Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini Talk Marcel the Shell / MTFB Oscar Take: Lead Actress and Actor / Music Video from The French Dispatch / Crested Butte Film Fest Opens Tomorrow

JENNY SLATE AND ISABELLA ROSSELINI TALK MARCEL

Actress and Marcel the Shell co-creator Jenny Slate and her co-star Isabella Rossellini sat down recently together as a part of Vulture's Two Fiends video project and discussed the plucky Mollusk's feature film debut as well as other topics.  Vulture posted the video on Sept. 7th.  

You can find it linked here.

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: LEAD ACTRESS AND ACTOR

Here' my opening salvo as I continue to make initial guesses re: the newly commenced Oscar race.  Today first stabs at both Lead Acting categories with TFF #48 performances in Bold.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Kristen Stewart/Spencer

2) Jessica Chastain/The Eyes of Tammy Faye

3) Lady Gaga/House of Gucci

4) Nicole Kidman/Being the Ricardos

5) Penelope Cruz/Parallel Mothers

Alternates: Jennifer Hudson/Respect and Jodie Comer/The Last Duel

BEST ACTOR

1) Benedict Cumberbatch/The Power of the Dog

2) Will Smith/King Richard

3) Denzel Washington/The Tragedy of Macbeth

4) Andrew Garfield/tick, tick...Boom

5) Joaquin Phoenix/C'mon C'mon

Alternates: Peter Dinklage/Cyrano and Leonardo DiCaprio/Don't Look Up

MUSIC VIDEO FROM THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Searchlight has released a Wes Anderson directed music video for the song Aline which is featured in the film.  From YouTube: 

CRESYED BUTTE FILM FEST OPENS TOMORROW

I met Michael and Jennifer Brody several years ago when the wife and I were doing an art show in Crested Butte and we've kept in touch since then even occasionally running into each other at TFF.  The Brody's run the Crested Butte Film Festival each year st the end of September.  It's a class affair.

This year the fest has scheduled a number of notable films including Celine Sciamma's Petit Maman which played as a part of TFF #48 as well as Cannes.  Other noteworthy narrative films include Joe Bell, Nine Days, Jagged, the Alanis Morissette documentary, and Jacque Audiard's Paris 13th District. 

The fest starts tomorrow with its in-person screenings in Crested Butte and runs through the weekend.  Virtual screenings will run through Oct. 3rd. 

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Views of "Rosewater"/New Friends in Crested Butte/Looking at "Big Eyes"

Welcome to Monday...

VIEWS OF "ROSEWATER"

Over the weekend Entertainment Weekly put out two photos from Jon Stewart's "Rosewater" starring Gael Garcia Bernal as real life journalist Maziar Bahari who was arrested in Iran in 2009 as he was reporting the election in that country.  Any number of outlets reported the photos with an accompanying story.  We believe fairly strongly that "Rosewater" will make the Telluride lineup owing to its designation by the Toronto film fest as a Canadian premiere.

Here are those photos:

Stories/Posts that went with these photos this weekend:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2014/open-road-sets-jon-stewarts-film-rosewater-to-open-in-november/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-gael-garcia-bernal-in-jon-stewarts-directorial-debut-rosewater-20140801

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/first-look-gael-garcia-bernal-jon-stewarts-rosewater-release-date-announced/

NEW FRIENDS IN CRESTED BUTTE

As I'm sure you're aware, I have posted most recently from Crested Butte, CO. as the CEO and I have been Art Festivaling this past weekend.  Interestingly, I met Michael Brody who is the co-head honcho of the Crested Butte Film Festival.  Michael is in his fourth year re-constructing a festival that was defunct for about six or seven years.

I took a look at their program form last year and ;let me tell you, they've got things going in the right direction.  Last year's lineup included "20 Feet from Stardom", "After Tiller" and "Rust and Bone" among other offerings.

Michael also shared some of the films that they've planned for this year's fest which runs Sept. 25-28, and they've got some quality lined up.  If you're in the neighborhood the last weekend in September, run to Crested Butte and catch a film.

Check their website:

cbfilmfest.org

LOOKING AT "BIG EYES"

We have our first photos of Tim Burton's "Big Eyes" starring Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams in a true story about the art of Margaret Keane and her husband Walter who was credited for a good long while with the artwork of characters with "big eyes".  The film has not been announced for any festival to date and Burton did play "Ed Wood" AT TFF in 1994 so it's not a complete impossibility that we could see it pop up in three and a half weeks in the San Juans.  Here from The Playlist and FirstShowing are the pics:

And the link to The Playlist's story:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-amy-adams-and-christoph-waltz-in-tim-burtons-big-eyes-20140803

And from FirstShowing.net:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2014/first-look-amy-adams-as-margaret-keane-in-tim-burtons-big-eyes/

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