THE CRTICS AT CANNES (CONT.)
We're past the half way mark at the 78th Cannes Film festival and here's the check-in on the latest critical response to the films screening there.
Here is a look from regarding 13 films at Cannes that I have my eye on regarding a possible play at Telluride:
From the Palme Competition category (on a 10 point scale):
The Mastermind: 6.16
Die, My Love: 6.52
Young Mothers: 5.75
The History of Sound: 5.09
A Simple Accident: 6.91
From Un Certain Regard:
Eleanor the Great: 5.81
The Chronology of Water: 6.17
Out of Competition:
Splitsville: 6.36
Orwell: 2+2=5: 7.13
The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele: 5.68
The Wave: 5.84
The Love That Remains (Palmason) 7.73
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol 6.22
Looking at the Palme competitors, the top five currently are:
1) Sirat (Laxe) 7.90
2) Nouvelle Vague (Linklater) 7.25
3) The Secret Agent (Filho) 7.02
4) Resurrection (Gan) 7.00
5) Sentimental Value (Trier) 6.94
FROM SCREEN DAILY
Palme Competition top five (on a 4 point scale)
1) Two Prosecutors 3.1 (Tie)
1) It Was Just an Accident ( A Simple Accident) 3.1 (Tie)
3) The Secret Agent 2.8 (Tie)
3) Sound of Falling 2.8 (Tie)
3) Sentimental Value 2.8 (Tie)
FROM IONCINEMA
Palme Competition top five ( on a five point scale):
1) Sirat 3.9
2) The Secret Agent 3.6
3) It Was Just an Accident (A Simple Accident) 3.4
4) Nouvelle Vague 3.3
5) Sound of Falling 3.2
AND NOW...VENICE?
As Cannes gets close to its conclusion, some attention has begun to focus on what films will play Venice. As frequent readers will recall, inclusion at Venice doesn't necessarily point to a film being selected for Telluride nor does it signal that it won't be. The key to reading the Venetian tea leaves as they relate to Telluride actually comes when Venice releases its schedule. Early screenings in Venice leave the door open for a Venice-Telluride double play.
The point is that paying attention to Venice's choices can still be instructive. To that end, Screen Daily posted on Monday a piece dedicated to possible Venice choices. They include (in the order that the film appears in the piece):
The Smashing Machine/B. Safdie
The Ballad of a Small Player/E. Berger
Hamnet/C. Zhao
Bugonia/Y. Lanthimos
After the Hunt/L. Guadagnino
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother/J. Jarmusch
Rosebush Pruning/K. Ainouz
Sacrifice/R. Gavras
Couture/A. Winocour
Orphan/L. Nemes
No Other Choice/P. Chan-wook
Anemone/R. Day-Lewis
Yellow Letters/I. Catak
Call Me Queen/E. Atef
Whitetail/N. Leopold
A Prayer for the Dying/D. Van Dusen
Chocobar/L. Martel
My guess as to the best Telluride possibilities from this list:
The Ballad of a Small Player
Hamnet
Bugoina
After the Hunt
Orphan
What I'd really like to see at Telluride: Anemone
AN IMDB THING
So, I was running down Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? on IMDb (the app) a couple of days ago and noticed in the section labeled "Related User Lists" and the first list listed there was labeled "Telluride Possibilities". Like this:
So naturally, I was intrigued. I clicked on "pj_withers" list and discovered that MTFB was the reference:
So my next thought was...from this list of 30 films, what others, in addition to Is This Thing On?, does this list come up on? All of them?
Turns out...no, not all of them. But it does for 11 of them.
Is This Thing On?
Hamnet
Eleanor the Great
After the Hunt
Anemone
Megadoc
The Love That Remains
It Was Just an Accident
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol
Bucking Fastard
David Lynch: Hollywood Enigma
I'm not sure why these 11 are linked to this "Related User List" the other 19 are not. I'm not sure who "pj_withers" is but I think this is kind of cool.
More on Monday including what won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
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