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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Andy/Canal+/Quartet Trailer/The 176

Good Tuesday Everyone!

Reports this morning that Andy Griffith has died. It's difficult to overstate how big an impact his career had on what television programming was and became. As I tweeted earlier...Mayberry mourns and we're all from Mayberry.

CANAL+

Today our focus on production companies turns overseas as I begin to look at European firms that have had films on the program at Telluride and what their past participation may mean for 2012.

Today we look at the French firm Canal+

Canal+'s recent Telluride presence includes:

CANAL+ (French production company)

2011: Crazy Horse, Goodbye First Love, Le Havre, The Kid with a Bike, The Artist

2010: Carlos, Of Gods and Men, The Princess of Montpensier, The Illusionist

2009: Farewell, The White Ribbon, Inferno, A Prophet, Coco Before Chanel

2008: Flame and Citron, I’ve Loved You So Long

2007: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Terror’s Advocate

2005: Cache

As you can see, Canal+ has increased its presence over the last 3 years with 4-5 films on the program. So what do they have their fingers in that could provide a signal as to what we'll see Labor Day weekend?

Here's the most likely Telluride-ish films on the Canal+ 2012 slate:

Leo Carax's "Holy Motors"

Walter Salles' "On the Road"

Alain Renais' "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

Michael Haneke's "Amour"

Matteo Garrone's "Reality"

Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone"

As regular reders are aware, I think that the Haneke and the Audiard are locks for Telluride. Any of the other 4 (and perhaps all of them) could well be on the T-ride playlist as well.

Tomorrow I'll evaluate France 2 Cinema.

QUARTET TRAILER

Dustin Hoffman's directing debut is set to be released here in the U.S. before the end of the year. It's being distributed by The Weinstein Company and has to be considered a possible (if not probable) Telluride film. It has a trailer out this week.

You can also persuse a couple of stories that announced the arrival of the trailer.

From The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-retired-opera-singers-congregate-in-the-first-trailer-for-dustin-hoffmans-directorial-debut-quartet-20120702

And from FirstShowing.net:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/first-whimsical-trailer-for-dustin-hoffmans-directorial-debut-quartet/

Quartet's IMDb page is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441951/

THE 176

A number of web sources reported earlier this week that AMPAS has invited 176 potential new members into the Academy. Awards Daily has the complete list here:

http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/06/29/academy-invites-176-to-membership/

Of particular note to Telluride attendees would likely be the invitations issued to:

Berenice Bejo

Michael Hazanavicius

Asghar Farhadi

Jean Dujardin

Janet McTeer

Joseph Cedar

Luc Dardenne

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Rodrigo Garcia

Two others invited that are not really Telluride-centirc but that I found interesting:

Terrence Malick and Stephen King...

More later...

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Cannes Post Mortem & Crtitics Poll #3/The Master to Venice?/The Hunt/Les Miz Teaser

Good Morning!

Summer blogging begins in earnest today as MTFB/FAC begins its 6 times a week posting schedule. The serious countdown to the 39th Telluride Film Festival begins today. Three months from today (Aug. 31) the festival opens...as always, I can't wait.

CANNES POST MORTEM AND THIRD CRITIC'S POLL

Cannes #65 is in the books with Michel Haneke's "Amour" taking the top prize. I started the fest thinking that six films were the most likely for repeating in Colorado: "Amour", "Beyond the Hills", "Rust and Bone", "Reality", "On the Road"' and "Cosmopolis". At the end of the festival, I feel as strongly, maybe even more strongly, that we'll see "Amour", "Hills" and "Rust". "Reality" seems like a 50/50 proposition and I think that "Road" and "Cosmopolis" may have lost some steam for Telluride.

I think"Holy Motors", "The Hunt", You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", "Like Someone in Love", and "Mud" may have put themselves into some Telluride conversations. In addition, I have some suspicions that non-competition films "No" and "The Sapphires" will make it into the Telluride program.

Also, CriticWire at IndieWire posted a third critic's poll of Cannes films here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/criticwire-at-cannes-the-top-films-and-performances-poll?page=1#

"Amour" and "Holy Motors" were at the top mirroring the critical response measured by Screen Daily and Ioncinema.

THE MASTER AND VENICE

In the midst of announcements from the new director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera,this week came his claim that Venice would probably program Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master". PT Anderson fan site Cigarettes and RedVines reported the story here:

http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/2012/05/master-could-be-headed-to-venice-film.html

As we have noted in this space previously, double booking Venice and Telluride does happen...but it's fairly rare. "Shame" and "A Dangerous Method" did it last year...so it doesn't kill chances that we'll see the film in Colorado but it probably reduces the odds some.

Of course, Barbera could just be expressing wishful thinking. He also mentioned new films from Malick and DePalma as "likely candidates". Which isn't exactly a flat out statement that he's got those films programmed.

And, further, I almost always approach this guessing game with the assumption that previous Telluride guests had a really pleasant experience and prefer to return. I believe Anderson enjoyed his time in Telluride in 2007 when he was in town for the Daniel Day-Lewis tribute and the presentation of 20 minutes of "There Will Be Blood".

I often kick myself that I didn't take the opportunity to introduce myself when I sat the row behind him later that weekend as we caught Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding". But he seemed to be enjoying the experience.

So, I'm not giving up hope just yet. I've always thought "The Master" was a long shot for Telluride...but I'd love to be wrong.

THE HUNT

Magnolia Pictures has grabbed the U.S. rights to Thomas Vintenberg's "The Hunt" which won its lead Mads Mikkelsen the Best Actor prize at Cannes last week. The Hollywood Reporter has the story here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/magnolia-picks-up-cannes-winner-the-hunt-330909

"The Hunt's" success at Cannes has raised its Telluride profile.

LES MISERABLES TEASER

Les Miz's chance of bowing at Telluride: about 3% ( director Tom Hooper's "King's Speech" was in T-ride in 2010 and production company Working Title had "Catch a Fire" showed as a sneak in 2006). Nevertheless, it has its first teaser out and I couldn't resist re-linking it from The Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/les-miserables-trailer-anne-hathaway-330941

More later...

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Cannes Concludes: The Winners, The Critics, The Meaning and The Reviews

Good Morning!

The 65th Cannes Film Festival came to a close yesterday and they closed the extravaganza with the traditional presentation of the Palme D'or and other awards. Here they are.

AWARDS FOR CANNES COMPETITION FILMS (Via Awards Daily)

Palme d’Or:

AMOUR (LOVE) – Michael HANEKE

Grand Prix:

REALITY – Matteo GARRONE

Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director):

Director: POST TENEBRAS LUX by Carlos Reygadas

Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress):

Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan DUPÃ DEALURI (AU-DELA DES COLLINES/BEYOND THE HILLS)

Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor):

Mads Mikkelsen JAGTEN (LA CHASSE/THE HUNT) (- Thomas VINTERBERG)

Prix du Scenario (best screenplay):

Cristian Mungiu – DUPÃ DEALURI (AU-DELA DES COLLINES/BEYOND THE HILLS)

Camera d’Or (best first feature):

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh Zeitlin

Prix du Jury (jury prize):

Ken Loach for THE ANGELS’ SHARE

Palme d’Or (short film):

SESSIZ-BE DENG (SILENCIEUX/SILENT) – L.Rezan YESILBAS

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Both Ioncinema and Screen Daily spent a good deal of time compiling the collective critical response to the 22 films that were in competition in Cannes. The top 6 from the Ioncinema group:

1) Amour

2) Holy Motors

3) Beyond the Hills

4) Rust and Bone

4) You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

4) Mud

Just on the Ioncinema cusp were: In the Fog and Moonrise Kingdom

Here's the link to the complete chart:

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/cannes-critics-panel-hanekes-amour-should-beat-caraxs-holy-motors

From Screen Daily the top six were:

1) Amour and Beyond the Hills

3) Rust and Bone, The Hunt, Killing Them Softly, In the Fog

Close on the Screen Daily chart: The Angel’s Share and Mud.

Here's the link to The Screen Daily Chart:

http://www.screendaily.com/journals/2012/05/26/k/j/v/Cannes-jury-grid_Day-12.pdf

When the charts are combined…here’s the critical top ten from Cannes

1) Amour

2) Beyond the Hills

3) Mud

4) In the Fog

5) You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

6) Holy Motors and The Hunt

8) Moonrise Kingdom

9) The Angels Share

10) Killing Them Softly

Next: Rust and Bone

So what does all this mean for Telluride in 3 months?

Bank on seeing “Amour” and “Beyond the Hills”.

If “Rust and Bone” had won any prize at all, I’d also include it on the “bank on it” list…though I still think it’s highly likely.

“Reality”, which had lost some Telluride steam because of fairly weak critical reception over the last week…actually ended the festival back in the possible/probable category because of its Grand Prix win.

Two other T-ride probables that I think suffered some this past fortnight: “Cosmopolis” and “On the Road”.

Getting a boost for Telluride consideration among the competition films: “Mud”, “Holy Motors”, “The Hunt” “The Angel’s Share” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”.

The two out of competition films that caught my eye with some (a lot of) Telluride potential were “The Sapphires” and “No”.

I’m still unconvinced that Carlos Reygadas “Post Tenebras Lux” will end up in Telluride despite its win for Direction.

Now, I spend the next 3 months ferreting out which of these actually is going to end up in Telluride on Labor Day and the other films that will join them.

BACK TO A DAILY

Michael’s Telluride Film Blog returns as a daily blog on Thursday (except for Sundays) and will run Daily until the 39th Telluride Film Festival comes to an end. Join me in my obsession!

AND NOW REVIEWS...

I have included links in this third installment of reviews for films at Cannes: