Put the "Taxi" in Reverse / New York Doc Selections: More Clues? / Podcasts Forever / Winslet Talks "Jobs" / Final from Toronto Today / Rate Those Films

Welcome to Tuesday, August 25, 2015...Telluride happens in ten days...Bring it!


PUT THE "TAXI" IN REVERSE

A couple of weeks ago, I had Jafar Panahi's :Taxi" as a likely film for T-ride.  Soon after I posted, however, I was nudged into discovering that the film had played at the Riviera Maya Film Fest in Mexico back in April.  Conclusion...not gonna play Telluride because it won't be a North American first screening.  Check out my post from Aug. 11...

http://michaelstelluridefilm.blogspot.com/2015/08/torontos-third-2015-announcment-analysis.html

But...thanks to the eagle eye and Twitter delivery of @nickallen_redux...I think we can go back to the original notion that "Taxi" may well be a TFF #42 choice.  Check the poster from The Film Stage:

Seems like very strong circumstantial evidence, as my lawyer friends might say, that "Taxi"...which I've been knocking about as a T-ride possibility since the Berlin Fest, is headed to the San Juans.   And I say "Yes!"

Panahi's courage to make films in the face of his governments dictate not to...humbling.

Check out "Taxi's' IMDb profile here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4359416/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt

And here's the link to the full story from The Film Stage:

http://thefilmstage.com/trailer/jafar-panahi-takes-us-on-a-ride-in-trailer-for-berlin-winning-taxi/

And for fun...the trailer for the film from YouTube:

NEW YORK DOCUMENTARY SELECTIONS: MORE CLUES?

The New York Film Festival named a dozen films that will play as a part of the 2015 NYFF yesterday.  That entire post from The Film Society of Lincoln Center can be found here:

http://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2015/daily/nyff53-spotlight-on-documentary/

Of interest to Telluride film goers would be the three docs that were not designated as either a "World" or "North American" premiere.



"Ingrid Bergman: In Her Words" has been scheduled.  I wrote in this space back in June when that it sounded like a great fit for Telluride.  Now, by reading the NYFF announcement tea leaves, it looks like this could definitely happen.

I said in that earlier post that it would be great to have Isabella Rosselini on hand and while we're at it, bring in the hottest actress on planet Earth right now, Alicia Vikander who voices Bergman for the film...

Here's my take from my June 20th post:

http://michaelstelluridefilm.blogspot.com/2015/07/le-french-part-troisingridthe.html


And the trailer for the doc that was put together for Cannes:

IMDb profile:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4621016/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt

Another doc that has no premiere designation from the NYFF announcement is "Troublemakers" The Story of Art and Land".  IMDb lists it as a 2014 project but also doesn't list it as having played anywhere up to now.

It's IMDb page is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4096620/companycredits?ref_=ttrel_ql_5


The third doc with no preem designation (which indicates that NY can't list it as a U.S. premiere which gives rise to the theory that it could play Telluride first) is Frederick Wiseman's "In Jackson Heights".  However, Toronto has listed the film as a "North American" premiere which has been telling us that it would NOT be a Telluride choice.  Additionally, the film is set to World Premiere on Sept. 4 in Venice.   So, there is a bit of confusion here.

The Wiseman doc IMDb page is here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4936064/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt


My hunch is that the Bergman is on for Telluride, the Wiseman is not and the "Troublemaker/Art" doc is 50/50 to play.


PODCASTS FOREVER

Seems like everyone has a fall fest/awards assessment podcast up this week.  Here are links to:

Oscar Poker (Sasha Stone and Jeffrey Wells):

http://www.awardsdaily.com/podcasts/oscarpoker/episode106.mp3


Awards Watch Oscar Podcast:

http://awardswatch.com/podcasts/oscar-podcast-27-fall-festivals-whats-up-with-miles-ahead-with-special-guest-anne-thompson-joy-revenant-carol-bridge-of-spies-danish-girl-miles-ahead-the-martian-black-mass/


Screen Talk with Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/screen-talk-more-oscar-possibilities-from-sarajevo-to-new-york-and-toronto-20150822


WINSLET TALKS "JOBS"

"Steve Jobs" trailer via YouTube

Entertainment Weekly posts this interview with Oscar winner Kate Winslet as she talks about Danny Boyle's "Steve Jobs" and her co-star in the film, Michael Fassbender.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/01/kate-winslet-steve-jobs-movie

 "Steve Jobs" currently sits at the #7 spot in my latest "Ten Bets" published in last Friday's post.


FINAL FROM TORONTO TODAY

Reportedly the final reveal of films for the Toronto International Film Festival comes later today so check back here to see what else we learn from that and how it may pertain to TFF #42.


AND FINALLY...RATE THOSE FILMS...


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Le French Part Trois/Ingrid?/"The Dressmaker" From Down Under

It's Monday in America, Peeps.  Hope it was a good weekend where you live.


LE FRENCH PART TROIS


ARTE FRANCE CINEMA

Another Franco production outfit that has had persistent presence in Telluride is Arte France Cinema.  Their track record looks like this:

2003: Dogville
2004: The Weeping Meadow
2005: The Child, Cache, Paradise Now
2006: Day Night Day Night
2008: O'Horten
2011: Le Havre, Goodbye First Love
2012: No films at Telluride
2013: Le Maison de la Radio, The Lunchbox
2014: No films at Telluride

Despite having not been represented with any films at TFF #41, Arte France Cinema is still a good resource to check into in as far as Telluride possibilities.  As you can see from above, they're more commonly involved in at least one film at Telluride each year and occasionally two.

This year there are a number of possibilities that have had production support fro Arte France Cinema:

"Mountains May Depart"
"Amneisa"
"The Measure of a Man"
"Mia Madre"
"Salt and Fire"

My bet is that at least one of these films makes the 2015 Telluride lineup.


CINECINEMA/CINE+

CineCinema changed over to Cine+ within the last three years or so but it's all the same.  This production company has often been represented at Telluride over the last few years:

2005: Lemming, Live and Become
2006: The Page Turner, Indigenes
2007: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
2008: With a Little Help from Myself
2009: Farewell, Coco Before Chanel, A Prophet, Inferno
2010: The Illusionist, The Princess of Montpensier, Of Gods and Men
2011: Goodbye First Love, The Kid with a Bike, Le Havre, The Artist
2012: Rust and Bone, Superstar, The Attack, Amour
2013: The Past, Blue is the Warmest Color, Le Maison de la Radio

2014: Two Days One Night, The Price of Fame, The Gate

CineCinema/Cine+ is a solid Telluride contributor with 26 films over the past ten years (2.6 films/year) and the number of their films playing T-ride  has actually picked up over the last six years with 20 of those 26 coming in that time frame, so more than three per year recently.

In 2015 Cine+ could play in a significant fashion again with these films the most likely choices:

"The Lobster"

"The Measure of a Man"

"Amnesia"

"Youth"

That concludes this year's rundown of European producers.  Tomorrow we open up "The Usual Suspects" (frequent Telluride individual directors, producers, actors, etc.) bag and see who we can shake out of that.

INGRID?

"Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words" trailer via YouTube

One of the films that was a part of the Cannes celebration on Ingrid Bergman this year was a new documentary from Sweden's Stig Bjorkman.  The doc looks at the life and times of one of the 20th Century's finest actresses and it's just the kind of "under the radar" film that I can see making the grade for Telluride.

It has no U.S. distribution/release date at this point but I could see that changing fast.

I can also envision a whole Ingrid Bergman presentation as a part of the Labor Day weekend with this doc as a centerpiece and the participation of Bergman's daughter Isabella Rosselini who was at the fifth Telluride Film Fest in 1978.

I could also see screenings of some of Bergman's classics or even lesser known works.  

Anyway, the trailer above appeared over the weekend.  I have also appended a story about the doc from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-trailer-for-cannes-approved-classic-cinema-documentary-ingrid-bergman-in-her-own-words-20150717

"THE DRESSMAKER" FROM DOWN UNDER

"The Dressmaker" trailer via YouTube

Universal has their hands on this film from Australia that released its first trailer last weekend.  The film has no announced U.S. distribution or date of release, but, intriguingly, feels like it could be a film that might pique the interest of Telluride programmers.  

The film stars Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Judy Davis and Hugo Weaving and focuses on the return to a small Aussie town of a woman (Winslet) that has achieved great success in the world beyond where she came from but is still shadowed by the past that she left behind there.

Here are stories from Variety, Awards Circuit, First Showing and The Playlist:

https://variety.com/2015/film/news/liam-hemsworth-kate-winslet-kiss-dressmaker-trailer-1201538995/

http://www.awardscircuit.com/2015/07/13/watch-kate-winslet-in-the-first-trailer-for-the-dressmaker-from-jocelyn-moorhouse/

http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/watch-kate-winslet-in-trailer-for-australian-film-the-dressmaker/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-kate-winslet-returns-home-in-style-in-first-trailer-for-the-dressmaker-with-liam-hemsworth-20150713

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