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.
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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