Boy Erased News / The Story of Peterloo / Morgan Neville Talks Welles / Indiewire Celebrates Cuaron

Good Monday everyone.  Hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed the extra hour you got back with the return to standard time.


BOY ERASED NEWS

I'm passing on a couple of things I ran across over the weekend about Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased which opened in limited release this past weekend.

The first item is from Indiewire's Kate Erbland who posted this interview with the film's star Lucas Hedges.

The other is an article from The Advocate that features half a dozen new posters for the film that debuted in The Advocate and are designed to highlight specific groups working to end conversion therapy.

I've included a couple of the new posters here:

The article and a view of the other posters is linked here.

THE STORY OF PETERLOO

Time.com published an online article from Ciara Nugent on Friday that reviews the actual incidents depicted in Mike Leigh's TFF #45 film Peterloo.  The actual events including the massacre occurred in August of 1819 in Manchester, England.

Peterloo will open in the U.S. on April 5, 2019.  It's opened in the U.K. this past weekend.

The Time story is linked here.

MORGAN NEVILLE TALKS WELLES

Netflix has released the final film from Orson Welles.  The Other Side of the Wind, which played at Telluride a couple of months back was available to stream as of last Friday.  Also available was the accompanying documentary from Oscar winner Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom).  They'll Love Me When I'm Dead explores the project of finally finishing Welles' last film and is also available to stream on Netflix.

Jordan Ruimy conducted an interview with Neville for The Playlist which appeared on that site on Friday.  It is linked here.

INDIEWIRE CELEBRATES CUARON

Indiewire presented its second annual Indiewire Honors last Thursday.  Eight film makers were honored including writer/director/producer Alfonso Cuaron.  Cuaron received Indiewire's Vanguard Award.

Indiewire;s Eric Kohn wrote the story which included comments from Cuaron about Roma which was a huge success at Telluride after winning the Golden Lion at Venice. 

Roma is now considered a strong Oscar contender and, at least at this point, is positioned as the film with the best chance to continue Telluride's crazy streak of having screened the last eight and nine of the last ten winners of the Oscar for Best Picture.

The Cuaron article is linked here.


That's the MTFB for this Monday.  I'll have more for you on Thursday including an Oscar prediction update on the Leading Acting races.


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Euro Producers Part Three: The Brits-British Film Institute / A Look at Loving

Welcome to Wednesday...


EURO PRODUCERS PART THREE; THE BRITS: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

BFI hasn't been a long time fixture in as far as Telluride films are concerned going back over the past decade but, beginning with Ginger and Rosa in 2012, they have become a regular presence as the list below demonstrates.

BFI's past Telluride history includes:

2012: Ginger and Rosa
2013: Under the Skin

2014: Mr. Turner, '71

2015: Suffragette, 45 Years

Given the recent past and what BFI has had a hand in the only film that this truly points toward is Andrea Arnold's American Honey.  I've had American Honey consistently in my "Ten Bets" throughout the summer thus far.

Tomorrow we'll continue to look at European production houses and turn our attention to France.


A LOOK AT LOVING

A trailer has appeared for Jeff Nichols Cannes competition film Loving.  The film was well reviewed at Cannes in May and is regarded by many as a possible Oscar contender.  It stars Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton and concerns the true story of an interracial married couple in mid-20th century Virginia whose case in front of the Supreme Court overturned the Virginia law that made their marriage illegal.

Here's the official trailer via YouTube:

I have also linked coverage of the trailer release here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/judge-stops-web-sites-selling-91011

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2016/07/12/best-picture-watch-loving-trailer-debuts/

http://time.com/4394609/trailer-premiere-loving-movie-interracial-marriage/

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/loving-trailer-joel-edgerton-ruth-negga-jeff-nichols-oscar-contenders-1201704814/

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2016/07/a-respectable-period-drama-enhanced-by-ruth-neggas-performance

http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/must-watch-first-trailer-for-jeff-nichols-interracial-drama-loving/

http://www.slashfilm.com/loving-trailer/

https://thefilmstage.com/trailer/first-trailer-for-jeff-nichols-loving-starring-ruth-negga-and-joel-edgerton/

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Cannes-Telluride Possibilities: The Immigrant and The Past/Joel on Jnae

Good Friday...

From Taos, NM...Mumford was fantastic...

CANNES-TELLURIDE POSSIBILITY: THE IMMIGRANT

Part of The Weinstein Company's sizzle reel presentation at Cannes last month was material from James Gray's "The Immigrant".  The Playlist reported on the footage here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-2013-twc-preview-reel-the-immigrant-showcases-firecracker-phoenix-and-cotillard-but-no-renner-yet-20130517

Sounds good.


CANNES-TELLURIDE POSSIBILITIES: THE PAST

Also making a splash at Cannes was Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" which I  think has a very high Telluride likelihood.  Anthony Kaufman's ReelPolitik recently posted this about the politics of the Iranian film makers work:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/anthony/cannes-front-runner-the-past#

JOEL ON JANE

The "Jane Got a Gun" project is apparently continuing as evidenced by this interview with star Joel Edgerton from IndieWire:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/joel-edgerton-wish-you-were-here-gatsby-jane-got-a-gun-interview#