Ten Bets #1 for TFF #48 / Toronto's Early Line / Winners at Annecy

 TEN BETS #1 FOR TFF #48

Well, here we are.  June 24th, 2021.  Roughly two months away from the start of TFF #48.  It's still not a guarantee but each day we get closer, the more confident I feel that we'll all be seeing each other in the San Juans in September...which sounds like a song title from a Crosby/Hope road picture doesn't it?

Here's this year's first actual attempt at a list of films that I feel like could be on the list for TFF #48 when that drops presumably on Sept. 1st.  As always, there are no "locks" on the Ten Bets- at least at this point- and fair warning, my normal track record for the initial Ten Bets each season is roughly 50%.

So, without further ado and drumroll please...

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) Muhammad Ali/Burns, Burns and McMahon

3) The Card Counter/Schrader

4) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro

5) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

6) Bergman Island/Hansen-Love

7) Cow/Arnold

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) Blonde/Dominik

10) The Story of Looking/Cousins

Don't discount the possibility of: Dune, Julia, Mothering Sunday, Petite Maman, Where Is Anne Frank?, Paris 13th District and The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Again, grain of salt.

I'll update the Ten Bets list each week as the summer progresses right up to the final Ten Bets which is usually 20-25 bets) on Tuesday, August 31st.

TORONTO'S EARLY LINE

The Toronto International Film Festival dropped the titles of a dozen or so films that will be a part of this year's TIFF.  Unlike most normal announcements from TIFF, no premiere status was included.  The closest the statement came was to characterize Denis Villenueve's Dune as a World IMAX premiere.  Absent the specific premiere status I'm going to assume that any and all of the films are still possible for Telluride including Dune.  Other films of note in as far as Telluride potential that were included in the announcement today were:

Dune, Last Night in Soho, Petite Maman, Belfast, Les Bal des Folles, Lakewood and The Starling.

The complete story of the early announced Toronto films is here from Indiewire,

WINNERS AT ANNECY

The world's largest animated film fest, the Annecy Animation Festival has concluded in France with winning films announced last week.  Annecy is of some note to Telluride observers as films that have played there occasionally are programmed in T-ride over Labor Day weekend.

Big winners were: Flee and My Sunny Maad.  Flee won the top award at the fest, the Cristal.  Flee debuted at Sundance last January which normally precludes a slot in Telluride but there are rare exceptions and I feel like this could be one of those.  

The film is being distributed in the United States by NEON.

The complete rundown about the fest is linked here from Variety.

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Oscar's Uncertainty / IFC Films Acquires Berlin Title / Animated Lineup at Annecy

OSCAR'S UNCERTAINTY

As of this moment the 2021 Oscar telecast os still set for Feb. 28th but a Variety story Tuesday suggested that there is some notion within the Academy that the ceremony might need to be postponed.

Mark Malkin wrote:

"The 93rd Oscars aren’t until February, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering postponing the big night, according to multiple sources.

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say definitive plans are far from being concrete at this juncture. The telecast is currently set for Feb. 28, 2021, on ABC.

“It’s likely they’ll be postponed,” one of the sources familiar with the matter told Variety."

There seemed to be a lot of pushback on Twitter to the notion from a number of industry outlets.  Nevertheless, the story underscores the lack of certainty within the film business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

One other notable tidbit from the Malkin story:

"It’s unclear if postponing the Oscars will also mean that the Academy will allow films released after the year-end deadline to qualify for the 2021 Oscars."

The complete story is here.

In a semi related story, the Directors and Producers Guilds have adjusted their eligibility criteria to more closely correspond with decisions made earlier by the Academy.  Variety also has that story here.


IFC FILMS ACQUIRES BERLIN TITLE

Margaret Qualley in My Salinger Year (via IMDb).

IFC Films  has acquired Phillippe Falardeau's My Salinger Year for U.S. distribution.  Normally this kind of news would land the film smack in the middle of my Telluride speculation.  It's a distributor with some TFF history and a film from the Berlin fest (it was the opening film) which always seems to land a TFF spot or two.  It stars the red hot Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver (who would make a tempting tribute candidate).

But...who knows in the current climate.

The Hollywood Reporter has the story linked here.

My Salinger Year's IMDb page is here.


ANIMATED LINEUP AT ANNECY

The Annecy Animated Film Fest which has chosen to present as an online fest has announced its lineup according to The Hollywood Reporter.  As mentioned before, Annecy films occasionally find their way onto the T-ride lineup and that could still be true regardless of ANnecy's decision to go online.

You can find the announced films in competition and contretemp competition linked here .


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L.A. Times Looks at Films That Could Still Be in Play / Annecy Proceeds Online

L.A. TIMES LOOKS AT FILMS THAT COULD STILL BE IN PLAY

Frances McDormand in Nomadland (via Indiewire)

Earlier this week The Los Angeles Times' Glenn Whipp assessed the field of films that he thinks could still be in the sites of FIlm Fests and in Oscar play.  Whipp essentially comes down to three pieces of information about each of the 29 films that make it into his story: Distributor, production status and whether the film currently has a scheduled release date.

So, let's take a look at Whipp's list and talk about what titles based on his information and assessments might be festival bound...and, more specifically, Telluride-possible.

First...films that don't seem probable for Telluride:

Two Sundance films on the list meaning, if tradition holds, that no Telluride play would be in the cards: Florian Zeller's The Father starring Anthony Hopkins and Lee Issac Chung's Minari.

Then there are a dozen films from the Whipp list that have never really felt like Telluride films.  They're films that I don't feel as if they ever planned a fall film fest appearance.

Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (Netflex/locked/unscheduled)

Denis Villeneuve's Dune (Warner Bors./post-prod/Dec. 18)

Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch (Searchlight/locked/Oct. 16)***

Ridley Scott's The Last Duel (20th Century/production suspended)

George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Netflix/post-prod/unscheduled)

Paul Greengrass' News of the World (Universal/post-prod/Dec. 25)

Ryan Murphy's The Prom (Netflix/post-prod/unscheduled)

Liesl Tommy's Respect (MGM, post-prod/Dec. 25)

Docter and Powers' Soul (Disney/post-prod/Nov. 20)

Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir: Part II (A24/post-prod/unscheduled)

Christopher Nolan's Tenet (Warner Bros./locked/July 17)

Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (20th Century/post-prod/Dec. 18)

That said...within an unclear pandemic universe...who knows?  Maybe some of these films end up playing at a festival.

The next categorization are films that are locked that feel like they could be Telluride and/or other fall film fest entrants:

Francis Lee's Ammonite (Neon/unscheduled)

Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix/unscheduled)

Edoardo Ponti's The Life Ahead (Netflix/unscheduled)

Chloe Zhao's Nomadland (Searchlight/unscheduled- a note here, the article actually says its production status is uncertain...my feeling is that it's likely complete)

Then there are the films listed as being in post-production that, should they be completed in time, seem like Telluride and fall film fest possibles (included here is the post-production start date according to IMDb):

Leos Carax's Annette (Amazon/post-11-22-19/unscheduled)

Michael Showalter's The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight/post 12-23-19/unscheduled)

Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix/post-IMDb says the film is complete/unscheduled)

David Fincher's Mank (Netflix/post-2-3-20/unscheduled)***

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria (Neon/post-10-13-19/unscheduled)

George Clooney's The Midnight Sky (Netflix/post-1-2-20/unscheduled)

Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks (A24/post-7-4-19)

Glen Keane's Over the Moon (Netflix/post-1-2-20/unscheduled)

Tom McCarthy's Stillwater (Focus Features/post-1-2-20/unscheduled)

Aaron Sorkin's Trail of the Chicago 7 (Paramount/post-12-17-19/unscheduled)***

Joe Wright's The Woman in the Window (20th Century/post-10-29-18/unscheduled...though it has been dated for release a couple of times)

***I have read somewhere that both Mank and Trial of Chicago 7 will likely not be ready for any of the fall fests.

Additionally, you'd have to expect that films that went into post after the start of 2020 are suspect simply because those films would only have been in post for a few weeks before the shutdown happened: The Midnight Sky, Over the Moon, Stillwater.  

Even The Eyes of Tammy Faye with a Dec. 2019 post-production start date seem iffy to me.

Finally, for fun, let's factor in in directors who have been to Telluride in some capacity (director, writer or star) from these last two groups: Kaufman, Zhao, Fincher, Clooney, Coppola, McCarthy, Sorkin, Wright and I'll take a stab at five of these films making a Telluride lineup for 2020:

1) Nomadland

2) I'm Thinking of Ending Things

3) On the Rocks

4) Hillbilly Elegy

5) Ammonite

Whipp's complete article with his commentary is linked here.

ANNECY PROCEEDS ONLINE

The Annecy Animation Film Fest, the largest animated film festival on the planet announced a few weeks back that this year's event had been cancelled but the fest will move forward with a completely online version of the event.  The online fest will run June 15-20.

The details were reported by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang for Variety last Thursday.

Over the years, several films that have played the Annecy Fest have gone onto to play over the Labor Day weekend in Telluride.  Examples that come to mind include: Loving Vincent and Chico and Rita.

The Variety story includes claims by the fest organizers that many of its customary players will be back for the virtual event.

May 18th is the date for the fest to announce its competition lineup.

The full story is here.

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Annecy Animation, Munich and Melbourne Fests Cancelled / Cannes and Venice Say No to Full Online Fest / Hollywood Elsewhere Talks Fall Film Fests

ANNECY ANIMATION, MUNICH AND MELBOURNE FESTS CANCELLED

The Covid-19 pandemic claimed more film festivals for 2020 over the past few days as organizers for France's Annecy Animation Festival, the Munich Film Fest and the Melbourne Film Fest all announced cancellations of their 2020 editions in the days since my last blog post.

Annecy was scheduled to run June-15-20 and has, on occasion, been the launch pad for animated films that would then make a stop at Telluride.  Story here from The Hollywood Reporter.

Munich was scheduled to run from June 25-July 4 (which has been the general window that Cannes has purportedly looked at as a re-scheduling window).  Story here from Deadline.

Melbourne had been scheduled August 6-23.  That's uncomfortably close to the start dates for the Telluride/Venice/Toronto window.  Story here from Deadline.

Telluride's dates: Sept. 4-7

Venice dates: Sept. 2-12

Toronto's dates: Sept. 10-20

Re: Venice...see below


CANNES AND VENICE SAY NO TO FULL ONLINE FEST

Alberto Barbera, the Venice Film Fest head is reported to have ruled a completely digital version of that fest.  The Variety story reports that some "technology for some initiatives" hasn't been ruled out but he's also quoted as having said that Venice "cannot be replaced bu an online event".

As I have previously written, the Toronto Fest has begun preparations for some digital/online presentations as a possible part of TIFF.

The Venice story originated with this exclusive linked from Nick Vivarelli at Variety.


Meanwhile, on Tuesday, media reports were all over the news that Cannes director Thierry Fremaux has also ruled out replacing the Cannes' physical experience with an online experience.  Fremaux is quoted in Variety:

“(For) Cannes, its soul, its history, its efficiency, it’s a model that wouldn’t work. What is a digital festival? A digital competition? We should start by asking rights holders if they agree."

Fremaux is further cited saying:

“Directors of ‘films’ are driven by the idea of showing their movies on a big screen and sharing them with others at events like festivals, not for their works to end up on an iPhone,"

“If all the festivals are canceled, we will have to think of a way to showcase films, to avoid wasting a year, but I don’t think a precarious and improvised alternative of Cannes or Venice — no sooner done than forgotten — would be the solution.”

The complete Variety article is linked here.


HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE TALKS FALL FILM FESTS

Jeff Wells/Hollywood Elsewhere put up an interesting piece on Sunday called "Which Fall Film Fests, If Any" in which he assesses where he thinks each of the four major film fests (TFF, TIFF, NYFF, Venice) are in as far as what they might look like.

Among them, he seems the most bullish on Telluride and less so on both Venice and New York.  Toronto seems to be somewhere in the middle.

Here's Wells specifically talking Telluride:

"The smaller, eternally cooler Telluride Film Festival might work out, at least theoretically. Especially if Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger are extra careful about not allowing each and every seat to be occupied and are perhaps even open to staging the festival a week or two later than usual, especially if the coronavirus fade doesn’t begin until July or, God forbid, early August".

The complete post is linked here.

Additionally, here's Anne Thompson's Indiewire story about Oscar contenders, the pandemic and the film fest trail that Wells references in his piece.



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Jarmusch Interview / Serge Bromberg in NYC / Annecy Animation Fest

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JARMUSCH INTERVIEW

Director/Writer Jim Jarmusch talked recently to journalists at the Cannes Film Festival.  Jarmusch was there with Paterson, a small, quiet film that critics endorsed strongly.

Paterson also has a distribution deal with Amazon which I suspect will have some presence in Telluride this year.  Perhaps a major presence.

Those two factors mean that you have to consider a T-ride play for Paterson in a very serious fashion.

Here's Jarmusch's interview through the prism of The Playlist:

http://theplaylist.net/jim-jarmusch-talks-paterson-amazon-studios-star-wars-20160518/



SERGE BROMBERG IN NYC

Scene from Laurel and Hardy's Battle of the Century from The Lincoln Center

Telluride regular Serge Bromberg played New York last night with a good chunk of the program he presented last fall in Telluride with his Retour Le Flamme.

If you've never seen Serge do his thing,  think about catching it the next time he brings it to the Labor Day wing-ding.  I caught it last year for the first time and enjoyed it thoroughly.  It's a film history lesson, musical-comedy, and a validation of the importance of film preservation.

Bromberg's presentation last night was covered by The Film Society of Lincoln Center here:

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/amazing-slapstick-comedies/



ANNECY ANIMATION FEST

The Annecy Animation Festival is opening today in France.  That fest frequently is represented  at Telluride and I wouldn't be surprised if that connection doesn't show up again this year in some fashion.  Annecy runs today through the 18th.  Check this story from Variety as well as the festival's official website:

http://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/annecy-animation-film-festival-things-to-do-master-classes-screenings-1201789390/

http://www.annecy.org/home


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Animation in France/Future Telluride: Villeneuve's Next Project/There is Another

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ANIMATION IN FRANCE

The annual Annecy Animation Film Festival is on the run in Annecy, France as I write.  The fest runs through June 20th.  As most of you know, Annecy films have often made a splash at Telluride so having a look at what's going on there can sometimes give insight into some of the shorts and occasional feature animated films that make up a portion of the Telluride program.

Both "Paperman" and "Get a Horse" made an appearance at Annecy before showing up at the SHOW.

Variety is keeping track of the goings on in France and you can take a look at their reporting here:

http://link.variety.com/public/4578832


Annecy's official website is here:

http://www.annecy.org/home

FUTURE TELLURIDE: VILLENEUVE'S NEXT PROJECT

Denis Villeneuve, who has made a couple of stops at Telluride over the years ("Incendies" in 2010 and "Prisoners" in 2013) and who could be back again this year ("Sicario") has a number of irons in the proverbial fire.  Villeneuve is famously on board to direct the long gestating sequel to Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" but before that happens, he will finish work on "Story of Your Life".

"Story" is scheduled to be release in 2016 and is set to be distributed through Paramount and FilmNation Entertainment.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed yesterday that character actor Michael Stuhlbarg has been added to the cast of the film that already has Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in key roles.

Whether we see the film in 2016 at Telluride may depend on how Villeneuve and Lionsgate play the roll out of his upcoming "Sicario" which played at Cannes and is set for U.S. release on Sept. 18. The disposition of the "Sicario" vis-a-vis Toronto (Villeneuve is Canadian) could give us some clues.

Here's the THR story on the Stuhlbarg casting:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-stuhlbarg-star-opposite-amy-803112



THERE IS ANOTHER

I've spent a lot of time and energy over the last year and a half on the chances that Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert" might or might not make a play at Telluride.  Despite middling reviews from its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, I still feel like it's a reasonably good shot at playing The SHOW.

It seems, however, that Werner may also have another poker in the fire.  Following on yesterday's "Venice" speculation piece, which casually suggested that Herzog's "Salt and Fire" might be ready for that fest which would also mean that it'd be ready for T-ride.

"Salt and fire" is listed by IMDb as being in post-production.  The film's cast is reported to include Michael Shannon and Telluride favorite Gael Garcia Bernal.

IMDb calls it a thriller and lists the ambiguous "2015" as a release date.

So, maybe Herzog brings one or both films to the San Jauns over Labor Day.

"Salt and Fire's" IMDb page is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4441150/companycredits?ref_=tt_ql_7



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Animation Time/deadCenter Comes to Life/Coming Attractions

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ANIMATION TIME

The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is off and running in France.  It opened on Monday and will run through the end of the week.  I note the world's largest Film Fest dedicated to animation because there are almost always some animated films, both shorts and features, that appear there and then make there way to Telluride for Labor Day.

Variety has had significant coverage of the fest so far and you can find a good deal of it here:

http://variety.com/t/annecy-film-festival/

Meanwhile, the fest's official website is here:

http://www.annecy.org/home


DEADCENTER COMES TO LIFE

Oklahoma's own film festival, deadCenter, comes to life today and continues its run through this weekend.  Both "A Trip to Italy" and "Frank" are screened today...which for my money might be the two most intriguing titles on the deadCenter slate this year.  Check the full schedule at the official website here:

http://www.deadcenterfilm.org/


COMING ATTRACTIONS

A couple of announcements that last few days that caught my eye about future projects.  Zhang Yimou, whose "Coming Home" is a film that I feel is in the conversation for screening at Telluride this year, has announced that he will be involved in a production that will focus on telling the story of the Great Wall of China.  That story was reported by The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zhang-yimou-reveals-details-legendarys-711050


Also getting my notice was this story from The Playlist about Ariel Vromen's next project.  Vromen directed the TFF #39 entry "The Iceman".  Here's that story from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/michael-bay-eyes-underwater-adventure-george-tillman-jr-takes-the-longest-ride-with-nicholas-sparks-more-20140318


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Best of the Week

Good Saturday.  Back home in the Oklahoma Panhandle after a 16 hour marathon drive from Birmingham yesterday.

BEST OF THE WEEK

Here's the best material that I posted this past week on MTFB:

ANNECY ENDS

Probably the world's most important animated film festival has come to a conclusion in France.  The Annecy Animation festival was a contributor to last year's Telluride fest.  "Rio 2096" won the top prize, the Crystal Award.  Other award winners and a complete wrap-up of the festival, check out this from Variety:

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/rio-2096-takes-top-honor-at-annecy-fest-1200497503/


SALINGER TRAILER

I had been thinking that the upcoming documentary on J.D. Salinger had a shot to be a Telluride film...but I have discovered that the release date is now set for Sept. 6...the weekend after TFF concludes.  That doesn't make it impossible and I can actually see a scenario wherein The Weinstein Company might think the immediate opening after a Telluride weekend might make a lot of sense.  So, don't rule it out completely.

All that to get to this...it has a trailer...

Here are a couple of posts that accompanied the release of the trailer this week:

From Movie City News:
http://moviecitynews.com/2013/06/trailering-salinger-231/

And from The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-captivating-trailer-for-documentary-on-famed-literary-recluse-jd-salinger-20130613

MANDELA'S POSTER

A film with a somewhat rosier prospect of Telluride play is Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela and directed by Justin Chadwick.  That film released its first poster yesterday as per this post from The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/idris-elba-channels-nelson-mandela-569953

A LOOK AT 12 YEARS A SLAVE

First official images from Steve McQueen's third feature which has a better than even chance at making the TFF #40 lineup:

From The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-michael-fassbender-benedict-cumberbatch-chiwetel-ejiofor-in-12-years-a-slave-20130618


Also from Rope of Silicon:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/twelve-years-a-slave-pictures/

THE VENICE SPEC STARTS

Variety's Justin Chang and Nick Vivarelli have posted the first serious speculation about what might make the grade for the Venice Film Festival.

As I have pointed out a number of times, Telluride and Venice normally share only about 2-3 films each year.

So what might we learn from the Variety speculation?

The first two films mentioned are "Gravity" and "Twelve Years a Slave".  I'm of a mind that "Gravity" in an unlikely TFF entrant but that Steve McQueen might very well follow the same path that he has with his first two films...both "Hunger" and "Shame" played the Venice/Telluride double header.

The next paragraph of the article suggests a number of Venice possibilities...the most Telluride-interesting title might be Terry Gilliam's "The Zero Theorem".

The final paragraph teases films that aren't likely to be at Venice (so they say) because they'll be other places...perhaps T-ride.  The most intriguing to me are Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" and Spike Jones "Her".

For the whole article look here:

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/venice-film-festival-gears-up-for-a-starry-70th-anniversary-1200497948/

INDIE WIRE HAS A LIST

Major film blog warehouse, IndieWire has posted the 50 films they'd love to see at one of the 3 fall fests...Telluride, Toronto and Venice.

Of the 50 they list, they mention Telluride specifically in four cases: "The Double", "A Most Wanted Man", "The Young and Prodigious Mr. T.S. Spivet" and "The Monuments Men".  Frankly, I dubious about all but "Most Wanted" and I'm lukewarm about it at best.

Looking at their entire list of 50,the films they list that I think have the best T-ride chances are:

"The Fifth Estate"

"Foxcatcher"

"Labor Day"
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
"Philomena"
and

"Twelve Years a Slave"

Here's the link to the complete post:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/fall-festival-wishlist-the-50-films-we-hope-to-see-in-venice-toronto-and-or-telluride


FEST FLIGHTS

The TFF folks have announced additional flights/charters for this year's 40th Festival.  Check here for the news:

http://telluridefilmfestival.org/news/2013-06

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Pics from Inherent Vice/Annecy Ends/Salinger Trailer

Good Monday everyone.

PICS FROM INHERENT VICE

Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice" starring Joaquin Phoenix continues to film in and around Los Angeles.  PTA fan site Cigarettes and Redvines posted a slew of on-set photos in the last couple of days featuring Phoenix and Martin Short.

You can see all of them at this link:

http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-look-at-martin-short-in-inherent.html


ANNECY ENDS

Probably the world's most important animated film festival has come to a conclusion in France.  The Annecy Animation festival was a contributor to last year's Telluride fest.  "Rio 2096" won the top prize, the Crystal Award.  Other award winners and a complete wrap-up of the festival, check out this from Variety:

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/rio-2096-takes-top-honor-at-annecy-fest-1200497503/


SALINGER TRAILER

I had been thinking that the upcoming documentary on J.D. Salinger had a shot to be a Telluride film...but I have discovered that the release date is now set for Sept. 6...the weekend after TFF concludes.  That doesn't make it impossible and I can actually see a scenario wherein The Weinstein Company might think the immediate opening after a Telluride weekend might make a lot of sense.  So, don't rule it out completely.

All that to get to this...it has a trailer...

Here are a couple of posts that accompanied the release of the trailer this week:

From Movie City News:
http://moviecitynews.com/2013/06/trailering-salinger-231/

And from The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-captivating-trailer-for-documentary-on-famed-literary-recluse-jd-salinger-20130613

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