LATE BREAKING: TORONTO TITLES TODAY OFFER NEW TELLURIDE CLUES
Toronto's purported final announcement of titles today sheds light on films that we think are now newly added to our list of T-ride screenings or confirms others that we thought were going or reveals titles that we thought might play that will not.
TIFF announced further Galas, Special Presentations, Masters and Contemporary World Cinema titles earlier today.
Here's what we think we've learned based on the premiere status of the films named:
New films that appear headed to Telluride:
Foxtrot
Lean on Pete
The Insult
First Reformed
Loveless
Films that appear to be further confirmed for Telluride:
The Other Side of Hope
Visages/Villages
Films that WILL NOT BE PLAYING TELLURIDE:
Chappaquiddick
Molly's Game (disppointed about this)
Mark Felt-The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Redoubtable
Happy End
And films confirmed out that we already thought were out:
The Leisure Seeker
The Florida Project
More to come on Thursday...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Indiewire's Hot 25 Fall Films / Molly's Game Teaser and Trailer? / A Look at Lady Bird / The New Guy and Telluride / Late Breaking: Lean on Pete
Hello on this Tuesday, Aug. 15th...16 days until TFF #44...
INDIEWIRE'S HOT 25 FALL FILMS
Indiewire put up a new post yesterday outlining 25 Indie films it is interested in that are scheduled for release between now and the end of the year. As you might expect, a number of titles that we're already thinking will play Telluride are on the list and there are also additional titles that could still make the TFF #44 lineup.
The films included that I think are already set for The SHOW are:
Battle of the Sexes
Wonderstruck
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
and other films that could still make the lineup:
Marshall
Molly's Game
Mary Magdalene
Happy End
The complete Indiewire list can be found here.
MOLLY'S GAME TEASER AND TRAILER?
We got a glimpse of Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut yesterday with the release of a teaser for Molly's Game starring Jessica Chastain. The film is also expected to drop a full trailer today (per Chastain on Twitter).
Here's the teaser from YouTube:
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INDIEWIRE'S HOT 25 FALL FILMS
Indiewire put up a new post yesterday outlining 25 Indie films it is interested in that are scheduled for release between now and the end of the year. As you might expect, a number of titles that we're already thinking will play Telluride are on the list and there are also additional titles that could still make the TFF #44 lineup.
The films included that I think are already set for The SHOW are:
Battle of the Sexes
Wonderstruck
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
and other films that could still make the lineup:
Marshall
Molly's Game
Mary Magdalene
Happy End
The complete Indiewire list can be found here.
MOLLY'S GAME TEASER AND TRAILER?
We got a glimpse of Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut yesterday with the release of a teaser for Molly's Game starring Jessica Chastain. The film is also expected to drop a full trailer today (per Chastain on Twitter).
Here's the teaser from YouTube:
I'm still crossing my fingers that this somehow makes the TFF program.
Molly's Game is being distributed by STX Entertainment and is set for release on Nov. 22.
I kind of think it may well be announced as a part of Toronto's program this week. Often the release of teasers. trailers and images is a pre-cursor for that.
Here's coverage of the teaser release from The Playlist .
A LOOK AT LADY BIRD
A couple of images were released from Greta Gerwig's directing debut yesterday. Lady Bird stars Saoirse Ronan and is set for release from A24 on Nov. 10th.
Here from Indiewire and The Film Stage are those two images:
Lady Bord currently sits at the #8 spot on my latest iteration of the Ten Bets for Telluride list.
WILL THE NEW GUY MAKE THE TREK TO TELLURIDE?
John Bailey is the newly elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS and Telluride have had a very tight relationship for a good long while. I have always found it a hoot to see the AMPAS prez in T-ride over the Labor Day weekend having lay my eyes on booth Sid Ganis and Cheyl Boone Issacs over the years. So I am wondering if Mr. Bailey, a cinematographer by trade (A Walk in the Woods, The Way Way Back, The Kid Stays in the Picture), joins us in a couple of weeks.
Hope so!
LATE BREAKING: LEAN ON PETE
Late last night the buzz was that A24 is bumping Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete to a 2018 release date which makes a Telluride screening less likely. Stay Tuned.
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Monday, August 14, 2017
More About the Venice Schedule / Looks at Downsizing and Molly's Game
Welcome to Monday, August 14th. 17 days left until TFF #44...
MORE ABOUT THE VENICE SCHEDULE
If you missed it on Friday, the Venice Film Festival released its actual screening schedule, which, as many of you know, can be parsed for clues about the potential films that may play both there and at Telluride.
Friday's schedule release came after my original post for the day and so my update which included that missed some depth and nuance that I can get to today.
To reiterate, Films that are scheduled early enough or late in enough for their initial screening have demonstrably then had enough tie to play at both festivals. Past fests have shown that. Adding in what we think we already know from the revelations primarily from New York and Toronto allows some informed conjecture.
So starting with those premises we can include and exclude films from our list of TFF possibles.
I divide Venice into three "windows" to do this. "Early", "Middle" and "Late". Films that land in the "Early" window could have the chance to play Venice and then come to Telluride. This year Venice's "Early" window in Aug. 29-Sept. 1...this is all arbitrary on my part. It's my best guess that Sept. 1 is the latest a film could play in Italy and still be a part of T-ride. The "Middle" window runs Sept. 2-4-or, in other words, the end of TFF. Films that debut here are off the TFF table. The "Late" Segment runs from Sept. 5-9. Films that bow at Venice during this stretch could play Telluride and then go to Venice.
As I write this I believe that we have a relatively good idea of four films that will play Telluride and also play Venice: Downsizing, The Shape of Water and Human Flow all in Venice's "Early" period and Wormwood in its "Late" period.
Other films of interest in the "Early" period: First Reformed, The Devil and Father Amorth, Lean on Pete and Our Souls at Night. Other films of interest in the "Late" period: Sweet Country and Mektoub My Love.
Films from the "Middle" period that we're already thinking will NOT play Telluride (another factoid that bolsters this set of guesses): Suburbicon, Victoria and Abdul, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Darren Aronofsky's mother! which we also think will not play at T-ride is set to bow on Sept. 5.
Films of Telluride interest that landed in the "Middle" section at Venice and thereby would seem to be no-go now for The SHOW: The Leisure Seeker, Foxtrot, The Private Life of a Mad Woman and Woodshock.
Finally add in a couple of clues that Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera has been reported as saying. First, that the two fests will share seven or eight titles and second that the only non-World Premiere at Venice is Errol Morris' Wormwood.
Since we already think we know of four films that leaves three of four to come from the "Early" or "Late" periods.
I think both Sweet Country and Mektoub My Love are eliminated as the comment about Wormwood would indicate that both of these films will be World Preeming that late in the Venice lineup. That means the three to four additional films would come from the "Early" window.
In order, then, here are my best guesses as to the chances of those four films to make the trip:
1) First Reformed
2) Lean on Pete
3) Our Souls at Night
4) The Devil and Father Amorth
In fairness, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's Under the Tree could also be in play for a Telluride spot as it plays in the "Early" segment as well and has, to the best of my knowledge, not been programmed at this point in another festival in a way that would disqualify it from TFF #44 consideration. However, the other films have, for various reasons, a more pronounced Telluride profile.
LOOKS AT DOWNSIZING AND MOLLY'S GAME
Entertainment Weekly's fall film preview issue landed Friday and EW put a couple of their interviews online which included first looks at both Alexander Payne's Downsizing and Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game.
I think Downsizing is a Telluride lock. Molly's Game is more of a wish list item at the moment.
The pic from Downsizing:
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MORE ABOUT THE VENICE SCHEDULE
If you missed it on Friday, the Venice Film Festival released its actual screening schedule, which, as many of you know, can be parsed for clues about the potential films that may play both there and at Telluride.
Friday's schedule release came after my original post for the day and so my update which included that missed some depth and nuance that I can get to today.
To reiterate, Films that are scheduled early enough or late in enough for their initial screening have demonstrably then had enough tie to play at both festivals. Past fests have shown that. Adding in what we think we already know from the revelations primarily from New York and Toronto allows some informed conjecture.
So starting with those premises we can include and exclude films from our list of TFF possibles.
I divide Venice into three "windows" to do this. "Early", "Middle" and "Late". Films that land in the "Early" window could have the chance to play Venice and then come to Telluride. This year Venice's "Early" window in Aug. 29-Sept. 1...this is all arbitrary on my part. It's my best guess that Sept. 1 is the latest a film could play in Italy and still be a part of T-ride. The "Middle" window runs Sept. 2-4-or, in other words, the end of TFF. Films that debut here are off the TFF table. The "Late" Segment runs from Sept. 5-9. Films that bow at Venice during this stretch could play Telluride and then go to Venice.
As I write this I believe that we have a relatively good idea of four films that will play Telluride and also play Venice: Downsizing, The Shape of Water and Human Flow all in Venice's "Early" period and Wormwood in its "Late" period.
Other films of interest in the "Early" period: First Reformed, The Devil and Father Amorth, Lean on Pete and Our Souls at Night. Other films of interest in the "Late" period: Sweet Country and Mektoub My Love.
Films from the "Middle" period that we're already thinking will NOT play Telluride (another factoid that bolsters this set of guesses): Suburbicon, Victoria and Abdul, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Darren Aronofsky's mother! which we also think will not play at T-ride is set to bow on Sept. 5.
Films of Telluride interest that landed in the "Middle" section at Venice and thereby would seem to be no-go now for The SHOW: The Leisure Seeker, Foxtrot, The Private Life of a Mad Woman and Woodshock.
Finally add in a couple of clues that Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera has been reported as saying. First, that the two fests will share seven or eight titles and second that the only non-World Premiere at Venice is Errol Morris' Wormwood.
Since we already think we know of four films that leaves three of four to come from the "Early" or "Late" periods.
I think both Sweet Country and Mektoub My Love are eliminated as the comment about Wormwood would indicate that both of these films will be World Preeming that late in the Venice lineup. That means the three to four additional films would come from the "Early" window.
In order, then, here are my best guesses as to the chances of those four films to make the trip:
1) First Reformed
2) Lean on Pete
3) Our Souls at Night
4) The Devil and Father Amorth
In fairness, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's Under the Tree could also be in play for a Telluride spot as it plays in the "Early" segment as well and has, to the best of my knowledge, not been programmed at this point in another festival in a way that would disqualify it from TFF #44 consideration. However, the other films have, for various reasons, a more pronounced Telluride profile.
LOOKS AT DOWNSIZING AND MOLLY'S GAME
Entertainment Weekly's fall film preview issue landed Friday and EW put a couple of their interviews online which included first looks at both Alexander Payne's Downsizing and Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game.
I think Downsizing is a Telluride lock. Molly's Game is more of a wish list item at the moment.
The pic from Downsizing:
And from Molly's Game:
The online interviews for the accompanying stories are from Alexander Payne here and for Molly's Game: Jessica Chastain here.
Other possible/probable TFF #44 films that are highlighted in the issue include:Battle of the Sexes, First They Killed My Father, Our Souls at Night, Wonderstruck, The Snowman, Roman Israel Esq., Wonder, Molly's Game, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour. The Shape of Water, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Happy End, and Downsizing.
The EW Fall Film Preview is on sale now.
That's your Monday. More to come tomorrow and later this week including a new set of announced films from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Toronto...Clarity Soon / Indiewire Speculates / My Own Private Wish List
Hello on this Tuesday...
TORONTO...CLARITY SOON
I am publishing this post about half a hour before the Toronto International Film Festival announces its first wave of films. That list along with the information TIFF provides should give us some serious notions about what will play in The SHOW this year.
I will be tweeting during and after the live announcement which you can stream live here. Follow along on Twitter @Gort2.
Tomorrow I will have a special Wednesday post up that gets down to deeper analysis about what we know and what is still unknown.
That said, you might want to take a look a Pete Hammond's Deadline.com piece from yesterday that, among other things says he's pretty solid on five films for Telluride: Wonderstruck, Downsizing, A Fantastic Woman, Battle of the Sexes and Loving Vincent. Four of five of those are on last Friday's Ten Bets and the other is in the "Other Possibles" list.
By way of reminder...here is last Friday's Ten Bets and Other Possibles again:
1) Wonderstruck
2) Downsizing
3) Visages/Villages
4) Loveless
5) Battle of the Sexes
6) The Florida Project
7) You Were Never Really Here
8) A Fantastic Woman
9) The Other Side of Hope
10) The Current War
Other possibles: 120 BPM, The Shape of Water, The Rider, Loving Vincent, mother!, Happy End, Redoubtable, The Death of Stalin, Ken Burns Vietnam.
You can watch the live announcement from Toronto here.
That's today's MTFB. Check back tomorrow for the special Wednesday post about Toronto and follow the Twitter account today @Gort2
TORONTO...CLARITY SOON
I am publishing this post about half a hour before the Toronto International Film Festival announces its first wave of films. That list along with the information TIFF provides should give us some serious notions about what will play in The SHOW this year.
I will be tweeting during and after the live announcement which you can stream live here. Follow along on Twitter @Gort2.
Tomorrow I will have a special Wednesday post up that gets down to deeper analysis about what we know and what is still unknown.
That said, you might want to take a look a Pete Hammond's Deadline.com piece from yesterday that, among other things says he's pretty solid on five films for Telluride: Wonderstruck, Downsizing, A Fantastic Woman, Battle of the Sexes and Loving Vincent. Four of five of those are on last Friday's Ten Bets and the other is in the "Other Possibles" list.
By way of reminder...here is last Friday's Ten Bets and Other Possibles again:
1) Wonderstruck
2) Downsizing
3) Visages/Villages
4) Loveless
5) Battle of the Sexes
6) The Florida Project
7) You Were Never Really Here
8) A Fantastic Woman
9) The Other Side of Hope
10) The Current War
Other possibles: 120 BPM, The Shape of Water, The Rider, Loving Vincent, mother!, Happy End, Redoubtable, The Death of Stalin, Ken Burns Vietnam.
You can watch the live announcement from Toronto here.
INDIEWIRE SPECULATES
There was a big post yesterday from Indiewire of 56 films that they "want to see" at the fall film festivals. The article is co-written by Anne Thompson and Dana Harris. Of course Anne has a terrific relationship with Telluride so maybe take that into account.
The article specifically mentions Telluride in the context of eight films/programs (in the order they appear in the article):
Brad's Status
Battle of the Sexes
Marshall
Downsizing
Lean on Pete
Wormwood (from Errol Morris)
Ken Burns' Vietnam
Mary Shelly.
Any number of other Telluride possibilities also appear without a specific reference to The SHOW such as The Florida Project and Wonderstruck.
MY OWN PRIVATE WISH LIST
Yup. I have films that I want to make the list of programs for TFF #44.
Of course I wish we could somehow see Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (or whatever it is eventually called) starring Daniel Day Lewis in what is purportedly his final role and Spielberg's The Papers and/or Villenueve's Blade Runner 2049. Those won't be at Telluride and probably won't play at any festival.
So...what do I pine for? What films do I want at Telluride that realistically could make that journey. Here they are in alphabetical order:
Battle of the Sexes
The Death of Stalin
Darkest Hour
Downsizing
The Florida Project
Molly's Game
The Shape of Water
The Snowman
Suburbicon
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Of this list of ten, there are three that I feel fairly confident about...maybe four.
That's today's MTFB. Check back tomorrow for the special Wednesday post about Toronto and follow the Twitter account today @Gort2
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
We Have a Poster / Hollywood Elsewhere Makes Some Telluride Guesses / Spielberg at TFF #44? /
Good Thursday friendo...can you tell I was watching No Country for Old Men late last night?
WE HAVE A POSTER
After teasing you with glimpses of what we thought was the official poster hanging in the Nugget Theater in Telluride we have the confirmation now as the Telluride Film Festival officially announced this year's poster artist as well as releasing the poster to the public for viewing and for sale. Here's the visual:
HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE MAKES SOME TELLURIDE GUESSES
You can tell that TFF #44 is getting closer as well as the entire fall film fest gauntlet as the press covering the film industry increase their focus on what films will be featured at which festivals.
Tuesday saw Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere post his first serious take on what he thinks will and won't and could play at The SHOW.
Wells has some interesting thoughts about TFF.
He says that he thinks that Todd Haynes Wonderstruck, Sean Baker's The Florida Project and Sebastain Lelio's A Fantastic Woman are all "locks" for TFF #44. All three films have been on my first two Ten Bets lists these past two weeks.
Other films that Wells says would be a "good fit" or "make sense" are:
Denis Villenueve's Blade Runner 2049 (more about that later on in this post).
Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Ritesh Batra's Our Souls at Night
Geroge Clooney's Suburbicon
John Curran's Chappaquiddick
Couple of notes here: I keep forgetting about both Batra's and Curran's films which I shouldn't as both film makers have had films at Telluride in the past. Batra with The Lunchbox in 2013. Our Souls at Night also has the distinction of re-paring of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford (Barefoot in the Park, The Electric Horseman). It would be a tremendous event to have those two in Telluride for a Jane Fonda tribute. As best as I can determine Fonda has never been to Telluride with a film. Redford, of course, was a tribute recipient in 2013 with All Is Lost. Netflix is the distributor of the film.
John Curran was also at Telluride in 2013 with Tracks.
As to Blade Runner 2049...I keep hearing buzz that Warners is going to forgo any Fest play in an effort to keep the film's secrets and twists under wraps until its release on Oct. 6th. That makes a bunch of sense to me and despite the fact that I think I've made a pretty good case for why it could be a Telluride pick...right now, it feels like it's still not likely.
Other Well's notes on some TFF possibilities on a film by film basis:
Downsizing...HE says "nope".
The Current War "probably not"
Wonder "maybe"
mother! Wells says "Bring it on" which I'm not sure if he means that he thinks it will be at T-ride or that he wants it to be or both.
Mary Magdalene "no clue"
Three Billboards "likely"
Stronger "maybe"
Suburbicon "maybe"
The Shape of Water "doesn't seem like a Telluride-type" (though I hear some buzz that Fox Searchlight might really want it to play at TFF)
Blade Runner 2049 "likely" (see above)
Molly's Game "maybe"
Again, the entire "Telluride Spitball" post is here.
SPIELBERG AT TFF #44?
No. No. No. Not with The Papers which has almost zero chance to be ready by Labor Day. I think that it'll be lucky to hit its limited release date of Dec. 22nd.
No, instead, I think we might have a chance to see the HBO doc about Spielberg that was all over the media the last couple of days.
HBO Docs has had a substantial presence at Telluride recently:
2012: Love, Marilyn
2014: The 50 Year Argument, Tales of the Grim Sleeper
2015: Heart of a Dog
2016: Bright Lights
So a spot for a doc about Steven Spielberg seems like a real possibility. The film will air on HBO on Oct. 7th.
Coverage is here from SlashFilm and here from Indiewire.
A screening in Telluride would also coincide with the Sept. 1 re-release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
There's your MTFB post for Thursday, July 13, 2017. More to come tomorrow including the latest update TFF #44's Ten Bets.
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WE HAVE A POSTER
After teasing you with glimpses of what we thought was the official poster hanging in the Nugget Theater in Telluride we have the confirmation now as the Telluride Film Festival officially announced this year's poster artist as well as releasing the poster to the public for viewing and for sale. Here's the visual:
This year's poster artist is Lance Rutter who, according to the TFF press release is a graphic designer and also teaches design at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He is also a Vice President of Silicon Valley based start up Design for Quantifind. He also is on the national board of the American Institute for Graphic Arts.
TFF #44 poster artist Lance Rutter (via quantifind.com)
Rutter is quoted in the release saying, "I don't think it's possible to overstate how thrilled I was to be asked to create a poster for the 44th edition of the Telluride Film Festival." He went on to say, "I believe there is something uniquely magical that happens there every year."
Festival Executive Director Julie Huntsinger said, "Lance's design for this year's poster is simply stunning."
Rutter joins an impressive list of artists who have designed the fests posters in past years that includes: Julian Schnabel, Chuck Jones, Gary Larson, Laurie Anderson, William Wegman and Dave Eggers among others.
HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE MAKES SOME TELLURIDE GUESSES
You can tell that TFF #44 is getting closer as well as the entire fall film fest gauntlet as the press covering the film industry increase their focus on what films will be featured at which festivals.
Tuesday saw Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere post his first serious take on what he thinks will and won't and could play at The SHOW.
Wells has some interesting thoughts about TFF.
He says that he thinks that Todd Haynes Wonderstruck, Sean Baker's The Florida Project and Sebastain Lelio's A Fantastic Woman are all "locks" for TFF #44. All three films have been on my first two Ten Bets lists these past two weeks.
Other films that Wells says would be a "good fit" or "make sense" are:
Denis Villenueve's Blade Runner 2049 (more about that later on in this post).
Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Ritesh Batra's Our Souls at Night
Geroge Clooney's Suburbicon
John Curran's Chappaquiddick
Couple of notes here: I keep forgetting about both Batra's and Curran's films which I shouldn't as both film makers have had films at Telluride in the past. Batra with The Lunchbox in 2013. Our Souls at Night also has the distinction of re-paring of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford (Barefoot in the Park, The Electric Horseman). It would be a tremendous event to have those two in Telluride for a Jane Fonda tribute. As best as I can determine Fonda has never been to Telluride with a film. Redford, of course, was a tribute recipient in 2013 with All Is Lost. Netflix is the distributor of the film.
John Curran was also at Telluride in 2013 with Tracks.
As to Blade Runner 2049...I keep hearing buzz that Warners is going to forgo any Fest play in an effort to keep the film's secrets and twists under wraps until its release on Oct. 6th. That makes a bunch of sense to me and despite the fact that I think I've made a pretty good case for why it could be a Telluride pick...right now, it feels like it's still not likely.
Other Well's notes on some TFF possibilities on a film by film basis:
Downsizing...HE says "nope".
The Current War "probably not"
Wonder "maybe"
mother! Wells says "Bring it on" which I'm not sure if he means that he thinks it will be at T-ride or that he wants it to be or both.
Mary Magdalene "no clue"
Three Billboards "likely"
Stronger "maybe"
Suburbicon "maybe"
The Shape of Water "doesn't seem like a Telluride-type" (though I hear some buzz that Fox Searchlight might really want it to play at TFF)
Blade Runner 2049 "likely" (see above)
Molly's Game "maybe"
Again, the entire "Telluride Spitball" post is here.
SPIELBERG AT TFF #44?
No. No. No. Not with The Papers which has almost zero chance to be ready by Labor Day. I think that it'll be lucky to hit its limited release date of Dec. 22nd.
No, instead, I think we might have a chance to see the HBO doc about Spielberg that was all over the media the last couple of days.
HBO Docs has had a substantial presence at Telluride recently:
2012: Love, Marilyn
2014: The 50 Year Argument, Tales of the Grim Sleeper
2015: Heart of a Dog
2016: Bright Lights
So a spot for a doc about Steven Spielberg seems like a real possibility. The film will air on HBO on Oct. 7th.
Coverage is here from SlashFilm and here from Indiewire.
A screening in Telluride would also coincide with the Sept. 1 re-release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
There's your MTFB post for Thursday, July 13, 2017. More to come tomorrow including the latest update TFF #44's Ten Bets.
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Monday, July 10, 2017
And I'm Back / 30 Anticipated Films and Telluride / A Deeper Meaning to Battle of the Sexes?
Welcome back from the weekend. Hope yours was good. Mine was as I got to spend it in Jackson Hole, Wyoming...Gorgeous!
Now on to today's MTFB:
AND I'M BACK
Yes, it's true. I received my email notification from the Telluride Film Festival that I have been accredited as a journalist for the run of the fest. Here's the pictorial proof of that acceptance:
I want to thank the Telluride Film Festival and especially the folks that coordinate the press for the fest for accepting my application. It is an honor.
I'll try to make it work for those of you that read this space regularly.
30 ANTICIPATED FILMS AND TELLURIDE
Business Insider has posted a story that focuses on 30 films that they think are the most anticipated films for the fall season. Among them are films that I have had on my TFF #44 radar:
Battle of the Sexes
Blade Runner 2049
mother!
Call Me By Your Name
Mary Magdalene
Molly's Game
Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film (Phantom Thread)
Here's the link to the complete article.
A DEEPER MEANING TO BATTLE OF THE SEXES
The Dayton/Faris film Battle of the Sexes has a lot of potential TFF heat this last couple of weeks. Last Friday the film was at the #4 spot on my second edition of Ten Bets for 2017.
In the midst of the heat, I stumbled across this story from Entertainment Weekly in which Emma Stone, who plays Billie Jean King in the film, suggests that there are parallels between the film and our current social status.
Check out that story from EW here.
That's it for Monday. And a warning here. Tuesday's post is likely to hit later in the morning than normal. Don't panic...just got to drive home.
Later...
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Now on to today's MTFB:
AND I'M BACK
Yes, it's true. I received my email notification from the Telluride Film Festival that I have been accredited as a journalist for the run of the fest. Here's the pictorial proof of that acceptance:
I'll try to make it work for those of you that read this space regularly.
30 ANTICIPATED FILMS AND TELLURIDE
Business Insider has posted a story that focuses on 30 films that they think are the most anticipated films for the fall season. Among them are films that I have had on my TFF #44 radar:
Battle of the Sexes
Blade Runner 2049
mother!
Call Me By Your Name
Mary Magdalene
Molly's Game
Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film (Phantom Thread)
Here's the link to the complete article.
A DEEPER MEANING TO BATTLE OF THE SEXES
The Dayton/Faris film Battle of the Sexes has a lot of potential TFF heat this last couple of weeks. Last Friday the film was at the #4 spot on my second edition of Ten Bets for 2017.
In the midst of the heat, I stumbled across this story from Entertainment Weekly in which Emma Stone, who plays Billie Jean King in the film, suggests that there are parallels between the film and our current social status.
Check out that story from EW here.
That's it for Monday. And a warning here. Tuesday's post is likely to hit later in the morning than normal. Don't panic...just got to drive home.
Later...
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Looking Ahead / Oscar Post Mortems / And for Fun
Good Thursday People...
Over your Oscar hangover yet?
LOOKING AHEAD
What an Oscar night for the Telluride Film Festival.. Between Moonlight, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Arrival and The White Helmets it was an extraordinary night for TFF #43. Count 'em up...13 Oscars between the aforementioned films including Moonlight's Best Picture surprise win (BP at Telluride for the seventh straight year and eight of the last nine):
Moonlight-3
La La Land-6
Manchester-2
Arrival-1
The White Helmets-1
But Oscar night is behind us and that can only mean one thing and that is that it's time to put away The Film Awards Clearinghouse and go back to the business of Michael's Telluride Film Blog...trying to determine the lineup possibilities for TFF #44...
To that end, you might note that I bought my pass yesterday. I'll be applying for press accreditation within the next month or so...with the notion of bringing you the best coverage possible in the run-up and then presentation of the 2017 iteration of TFF.
So...let's get serious.
Awards Circuit has posted their 50 Most Anticipated Films and let's parse that list for possible Telluride titles for Labor Day.
#39-The Current War- Alejandro Inarritu protege Alfonso Gomez Rajon directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battling over electricity. From The Weinstein Company, I could see this film as the Weinstein's return vehicle for Telluride.
#38-Downsizing- Matt Damon stars in an Alexander Payne film. That could be sufficient to get it a berth at TFF
#27-Suburbicon-George Clooney directs a script co-written by the Coen Brothers and with a stellar cast: Damon (again), Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac and Julianne Moore...oh my. This might be a hope more than a real Telluride play. but I've thought since Clooney was a tribute recipient in 2011 that he would return and this could be the vehicle for that to happen. Paramount is distributing (this as well as Downsizing) so let's have a Matt Damon double feature. Maybe a Damon tribute?
#24- Battle of the Sexes- Billy Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs in the person of Emma Stone and Steve Carell. They've both been to T-ride. Bring 'em back say I with this film that I think I've had on the radar for a couple of years. It could mark the return to Telluride of Fox Searchlight.
#17-Wonderstruck-Todd Haynes directs. Does he return after Carol's play a couple of years ago. Julianne Moore stars (as mentioned above, she's also in Suburbicon) A Moore tribute? Yes please. From Amazon...which made a splash at Telluride in 2016 with Manchester by the Sea.
#10-Molly's Game-Aaron Sorkin directs Jessica Chastain in his directing debut. Maybe more a desire than a realistic possibility...but...
These seem to me to be the best shots. Take a look at the entire 50 film list plus some other titles here;
Awards Circuit's 50 Most Anticipated Films
OSCAR POST-MORTEMS
Here's a link or two to podcast coverage of the Oscar ceremony from Sunday night:
Oscar Podcast #52 from Awards Watch
Awards Daily Podcast
AND FOR FUN...
Here is the "Honest Trailer" take for the nine films nominated for Best Picture this year. It's entertaining:
Entertainment Weekly Honest Best Picture Trailers
More on Monday...
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
TWITTER @Gort2 (and follow me there as well)
FACEBOOK Message me on FB MTFB's Facebook Page
COMMENT to the Blog
Over your Oscar hangover yet?
LOOKING AHEAD
What an Oscar night for the Telluride Film Festival.. Between Moonlight, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Arrival and The White Helmets it was an extraordinary night for TFF #43. Count 'em up...13 Oscars between the aforementioned films including Moonlight's Best Picture surprise win (BP at Telluride for the seventh straight year and eight of the last nine):
Moonlight-3
La La Land-6
Manchester-2
Arrival-1
The White Helmets-1
But Oscar night is behind us and that can only mean one thing and that is that it's time to put away The Film Awards Clearinghouse and go back to the business of Michael's Telluride Film Blog...trying to determine the lineup possibilities for TFF #44...
To that end, you might note that I bought my pass yesterday. I'll be applying for press accreditation within the next month or so...with the notion of bringing you the best coverage possible in the run-up and then presentation of the 2017 iteration of TFF.
So...let's get serious.
Awards Circuit has posted their 50 Most Anticipated Films and let's parse that list for possible Telluride titles for Labor Day.
#39-The Current War- Alejandro Inarritu protege Alfonso Gomez Rajon directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battling over electricity. From The Weinstein Company, I could see this film as the Weinstein's return vehicle for Telluride.
#38-Downsizing- Matt Damon stars in an Alexander Payne film. That could be sufficient to get it a berth at TFF
#27-Suburbicon-George Clooney directs a script co-written by the Coen Brothers and with a stellar cast: Damon (again), Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac and Julianne Moore...oh my. This might be a hope more than a real Telluride play. but I've thought since Clooney was a tribute recipient in 2011 that he would return and this could be the vehicle for that to happen. Paramount is distributing (this as well as Downsizing) so let's have a Matt Damon double feature. Maybe a Damon tribute?
#24- Battle of the Sexes- Billy Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs in the person of Emma Stone and Steve Carell. They've both been to T-ride. Bring 'em back say I with this film that I think I've had on the radar for a couple of years. It could mark the return to Telluride of Fox Searchlight.
#17-Wonderstruck-Todd Haynes directs. Does he return after Carol's play a couple of years ago. Julianne Moore stars (as mentioned above, she's also in Suburbicon) A Moore tribute? Yes please. From Amazon...which made a splash at Telluride in 2016 with Manchester by the Sea.
#10-Molly's Game-Aaron Sorkin directs Jessica Chastain in his directing debut. Maybe more a desire than a realistic possibility...but...
These seem to me to be the best shots. Take a look at the entire 50 film list plus some other titles here;
Awards Circuit's 50 Most Anticipated Films
OSCAR POST-MORTEMS
Here's a link or two to podcast coverage of the Oscar ceremony from Sunday night:
Oscar Podcast #52 from Awards Watch
Awards Daily Podcast
AND FOR FUN...
Here is the "Honest Trailer" take for the nine films nominated for Best Picture this year. It's entertaining:
Entertainment Weekly Honest Best Picture Trailers
More on Monday...
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
TWITTER @Gort2 (and follow me there as well)
FACEBOOK Message me on FB MTFB's Facebook Page
COMMENT to the Blog
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