MTFB Oscar Take: Screenplays / Trailers and Photos / Visitations / FYC: Marcel

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SCREENPLAYS

Today I am updating predictions in the categories of Best original and adapted screenplay.  These were last predicted on Oct. 3rd.  Past ranking is to the right of the performer in parentheses.  Films from TFF #49 are in Bold.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Women Talking (1)

2) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2)

3) The Whale (3)

4) She Said (4)

5) White Noise (5)

6) Living (6)

7) Top Gun: Maverick (New)

Out: The Son

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Everything Everywhere All at Once (1)

2) The Banshees of Inisherin (2)

3) The Fabelmans (3)

4) TAR (4)

5) Triangle of Sadness (6)

6) Armageddon Time (7)

7) Babylon (5)

I will be updating Best Picture and Best Direction in Thursday's post.

TRAILERS AND PHOTOS

A collection of recently released trailers and/or still from films that played at TFF #49.

Trailer for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed via YouTube:

Trailer for Wildcat:

Posters from Lady Chatterley's Lover:

VISITATIONS

A new interview with Mia Hansen Love on One Fine Morning from Reverse Shot is linked here.

FYC: MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

The one man campaign for TFF 48's Marcel the Shell with Shoes On begins today here at MTFB.  

FYC: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On:

BEST PICTURE

BEST DIRECTION

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

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Hansen-Love in Play / Look for Tuesday / Pics from Cannes-Telluride Possibilities

HANSEN-LOVE IN PLAY

World of Reel reports that Mia Hansen -Love's One Fine Morning will play as a part of the Director's Fortnight that runs alongside the Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28).  The film is definitely of note as Hansen-Love has long been a favorite of Telluride programmers.   Hansen-Love fare that has screened at Telluride includes Bergman Island, Things to Come and Goodbye First Love.  You have to figure that there is a high likelihood that this new film makes the jump from Cannes to Telluride.

The World of Reel story is linked here.

LOOK FOR TUESDAY

Friend of MTFB and general film genius Jason Osiason has dug up a great TFF #49 potential.  He has tracked the film Tuesday and its director Daina Oniunas-Pusic.  Oniunas-Pusic has had two shorts make the Telluride program: 2015's The Beast and 2016's Rhonna and Donna.

The film is described as a "drama-fantasy" and features Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep/Seinfeld/SNL fame.  The fil also comes from A24 which also lends some credence to the notion that a Telluride play is a possibility.

Tuesday's Wikipedia entry is linked here and its IMDb page is linked here.

PICS FROM CANNES/TELLURIDE POSSIBILITIES

Along with last week's announcement of Cannes titles for 2022 were photos from a number of the films. Of course, I have targeted some of those titles as TFF #49 possibilities and so pass on some of the pics that were released last week:

George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing:

The Dardennes Brothers Tori and Lokita

Arnaud Desplain's Brother and Sister

More to come...

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MTFB Oscar Take: Updated Best Picture and Director / More from Todd Haynes / Hansen-Love and Bergman Island / AFI-TFF Crossover

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATED BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTOR

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.  These categories were last predicted here on Oct. 4th.  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) King Richard (3)

3) The Power of the Dog (2)

4) Licorice Pizza (4)

5) Dune (5)

6) West Side Story (6)

7) Nightmare Alley (7)

8) Spencer (9)

9) The Tragedy of Macbeth (8)

10) House of Gucci (New)

Alternates: CODA, Don't Look Up, and tick, tick...BOOM

 BEST DIRECTOR

1) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast (1)

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

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune (3)

4) Guillermo del Toro/Nightmare Alley (5)

5) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza (4)

Alternates: Reinaldo Marcus Green/King Richard and Pablo Larrain/Spencer

MORE FROM TODD HAYNES

My last post included a Todd Haynes' interview with The Playlist.  Today I include a link to a separate Haynes interview that was posted last Thursday at Awards Daily.  Frank J. Avella wrote it up and it is linked here.

HANSEN-LOVE AND BERGMAN ISLAND

The Playlist's Andrew Bundy posted an interview with Bergman Island director and writer Mia Hansen-Love.  Hansen-Love has made my list of Telluride "Usual Suspects" with fest appearances over the years that have included: Things to Come and Goodbye First Love.

Here's the link to the interview.

AFI-TFF CROSSOVER

The American Film Institute has announced its full lineup for AFI Fest.  AFI's list includes a number of films that cross over with TFF #48 titles, especially documentaries.  They include:

Cow

Red Rocket

Petite Maman

King Richard

Unclenching the Fists

Bernstein's Wall

Citizen Ashe

Julia 

Procession

The Real Charlie Chaplin

And the Shorts:

Love, Dad

Motorcyclists Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit

Play It Safe

Soft Animals

The complete rundown of AFI programming can be found here from Awards Watch.

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MTFB Up Close/Goodbye Says "Hello"/Posters Again?/Can't Stop It

Hello It's Me...with apologies to Todd Rundgren.

The 38th Telluride Film Festival will be under way in 2 weeks and 2 days....

MTFB UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

It looks increasingly as if there will be a "Michael's Telluride Film Blog" shin dig"/"meet and greet"/seminar/thingy in Telluride on Friday, Sept. 2.  I'm working on the details right now and will be passing them along as they get firmed up.  If it comes together like I think it's going to, it will be a pleasant way to get together and talk a little bit about the Festival before it really cranks up.

I'll let you know as we get closer to the festival.

"GOODBYE" SAYS "HELLO"

Ioncinema reports late yesterday that they're fairly certain that writer-director Mia Hansen-Love's "Goodbye First Love" is headed to the Telluride Film Festival.

Ioncinema tweeted:
"Goodbye First Love-looks like it's Telluride Bound"

The French/German film follows the ups and downs of a romantic relationship of a couple beginning in their adolescence.

Adding some background info that sort of provides a semi-Telluride connection to past festivals is the nugget that Hansen-Love is purportedly engaged to Olivier Assayas ("Carlos"-TFF #37).

Goodbye First Love's IMDb page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1618447/

MORE POSTERAGE

The Playlist, First Showing.net and Movie Web all had versions of posts up yesterday with new posters for "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" that are character specific (so I imagine that there will be others rolled over over the next few days)

and the first (to my knowledge) of Mark Forster's "Machine Gun Preacher" which I think has a chance to be at Telluride.

Tinker's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/

Machine Gun Preacher's IMDb page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586752/

Check the full stories at:

The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/weapon_tagline_wielding_machine_gun_preacher_poster_cast_gets_coded_in_tink/

FirstShowing.net
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/check-this-out-gerard-butlers-new-poster-for-machine-gun-preacher/

MovieWeb:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/two-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-posters-with-colin-firth-and-tom-hardy

YOU CAN'T STOP IT...

Sasha Stone of Awards Daily has a nice post up that focuses on her view of the state of the race for Oscar glory as we approach the thundering tumult that will be Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York.  She gives a clear eyed assessment of what's what and the players in the line-ups of those fests that we know about.  Take a look at it, see what you think:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/08/cantstop/

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More on the morrow...