You Never Know / The Known Unknowns / New Teaser for Don't Look Up

 YOU NEVER KNOW

There was another one of those social media claims about a film going to Telluride this week.  That kind of thing happens every now and then.  

A few weeks back there was a buzz that House of Gucci's IMDb page listed a number of fall film fests as places that the film would play including Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York.  How'd that pan out?  The IMDb page was changed very quickly to show no film fest dates only its expected Nov. 24th release date.  And, of course, we know from the Venice announcement that the film won't be ready to screen there which also crossed it off the Telluride list.

This week the story came from a Tweet on Twitter that claimed that Mike Mills' C'mon, C'mon starring Joaquin Phoenix would play Telluride.  The Tweet didn't stay up long but it was long enough to cause a stir in the Twitterverse.

So does C'mon C'mon make the TFF #48 list?  

World of Reel's Jordan Ruimy has it on his Telluride list from his July 21st post.

THE KNOWN UNKNOWNS

Being the Ricardos/Sorkin (Amazon-No date)

Cyrano/Wright (MGM/United Artists-12/25)

Don't Look Up/McKay (Netflix-No date)

Eternals/Zhao (Disney-11/5)

A Journal for Jordan/Washington (Sony-12/22)

King Richard/Green (Warners-11/9)

The Last Duel/Scott (Disney/20th Century-10/15)

Soggy Bottom (Untitled PTA Project)/Anderson (MGM-11-26)

tick, tick...BOOM/Miranda (Netflix-Undated)

West Side Story/Spielberg (Disney/20th Century-12-10)

Some of these are likely not to play any fest whatsoever or, if they do, might point to New York or The AFI film fests:

Being the Ricardos, Don't Look Up, Eternals (though if any Disney/Marvel joint would ever play Telluride this is probably the one due to its director: Chloe Zhao), A Journal for Jordan, Soggy Bottom, West Side Story.

There has been quite a bit of speculation that Sorkin's Being the Ricardos might move to 2022 but Jason Osiason (Fantastic Film Fans) tweeted over the weekend that:

So, maybe Lucy and Desi still show up at some fest before the end of the year.

Of the remaining four: Cyrano, King Richard, The Last Duel and tick, tick...BOOM, I could still see the possibility that they could all still be part of a Telluride, Toronto or New York lineup.

NEW TEASER FOR DON'T LOOK UP

Don't Look Up is among the lengthy list of Netflix films that could end upon Telluride's list when it's announced in early September.  I have my doubts because we've nit seen an Adam McKay (Vice, The Big Short) title at the fest previously.  However, there have been others who have suggested that it could end up in Telluride...so, as the first section heading says above...you never know.

Netflix dropped a new teaser for the film over the weekend.  Here it is from YouYube:

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Indiewire's Cannes Analysis Intrigues / Exploring Amazon / Images from Cannes Films / The Greatest at T-ride?

 INDIEWIRE'S CANNES ANALYSIS INTRIGUES

As I do each year, once the dust had settled from the announcement of the Cannes lineup last Thursday, I began looking at what industry focused websites were saying about the films chosen and not chosen trying to glom onto some nuggets that could point the way to possible Telluride titles.  The most intriguing, to me at any rate, was Eric Kohn's piece for Indiewire.  Here are some nuggets of interest from that article for those of us who are Telluride junkies.

1) The French Dispatch news...If you've been reading here the last couple of years, you've likely picked up on the notion that I'm hot to see this film play T-ride.  Wes Anderson snuck Rushmore into Telluride in 1998 and hasn't been back since.  I have been thinking that there was a chance that Anderson might return to Telluride last year and then again this year with the film and Kohn adds some fuel to that fire as he writes:

"Cannes held the door open for... titles that wanted to wait. “The French Dispatch,” Wes Anderson’s imaginary vision of 20th-century journalists, has been one of Searchlight’s most promising new titles for some time. The movie was set for a Cannes premiere last year and would have later played Telluride"

Yes indeed, Kohn reports that "Dispatch" would have played TFF #47 had it happened.  To me that suggests the possibility that last year's plan could become this year's reality.  Other factors suggesting that it might play: From Searchlight, already announced fall release date post-Telluride (Oct. 22) and no suggestion of its premiere status re: its announced play at the New York Film Fest.

2) Films NOT in Cannes (barring something still to be announced-and there are other films that are still to be announced):

Dune

Soggy Bottom

The Power of the Dog

The Card Counter

Spencer

All or none of which might land a slot at Venice and then???

3) A couple of docs to keep an on: Kohn mentions a few documentaries that we maybe should keep an eye on moving toward Labor Day weekend.

The Val Kilmer doc "Val" is one.  Andrea Arnold's Cow, Todd Haynes The Velvet Underground and Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass all seem like possibilities.

The complete Indiewire story is linked here.

EXPLORING AMAZON

My look at film distributors that have had a significant presence at Telluride over the past five years continues today with Amazon Studios.

Here's their complete past at TFF:

2016: Manchester by the Sea

2017: Wonderstruck

2018: Cold War. Peterloo

2019: The Aeronauts, The Report

2020: All In; The Fight for Democracy

Best shots at TFF #48:

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Being the Ricardos (if it's done)

Val (see above)

AND...if the MGM deal is done and Amazon has control of the MGM inventory???  In play could be:

The Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson project (Soggy Bottom)

Ridley Scott's House of Gucci

George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing

Joe Wright's Cyrano

IMAGES FROM CANNES FILMS

The Film Stage has put together a collection of images from a number of the films that were announced for Cannes last week including some for films that might make the cut for TFF #48.

Examples: The French Dispatch:

And Andrea Arnold's Cow:

Check out some of the other images at The Film Stage linked here.

THE GREATEST AT T-RIDE?

Over the weekend I saw that PBS had dropped a teaser for the latest documentary from Ken Burns; Florentine Films: Muhammad Ali.

The teaser reveals that the doc will land on Sept. 19th which suggests that we could have a shot a seeing it in the San Juans over Labor Day weekend.

Here's the link to the teaser imbedded in a Tweet from PBS:

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