The Ninth Telluride Film Festival / Reminder: Telluride and Best Picture / The Continuation of Cannes Guesses

Hell o to everyone on this Thursday...


THE NINTH TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL

Here's another installment in the months long sporadic project to document the history of the Telluride Film Festival.  The focus today is on the 9th fest that occurred from Sept. 3-6, 1982.

TRIBUTES:

Joel McCrea
Pierre Braunberger
Athol Fugard


SHOWS:

Arruza
Boseman and Lena
Bona
Broken Blossoms
Burden of Dreams
City of Lovers
Coaster
Country Lovers
Endangered Species
Fire on the Water
Fitzcarraldo
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Moment
The Grey Fox
The Guest
Koyaanisqatsi
La Chienne
Longshot
Marigolds in August
Mules of Smiles, Years of Struggles
Money and the Woman
Mr. Dynamite
My Life to Live
Night of the Shooting Stars
Padre Padrone
Painted Boats
The Palm Beach Story
Paris
Parsifal
Ride Lonesome
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Rope
Say Amen, Somebody
Smithereens
The Thirteenth Chair
Veronika Voss
Victor Sjostrom: A Film Portrait
We of the Never Never
The Wind
Yol

GUESTS:

Joe Dante
Richard Farnsworth
Lillian Gish
Philip Glass
Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
JoBeth Williams
Robert Wise

YOUR REMINDER ABOUT TELLURIDE AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST PICTURE

I couldn't help but notice a tweet from Peter Howell, film critic for The Toronto Star and President of the Toronto Film Critics Association, this week.


Peter and I have exchanged messages over the past few years regarding both Telluride and Toronto's film fests.  He's been very kind to me as I have worked on this blog.  Anyway...

He tweeted a chart from Vanity Fair that graphically underscores fall film fest premiere relationships and Best Picture Oscar winners.

Here's a screen grab of that tweet:

Sorry about the size here, but it gives you a better look at the graph which really does highlight what has happened in terms of Telluride and the Best Picture Oscar.

Of course, I would add that although The Artist (2011), Birdman (2014) and Spotlight (2015) didn't "premiere" as T-ride...they did screen there.  In the case of both Birdman and Spotlight, they screened within hours of dropping at Venice.  This year The Shape of Water joined their company.

THE CONTINUATION OF CANNES GUESSES

Ioncinema opened up its Cannes speculation this week with a post that focused on films from North and South America that could make the grade when Thierry Fremaux announces the lineup on April 12th.  Ioncinema says they'll continue next week with looks at other films from around the planet that they think might get in.

Among the North and South American possibilities are these that have the pedigree to suggest a Telluride crossover:

Terrence Malick's Radegund

Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk

Tony Zierra's SK13

Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind

Alfonso Cuaron's Roma

Sebastian Lelio's English language version of Gloria

The complete Ioncinema post is here.

That's the MTFB for Thursday.  I'll have more on Monday.  Have a great weekend.

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Blue Saga Continues/Locarno, Venice and Toronto/Saving Mr. Banks Trailer

Good Thursday Everyone...


BLUE SAGA CONTINUES

Pete Hammond at Deadline.com and Keuth Jagernauth at The Playlist reported late yesterday that, despite some serious efforts to change the outcome, Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Blue is the Warmest Color" is still ineligible for Best Foreign Language Oscar consideration.  The film is set to open in France (its home country) 9 days after The Academy's deadline.  U.S. distributor Sundance Selects has it set for here on Oct. 25.

Maybe of more importance to the concerns of this blog space is the unsurprising reveal that the film has been submitted to Telluride (and Toronto and New York).  I've thought that its chances of a T-ride play were pretty good and now with the confirmation that it was submitted, I feel that its even a bit more likely.

Check the stories here:

Deadline:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/oscars-sundance-selects-rejected-in-plea-to-make-cannes-palme-dor-winner-eligible-for-foreign-language-academy-award/

The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-hit-blue-is-the-warmest-color-sets-fall-release-date-academy-wont-bend-rules-to-allow-oscar-consideration-20130717

HitFix:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/sundance-selects-fails-in-plea-against-blue-is-the-warmest-color-oscar-ineligibility

LOCARNO, VENICE AND TORONTO

"Gloria" trailer

As we wait next week's announcements from Venice and Toronto and what they might tell us about our own festival experience I noted that the Locarno Festival announced its competition and Piazza Grande lineups overnight.

Locarno runs in the middle of August and generally doesn't overlap with Telluride in terms of the films that they program.  In the past five years, I've been able to identify 4 films that have played at Locarno and then Telluride: "No", "Goodbye First Love", "Le Havre" and "Kisses".

This year's Locarno  lineup looks like it has a couple of things that have Telluride potential. "Gloria" from Sebastien Lelio.  The film made a bit of a splash earlier this year at the Berlin Fest and Paulina Garcia was named Best Actress there.  The other film that Locarno lists is in their Piazza Grande section and that is Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" which I could certainly envision as a part of a Herzog retrospective at Telluride to honor the director and the naming of the new film venue in his honor.

Variety has the entire lineup as announced so far here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/locarno-film-festival-unveils-competition-587623

as does IndieWire:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/locarno-film-festival-announces-2013-lineup


SAVING MR. BANKS

Last weekend we got our first look at Tom Hanks "other" (Captain Phillips being the first) film set to roll out during the fall season: "Saving Mr. Banks" said to be the story of how Walt Disney got "Mary Poppins" to the screen.  Emma Thompson co-stars.

Here's the trailer:

I have also linked a couple of posts about the film/trailer as well:

Thompson on Hollywood:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/saving-mr-banks-tom-hanks-emma-thompson-first-look

Awards Daily:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/trailer-for-saving-mr-banks-tom-hanks-and-emma-thompson/


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