CANNES REVEALS THE 75TH LINEUP
Very early this morning the lineup for the 75th Cannes Film Festival was revealed in France. Why does this matter to us? The Cannes/Telluride connection has been deep and lengthy and so parsing Cannes announcements for films that eventually could make an appearance at TFF later in the year is an interesting and, at times, illuminating.
Over the last 10 TFF's here are the numbers of films that have crossed-over from France to Colorado;
2021: 6
2020: 3
2019: 8
2018: 7
2017: 8
2016: 7
2015: 6
2014: 9
2013: 10
2012: 10
As you can see, the connection has diminished somewhat especially the last couple of fests but that may be a Covid caused aberration. The average over the decade- 7.5 films shared per year.
And some of the titles that have screened at Cannes first and then TFF since 2011:
The Artist
Rust and Bone
Amour
Nebraska
Inside Llewyn Davis
All Is Lost
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Foxcatcher
Son of Saul
Carol
Toni Erdmann
Cold War
Parasite
Cannes films that I speculated might play both fests from last year were Bergman Island, Cow, The French Dispatch, A Hero, Red Rocket, The Velvet Underground.
With that all said as a prelude, here are the announced titles for Cannes #95:
Opening Night
“Z,” Michel Hazanavicius
Competition
“Holy Spider,” Ali Abbasi
“Les Amandiers,” Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
“Crimes of the Future,” David Cronenberg
“The Stars at Noon,” Claire Denis
“Frere et Soeur,” Arnaud Desplechin
“Tori and Lokita,” Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
“Close,” Lukas Dhont
“Armageddon Time,” James Gray
“Broker,” Hirokazu Kore-eda
“Nostalgia,” Mario Martone
“R.M.N.,” Cristian Mungiu
“Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Ostlund
“Decisions to Leave,” Park Chan-Wook
“Showing Up,” Kelly Reichardt
“Leila’s Brothers,” Saeed Roustayi
“Boy from Heaven,” Tarik Saleh
“Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” Kirill Serebrennikov
“Hi-Han (Eo),” Jerzy Skolimowski
Un Certain Regard
“Les Pires,” Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
“Burning Days,” Emin Alper
“Metronom,” Alexandru Belc
“Retour a Seoul,” Davy Chou
“Sick of Myself,” Kristoffer Borgli
“Domingo y La Niebla,” Ariel Escalante Meza
“Plan 75,” Hayakawa Chie
“Beast,” Riley Keough and Gina Gammell
“Corsage,” Marie Kreutzer
“Butterfly Vision,” Maksym Nakonechnyi
“Volada Land,” Hlynur Palmason
“Rodeo,” Lola Quivoron
“Joyland,” Saim Sadiq
“The Stranger,” Thomas M. Wright
“The Silent Twins,” Agnieszka Smoczynska
Cannes Premiere
“Outside Night,” Marco Bellocchio
“Nos Frangins,” Rachid Bouchareb
“Irma Vep,” Olivier Assayas (Series)
“Dodo,” Panos H. Koutras
Special Screenings
“The Natural History of Destruction,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind,” Ethan Coen
“All That Breathes,” Shaunak Sen
Midnight Screenings
“Moonage Daydream,” Brett Morgen
“Smoking Makes You Cough,” Quentin Dupieux
“Hunt,” Lee Jung-Jae
Out of Competition
“Top Gun: Maverick,” Joseph Kosinski
“Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann
“Three Thousand Years of Longing,” George Miller
“November,” Cédric Jimenez
“Masquerade,” Nicolas Bedos
What could come from these selections to Telluride? Here's a list:
The Stars at Noon
Tori and Lokita
Close
Armageddon Time
Broker
RMN
Showing Up
Those are all Palme competition titles. Among the other sections I'm not immediately seeing anything that jumps out as a TFF potential. As a couple of wishes...George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing and Ethan Coen's Jerry Lee Lewis documentary which likely has been the surprise film that has had people guessing the last few days. That film may well be a project that IMDb has had listed as being under the direction of music man and frequent Coen collaborator, T. Bone Burnett- who, with both Coen brothers, was a Tribute recipient at Telluride in 2013. Inside Llewyn Davis screened at TFF that year after having premiered at Cannes.
Reportedly there will be more films announced in the days ahead.
MARK JOHNSON IS AS GOOD AS GOLD
My Telluride buddy, Mark Johnson, runs the Oscar prediction outfit Good as Gold that's housed at Awards Daily. Mark, as you might expect, has put up his early, early Oscar predictions for next year and, as I am wont to do, I have culled his Best Picture predictions for potential TFF #49 titles. From the 10 he has as his predicted BP nominees:
Killers of the Flower Moon (mostly because I want to will into a TFF slot...and make the final cut as a background player)
Babylon
White Noise
Empire of Light
Women Talking
Poor Things
Bones and All
and among the films that Mark lists as "On the Radar":
The Whale
Armageddon Time
Bardo
The Son
Asteroid City
Rustin
STAY PRAYED UP HAS A DATE
Deadline, among others, reports that Greenwich Entertainment has taken the North American rights to the gospel documentary Stay Prayed Up. The film was screened at Telluride last Labor Day weekend as a part of TFF #48. The film has been dated for a June 17th release.
More details can be gleaned here from the Deadline post written by Matt Grobar.
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