Obsessing about the Telluride Film Festival and the film awards season since 2008!
"The best blog out there for predicting what will be going to Telluride."-Matt Neglia, Next Best Picture
"The Nostradamus of Telluride"
-Tim Appelo, Movies for Grownups
"But it's our job." - Anne Thompson, Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival begins to announce its 2018 lineup tomorrow. It'll be the biggest set of clues and hints about what could be chosen for The SHOW of the entire summer. The key is to look at the premiere status for a film.
A film listed as a World or North American Premiere means, unless there is some sort of unanticipated change, those films will not make an appearance at Telluride. A Canadian Premiere designation almost guarantees a T-ride play unless it is a film that has played at Sundance.
An International Premiere designation is murkier and usually requires some digging and even then it can be difficult to pin its meaning down definitively.
Then on Wednesday, Venice will announce the bulk of its lineup. As I have written before, the key about Venice is often when a film is scheduled and we probably won't know that for a few weeks. Premiere status for Venice can tell us some things if a film is not listed as a World Premiere.
Meanwhile, we expect announcements from both New York and Fantastic Fest in the next couple of weeks or so.
Come on back here to MTFB for the latest news and analysis as we try to piece together a lineup for Telluride.
I would point out that over the past five years the MTFB success rate by the time we get to the end of the summer has been 91/95 or 96%.
VENICE - ADDITIONAL RUMORS
Last Friday we had a look at rumored titles that might be named later this week as films that would play Venice. Why is that important? The Venice-Telluride connection has become an increasingly relevant statistic.
Last year the two fests shared eight films. Some played early in the Venice lineup and then moved to Telluride. Some films played Telluride first and then moved to Venice.
The Twitterverse added fuel to the fire this weekend with increased speculation about films that could be announced that may also play T-ride including Laszlo Nemes Sunset, Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers, Olivier Assassyas' Non Fiction, Mike Leigh's Peterloo, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate and the Coen Brothers six part mini-series for Netflix, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs:
Now, if the Coen's Buster Scruggs somehow makes the Telluride lineup...
PREDICTING TORONTO
Barry Hertz writing for The Globe and Mail took a weekend stab at predicting some of the buzziest titles that could be announced tomorrow for the 2018 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
In the lengthy article he names several films that are also on the MTFB watch list for TFF #45 For example:
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
The Sisters Brothers
Widows
Mary Queen of Scots
Boy Erased
A Star Is Born
On the Basis of Sex
The Front Runner
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
The Other Side of the Wind
Everybody Knows
Ash Is the Purest White
Burning
Shoplifters
It's worth noting that TFF and TIFF often share as many as 20 or more titles.
Time for the second installment of MTFB's Ten Bets for this year's Telluride Film Festival. These are the ten films that I believe, for this moment, to be the most likely to make the lineup for the 45th edition of The SHOW.
Last week's Ten Bets was:
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) The Other Side of the Wind
3) Peterloo
4) Capernaum
5) Cold War
6) The Old Man and the Gun
7) Sunset
8) Burning
9) The Front Runner
10) Beautiful Boy
Here's this week's Ten Bets:
1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) The Other Side of the Wind
3) Cold War
4) Capernaum
5) Beautiful Boy
6) Burning
7) Boy Erased
8) Peterloo
9) The Old Man and the Gun
10) The Front Runner
Other films in the hunt:
Sunset, The Sisters Brothers, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Dogman, On the Basis of Sex, Girl, Happy as Lazzaro, Shoplifters, He Dreams of Giants, First Man, Widows, A Star Is Born, Cheney (Backseat), Roma, At Eternity's Gate, Everybody Knows.
HISTORY PROJECT: THE THIRD TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
I'm closing in on the conclusion of my project to expand the history section of this site as I cast an eye back to the third Telluride Film Festival that ran from Sept. 3-6, 1976.
TRIBUTES:
Chuck Jones, King Vidor and King Kong
SHOWS:
The Big Parade
Billy the Kid
Blue Jeans
Chulas Fronteras
The Crowd
Dersu Uzala
The Fire Within
Greaser's Palace
Heart of Glass
King Kong
La Marquise D'o
The Lost World
Lumiere
Maitresse
Most Dangerous Game
Music and People of the Northeast
Pastoral Hide and Seek
Phantom Tollbooth
Signs of Life
Spirit of the Beehive
Stories from the Jungle Book
Street Scene
The Thief
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
The Wedding March
A Well Spent Life
Wild Horse Mesa
Wild Oranges
GUESTS:
Robert Downey
Werner Herzog
Ed Lachman
Louis Malle
Barbet Schroeder
Fay Wray
THE DISTRIBUTORS 2018: SPECIAL HOUSES
I'm taking a quick look at specialty distribution companies that have had some Telluride successes over the past few years each of which has a film that stands a shot at making the Telluride lineup:
Magnolia
2006- Severance
2007- Terror's Advocate, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Redacted
2012- The Hunt, A Royal Affair
2015- Viva
Oscilloscope
2008- Kisses
2011- We Need to Talk About Kevin
2016- Lost in Paris
Strand Releasing
2010- Cameraman
2011- Bonsai
2012- Paradise: Love
2013- The Missing Picture
2014- Dancing Arabs
2016- Mifune: The Last Samurai
Here's what they have:
Magnolia has Cannes Palme D'or winner and critical success Shoplifters. I actually think this film has a good chance to make TFF #45. So much so that if I had a #11 on today's Ten Bets, Shoplifters would be there.
Oscilloscope has Margarethe Von Trotter's Searching for Ingmar Bergman which also seems like a good fit for TFF. It also played at Cannes.
Strand Releasing's best shot appears to be Cannes entry Sorry Angel. Of the three films I'm looking at, it seems like the least likely but it's not an impossibility.
Chances:
Shoplifters- 45%
Searching for Ingmar Bergman- 40%
Sorry Angel- 20%
Monday, a look at films that seem like Telluride possibles that still lack a U.S. distributor.
Have a good weekend!
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
Here you have it. My first official stab at guessing/predicting/projecting/hoping for films that will play at The SHOW in Telluride over Labor Day weekend.
The first set of predictions every June is fraught with uncertainty. I look at a lot of factors: Studios. distributors, TFF histories, especially with directors. The buzz around films we know are coming in the fall and will almost assuredly play some if not all of the Telluride/Venice/Toronto triumvirate. Oscar hopefuls, Cannes titles and a lot of the time, especially in early July...it's about intuition.
It all factors into my assessments.
Here's the history of success, or lack thereof, for each of the last seven years that I have been using the "Ten Bets" format:
As you can tell, last year was a bounce back after low years of 2015 and 2016.
Overall, I manage an average of 5.7 correct guesses with the initial Ten Bets of each season.
So...crossing fingers... here's the first Ten Bets for 2018 (in order of likelihood):
10) Beautiful Boy- I think Amazon Studios will land at Telluride with this, at least and maybe more.
9) The Front Runner- Jason Reitman was once a T-ride favorite. My guess is that this film gets him back.
8) Burning- this was Cannes' unrewarded critical darling from a director who has played TFF before. This was actually higher on my list until word broke yesterday that it had been grabbed for U.S. distribution by Well Go USA Entertainment. See below.
7) Sunset- If its half as good as his first film (Son of Saul), Laszlo Nemes will return.
6) The Old Man and the Gun- This feels like Fox Searchlight's best play for Oscar season and thus its best chance at a Telluride berth...though they do have other possibles.
5) Cold War- Pawel Pawlikowski with a good shot to return to TFF.
4) Capernaum- Cannes Jury Prize winner and SPC's most likely shot for the schedule.
3) Peterloo- Mike Leigh's film about labour strife in Britain.
2) The Other Side of the Wind-Orson Welles "last film". If this doesn't play Telluride I will be greatly surprised and, for that matter, upset.
1) If Beale Street Could Talk- It would a shock if Barry Jenkins' follow-up to his Oscar winning Moonlight does not make The SHOW's lineup.
Others on my "just under the Ten Bets" list: Boy Erased, The Sisters Brothers, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Dogman, On the Basis of Sex, Girl, Happy as Lazzaro, Shoplifters, He Dreams of Giants, First Man, Widows, A Star Is Born, Cheney (Backseat), Roma, At Eternity's Gate, Everybody Knows.
What do YOU think? What films do YOU think might play? What films do YOU WANT to play?
Drop me a note at any one of the contact methods listed below.
Looking at this list before I punch the button to publish, I'm saying to myself...naw...these can't all happen...but what if they did???
So, there you have it. Let's see now how many of these films actually make the lineup.
AWARDS DAILY'S CRITICS' LIST
Jordan Ruimy, writing and compiling for Awards Daily has posted a "Best Of" critics assessment for the first half of 2018.
TFF #45 films pop up on the list with some frequency. Included on the list are:
#31-Loveless
#24-Foxtrot
#13-Lean on Pete
#6-The Rider
#1-First Reformed
As I mentioned above, Lee Chang-dong's Cannes critical fave Burning has a distributor. Variety reports that Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired the film and plans a limited release on Oct. 26th in NYC with expansion after that.
The film was right at the top of the critics' polls after its screening at Cannes but had languished without a distributor until yesterday.
As you see above, I still have it listed among my first Ten Bets list, albeit lower than I was thinking earlier this week, despite the fact that Well Go USA has essentially no Telluride history to speak of.
We're winding down the review of past Telluride Film Festivals (a process over a year in the making). Today we look at TFF #5 that took place Sept. 1-4, 1978.
TRIBUTES: Hal Roach, Sterling Hayden, The Czech New Wave: Jaromil Jires, Pavel Juracek, Jan Nemec and Ivan Passer.
SHOWS:
Always for Pleasure
American Friend
Camouflage
Case for a Rookie Hangman
China 9, Liberty 37
Cooley High
The Devil's Reporter
Diamonds of the Night
Doctoring
El Capitan
Hellgate
Intimate Lighting
Johnny Guitar
The Killing
Koko, The Talking Gorilla
Martyrs of Love
The Messiah
Miss Mend
My Love to the Swallows
North Avenue Irregulars
Of Mice and Men
On the Yard
Perils of the Yukon
Pinocchio
Roger Corman-Hollywood's Wild Angel
Siringo
The Star
Topper Takes a Trip
Valerie
Way Out West
The Wicker Man
Windjammer
GUESTS:
Carroll Ballard
Robert DeNiro
Milos Forman
Monte Hellman
Harvey Keitel
Robbie Robertson
Isabella Rossellini
Barbet Schroeder
Martin Scorsese
Joan Micklin Silver
Wim Wenders
IF I HAD TO
I'm still about three weeks away from the summer's first "Ten Bets" listing. For those who may be new to the blog, the "Ten Bets" will become my weekly "official" guess as to what films are likely to make the TFF #45 lineup. Those "Bets" will then continue right up until the actual lineup is announced on Aug. 30th.
That said, for hoots, I thought I'd slap together a list of ten or so films that feel like the best shots to make the TFF #45 program with three months to go. Last year when I did this I hit six titles right. Last year's "If I Had To" list (which I posted on June 5th) included these that I got right:
Wonderstruck
Downsizing
Loveless
A Fantastic Woman
Faces Places
Battle of the Sexes
What I missed on: The Florida Project, You Were Never Really Here, BPM and The Current War.
So, if you made me surrender ten titles today (in alpha order):
Beautiful Boy
Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Old Man and the Gun
The Other Side of the Wind
Peterloo
Roma
Sunset
Just outside: Boy Erased, Dogman, The Front Runner, Girl, On the Basis of Sex and The Sisters Brothers.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: MORE DETAILS
Two weeks after the close of TFF #43 and the triumphant and ultimately award winning success of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, we got word that Jenkins was set up to adapt Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winner The Underground Railroad.
We got more details this week about that project which looks to be the next thing Jenkins will be working on after the completion of If Beale Street Could Talk.
Indiewire's Steve Green reports that Jenkins will direct the full run of what will be an 11 part limited series for Amazon.
P.S. Mr. Jenkins...will be glad to audition for any role at all...
AND A RE-CAP
Still from The Old Man and a Gun
(and hoping I am sitting in a theater with Redford and Spacek on Labor Day)
It sure felt like a wave of Oscar-y and fall fest films made some noise this week with trailers for The Old Man and the Gun, A Star Is Born, Widows, White Boy Rick, Serenity, Kidding, stills from First Man.
There's some buzz that a First Man trailer might drop today or in days timed with Ryan Gosling's appearance tonight on Jimmy Kimmel's NBA Game Night prime time show.
And I have made my application for media accreditation again for this year's festival...fingers crossed.
That's a wrap for this Friday and this first week of June. I'll have more on Monday.
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
We're slowly edging closer to the end of my series about the history of the Telluride Film Festival with today's re-visitation of the Sixth Fest which ran from Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1979.
My plan (fingers crossed) is have this series completed prior to the start of TFF #45 and the new Expanded Telluride History page on this blog up and accessible by that time as well. We'll see if that actually happens.
Here's the re-cap of TFF #6:
TRIBUTES: Klaus Kinski, Robert Wise, Abel Gance
SHOWS:
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Born to Kill
Bulldog Drummond
Charm of Dynamite
Closely Watched
Executive Suite
For a Few Dollars More
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Gates of Heaven
The Haunting
The Informer
J'Accuse
La Salamandre
The Last Tasmanian
La Soufriere
Loves of Beethoven
Lucrece Borgia
The Mango Tree
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Messidor
Andrei Rublev
Napoleon
No Maps on My Taps
Nosferatu
Que Viva Mexico
Redskin
Rosie Radiator and the Push Rods
The Sand Pebbles
Servant of a Good God
The Set-Up
Ship of Lost Men
Stroheim: The Man You Love to Hate
Those Wonderful Men with a Crank
Tooth and Claw
Woyzeck
Young Girls of Rochefort
Notable short film: The King of the Z's...which has a very specific place in Telluride Film Fest history.
Guests:
Joe Dante
Jacques Demy
Chuck Jones
Werner Herzog
Errol Morris
TRAILERS FROM BURNING, COLD WAR AND THE SISTERS BROTHERS
Trailers were released this week for two critically acclaimed Cannes #71 films that will be a part of our early summer TFF #45 speculation- Burning and Cold War as well as a trailer for a film that many thought would be a Cannes invitee, Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers which, due to Audiard's past with Telluride has to be considered a possibility for Telluride as well.
I have included them here all via YouTube.
Burning is first up. The film from Lee Chang-dong was the runaway critical darling of Cannes yet received no award from the Palme d'Or competition jury.
Cold War from past Oscar winner and TFF #40 participant Pawel Pawlikowski:
And from Audiard's The Sisters Brothers:
FIRST LOOKS AT BOY ERASED
Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased is one of two "Boy" pictures floating around my TFF #45 possibles list (the other being Beautiful Boy).
The film is a fact base story of a family forcing a son into gay conversion therapy and stars Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Lucas Hedges.
A number of outlets debuted stills from the film earlier this week such as the one above.
Welcome back from your weekend...hope it was a good one...
THE AWARDS FROM THE 71ST CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
The Cannes Film Fest closed Saturday with the presentation of awards. The winners were:
Main Competition:
Palme d'Or: Shoplifters
Grand Prix: BlacKkKlansman
Jury Prize: Capharnaum
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski-Cold War
Screenplay: Happy as Lazzaro and Three Faces
Actress: Samal Yeslyamova-Ayka
Actor: Marcello Fonte-Dogman
Special Palme: The Image Book
Here's the trailer for the Palme d'Or winner from YouTube:
Un Certain Regard:
UCR Prize: Border
Screenplay: Sofia
Best Performance: Victor Polster-Girl
Director: Sergei Loznitsa-Donbass
Special Jury Prize: The Dead and the Others
From among the Palme winners, I suspect every film is a potential TFF player at this point with the exception of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman which Focus Features has set for release on Aug. 10th and I also have my doubts about Goddard's Image Book.
Another wrinkle is the acquisition of Happy as Lazzaro and Girl during the fest and, at this point, trying to divine what that will me for how those films get released and the implications for a possible Telluride play are difficult.
Netflix has been a presence at Telluride the past three years but that was prior to the brouhaha that played out in France this past few weeks that resulted in Netflix screening nothing in Cannes. How that factors into their plans heading to the fall and if it has a residual effect regarding TFF programmers...I don't know.
In addition to the Cannes acquisitions, Netflix also has Martin Scorsese's The Irishman which one would think would be a major player come awards season if it's done... and that's a BIG IF. And they also have Alfonso Cuaron's Roma and Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind (which I really believe will play TFF #45).
Stand by to hear what the Netflix plan is for releasing these acquisitions. Maybe that will give us some insight.
Regular readers of this space probably know from past posts that the Cannes/Telluride crossover averages between seven and eight films each year. Most of those titles come from the main competition and Un Certain Regard sections that. Occasionally titles will come from some part of the non-competition slate or even the Directors Fortnight presentations.
So, as I have said, the Cannes/Telluride crossover is strong and has a lengthy history but the connection to the Cannes prize winners is fairly tenuous. Over the past decade, only three Palme d'Or winners have made the journey to Telluride: The White Ribbon ('10), Amour ('12) and Blue Is the Warmest Colour ('13).
Actually, in the last ten years, the film that wins the Grand Prix (second place essentially) is more likely to make the trip to the San Juans: Gomorrah ('08), A Prophet ('09), Of Gods and Men ('10), Inside Llewyn Davis ('13), Son of Saul ('15).
The other modestly successful predictor, weirdly, is Best Actor: Biutiful ('10), The Artist ('11), The Hunt ('12), Nebraska ('13), Mr. Turner ('14).
Other Cannes prizes and their TFF crossovers the past ten years are:
Jury Prize (third place): Fish Tank ('09), Loveless ('17)
Director: Foxcatcher ('14), Graduation ('16)
Actress: The Past ('13), Carol ('15)
Screenplay: Poetry ('10), Footnote ('11), Leviathan ('14)
UCR Prize: Tulpan ('08), Rams ('16), A Man of Integrity ('17)
This history suggests that the most likely Cannes plays for TFF #45 would be BlacKkKlansman but we know it won't be as it will be released three weeks before the festival which points us toward the Best Actor winner-Dogman. That has a real shot.
THE LAST ROUND-UP OF CRITICS FOR CANNES 2018
Here's the final critical assessment of films that played these last two weeks in Cannes beginning with the behemoth from Reini Urban:
Overall from all sections the top five films critically were:
1) Dead Souls
2) Burning
3) Thunder Road
4) Shoplifters
5) Happy as Lazarro
(Note: the short film Ultra Purple/Apocalypse After actually would sit at #4 but was scored by only five critics. Dead Souls was also only scored by 16 critics)
Top five from the Palme d'Or section:
1) Burning (8.10/10)
2) Shoplifters (7.67)
3) Happy as Lazarro (7.63)
4) The Wild Pear Tree (7.49)
5) Cold War (7.42)
Top three from the UCR section
1) Long Days Journey Into Night (7.40)
2) Girl (7.15)
3) The Dead and the Others (6.91)
From Ioncinema's ratings of the Palme d'Or competition:
1) Burning (3.8/5-TIE)
1) The Wild Pear Tree (3.8)
3) Cold War (3.7)
4) Shoplifters (3.6)
5) Ash Is the Purest White (3.3 TIE)
5) Leto (3.3)
5) Three Faces (3.3)
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has finally screened for live humans in a theater!!!
And now that it has...I can't say that I'm surprised that I have been seeing a number of reviews that have used words like "confused" and "missing a bit of soul". As I type (with a small number of reviews counted, RT has it at 57% and Metacritic has it at a 50.
It sounds like what I've come to expect from Gilliam...
Does that mean it's off the table for TFF #45? Can't say that yet.
Another note about the 71st Cannes: I was a little alarmed at how often I saw the phrase "slow burn" in takes about films that played...which I sometimes think is code for "it's slow but important".
Now that Cannes is in the books, I'll pay attention to acquisition news and release dates concerning these titles for additional TFF clues.
A FIRST LOOK AT BEAUTIFUL BOY
Felix Van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy will probably be on my first Ten Bets list (which is about six weeks away). From Amazon Studios, the film features Timothee Chalamet (Oscar nominated last year for Call Me By Your Name) and Steve Carell (Oscar nominated for Foxcatcher) as son and father dealing with the youngsters addiction to meth.
It's likely going to be a part of our conversations for the next several months.
That said, this week, we saw the first footage for the film via a 30 second teaser which is here from YouTube:
Additionally, here is coverage from Indiewire and The Playlist of the release of the teaser.
That's your MTFB for this Monday. Have a good week everyone...and more to come on Thursday.
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
My review of the history of Telluride Film Festival's continues today with a glance at the 7th TFF. It ran from Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1980.
Tributes: Robert Altman, Maurice Pialat, Karl Struss
SHOWS:
Afternoon of War
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Big Combo
Brewster McCloud
Bye Bye Brazil
The Cheat
Contempt
Courage of the West
Death of a Guide
Devil to Pay
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Every Man for Himself
Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill
Final Accord
The First Teacher
Gun Crazy
Health
Here's Lookin' at You Kid
It Always Rains on Sunday
Journey into Fear
L'enfance Nue
LouLou
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Mirror
The Mouth Agape
Mudhoney
My Life to Live
Night World
The Perfumed Nightmare
Plan of a 19 Year Old
A Slave of Love
The Story of Temple Drake
Sunrise
Thieves Like Us
Thunder Trail
Vertigo
We Will Not Grow Old Together
Which Way to the Front
Guests:
Lew Ayres
Ronee Blakley
Keith Carradine
Shelley Duvall
Jean-Luc Goddard
Joan Hackett
Werner Herzog
Russ Meyer
Volker Schlondorff
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
UPDATED CRITICAL RESPONSES FROM FRANCE
Since Monday, the critical winds in Cannes have shifted as new films have been screening. Very few are left to premiere before we get to Saturday and the close of the festival.
At this point, here are your critical leaders in the Palme d'Or competition from several different compilations (with at least two dozen critics reporting).
Reini Urban (the largest database of Cannes critics out there):
1) Burning (d: Lee Chang-dong) 7.90/10
2) Shoplifters (d. Hirekazu Kore-eda)7.67
3) Happy as Lazzaro (d. Alice Rohrwacher) 7.47
Todas Criticas:
1) The Image Book (d. Jean-Luc Goddard) 8.35
2) Happy as Lazzaro 8.20
3) Burning 8.09
Ioncinema:
1) Burning 3.9/5
2) Cold War (d. Pawel Pawlikowski) 3.7
3) Shoplifters 3.6
International Cinephile Society:
1) Burning 4.83/5
2) The Image Book 4.43
3) Shoplifters 4.12
Complete looks at each sources ratings are linked:
As of my post this morning, however, Kohn has not yet included Burning and the critical response suggests that it could easily move into Kohn's top three with his next update.
That's your update for this Thursday...more on Monday (with probable Cannes updates over the weekend).
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
Last week I posted a synopsis of Screen Daily's first big speculation piece about films that could find their way to Cannes in May and then Telluride on Labor Day weekend. Just a day after Variety, led by Peter DeBruge and Elsa Keslassy produced a spec piece of their own. As you might expect, a number of the titles doubled what Scree Daily had considered.
Among those that Variety repeated that seem to have serious Telluride potential:
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Peterloo
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Sisters Brothers
Non Fiction
Dogman
Sunset
Cold War
Everybody Knows
Roma
Ash Is the Purest White
Other films that the Variety piece adds to the group that Screen Daily did not mention:
Damian Chazelle's First Man (would it really be ready?)
Thomas Vinterberg's Kursk
Lee Chang-dong's Burning
Mia Hansen-Love's Maya
Entertainment Weekly dropped a trailer for Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy last Friday. The trailer popped on YouTube very soon thereafter and here it is:
Our interest springs from its Oct. 19th release date, its Fox Searchlight pedigree which, coming off its Best Picture Oscar win for The Shape of Water, could be looking to send this film to T-ride. Additionally, there's already some awards buzz floating around about McCarthy's performance.
PAYNE'S NEXT PROJECT
It appears that Telluride regular Alexander Payne has lined up his next gig as multiple sources report that he will be directing a legal thriller titled The Burial. The script is from Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Doug Wright.
Amazon Studios is producing the film based on true incidents and centered on a Mississippi court case that focuses on the suit brought against conglomerate funeral homes. The film is set in 1995 and follows the case brought by Jeremiah O'Keefe who was represented by attorney Willie Gary, described in the press reports as "flamboyant".
