MTFB Oscar Update: Supporting Acting and More / It's Official: Five Days for the 50th / Maltin's Bill Pence Remembrance / Visitations: Women Talking: Foy, Buckley and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SUPPORTING ACTING AND MORE

I am updating predictions in the categories of Best  Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Original Score, Original Song and Sound.   These were last predicted on Dec. 22nd.  Past ranking is to the right in parentheses.  Films from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Kerry Condon/The Banshees of Inisherin (1)

2) Angela Bassett/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (3)

3) Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once (4)

4) Jesse Buckley/Women Talking (2)

5) Janelle Monae/Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (5)

6) Dolly DeLeon/Triangle of Sadness (6)

7) Stephanie Hsu/Everything Everywhere All at Once (New)

Out: Carrie Mulligan/She Said

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)

2) Brendan Gleeson/The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) Barry Keoghan/The Banshees of Inisherin (6)

4) Judd Hirsch/The Fabelmans (3)

5) Paul Dano/The Fabelmans (4)

6) Brad Pitt/Babylon (6)

7) Bryan Tyree Henry (Back In)

Out: Ben Whishaw/Women Talking

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) The Fabelmans (1)

2) Women Talking (2)

3) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (3)

4) Babylon (4)

5) The Banshees of Inisherin (5)

6) The Woman King (6)

7) Avatar: The Way of Water (New)

Out: She Said

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Lift Me Up/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (1)

2) Naatu Naatu/RRR (2)

3) Hold My Hand/Top Gun: Maverick (3)

4) Ciao Papa/Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (4)

5) Applause/Tell It Like a Woman (6)

6) Carolina/Where the Crawdads Sing (5)

7) New Body Rhumba/White Noise (7)

BEST SOUND

1) Top Gun: Maverick (1)

2) Avatar: The Way of Water (2)

3) Elvis (3) 

4) All Quiet on the Western Front (7)

5) Babylon (4)

6) The Batman (5)

7) Everything Everywhere All at Once (6)

Out: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

IT'S OFFICIAL: FIVE DAYS FOR THE 50TH

Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader (shout out Chris Schneider) I can tell you that the rumored and expected five days for TFF #50 has been confirmed by the festival's official website:

The website also confirms that passes will go on sale on March 1st. so make plans accordingly.

MALTIN'S  BILL PENCE REMEMBRANCE

Long time Telluride fixture Leonard Maltin penned a tribute to the late Bill Pence at his website which I have linked here.

Maltin wrote in part:

"It was difficult to learn that Bill’s health was fading in recent months. He was a hearty soul, buoyed by confidence and an unquenchable passion for films—and his family. That extended family grew to include many people who dedicated themselves to the Telluride Film Festival because of his and Stella’s leadership. Alice, Jessie and I couldn’t be more thankful."

 

VISITATIONS

WOMEN TALKING

Clare Foy and Jesse Buckley from The Los Angeles Times.

Sheila McCarthy and Judith Ivey from The List.

Sarah Polley from The Mercury News.

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The Official Close/Your Reminder/TFF #40 Re-caps/Say No Jason

                                           

Good Thursday to all...

THE OFFICIAL CLOSE

Here's the text of the closing press release from this year's Telluride Film Festival:

TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION COMES TO A CLOSE

Telluride, CO, September 2, 2013 – Telluride Film Festival (August 29-September 2, 2013), presented by the National Film Preserve, draws to a close today following a spectacular five-day anniversary presentation of diverse programming, surprise screenings and special guests attended by more than 4,000 movie lovers.

Telluride Film Festival curated over 100 programs representing twenty-five countries including twenty-seven new feature films in its main program; six film revivals selected by returning Guest Directors: Don Delillo, Buck Henry, Phillip Lopate, Michael Ondaatje, B. Ruby Rich and Salman Rushdie; twelve Backlot programs; six revival programs; 33 shorts and/or student films, and hosted twelve seminars and conversations between festival guests.

“We are overwhelmed at the level of talent we have seen at this year’s 40th Telluride Film Festival,” commented Festival co-founder and artistic director Tom Luddy. “We are privileged to be able to present the world’s best in cinema, surrounded by friends old and new. What a wonderful way to celebrate our anniversary.”

Four Sneak Previews that screened outside the official program include Steve McQueen’s latest film 12 YEARS A SLAVE (U.S., 2013), which appeared with cast members Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o; Denis Villeneuve’s PRISONERS (U.S., 2013) with Villeneuve in person; Shane Salerno’s SALINGER with Salerno and AE Hotchner via Skype and panelists David Shields, Buddy Squires, Jean Miller and Dylan Sellers in person; andKathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall presented Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (Japan, 2013), and announced that it will be Miyazaki’s last film.

In a statement released yesterday from Frank Marshall by Telluride Film Festival, he said, "We were extremely honored to present Hayao Miyazaki's latest masterpiece, "The Wind Rises."  But it was a bittersweet moment for us, as we also announced his retirement from directing, making this his last feature film."

Previously announced Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, went to Robert Redford; T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers; and Mohammad Rasoulof.

Additional 40th Telluride Film Festival guests and program participants include: Yuval Adler, The Alloy Orchestra, the Americans, Michael Barker, Ritesh Batra, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Frances Bodomo, David Cairns, Patrick Cazals, J.C. Chandor, Ethan Clarke, Philippe Claudel, Linda Jones Clough, Francis For Coppola, Gia Coppola, Mark Cousins, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, John Curran, Mark Danner, Robyn Davidson, Don DeLillo, Bruce Dern, Tony Donoghue, Paul Duane, Geoff Dyer, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mitra Farahani, Asghar Farhadi, Battiste Fenwick, Ralph Fiennes, Joey Figueroa, Michael Fitzgerald, Scott Foundas, Robin Frohardt, Alberto Fuguet, Paulina García, Dan Geller, Jonathan Glazer, Dayna Goldfine, Emily Harrold, Buck Henry, Werner Herzog, Agnieszka Holland, John Horn, Bob Hurwitz, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Annette Insdorf, Oscar Isaac, Tim Jenison, Barry Jenkins, Tamara Jenkins, Penn Jillette, Esther Julie-Anne, Abdellatif Kechiche, Dieter Kosslick, Zak Knutson, Andrej Landin, Sebastián Lelio, Mark Levinson, Phillip Lopate, Colin MacCabe, David Mackenzie, Lauren MacMullan, Emilio Maille, Leonard Maltin, Joshua Marston, Joyce Maynard, Todd McCarthy, Jean Miller, Monique Montgomery, Errol Morris, Dario Nardi, Gregory Nava, Michael Ondaatje, Rithy Panh, Tatiana Pauhofová, Pawel Pawlikowski, Alexander Payne, Nicolas Philibert, Bill Plympton, Michael Pollan, Punch Brothers, Josh Radnor, Tahar Rahim, Alejandro Ramirez, Kirill Razlogov, Godfrey Reggio, Jason Reitman, B. Ruby Rich, Rob Richert, Pierre Rissient, A.V. Rockwell, Bobby Roth, Salman Rushdie, Lisanne Sartor, Dylan Sellers,Léa Seydoux, David Shields, Buddy Squires, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jordana Spiro, Milos Stehlik, Matt Steinauer, Dean Tavoularis, Teller, Gabriel Thibaudeau, David Thomson, Agata Trzebuchowska, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Mia Wasikowska, Alice Waters, Todd Wiseman, Joey Xanders, Sara Zandieh and Farley Ziegler.

Previously announced new feature films that played in the official 40th Telluride Film Festival main program:

·       ALL IS LOST (d. J.C. Chandor, U.S., 2013)

·       BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL (d. Philippe Claudel, France, 2013)

·       BETHLEHEM (d. Yuval Adler, Israel, 2013)

·       BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (d. Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 2013)

·       BURNING BUSH (d. Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic, 2013)

·       DEATH ROW: BLAINE MILAM + ROBERT FRATTA (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2013)

·       FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS (d. Mitra Farahani, U.S., 2013)

·       THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN (d. Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, U.S., 2013)

·       GLORIA (d. Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2013)

·       GRAVITY (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.S./U.K., 2013)

·       IDA (d. Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013)

·       INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (d. Joel and Ethan Coen, U.S., 2013)

·       THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (d. Ralph Fiennes, U.K., 2013)

·       LABOR DAY (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2013)

·       THE LUNCHBOX (d. Ritesh Batra, India, 2013)

·       LA MAISON DE LA RADIO (d. Nicolas Philibert, France, 2013)

·       MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2013)

·       THE MISSING PICTURE (d. Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France, 2013)

·       NEBRASKA (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2013)

·       PALO ALTO (d. Gia Coppola, U.S., 2013)

·       THE PAST (d. Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy, 2013)

·       SLOW FOOD STORY (d. Stefano Sardo, Italy, 2013)

·       STARRED UP (d. David Mackenzie, U.K., 2013)

·       TIM’S VERMEER (d. Teller, U.S., 2013)

·       TRACKS (d. John Curran, Australia, 2013)

·       UNDER THE SKIN (d. Jonathan Glazer, U.K., 2013)

·       THE UNKNOWN KNOWN (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2013)

Previously announced films screened in The Backlot program:

·       HERE BE DRAGONS (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2013)

·       JODOROWSKY’S DUNE (d. Frank Pavich, U.S./France, 2013)        

·       LOCATIONS: LOOKING FOR RUSTY JAMES (d. Alberto Fuguet, Chile, 2013) select screening will be followed by Francis Ford Coppola’s RUMBLE FISH(U.S., 1983)

·       NATAN (d. David Cairns, Paul Duane, Ireland, 2013)

·       MILIUS (d. Zak Knutson, Joey Figueroa, U.S., 2013)

·       MULTIPLE VISIONS, THE CRAZY MACHINE (d. Emilio Maille, Mexico, 2012)

·       MUSIDORA, THE TENTH MUSE (d. Patrick Cazals, France, 2013)

·       PARTICLE FEVER (d. Mark Levinson, U.S., 2013)

·       REMEMBRANCE – A SMALL MOVIE ABOUT OUUL IN THE 1950s (d. Peter Von Bagh, Finland, 2013)

·       ROAD MOVIE: A PORTRAIT OF JOHN ADAMS (d. Mark Kidel, U.K., 2013)

·       A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2013)

40th Telluride Film Festival was dedicated to Les Blank (1935-2013); Roger Ebert (1942-2013); George Gund (1937-2013); and Donald Richie (1924-2013).

A complete list of 40th Telluride Film Festival films and events is available at: www.telluridefilmfestival.org

Film stills available upon request. Email Shannon@telluridefilmfestival.org for more information.

Festival photos available at www.telluridefilmfestival.org and www.wireimage.com.

YOUR REMINDER

     

I've started to get ratings from some of the readers of the blog today and I want to encourage everyone to share their opinions.  Be bold, I say.  I'm asking you to rate every film you saw at TFF#40 on a 0-5 scale (0 meaning awful, 5 meaning fantastic).  I'll put them together and post "The People's Telluride" next week.

You can add your ratings via comment on this blog or email to:

michael_speech@hotmail.com

OR

mpgort@gmail.com

or Tweet them to me on Twitter @Gort2

The Professionals version is about half complete.  My hope is to have that put together by the weekend.

TELLURIDE #40 RE-CAPS

I've linked to a couple of retrospectives about this year's festival from Leonard Maltin and Eugene Hernandez/The Film Society.  You can take a stroll down recent memory lane with both reports:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/snapshots-of-telluride-at-40

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/telluride-12-years-a-slave-gravity-under-the-skin-the-wind-rises

SAY NO JASON

I ran into director/writer Jason Reitman Sunday night in the concession line at "The Zog".  It's one of those things that can only happen in Telluride.  We talked for a bit and I included my claim that I'm his actual good luck charm as we had spoken in Telluride after the presentations of both "Juno" and "Up in the Air" (though I'm not so sure that "Labor Day" is going to be embraced as strongly as either of those two films).  He was, as you might expect, kind, pleasant and funny.

Then last night this headline from The Hollywood Reporter:

Toronto: Jason Reitman Lining Up His Next Film

5:26 PM PDT 9/4/2013 by Tatiana Siegel, Borys Kit

OK...I think and the read the story.  Turns out the cast may include Adam Sandler...

Please no.  Here's the link to the THR post:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-jason-reitman-lining-up-620958

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Sundancing/Unusual Lists/Oscar Confusion/A Separation/The Artist

Good Morning and Happy 2012!  I hope your start to the new year was entertaining.  My hope is that the whole of 2012 is entertaining.

SUNDANCING

I am very excited to announce that for the first time, Michael's Telluride Film Blog/The Film Awards Clearinghouse will have a presence at the Sundance Film Festival.  Not me (though I wish it was) but former student and active cinephile, Gant Lee of Cinema Bebop will be attending the back half of Sundance and has kindly agreed to allow this blog to share his experiences, impressions, reports and reviews...I am uber-pumped and not a little jealous.  Sundance is set to run from Jan. 19-29.  I believe Gant will be on the ground in Park City and vicinity from Jan. 24 or so until they close the place down. I'm  looking forward to seeing Gant's dispatches.

Also, if there's a Sundance title you have an interest in hearing about, drop me an email (mpgort@gmail.com) or tweet (twitter.com/@Gort2) and let me know.  No guarantees, but we'll see what we can do.

The Sundance website is here:
http://www.sundance.org/festival/

UNUSUAL LISTS

I ran across a couple of interesting lists this week that I thought I would pass along.  First is Scott Feinberg's list of films that were, at one point, thought to be potential players for the 2012 awards season.  He has 13 films on this list and one of them DID play Telluride (the fairly pedestrian "Butter", read my less than stellar review for The Playlist here: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/telluride_11_review_jennifer_garners_butter_churns_and_churns_but_doesnt_pr 
The other dozen are almost all films that at one point or another were on my Telluride 2012 radar.  Feinberg tells us what the status is for each of the films.  Here's the link to the article:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/2011-awards-contenders-friends-with-kids-268424

The other list comes from my Telluride buddy, Leonard Maltin and is comprised of 11 films that he suggests are really good, but have been fling under the radar.  Included on his list are Telluride players "Of Gods and Men"and "Incendies" from TFF #37.  the complete list is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonard-maltin/the-11-best-films-you-may_1_b_1170232.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

OSCAR CONFUSION

Another year, and another new Oscar Best Picture procedure.  After the two year "Ten Nominees" experiment, the Academy has instituted a new voting procedure designed to give us anywhere from 5 to 10 Best Picture nominees.  After such a drastic change just two years ago, this new wrinkle has apparently created some confusion among Academy voters.  This according to Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter as you can see here:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscar-ballots-academy-award-nominations-277034

I'd probably be confused too.

Incidentally, as we move into serious Oscar gear in the month of January, I am going to try to pick the brains of the few "insiders" I've come to know over the last few years and see what, if any, insight I might be able to glean from their wisdom.

A SEPARATION

A lot of heat continues for Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" as reflected by continued and increasing media coverage.  Here is some of that:

From The Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-separation-oscars-iran-asghar-farhadi-277083

Thompson on Hollywood: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/farhadi-talks-iranian-oscar-entry-a-separation-divorce-drama-questions-irans-future

Metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-separation/critic-reviews

THE ARTIST:

The Guardian has a nearly five minute interview with the creators of the silent black and white Oscar favorite here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/dec/30/jean-dujardin-berenice-bejo-the-artist-video?CMP=twt_fd

FILM DETAIL

This website has posted its Best Of list for 2011 and i includes no less than six TFF #38 films.  Take a look here:
http://www.filmdetail.com/2011/12/31/the-best-films-of-2011/

That's a wrap for the first post of 2012...Again, Happy New Year and catch a new post on Thursday!  (should have some guild news to talk about).

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Late Breaking News/Ten(+) Bets/Kevin's Trailer/Darren Aron-NOAH-sky/My Friend Marlon

Good Morning America!

Back to a real job today for this guy.  Teaching Inservice today and tomorrow.  Classes start Wednesday.
Also...pseudo-waiting...

The 38th Telluride Film Festival starts in 18 days...

LATE BREAKING NEWS

Two items making Telluride connected news late last night.:

1) Ioncinema.com baldly claims what I have expected for some time and that is that Werner Herzog's documentary "Into the Abyss" will play T-ride.  No surprise there.



and 2) Film critic and Telluride regular (and past Silver Medallion recipient) Leonard Maltin had surgery for a detached retina yesterday in El Paso, TX.  Wishing you a speedy recovery, Mr. Maltin!


TEN (+) BETS

There's some chance that we see W.E.

Last week's Ten Bets were:

1) The Descendants
2) Gazing Into the Abyss
3) A Trip to the Moon
4) The Artist
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin
6) Le Havre
7) Prohibition
8) Drive
9) Shame
10) The Kid with a Bike/Dark Horse (tie)

This week's Ten Bets:

1) The Descendants
2) Into the Abyss
3) The Artist
4) A Trip to the Moon
5) We Have to Talk About Kevin
6) Le Havre
7) Prohibition
8) Shame
9) Drive
10) The Kid with a Bike

Here's the "+"
11) Dark Horse
12) The Birds Upstairs
13) The Skin I Live In
14) The Lady
15) W.E.
16) The Ides of March
17) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
18) Albert Nobbs
19) Coriolanus
20) A Dangerous Method

Note: Kris Tapley at Incontention.com in his July 28th Telluride spec piece listed three Sundance films as possibles, but because they already appeared in Park City, I'm doubtful that they will be in T-ride.  The three are: "Take Shelter," "Like Crazy" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene."

Now that we're down to less than three weeks, I may update the "Ten Bets" list with more frequency than once a week depending what oozes out that I can latch onto.


KEVIN'S ENGLISH TRAILER

A lot of buzz surrounding Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" this last week including a post from the weekend from First Showing.net for the film's U.K. trailer.  Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly star.  The trailer looks appropriately chilling and kind of creepy.  "Kevin" remains at #5 on this week's "Ten Bets."

Here's the link:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/must-watch-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin-official-uk-trailer-lands/

Kevin's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/

DARREN ARONOFSKY AND NOAH

Earlier this summer I passed on the news that Darren Aronofsky (director of last year's TFF#37 sensation and multi-Oscar nominated "Black Swan"--Natalie Portman winning Best Actress) was  tackling the Biblical story of Noah as his next project.  Because it's Aronofsky and because "Swan" had such a successful run last year, you have to include "Noah" as a future Telluride possibility at least for the time being.

Get the Big Picture.com posted a fairly substantial speculative piece about that "Noah" project this weekend.  You can take a look at that post here:
http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2011/8/13/we-can-only-speculate-what-noah-will-be-like-under-darren-ar.html?utm

Aronofsky's IMDb page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004716/


MY FRIEND MARLON

One of the most viewed posts that I put up this summer included my pictures of me and film legend Marlon Brando.  It was fun to relive that two day period when the double Oscar winner and arguably the finest screen actor of all time was in Weatherford, OK.

So, naturally, when I saw the post this week from Open Culture.com that included Brando's screen test for "Rebel Without a Cause" I had to put a link to it here on my blog.  Not only because it's really cool, but also because it gave me another excuse to put up the Brando and me photo...

Here's the link to Brando's screen test (which, of course, was unsuccessful. Some kid named James Dean got the role  The article also has a link to Dean's screen test):
http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/marlon_brando_screen_tests_for_irebel_without_a_causei.html

Brando's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008/

Rebel's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048545/



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A New Gig for Salman/More Coen's Musicals

Potential TV mogul Salman Rushdie???

One of the cooler things that happens at the Telluride Film Festival is that you actually have the opportunity to meet and interact with many of the people that are there as a part of the festival.  I've, unbelievably, had real conversations with Oscar nominee Laura Linney, film critic Leonard Maltin, documentarian Ken Burns among others.  One of those others was award winning author Salman Rushdie (he of "Satanic Verses" fame and the survivor of an Iranian Ayatollah's fatwa).  Rushdie is a member of the Telluride Film Festival's Board of Advisors, so he's there most years.  We talked about the film he was introducing in 2008, Nadita Das' "Firaaq."

All this preamble is to get to the story we found today on Anne Thompson's "Thompson on Hollywood" blog today..that Rushdie is going to be producing a television program for American television.  Called "The Next People," Thompson reports that its headed for Showtime and will be a science fiction series.  So how about that?  I don't know if you've ever read any of Rushdie's work, but if the series is remotely in the mode of his literature...it will be challenging.

You can find Thompson's complete article here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/06/13/in_the_works_june_13/

Incidentally, Thompson (with whom I've also had a conversation in Telluride) also seconds The Playlist story from yesterday concerning the Coen Brothers next project being a musical or heavily musically oriented. Today's thought: "Fargo: The Musical"  featuring such musical numbers as "Three Dead in Brainerd," "Lundegaard's Lament," and "The Wood Chipper's Waltz."

And finally, tomorrow I'm going to start talking about a new film that's currently in development.  A film that I know some scuttlebutt about because of...(you guessed it) the Telluride Film Fesival.