Monday's TBAs and Special Programs / Pics of the Day / Day Three Comments/ And on the Fourth Day / Don't Forget

Welcome to Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 5, 2016...the final day of the 43rd Telluride Film Festival. Was it good for you?

MONDAYS TBA'S AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS

SPECIAL ADDED PROGRAMS:

At the Pierre: Volker Sclondorf's Voyager @ 4:00pm
                       The Fabulous Baron Munchausen @ 7:00pm

TBAs by Venue

The Palm

Una @ 1:00pm
Moonlight @ 3:15pm
Sully @ 6:00pm
Lost in Paris @ 8:15pm

The Galaxy

Things to Come @ 3:00pm
Manchester by the Sea @ 5:30pm


The Chuck

Through the Wall @3:30pm
Toni Erdmann @5:45pm


The Zog

The Eagle Huntress @1:00pm (Free)
Arrival @ 3:45pm
La La Land @ 6:45pm

Sheridan Opera House

I Called Him Morgan @ 9:00am
Frantz @ 3:00pm
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer @ 5:30pm
California Typewriter @ 8:00pm

The Nugget

Bright Lights @ 1:00pm
Mifune: The Last Samurai @ 3:15pm
Chasing Trane @ 5:15pm
Neruda @ 7:45pm

The Masons

The Pagnol Trilogy @ 1:30pm, 4:00pm, 6:45pm


The Pierre

Calling Cards @1:30pm (Free)
Other programming is above in the Special Programming section

The Backlot (all programs free)

The Fanatic Heart: Bob Geldof and WB Yeats @ 9:15am
Beauties of the Night @ 1:00pm
The Family Whistle @ 3:30pm
Bernadtte Lafont @ 5:00pm
Cool Cats @ 7:30pm


PICS OF THE DAY

Via the CEO Kristy Patterson;

Bryan Cranston from Wakefield's Q and A:

And Richard Gere from Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer Q and A:

DAY THREE COMMENTS

Toni Erdmann...funny...ver funny and touching but a meandering second act and a third act that strains credulity.  That said, it's still very good.

Una...Rooney Mara is outstanding in this adaption of the Davod Harrower play Blackbird (which I saw in June with Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels).  Ben Mendelsohn gets acted off the screen (imho).  Frankly I'd love to ahve seen a Daniels/Mara film version and something script-wise closer to the stage version.

Wakefield...I liked this quite a lot though the heavy use of voice over may challenge some viewers. Bryan Cranston carries the load with Jennifer Garner giving solid support.

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.  I liked it  quite a bit too.  Solid performances from richard Gere and company especially Lior Ashkenazi as the Prime Minister of Israel.

Oscar prospects from Sunday: Mara for Una, Erdmann for Best Foreign Language Film.


AND ON THE FOURTH DAY

MTFB sleeps a bit and then...

11:00 Labor Day Picnic
12:00 Noon Convo in Town Park
1:00pm Bleed for This (The Chuck)
3:30pm Through the Wall (The Chuck)
8:15pm Lost in Paris (Palm)



DON'T FORGET...

Time to start thinking about rating those films you've seen this weekend.  Send them in on a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being "putrid" ad 5 being"poifect".   The People's Telluride composite ratings will be posted here in a week to ten days.


Send ratings to...

mpgort@gmail.com

michael_speech@hotmail.com

Twitter @Gort2

or as a comment to this blog.

A Moment of Reflection / Program Day One / Not So Amazing Grace / SPC Clarifies Screening Times for Norman

Good Friday People...It's Day One of the 43rd Telluride Film Festival.  Gird up...it's gonna be good...

A MOMENT OF REFLECTION

For those keeping score, MTFB's Final Ten (Plus) Bets from Wednesday went 20 for 20.  That's 100% in most jurisdictions.

PROGRAM DAY ONE

Here's the screen grab of the schedule for Friday, Sept. 2. 2016:

The Patterson schedule is likely to be:

Patron Brunch

Patron Screening...no news as to the title but I'm guessing (and it's completely a guess) Sully or La La Land...can't wait to find out.

Probably the Casey Affleck tribute followed by Manchester by the Sea.

We might be done for Friday at that time.  We'll calibrate for Saturday depending on the Patron screening.

NOT SO AMAZING GRACE

From the TFF #43 e-program...Amazing Grace

So it appears for the second straight year that the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace will be sidelined.  

Last year a judge's injunction at the eleventh hour prevented the film from being a part of the TFF #42 lineup.

This year the film was once again on the program but late word on Thursday was that it was being pulled from the screening schedule.

Check the details in this story from Indiewire

SPC CLARIFIES SCREENING TIMES FOR NORMAN

An email from the Sony Pictures Classics folks has pointed tom some updated screening times for Norman: The Modest Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.

SPC says times and locales are as follows:

Sat. @ 9:15pm @The Chuck (this is the same as originally announced)

Sun @ 6:30 with Q+A @ The Galaxy

Mon @ 9:15 am @ The Palm

More to come... Including Saturdays TBAs...

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Latest Toronto News and Telluride / Arrival's Second Wave Arrives / Miss Sloane Emerges / The People, The Pros and The Follow

It's a Wednesday in August.  The month is half over and we're staring down the barrel of slightly two more weeks until TFF #43...and it may have just gotten awesomer! (Is that a word?  Should be).

LATEST TORONTO NEWS AND TELLURIDE

The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival reveled more of their selections yesterday and is my custom, I began parsing the information and premiere statuses for Telluride clues.

Here's what I think we can say...

First, and most attention grabbing, it appears that Wakefield from writer/director Robin Swicord (The Jane Austen Book Club, co-writer of The Promise...which I will mention in a bit) and starring Bryan Cranston will probably be playing Telluride.  That stems from its classification as an International premiere in Toronto.  An International Premiere means the first play outside of its nation of origin (which is the USA) so unless there is some other screening of the film someplace I can't track down, the most likely scenario is that it's coming to southwestern Colorado.

Now, there's no guarantee that Cranston make the trip to T-ride.  We've been disappointed before when we thought an actor was going to make the trip and then didn't (Benedict Cumberbatch/Imitation Game...I'm looking at you).  And to be sure, Cranston is a busy man as he is cast in the currently filming Power Rangers film.  Still, I'm hopeful that he could be in town.  Would be cool.

Wakefield's IMDb plot description says: "A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months".  IMDb also does not list a current distributor for the film.

Other big news for additions to our T-ride spec list is that it looks like Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer will make an appearance at Telluride.  The film was previously titled The Oppenheimer Strategies.  The film has been on the MTFB radar since as early as last March because of Cedar's previous Telluride presence with his 2011 film Footnote. Norman was listed by TIFF as an International Premiere as well...see above for why I think this means a T-ride play.

Other things we learned, Wim Wenders The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez appears to be headed directly from Venice to Toronto as it was listed as a North American Premiere.  Terrence Malick's The Voyage of Time appears to be doing the same.

The Promise, which we have been keeping an eye on of late is also not T-ride bound as it was announced as a World Premiere.

No other International or Canadian Premieres seem to be likely for Telluride.

One piece of weirdness.  Pedro Almodovar's Julieta, was NOT listed last week by the New York Film Festival with ANY premiere designation which lead me to conclude it was probably Telluride-bound (or else it would probably be called a "U.S. Premiere by NYFF) was listed yesterday by TIFF as a North American premiere.  So, it's now more likely that Julieta is going to play somewhere else in the U.S. after Toronto and before New York, thereby meaning no Telluride play.

If Toronto follows their traditional pattern, they'll have one more set of films added to the lineup next week.

TIFF coverage from yesterday is here:

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/tiff-2016-i-daniel-blake-personal-shopper-julieta-the-unknown-girl-1201717188/

https://thefilmstage.com/news/tiff-2016-adds-voyage-of-time-certain-women-julieta-the-promise-and-more/

http://theplaylist.net/tiff-2016-adds-promise-christian-bale-voyage-time-20160816/

https://www.thewrap.com/toronto-film-festival-adds-james-franco-pedro-almodovar-ken-loach-movies/

ARRIVAL'S SECOND WAVE ARRIVES

We saw a great teaser and a few images last week from Denis Villenueve's Arrival and it definitely has our interest piqued.  In all honesty, it's now the film I'm most excited about seeing if it plays Telluride as we presume from its announced status as a Canadian Premiere for Toronto.

Yesterday, the folks behind the hype parade for the film smacked us with two trailers and posters as well.

I'll be honest, I'm not watching the trailer(s).  I loved the teaser last week, but that's all I want to know now.  I'm going to try to keep the blinders on until I see it at The Zog (I assume).

Nevertheless, here's the trailer via YouTube:

And, the international trailer, also from YouTube:

And, to further whet your appetite...posters:

There are several more...

Check these stories for more news about Arrival, it's trailers and images:

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2016/08/16/trailer-watch-arrival/

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/arrival-trailer-amy-adams-denis-villeneuve-jeremy-renner-oscars-1201716795/

https://thefilmstage.com/trailer/aliens-appear-in-full-length-trailer-for-denis-villeneuves-arrival/

http://www.awardscircuit.com/2016/08/16/watch-new-trailer-posters-arrival-starring-amy-adams-jeremy-renner/

http://theplaylist.net/amy-adams-talks-aliens-new-full-length-trailer-denis-villeneuves-arrival-20160816/

http://www.thewrap.com/arrival-trailer-amy-adams-must-stop-all-out-war-in-first-full-video/


MISS SLOANE EMERGES

It's looking increasingly unlikely that John Madden's Miss Sloane starring Jessica Chastain will be playing Telluride.  The film has always been a very outside chance with an announced release date of Dec. 9th...which is pretty deep in the season and no inclusion in either NYFF or Toronto (at least at this point) it seems to be improbable.

It's not impossible, however.  So, I'm still trailing it mostly because I'd like for it to be at T-ride.  We had a new image of the film published online yesterday.

Here's some of the online coverage from yesterday:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/16/miss-sloane-jessica-chastain-gun-lobby-thriller

https://thefilmstage.com/news/first-look-at-jessica-chastain-in-gun-control-drama-miss-sloane/

http://theplaylist.net/first-look-jessica-chastain-oscar-contender-miss-sloane-20160816/



THE PEOPLE, THE PROS AND THE FOLLOW

Here's today's reminder to join your fellow Telluride Film Fest attendees and rate the films you see for MTFB.  I'm asking you to rate each film you catch on a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being awful and 5 being great.  Send those ratings via email (see below), comment to this blog, Twitter (see below).  I'll compile them and let you know The People's consensus.

I'l  also be doing The Professionals Telluride.  I've asked a number of industry pros to rate the films as well and I'll be reporting their consensus as well.

Agreeing this year to participate are :

Alex Billington/FirstShowing
David Ehrlich/Indiewire
Greg Ellwood/AwardsCampaign.com
Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter
Eric Kohn/Indiewire
Mark Johnson/AwardsCircuit.com
Tomris Laffly/Film Journal
Kenny Miles/TheMovieBlog.com
Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com
Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Kristopher Tapley/Variety-InContention
Anne Thompson/Indiewire

There could be a couple of others.

And a reminder that you can now more easily follow Michael's Telluride Film  Blog and the Film Awards Clearinghouse.  I've set up a "FOLLOW" button on the blog page in the upper right hand corner.  Just click on it for an easy way to get every post as we preview, view and then review TFF #43.  Then you can follow the prospects of Telluride's films as they wend their way through awards season.  Just click that "FOLLOW" button!

That's it for Wednesday...more to come tomorrow.

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