AMERICAN SYMPHONY LEADS THE CRITICS CHOICE DOC NOMINATIONS

The awards season has well and truly gotten out of the starting gate with the announcement earlier this week with The Critics Choice awards nominations being announced.  American Symphony which debuted at Telluride a few weeks back led the parade with six nominations including Best Doc Feature, Best Music Doc,  Best Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Score according Erik Anderson of Awards Watch.

Other films that screened at TFF #50 also earned mention among the nominees including:

Beyond Utopia: Best Doc Feature, Best Political Doc, Best Direction, Best Editing

The Mission: Best Doc Feature, Best Editing, Best Score

Occupied City: Best Historical Doc, Best Direction, Best Cinematography

Orlando: My Political Biography: Best First Doc Feature

Bobi Wine: The People's President (from TFF #49): Best First Doc Feature, Best Political Doc

The Last Repair Shop: Best Short Doc, Best Score

Anselm: Best Cinematography

The Pigeon Tunnel: Best Score

The Last Song from Kabul: Best Short Doc

The Critics Choice Documentary winners win be announced on Nov. 12th.

THE BIKERIDERS MOVES ON

The word came yesterday that Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders has moved off of its previously announced release date.  Originally the film was supposed to have debuted on Dec. 1st.  Screen Daily, among others, reported the date change.  At this point no replacement date has been announced although I did see some mention in other reports that suggest that Disney still plans to release the film in time for awards season.

TRAILER FOR GLAZER'S ZONE OF INTEREST

A24 has released a first teaser/trailer for Jonathan Glazer's brilliant The Zone of Interest.  The film is set for a limited release on Dec. 15th.  Of all of the films I saw at TFF #50, Zone is the one that has stuck with me most strongly.  Here's the teaser from YouTube:

FEATURETTE FOR NYAD

Netflix has released a "behind the scenes" featurette (3:32) for Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's Nyad.  The film is set for a limited release on Nov. 3rd.  Here's the featurette from YouTube:

TRAILER FOR THE LAST REPAIR SHOP

INTERVIEWS: PAYNE, HULLER, MORRIS, TRIET AND BAKER

Alexander Payne from Indiewire.

Alexander Payne from Gold Derby.

Annie Baker from InterviewMagazine.com

Sandra Huller from The A.Frame

Errol Morris from Pop Culture Confidential

Justine Triet from the Canadian Broadcast Company

LAST NOTE: KOTFM

If you go see Killers of the Flower Moon this weekend, like I'll be doing, look for me.  If I made it into the film as a background player it's likely in one of two scenes.  The arrests of DeNiro and DiCaprio's characters.  Those were shot separately.  The best chance you'll have to actually see me is in the DiCaprio scene as I am in a crowd clamoring as DiCaprio is put in a car and driven away.

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