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MTFB'S OSCAR TAKE: PICTURE, DIRECTION, INTERNATIONAL, ANIMATED AND DOCUMENTARY UPDATED

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, International Feature, Animated Feature and Documentary Feature.  These categories were last predicted here on Nov. 11th.  As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Belfast (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Licorice Pizza (6)

4) King Richard (3)

5) Dune (4)

6) Nightmare Alley (5)

7) West Side Story (7)

8) The Tragedy of Macbeth (9)

9) Spencer (8)

10) CODA (10)

Alternates: tick, tick...BOOM and C'mon C'mon

BEST DIRECTION

1) Belfast/Brannagh (1)

2) The Power of the Dog/Campion (2)

3) Dune/Villenueve (3)

4) Licorice Pizza/Anderson (4)

5) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro (5)

Alternates: Spencer/Larrain and West Side Story/Spielberg

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (1)

2) A Hero/Iran (2)

3) Flee/Denmark (3)

4) The Hand of God/Italy (4)

5) Titaine/France (5)

Alternates: Drive My Car/Japan and Compartment #6/Finalnd

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Flee (1)

2) Encanto (3)

3) The Mitchell's vs. The Machines (2)

4) Luca (4)

5) Belle (5)

Alternates: Raya and the Last Dragon and The Summit of the Gods

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1) Flee (1)

2) The Rescue (2)

3) Summer of Soul (3)

4) Ascension (4)

5) Procession (5)

Alternates: Who We Are and Attica

NEW TRAILER FOR THE HAND OF GOD

From YouTube:

INTERVIEWS, PROFILES AND PODCASTS 

BELFAST 

Variety

Screen Rant

Collider

The Hollywood Reporter

KING RICHARD

Deadline

Indiewire

Screen Rant

THE POWER OF THE DOG

The Hollywood Reporter

Deadline

THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN

Deadline

A HERO  

Deadline

JULIA

The Guardian

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Awards Chatter/The Hollywood Reporter

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HAS A LIST

The Hollywood Reporter's Tyler Coates has collected a list of 30 films that he suggests are in the running for a Best Picture nomination.  In alphabetical order, here are the TFF #48 films that Coates has on the list:

Belfast

The Card Counter

C'mon C'mon

Cyrano

Flee

The French Dispatch

The Hand of God

A Hero

King Richard

The Lost Daughter

The Power of the Dog

Red Rocket

Spencer

That's 13 of the 30 films on Coates' list.  That's amazing and is an indication of how stunning the Telluride curation was for TFF #48.

The complete Coates' list is linked here.

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The People's Telluride / Marcel and The Pros Make Some Noise / Wes Anderson Talks The French Dispatch

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

After Monday's surprising result in which Dean Fleischer Camp's Marcel the Shell with Shoes On topped the Pro's Telluride ratings, I was curious if that result would repeat with today's release of The People's ratings.

I asked for readers of MTFB to rate the films they saw over Labor Day weekend at TFF #48 on a 1-5 scale and submit that information to me.  I then complied the responses (over 40+ this year) and averaged them all to arrive at each film's ratings.  To make the cut, only films that received at least a third of the total number of respondents were included to insure the sampling size was sufficient. 18 films qualified for listing.  You'll see the results below after a brief trip down The People's Telluride memory lane.

The first People's Telluride was posted on Sept. 10, 2012.  The top ten films from that year's fest from the populist perspective were:

1) Stories We Tell- 4.80

2) Argo- 4.75

3) The Attack- 4.70

4) The Act of Killing-4.41

5) Wadjda-4.2

6) Amour 4.17

7) Barbara- 4.17

8) The Sapphires-4.11

9) Frances Ha-4.07

10) (Tie)The Hunt and Baraka - 4.00

In subsequent years the top ten were:

2013:

1) Tim's Vermeer (4.67)

2) 12 Years a Slave (4.55)

3) Gravity (4.40)

4) The Lunchbox (4.25)

5) Inside Llewyn Davis (4.15)

6) Nebraska (4.08)

7) All is Lost (4.06)

8) The Wind Rises (4.0)

9) Ida (4.0)

10) The Past (3.81)

2014:

1) The Imitation Game (4.73)

2) Birdman (4.46)

3) Wild Tales (4.23)

4) Foxcatcher (4.20)

5) Merchants of Doubt (4.04)

6) '71 (3.90)

7) Red Army (3.63)

8) Wild (Tie 3.50)

8) Escobar: Paradise Lost (Tie 3.50)

8) Mommy (Tie 3.50)

2015:

1) Room (4.47)

2) Spotlight (4.45)

3) Beasts of No Nation (4.35)

4) Ixcanul (4.31)

5) Son of Saul (4.30)

6) Marguerite (4.23)

7) Black Mass (4.13)

8) Carol (4.02)

9) Rams (3.98)

10) Steve Jobs (3.86)

2016:

1) Moonlight (4.37)

2) La La Land (4.33)

3) Maudie (4.29)

4) The Eagle Huntress (4.21)

5) Manchester by the Sea (4.18)

6) Arrival (4.13)

7) Bright Lights (3.90)

8) Frantz (3.89)

9) Toni Erdmann (3.80)

10) Sully (3.79)

2017:

1) Lady Bird (4.38)

2) The Shape of Water (4.22)

3) Darkest Hour (4.04)

4) Hostiles (3.99)

5) Faces Places (3.71)

6) Battle of the Sexes (3.68)

7) Lean on  Pete (3.66)

8) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (3.57)

9) The Other Side of Hope (3.45)

10) Wonderstruck (3.43)

2018

1) Roma (4.47)

2) First Man (4.34)

3) Shoplifters (4.29)

4) Boy Erased (4.23)

5) Free Solo (4.19)

6) Cold War (4.02)

7) White Boy Rick (3.88)

8) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3.81)

9) The Favourite (3.76)

10) The Front Runner (3.69)

2019:

1) The Two Popes (4.51)

2) Parasite (4.36)

3) Ford v. Ferrari (4.35)

4) Marriage Story (4.14)

5) Pain and Glory (3.81-Tie)

5) A Hidden Life (3.81-Tie)

7) Judy (3.80)

8) The Aeronauts (3.67)

9) The Report (3.66)

10) Motherless Brooklyn (3.64)

11) Lyrebird (3.62)

12) Waves (3.61)

13) Inside Bill's Brain (3.39)

14) Uncut Gems (3.22)

15) The Climb (3.07)

16) First Cow (3.02)

The  All Time Peoples Top Ten going into 2021:

1) Stories We Tell (4.80) (12)

2) Argo (4.75) (12)-Won Best Picture

3) The Imitation Game (4.73) (14) Nominated Best Picture

4) The Attack (4.70) (12)

5) Tim's Vermeer (4.67) (13)

6) 12 Years a Slave (4.55) (13) Won Best Picture

7) The Two Popes (4.51) (19)

8) Roma (4.47) (15) TIE Nominated Best Picture

8) Room (4.47) (18) TIE Nominated Best Picture

10) Birdman (4.46) (14) Won Best Picture

Also...here's were Best Picture Oscar nominees from Telluride have landed on the Peoples list for each year since it was started in 2012:

2012: Argo-4.75 (Winner) #2, Amour-4.17 #6

2013: 12 Years a Slave-4.55 #2 (Winner), Gravity-4.40 #3, Nebraska-4.08 #6

2014: Birdman-4.46 (Winner) #2, The Imitation Game-4.73 #1

2015: Spotlight-4.45 (Winner) #2, Room-4.47 #1

2016: Moonlight-4.37 #1 (Winner), La La Land 4.33 #2, Manchester by the Sea-4.18 #5, Arrival-4.13 #6

2017: The Shape of Water-4.22 #2 (Winner), Lady Bird-4.38 #1, Darkest Hour-4.04 #3

2018: Roma-4.47 #1, The Favourite-3.76 #9

2019: Parasite- 4.36  (Winner) #2, Ford v. Ferrari  4.35 #3, Marriage Story  4.14 #4

Finally, here is the 2021 People's Telluride (with a film's averaged rating in parentheses). 

1) The Power of the Dog (4.63)

2) The Rescue (4.20)

3) Julia (4.18)

4) Belfast (4.12)

5) King Richard (4.06)

6) C'mon C'mon (3.93)

7) The Hand of God (3.83)

8) Cyrano (3,62)

9) A Hero (3.60)

10) Marcel the Shell (3.57)

11) The Duke (3.53)

12) Spencer-tie- (3.50)

12) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain-tie- (3.50)

14) The Lost Daughter (3.44)

15) Red Rocket (3.41)

16) Petite Maman (3.25)

17) The French Dispatch (2.50)

18) Encounter (2.43)

With this year's poll in, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog joins the all time People's Top Ten at the #6 spot and bumps Birdman off the Top Ten list:

The all time People's Top Ten:

1) Stories We Tell (4.80) (12)

2) Argo (4.75) (12)-Won Best Picture

3) The Imitation Game (4.73) (14) Nominated Best Picture

4) The Attack (4.70) (12)

5) Tim's Vermeer (4.67) (13)

6) The Power of the Dog (4.63)

7) 12 Years a Slave (4.55) (13) Won Best Picture

8) The Two Popes (4.51) (19)

9) Roma (4.47) (15) TIE Nominated Best Picture

9) Room (4.47) (18) TIE Nominated Best Picture

The Composite Telluride will go up on Monday!

MARCEL AND THE PROS MAKE SOME NOISE

Marcel the Shell (via Glamour.com)

On Monday,  the results of The Professionals' Telluride with surprise topper Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,  made a bit of noise around the film industry.  I'm sure most folks, maybe all folks, thought that the top film would The Power of the Dog or Belfast might top the list but no.  Marcel\, the little shell that could,  ended up on by .12 of a rating average point.

The result was, without much doubt, the biggest surprise that I can recall since I started doing The Pro's ratings in 2012.

The Twitterverse took notice with responses from Marcel director Dean Fleischer Camp responding as well as film journalists:

From Variety's Clayton Davis:

From Indiewire's Anne Thompson:

From Awards Watch's Erik Anderson:

Sasha Stone from Awards Daily:

The notice drove traffic to the blog in numbers that I don't see except in the runup to the festival itself every year.  Monday's post has become the most viewed post in MTFB history in just these past four days.

Thanks Marcel!

WES ANDERSON TALKS THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Director/writer Wes Anderson's interview with The New Yorker about his TFF #48 selection The French Dispatch about The New Yorker being an inspiration for the film.

Here's the link to that interview.

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Sunday TBAs / Saturday's Reckoning / Probable for Sunday/ The People's Telluride

 SUNDAY TBAs

The Werner Herzog Theatre

9:45 PM - THE FRENCH DISPATCH (sneak preview)

Sheridan Opera House

6:15 PM - THE CARD COUNTER (sneak preview)

Masons

4:00 PM - BERNSTEIN’S WALL  10:00 PM - STUDENT PRINTS

Le Pierre

1:15 PM - PETITE MAMAN  10:00 PM - DEAR MR. BRODY (sneak preview)

Abel Gance Open Air Cinema

8:30 PM - BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN (sneak preview)

Town Park Theater

8:45 PM - ENCOUNTER

SATURDAY'S RECKONING

JULIA- Fair

MARCEL THE SHELL WITHE SHOES ON- Great

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND- No

PROBABLE FOR SUNDAY:

The Power of the Dog and The Same Storm.  I was planning on seeing The Electrical Life of Louis Wain at the Zog at 9:00 this morning but they wiped it out to add a screening of The French Dispatch.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

For the ninth non-consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride.  All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".

Report your ratings with any of the following contact methods:

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Saturday TBAs / Friday Was a Light Day / Saturday Plans

 SATURDAY TBAs

At the Galaxy: 9:30 am The French Dispatch and 9:45 pm Becoming Led Zeppelin

At the Mason Hall: 10:00 pm Great Expectations

And by the by...still have a high level of confidence that Paul Schrader's The Card Counter makes the program.

FRIDAY WAS A LIGHT DAY

Saw Belfast early and it is great!

Saw The French Dispatch in the evening and was disappointed.  I love Wes Anderson's body of work but this is 1/3 of a film.

SATURDAY PLANS

Probably Julia, Marcel the Shell and Power of the Dog...maybe King Richard.

Belfast is terrific!

Academy Trip to T-ride Canceled-TFF Responds / Late-Breaking: Cumberbatch Confirms Power of Dog and Louis Wain / Ruimy's 12 Most Anticipated Film Fest Films (6 at Telluride?) / Known Unknowns Part 3 / Julia Looks Like a Lock / New Poster for The Card Counter

ACADEMY TRIP TO T-RIDE CANCELED-TFF RESPONDS

Pete Hammond writing at Deadline.com reported Saturday evening that the  usual AMPAS member trip to Telluride has been canceled.  From Hammond's post:

"Deadline has learned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will not be traveling to Colorado for its annual member trip to the Telluride Film Festival this upcoming Labor Day weekend, and as such will not be holding its usual cocktail reception which has been a highlight of the fest in recent years and was expected to once again draw a packed room of Oscar voters..."

Despite the Academy's decision, Hammond says that the fest is still "all systems go" writing:

"...it is still all systems go for the festival, in terms of studio and distributor participation. In fact, I have been contacted by at least one major player with several films this year asking if I am comfortable attending their planned event “as long as all precautions are taken”.  I  have heard of no one so far canceling or changing their plans regarding participation at Telluride."

Further, Hammond says that the scuttlebutt is:

"there is lots of informed speculation and it appears festival honchos are putting together a very strong and promising lineup of films and tributes including in-person star and filmmaker participation." 

Meanwhile, on Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg reported that TFF organizer's have stepped in and will be hosting an event to replace that annual Academy soiree.  TFF heads have labelled the party "The Filmmakers Reception".  Feinberg writes:

“AMPAS will be sorely missed this year,” the fest tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The organization has been, and will continue to be, strong supporters and friends of the Festival, and we can’t wait to welcome them back in 2022. We will continue in their absence with the annual cocktail party [hosted in recent years by the Academy], this year called the Filmmaker Reception, with the same exclusive guest list full of Oscar voters, filmmakers, talent, and Hollywood executives. We will be moving to a bigger venue: a beautiful private home with an abundance of outdoor space and all the same Festival-mandated Covid safety protocols.”

Feinberg's reporting also emphasized, as Hammond's reporting did, that all films that had been set to play Telluride still are set to play.  From Feinberg:

"The Hollywood Reporter can also confirm that no distributors have backed out of their plans to attend or screen their films at the fest, and several have already begun reaching out to journalists to ask them to hold time-slots for COVID-safe receptions and media opportunities."

LATE BREAKING: CUMBERBATCH CONFIRMS POWER OF DOG AND LOUIS WAIN FOR TELLURIDE

Screen Daily reports this morning that actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who appears in both Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog and Will Sharpe's The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, has confirmed in a BBC Radio interview that both films will play at Telluride.

Here's the link to the Screen Daily story.

RUIMY'S 12 MOST ANITICPATED FILM FEST FILMS (6 AT TELLURIDE?)

Jordan Ruimy's World of Reel was up on Saturday with a list of 12 fall film fest films that he called the most anticipated.  Among the 12 titles listed, half are expected (by Ruimy) to play at TFF #48.  Here's where those half dozen land on his list:

1) The Power of the Dog

5) C'mon C'mon

7) Spencer

8) The Hand of God

9) The Card Counter

10) The Lost Daughter

How do the other three fests fare on Ruimy's list?

Venice has eight films.

Toronto has six films.

New York has three films.

Ruimy's complete list of a dozen with commentary can be found here.

KNOWN  UNKNOWNS PART 3

I've been keeping track of a list of films I have called the "Known Unknowns".  I last posted it two weeks ago and it looked like this:

Being the Ricardos/Sorkin (Amazon-No date)

Cyrano/Wright (MGM/United Artists-12/25)

Don't Look Up/McKay (Netflix-No date)

Eternals/Zhao (Disney-11/5)

A Journal for Jordan/Washington (Sony-12/22)

King Richard/Green (Warners-11/9)

The Last Duel/Scott (Disney/20th Century-10/15)

Soggy Bottom (Untitled PTA Project)/Anderson (MGM-11-26)

tick, tick...BOOM/Miranda (Netflix-Undated)

West Side Story/Spielberg (Disney/20th Century-12-10)

 

Over the last two weeks, there has been some movement on the list.  Both The Last Duel and tick, tick, BOOM have given clues that neither of those films will be at Telluride.

However, there has been some increasing buzz that Joe Wright's Cyrano has a reasonable chance to make the TFF #48 lineup.

With that information in mind we are left with seven films still on the list:

Being the Ricardos/Sorkin (Amazon-No date)

Don't Look Up/McKay (Netflix-No date)

Eternals/Zhao (Disney-11/5)

A Journal for Jordan/Washington (Sony-12/22)

King Richard/Green (Warners-11/9)

Soggy Bottom (Untitled PTA Project)/Anderson (MGM-11-26)

West Side Story/Spielberg (Disney/20th Century-12-10)

My assessment here is that the only one of these that might be a Telluride choice is King Richard.  The rest are unlikely to play at any festival anywhere.

JULIA LOOK LIKE A LOCK

The Toronto International Film Festival announced Friday that Julia, the documentary about the life of Julia Child, will play TIFF as an International Premiere.  That designation tells us that Julia's presence at Telluride is very, very likely as the film is listed as being a U.S. film by TIFF which means that the International designation tells us that it will have appeared previously in its country of origin.  The process of elimination tells us Telluride.

NEW POSTER FOR THE CARD COUNTER

Here it is.  Released this week is another poster for Paul Schrader's The Card Counter which I am really confident about being a TFF #48 choice.  I'm expecting it to move from an early Venice slot across the Atlantic to land in T-ride.  Here's the poster:

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Ten Bets #7 for TFF #48 / Moving Parts / Julia Trailer

 TEN BETS #7 FOR TFF #48

A lot of moving parts this week with new films either seemingly confirmed for Telluride and other films nuked for TFF #48 in all likelihood.  That info is reflected in this week's Ten Bets and explained below in the section labeled "Moving Parts".  Bettin' Time!

Last week's Ten Bets:

1) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe

2) The Power of the Dog/Campion

3) Petite Maman/Sciamma

4) The Card Counter/Schrader

5) Something from Mark Cousins***

6) Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)/Almodovar

7)  Julia/Cohen and West

8) Spencer/Larrain

9) A Hero/Farhadi

10) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

Other Possibles: Dune, The French Dispatch, Muhammad Ali, The Hand of God Where Is Anne Frank?, Cow, The Last Duel, Encounter, tick, tick..BOOM, Antlers, Being the Ricardos, Titaine, C'mon C'mon, Hallelujah/Leonard Cohen, Red Rocket, Last Exit: Space, Flee, King Richard, 7 Prisoners, The Lost Daughter.

***Mark Cousins projects that could play:

The Story of Looking

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The Story of Film: The Next Generation

This week's Ten Bets:

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe

3) Petite Maman/Sciamma

4) The Card Counter/Schrader

5) Spencer/Larrain

6) Something from Mark Cousins***

7) Julia/Cohen and West

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) The Rescue/Garbus

10) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

Other Possibles: The French Dispatch, Muhammad Ali, The Hand of God, Cow, The Last Duel, Encounter, tick, tick..BOOM, Dune, Antlers, Being the Ricardos, C'mon C'mon, Hallelujah/Leonard Cohen, Red Rocket, Last Exit: Space, Flee, King Richard, The Lost Daughter, Becoming Cousteau, Three Minutes-A Lengthening, Don't Look Up.

***Mark Cousins projects that could play:

The Story of Looking

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The Story of Film: The Next Generation

MOVING PARTS

BFI London announced yesterday that Jeyemes Samules The Harder They Fall will be their opening night Gala as a World Premiere on Oct. 6th taking it out of Telluride consideration.  Admittedly, I only regarded it as an unlikely TFF #48 possibility.

New York announced (as reported by Indiewire) that Pedro Almodovar's Madres Paralelas will close that fest as a North American premiere closing the door to its Telluride participation.  That one was a bit of a surprise.  Not that it's closing NYFF but that it wouldn't play TFF.  After the success of Pain and Glory a couple of years back, I thought a Telluride play was a serious possibility...but nope.

Toronto's latest list of inclusions yesterday seemed to point to three documentaries will be playing Telluride: The Rescue from the crew that brought Free Solo to TFF,  Becoming Cousteau from Liz Garbus and Three Minutes-A Lengthening from Bianca Stigter.

TIFF also signaled that Palme d'Or winner, Titane, and Ari Folman's Where Is Anne Frank? will not be at TFF #48 as they are both labeled as North American premieres.

Other films announced as a part of the TIFF lineup that will not be making a Colorado trek over Labor Day (and that I had thought had a small chance at it):

Lapid's Ahed's Knee, Dumont's France, Moratto's 7 Prisoners and Kuosmanen's Compartment #6.

Rasmussen's Flee is listed as a Canadian Premiere and Bentley's Jockey is listed as an International Premiere which often signals a Telluride play but both films bowed at Sundance and Flee played at the Annecy Animation Fest in France thus explaining the Preem designation.  That said, I still have sense that Flee might be that doc that plays both Sundance and T-ride.  It happens sometimes.

Here's Deadline's complete rundown of Toronto's latest wave of titles.

Meanwhile...

Telluride buzz this week focused around Pablo Larrain's Spencer, Mike Mills' C'mon C'mon and Joe Wright's Cyrano.  I'm feeling less bullish on Dune.

Meanwhile, last Monday's list of 10 Known Unknowns remain "Unknown":

Being the Ricardos/Sorkin (Amazon-No date)

Cyrano/Wright (MGM/United Artists-12/25)

Don't Look Up/McKay (Netflix-No date)

Eternals/Zhao (Disney-11/5)

A Journal for Jordan/Washington (Sony-12/22)

King Richard/Green (Warners-11/9)

The Last Duel/Scott (Disney/20th Century-10/15)

Soggy Bottom (Untitled PTA Project)/Anderson (MGM-11-26)

tick, tick...BOOM/Miranda (Netflix-Undated)

West Side Story/Spielberg (Disney/20th Century-12-10)

JULIA TRAILER

Sony Pictures Classics, it turns out, has released a trailer for Julia, the documentary about famed chef Julia Child.  Julia is directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, the directing duo behind Oscar nominee BRG.  Julia does not yet have an announced release date.  The doc sits at #6 on this week's Ten Bets list.  Here's the trailer from YouTube:

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Cannes Spec heats Up /A Look at SPC

 CANNES SPEC HEATS UP

With the official announcement of the Cannes Film Festival lineup now just two weeks away (June 3), the guessing game about what films make the list is warming up.  As always here, a reminder that, historically, Cannes and Telluride have had a substantial overlap of films in their official selections.

Now, does that continue in this year where we still have Covid concerns, that traditional sharing of titles may be lessened, increased, skewed...

But I'm going to run for awhile on the assumption that there will be that connection between the two fests that has been true for quite some time and that's an average of about 8 or so films that play both.

Just this past week I ran across big "Cannes lists" from Indiewire, Screen Daily and World of Reel and put together a list of TFF possibilities that popped up.

All three publications included: Jacques Audiard's Paris 13th District and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch.  However, Screen Daily reports that Searchlight has not yet committed to premiering on the Croisette and is still gaming out what it feels would be the best release strategy for the highly anticipated film.

Many films that I feel have a shot at TFF #48's lineup are listed in two of the publications including:

Asghar Farhadi's A Hero (IND, WOR)

Andrea Arnold's Cow (IND, SD)

Michelangelo Frammartino's The Hole (IND, SD)

Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday (IND, SD)

Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth (IND, WOR)

Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground (IND, SD)

Ari Folman's Where Is Anne Frank (IND, WOR)

Mia Hansen Love's Bergman Island (WOR, SD)

Francois Ozon's Everything Went Fine (WOR, SD)

Sean Penn's Flag Day (WOR, SD)

{IND= Indiewire  WOR = World of Reel  SD= Screen Daily}

The complete articles from each publication are linked below:

Indiewire

Screen Daily

World of Reel

Check them out and see what other titles you think might screen at Cannes before coming to Colorado on Labor Day weekend.

A LOOK AT SPC 

Today we continue our stroll through film distributors that have had strong presences over the last five years at Telluride,.  Last Monday I got that started with a look at Netflix which has had 16 (maybe 17) films play at TFF in that time span.  Matching it (or nearly matching it ) has been Sony Pictures Classics with 16 films in five years.  

Beyond the five year limitation I placed on looking at recent TFFs and distributors, SPC and Telluride's relationship has been much longer than that.  So, unless the world stops spinning, you can expect to see some SPC titles this year as in many others.

SPC is coming off a very successful one-two punch with last year's The Father picking up two Oscars among six nominations (Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor and Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton for Best Adapted Screenplay) and The Truffle Hunters, which didn't make the Oscar final list of five nominated documentary feature films but won a number of critics' awards and was universally beloved.

Currently in SPC's hands and with what seems to be Telluride potential:

Clint Bentley's Jockey

Ty Roberts 12 Mighty Orphans

Andreas Koefoed's The Lost Leonardo

Julie Cohen and Betsy West's Julia

Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday 

Benjamin Millepied's Carmen

And then there's a couple of real wild cards:

Zachary Fuhrer's John Prine: Hello in There which I really thought was going to play TFF #47 last year and then it was not on the announced list.  I swear I saw someplace that it was going to be released or pop-up at some other fest virtually...but I can't find any evidence that happened. SPC acquired the doc in February of 2019.  So???

And then there's Pedro Almodovar's latest Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers).  Its IMDb Pro entry says it's a 2022 release and that it's "filming" as of March 10th.  But after Almodovar's triumphant return to Telluride screenings with Pain and Glory at TFF #46...who knows?  OK, it's much more likely that it screens at next year's Cannes and then maybe TFF #49.

At this point I have no strong intell or intuitions about any of these SPC films.   If you made me I might point at Julia, Mothering Sunday and Jockey and I'd likely throw in the Prine doc because I'm stubborn.

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