Does Mill Valley Suggest Sorry We Missed You at Telluride? / Final Trailer for Pain and Glory / Little Women Gets a Trailer

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DOES MILL VALLEY SUGGEST SORRY WE MISSED YOU AT TELLURIDE?

Ken Loach was, once again, a part of Cannes' Palme d'Or competition this year with Sorry We Missed You.  The film has been one that I have kept an eye despite it having remained under the radar since its Cannes debut.  I had it on my 75 Films That Could Play Telluride post from July 22nd.  (That list currently has 15 films that I think are very much Telluride bound.  It also has 22 films that appear to have been eliminated from TFF consideration.)

The film has played a handful of other international film fests but still has no U.S. distributor and hasn't shown up in any announcement from Toronto (yet).

But Loach was a 1993 Telluride tribute recipient and Raining Stones screened.  Ladybird, Ladybird was programmed at TFF #21 the following year so there's a bit of history there.

And this weekend I happen to casually be perusing the early announced films for the Mill Valley Film Fest and happened across Sorry to Miss You announced as a West Coast premiere.  The only other film among the titles Mill Valley included that also has that designation is Agnes Varda's Varda by Agnes, which most of you readers know I have been thinking that it will be a Telluride screening  all summer long.

Consequently, it seems to me from this evidence that Loach's film suddenly looks like a real possibility for TFF #46.  It might even make the updated Ten/Bonus Bets on Friday.

Here's the list from Mill Valley.



FINAL TRAILER FOR PAIN AND GLORY

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LITTLE WOMEN GETS A TRAILER

Anton Volkov's Trailer Track and several other outlets revealed yesterday that we should see a trailer for Little Women sometime today.

The Greta Gerwig film is currently not announced for any film fest and the scuttlebutt the last couple of weeks has been that the film could well bypass all the fests.  That seems to be the most likely scenario but I'm still holding onto a shred of hope that it magically makes an appearance at TFF #46 in a couple of weeks.

Word is that the trailer is to drop sometime this morning.

Here's the link to the Trailer Track story.


THE CURRENT TEN BETS AND BONUS BETS:

10) The Aeronauts
9) Ford v. Ferrari
8) The Two Popes
7) Pain and Glory
6) Uncut Gems
5) Judy
4) Motherless Brooklyn
3) Marriage Story
2) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1) Parasite

Bonus 1) The Truth
Bonus 2) Varda by Agnes
Bonus 3) First Cow
Bonus 4) A Hidden Life
Bonus 5) The Report
Bonus 6) Beanpole
Bonus 7) The Kingmaker


DON'T FORGET TO PLAN TO RATE!

For the eighth 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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The Distributors 2019: Lionsgate-Roadside Attractions / Sorry We Missed You Trailer / Pain and Glory Trailer

Welcome to Friday and the end of a long week for me from the National Speech Tournament in Dallas, Texas.


THE DISTRIBUTORS 2019: LIONSGATE-ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

Lionsgate and affiliated film company Roadside Attractions have a solid appearance history with the Telluride Film Festival.

Lionsgate at Telluride:

2017: Hostiles
2016: La La Land
2013: All Is Lost

Roadside Attractions was repped at T-ride as follows over the past few years:

2018: Trial by Fire
2016: Manchester by the Sea
2014: '71, Mommy, The Homesman
2013: All is Lost, Gloria
2012: Stories We Tell
2011: Albert Nobbs
2010: Biutiful

Between the two affiliated distributors is an average of about one film each year.  1.2 films per year to be exact.

For 2019, between the firms, there seem to be two possibilities.

One is the Judy Garland biopic starring Renee Zellweger and directed by Rupert Goold.  The other is the Jay Roach directed, John Lithgow starring film about Roger Ailes and the working environment at Fox News.  The film also stars Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie and is due in theaters on Dec. 20th

I'd put the Telluride chances for both of these films at 40%.



SORRY WE MISSED YOU TRAILER


We have a trailer for Ken Loach's social drama Sorry We Missed You.  he film played at Cannes to moderately good critical response.  It's still unacquired for U.S. distribution and as such is not yet dated for release in the United States.

Here' the trailer for the film via YouTube:

I've linked an article about the film and its trailer debut from Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net here.


PAIN AND GLORY TRAILER


Another Cannes success has a new trailer for the UK. Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory which features Cannes Best Actor winner Antonio Banderas.  Penelope Cruz also stars in the film.Almodovar's semi-autobiographical film is under the auspices of Sony Pictures Classics and is set for U.S. release on Oct. 4th.

Could Pain and Glory be Almodovar's return to TFF?

Here's the trailer via YouTube.

That's the MTFB for the week.  Come back next Monday for more.


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Cannes Down the Homestretch/Acquisition News from France/Early Oscar Talk: Foxcatcher

Good Thursday to Everyone...

CANNES DOWN THE HOMESTRETCH

As I type this morning the Cannes Film Festival is leaning toward its finish line.  About the time I publish this morning, the first non-press screening of Xavier Dolan's "Mommy" should just about be finished screening which just leaves two more films to screen in competition.  Award winners are set to be announced Saturday evening in France which is mid-day Saturday here in the States.

Of key concern to those of us with an eye toward Telluride are three things from the two week "granddaddy of all film fests"...1) The critical reactions, 2) the award winners and 3) the deals made by distributors that might be inclined to push a film for T-ride.

So...the critical reaction thus far...

I have been tracking four different Cannes critic trackers these last ten days or so.  Here's where they are in terms of the "top five" films in the Palme d'Or competition category.


Cannes Critics Ratings top five thus far:

1) "Goodbye to Language"/Godard (8.67)
2) "Two Days, One Night"/Dardenne Brothers (7.75)
3) "Winter Sleep"/Ceylan (7.61)
4) "Mommy"/Dolan (7.10)
5) "Timbuktu"/Sissako (6.93)

That complete chart is here:

http://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/2014

Ioncinema's Critics Panel has (which hasn't registered enough response yet for either "Mommy" or "Goodbye to Language):
1) "Two Days, One Night"/Dardenne Brothers (4.0)
2) (tie) "Mr. Turner"/Leigh (3.5)
2) (tie) "Winter Sleep"/Ceylan (3.5)
4) "Timbuktu"/Sissako (3.3)
5) "Foxcatcher"/Miller (3.2)

The complete chart from Ioncinema is here:

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2014-cannes-critics-panel-day-6-dardennes-receive-a-bonus-with-two-days-one-night-still-the-water-floats

Total Critics from South America has it looking like this:

1) "Goodbye to Language"/Godard (9.25)
2) "Winter Sleep"/Ceylan (7.71)
3) "Two Days, One Night"/Dardennes Brothers (7.35)
4) "The Wonders"/Rohrbacher (6.79)
5) "Timbuktu"/Sissako (6.68)

Check the full roundup here:

http://www.todaslascriticas.com.ar/cannes


Finally, Critics Round Up has it this way:

1) Two Days, One Night"/Dardennes Brothers (94)
2) "Wild Tales"/Szifron (93)
3) "Timbuktu"/Sissako (84)
4) "The Wonders"/Rohrbacher (83)
5) "Mr. Turner"/Leigh (81)

Their complete look at Cannes is here;

http://criticsroundup.com/cannes-2014/


I have also collected all of these ratings for the 13 films (of the 18 in competition) to arrive at a consensus chart.

1) "Two Days, One Night"
2) "Winter Sleep"
3) "Timbuktu"
4) ""Mr. Turner"
5) "The Wonders"
6) "Foxcatcher"
7) "Wild Tales"
8) "Maps to the Stars"
9) "Saint Laurent"
10) "The Homesman"
11) "Still the Waters"
12) "Captives"
13) "The Search"

Note:  Late news this morning is that Dolan's "Mommy" is getting good reviews across the board and Jean Luc Godard's "Goodbye to Language" is getting great reviews.


Meanwhile, the three highest praised films from the festival's Un Certain Regard section have been Mathieu Amalric's "The Blue Room", Lisandro Alonso's "Jauja" and Jessica Hausner's "Amour Fou".


ACQUISITION NEWS FROM FRANCE

In a move that signals that we might want to to put Ken Loach's "Jimmy's Hall" on our Telluride radar, Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the U.S. distribution for that film.  "Jimmy's Hall" screened at Cannes in the Palme competition section this morning.  Here are reports about the SPC acquisition from The Hollywood Reporter and Variety:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-ken-loachs-jimmys-hall-705840

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/cannes-sony-classics-acquires-ken-loachs-jimmys-hall-1201187214/

"Jimmy's Hall" trailer via YouTube/Coming Soon

SPC has also acquired the Yves St. Laurent biopic "Saint Laurent" during the festival and "Wild Tales".

EARLY OSCAR TALK...FOXCATCHER

Steve Carell in "Foxcatcher" via The Hollywood Reporter

IndieWire/CriticWire have echoed the claim that we've already seen in a lot of laces which is that Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" is likely the most Oscar-y film from the Cannes films.  Take a look at their compendium of critical response from Cannes:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/foxcatcher-steve-carell-channing-tatum-bennett-miller-cannes-review

I'll have Cannes updates through the next few days via this space and Twitter (@Gort2), otherwise...More on Monday...