MTFB Oscar Take: Shorts / Oscar 2026 Commentary / Trailer for H Is for Hawk / Visitations: Mescal, Buckley and More

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SHORTS

Here's the first, and perhaps only, MTFB predictions for nominees in the three Shorts categories.  The shorts categories are often the categories that determine winners of Oscar pools owing to the limited availability of viewing.  So take these all with an incredibly large dose of salt... TFF #52 Shorts are in Bold.

ANIMATED SHORT

1) Eiru

2) Butterfly

3) Playing God

4) Snow Bear

5) Cardboard

Others: The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Hurikan, The Quinta's Ghost and The Shyness of Trees.

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

1) All the Empty Rooms

2) The Devil Is Busy

3) Armed With Only a Camera

4) All the Walls Came Down

5) Chasing Time

Others: Classroom 4, We Were the Scenery and Perfectly a Strangeness.

LIVE ACTION SHORT

1) Two People Exchanging Saliva

2) Rock, Paper, Scissors

3) The Singers

4) Extremist

5) Jane Austen's Period Drama

Others: Beyond Silence, Pantyhose and The Boy with White Skin.

OSCAR 2026 COMMENTARY

Well, we'll know Thursday when The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the performers and films that received a sufficient number of votes to earn an Oscar nomination in 24 categories.

24 categories this year with the addition of a Best Casting category.  It'll be interesting to see how this category has been adjudicated because the criteria is murky.  Will the five films nominated here line up with Best Picture nominees.  Can you get nominated here if your film has no individual acting nominees?

Sure Things?  Some notes about what seem to be locks.

Best Picture: One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Sinners, Sentimental Value and Frankenstein.  Then the last four spots look like a free -for-all between It Was Just an Accident, Train Dreams, Bugonia, The Secret Agent, Wicked: For Good, and F1.  Outside possibility: Blue Moon.

Locks in other categories: 

Paul Thomas Anderson: Best Direction

Jesse Buckley: Best Actress

Stellan Skarsgard: Best Supporting Actor

Sinners: Best Original Screenplay

K-Pop Demon Hunters: Best Animated Feature

Sinners: Best Cinematography

Sinners: Best Score

K-Pop Demon Hunters: Best Original Song

Frankenstein: Makeup/Hair

Avatar: Fire and Ice: Best Visual Effects

Frankenstein: Costume Design

Most Competitive Categories:

Best Picture: One Battle, Sinners and Hamnet. 

Best Actor: Chalamet and DiCaprio.

Best Supporting Actress: Taylor and Madigan.

Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle and Hamnet.

Best International Feature: Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident and The Secret Agent.

Best Sound: Sinners and F1

MTFB will have a special post on Wednesday with final nomination predictions.

TRAILER FOR H IS FOR HAWK

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VISITATIONS

Paul Mescal for Hamnet from Awards Watch.

Jesse Buckley (and others) for Hamnet from Gold Derby.

Jaochim Trier and Eskil Vogt for Sentimental value from Awards Radar. 

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MTFB Oscar Take: Updates to Above the Line Categories / Online Film Critics Nominees / Visitations: Hamnet

 UPDATES TO ABOVE THE LINE CATEGORIES

Here's the latest take on the eight "Above the Line " categories for Oscar nominations that are being announced one week from today.  TFF #52 films are indicated in Bold.

BEST PICTURE

1) One Battle After Another (1)

2) Hamnet (3)

3) Sinners (2)

4) Marty Supreme (4)

5) Frankenstein (6)

6) Sentimental Value (5)

7) It Was Just an Accident (7)

8) Train Dreams (8)

9) The Secret Agent (NR)

10) Bugonia (10)

Others: Wicked: for Good, F1 and Weapons.

 

BEST DIRECTION

1) Paul Thomas Anderson/OBAA (1)

2) Ryan Coogler/Sinners (3)

3) Chloe Zhao/Hamnet (2)

4) Guillermo Del Toro/Frankenstein (NR)

5) Joachim Trier/Sentimental Value (5)

Others: Jafar Panhani/It Was Just an Accident, Josh Safdie/Marty Supreme and Kleber Mendanca Filho/The Secret Agent.

BEST ACTRESS

1) Jesse Buckley/Hamnet (1)

2) Rose Byrne/If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (3)

3) Renee Reinsve/Sentimental Value (2)

4) Emma Stone/Bugonia (4)

5) Chase Infiniti/OBAA (5)

Others: Kate Hudson/Song Sung Blue , Amanda Seyfreid/The Testament of Ann Lee and Cynthia Erivo/Wicked: For Good.

BEST ACTOR

1) Timothee Chalamet/Marty Supreme (1)

2) Leonardo DiCaprio/OBAA (2)

3) Walter Moura/The Secret Agent (3)

4) Ethan Hawke/Blue Moon (5)

5) Michael B. Jordan/Sinners (4)

Others: Joel Edgerton/Train Dreams, Jesse Plemons/Bugonia and George Clooney/Jay Kelly

SUPPRORTING ACTRESS

1) Teyana Taylor/One Battle After Another (1)

2) Amy Madigan/Weapons (2)

3) Ariana Grande/Wicked" For Good (3)

4) Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas/Sentimental Value (4)

5) Elle Fanning/Sentimental Value (5)

Others: Wunmi Mosaku/Sinners, Regina Hall/One Battle After Another and Odessa A'Zion/Marty Supreme.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Stellan Skarsgard/Sentimental Value (1)

2) Benicio del Toro/One Battle After Another (2)

3) Jacob Elordi/Frankenstein (5)

4) Sean Penn/One Battle After Another (3)

5) Paul Mescal/Hamnet (4)

Others: Adam Sandler/Jay Kelly, Miles Caton/Sinners and DelRoy Lindo/Sinners.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Sinners (1)

2) Marty Supreme (3)

3) Sentimental Value (2)

4) It Was Just an Accident (4)

5) Weapon (NR)

Others: Sorry, Baby, Jay Kelly and The Secret Agent.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) One Battle After Another (1)

2) Hamnet (2)

3) Train Dreams (3)

4) Frankenstein (5)

5) Bugonia (4)

Others: No Other Choice, Wakeup Dead Man and Nuremburg.

I'll have predictions on Monday for the Shorts categories as well as a look at the closest races.  Then on Wednesday MTFB will have a special post with final predictions in all 24 categories.

ONLINE FILM CRITICS NOMINATIONS

The Online Film Critics association announced their nominees for film excellence for 2025 on Monday.  Here's what happened with films that screened at TFF:

Sentimental Value (8): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Reinsve), Supporting Actress (Illeaas), Supporting Actress (Fanning), Original Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language.

Hamnet (7): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Buckley), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design and Costume.

Frankenstein (7): Best Supporting Actor (Elordi), Cinematography, Score, Production Design, Costume, Makeup/Hair and Visual Effects.

It Was Just an accident (4): Best Picture, Direction, Original Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language.

The Secret Agent (3): Best Picture, Actor (Moura and Film Not in the English Language.

Bugonia (2): Best Actress (Stone) and Adapted Screenplay.

Single nominations for:

Blue Moon: Best Actor (Hawke)

If I had Legs I'd Kick You: Best Actress (Byrne).

Cover-Up: Best Documentary.

The complete list of the OFCS nominees can be found here at their website.

 

VISITATIONS: HAMNET

Paul Mescal from Variety. 

Paul Mescal from Awards Watch.

Jesse Buckley from People.

Paul Mescal and Chloe Zhao from IndieWire.

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MTFB Oscar Update: First Predix for Four Categories / Cover-Up Trailer / Visitations: Buckley, Mescal, White and More

MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: FIRST PREDIX FOR FOUR CATEGORIES

Today we add four more categories with initial predictions for Cinematography, Editing, Score and Song.  All TFF #52 films are in Bold.    Here they are:

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1) Hamnet

2) One Battle after Another

3) Sinners

4) Frankenstein

5) Train Dreams

Others: F1, One Battle After Another and Wicked: For Good.

BEST EDITING

1) One Battle After Another

2) Sinners

3) Hamnet

4) F1

5) Marty Supreme

Others: Sentimental Value, Avatar: Fire and Ash and The House of Dynamite.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1) Sinners

2) One Battle After Another

3) Hamnet

4) Frankenstein

5) Marty Supreme

Others: Jay Kelly, Bugonia and Hedda.

ORIGINAL SONG

1) Golden/K Pop Demon Hunters

2) I Lied to You/Sinners

3) Dear Me/Diane Warren: Relentless

4) The Girl in the Bubble/Wicked: For Good

5) Last Time (I Seen the Sun)/Sinners

Others: No Place Like Here/Wicked: For Good, Drive/F1 and Clothed by the Sun/The Last Testament of Ann Lee.

TRAILER: COVER-UP

From YouTube:

VISITATIONS: BUCKLEY, MESCAL, WHITE AND MORE

Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal for Hamnet from Letterboxd via YouTube.

Writer Maggie O'Farrell for Hamnet from Awards Watch.

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value from Pop Culture Confidential.

Director Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value from Pop Culture Confidential.

Jeremy Allen White for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere for The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter.

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MTFB Oscar take: Supporting Acting and Screenplays / Cover-up Trailer and Interview / 1.5 Mill

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATING SUPPORTING ACTING AND SCREENPLAYS

Before we head into the predictions for Oscar categories that haven't appeared in MTFB thus far this season; here are the updated predictions for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay categories.  TFF #52 films and performers are in Bold.  A film's previous ranking is to the right of the title in parentheses.

SUPPRORTING ACTRESS

1) Ariana Grande/Wicked: For Good (2)

2) Teyana Taylor/One Battle After Another (1)

3) Amy Madigan/Weapons (4)

4) Elle Fanning/Sentimental Value (3)

5) Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas/Sentimental Value (5)

Others: Regina Hall/One Battle After Another, Gwyneth Paltrow/Marty Supreme and Odessa A'Zion/Marty Supreme.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Stellan Skarsgard/Sentimental Value (1)

2) Sean Penn/One Battle After Another (2)

3) Paul Mescal/Hamnet (3)

4) Adam Sandler/Jay Kelly (4)

5) Benicio del Toro/One Battle After Another (5)

Others: Jacob Elordi/Frankenstein, DelRoy Lindo/Sinners and Jeremy Strong/Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Sinners (1)

2) Sentimental Value (2)

3) Marty Supreme (3)

4) Jay Kelly (4)

5) It Was Just an Accident (5)

Others: Is This Thing On?, The Secret Agent and Weapons.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) Hamnet (1)

2) One Battle After Another (2)

3) Bugonia (4)

4) Train Dreams (5

5) Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (3)

Others: Frankenstein, No Other Choice and Wicked: For Good.

COVER-UP TRAILER AND INTERVIEW

Here's the official trailer for Laura Poitras' documentary about reporter Seymour Hersh.  from Netflix via YouTube:

Additionally, an interview from Variety with Poitras and co-director and Mark Obenhaus.

That is linked here.

1.5 MILL

I have usually been pretty diligent about noticing viewership milestones but in the craziness of the last three months I overlooked that MTFB had passed a fairly significant one.  according to the view tracker MTFB passed One and a half million views somewhere around Halloween.

As of this morning I have posted 2401 times.  2402 if you count this one.  That means an average of 634 views per post.  

The most viewed post is from Jan. 4, 2018.  It's about Film Guilds and the Oscar season and an interview from Variety with Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig on Lady Bird. Over 2,750 views.

As always, thanks to all of you who follow my obsession.

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MTFB Oscar Take Round Two: Supporting Acting / Hamnet Wins Another Audience Award

 MTFB OSCAR TAKE ROUND TWO: SUPPORTING ACTING

Sorry that I'm late this morning.  It was a long weekend.

MTFB continues its up date of  Oscar predictions with the Supporting Acting Categories.  These predictions will include the actors current ranking as well as its position from two weeks back.  TFF #52 films are in Bold.

SUPPRORTING ACTRESS

1) Teyana Taylor/One Battle After Another (1)

2) Ariana Grande/Wicked: For Good (2)

3) Elle Fanning/Sentimental Value (4)

4) Amy Madigan/Weapons (3)

5) Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas/Sentimental Value (5)

Others: Regina Hall/One Battle After Another, Gwyneth Paltrow/Marty Supreme and Hailee Steinfeld/Sinners.

Comment: This category is very stable at the moment.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Stellan Skarsgard/Sentimental Value (1)

2) Sean Penn/One Battle After Another (2)

3) Paul Mescal/Hamnet (3)

4) Adam Sandler/Jay Kelly (4)

5) Benicio del Toro/One Battle After Another (5)

Others: Jacob Elordi/Frankenstein, DelRoy Lindo/Sinners and Jeremy Strong/Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

Comment: Also a very stable category with the exception of Jacob Elordi jumping into the #6 spot.

HAMNET WINS ANOTHER AUDIENCE AWARD

Chloe Zhao's Hamnet won the Toronto Film Festival Audience Award in September and last week added that same accolade from the BFI London Film Festival.  Additionally the film tied with Rental Family for the Audience Award the Middleburg Film Fest.

Last week Gold Derby reported that Hamnet had slipped by One Battle After Another to become (by the slimmest of margins) their predicted favorite to win Best Picture.  As of this morning that was still holding true.

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MTFB Oscar Predictions: Supporting Acting / New Poster for Pillion / Visitations: Scott Cooper

MTFB OSCAR PREDICTIONS: SUPPORTING ACTING

Today I am continuing my first wave of Oscar predictions for this year with the focus on the Supporting Acting categories.  All contenders from TFF #52 films are listed in Bold.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Teyana Taylor/One Battle After Another

2) Ariana Grande/Wicked: For Good

3) Amy Madigan/Weapons

4) Elle Fanning/Sentimental Value

5) Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas/Sentimental Value

Others: Regina Hall/One Battle After Another, Gwyneth Paltrow/Marty Supreme and Jennifer Lopez/Kiss of the Spider Woman.

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1) Stellan Skarsgard/Sentimental Value

2) Sean Penn/One Battle After Another

3) Paul Mescal/Hamnet

4) Adam Sandler/Jay Kelly

5) Benicio del Toro/One Battle After Another

Others: Delroy Lindo/Sinners, Billy Crudup/Jay Kelly and Jeremy Strong/Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

NEW POSTER FOR PILLION

Fresh from A24, here's a new poster for Henry Lighton's Pillion:

VISITATIONS

The Next Best Picture Podcast interviews Scott Cooper for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.

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Checking with Oscar Experts: Awards Watch/ Scoreboard for Best Picture / Clip: Born to Run / Visitations: Behind the Scenes: Springsteen and Paul Mescal and The History of Sound / New Posters: Jay Kelly, Springsteen, Frankenstein and Pillion

CHECKING WITH OSCAR EXPERTS: AWARDS WATCH

We continue today with our rundown of Oscar gurus and their early line Best Picture nominee predictions as we move through the New York Film Festival which will end the wave of the four major fall film fests: Venice, Telluride, Toronto and NYFF.

Today's view comes from Erik Anderson who runs Awards Watch.  Here are his current predictions for Best Picture.  TFF #52 films are Bold.

1) One Battle After Another

2) Hamnet

3) Sinners

4) Sentimental Value

5) Jay Kelly

6) Marty Supreme

7) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

8) It Was Just an Accident

9) Frankenstein

10) Wicked: For Good

Other TFF #52 in the 11-20 spots:

13) The Secret agent

15) Bugonia

This set of predictions would put six TFF #52 titles in the list of ten nominees which would be a TFF record.

The complete list from Awards Watch as well as Best Direction predictions can be found here.

SCOREBOARD FOR BEST PICTURE 

To this point with input from Gold Derby (GD), The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Variety (V) and Awards Watch (AW) here's where TFF #52 films stand for BP predictions.

Hamnet (4): GD, THR, V, AW

Sentimental Value (4): GD, THR, V, AW

Jay Kelly (3): GD, THR, AW

Bugonia (3): GD, THR, V

It Was Just Accident (3): GD, THR, AW

The Secret Agent (2): THR, V

Frankenstein (2): V, AW

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (1): AW

CLIP: BORN TO RUN FROM SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

From 20th Century Studios and YouTube, a clip of Born to Run:

VISITATIONS

BEHIND THE SCENES OF SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

From YouTube:

PAUL MESCAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SOUND FROM INDIEWIRE:

Paul Mescal on The History of Sound.

NEW POSTERS

JAY KELLY:

SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE:

FRANKENSTEIN:

PILLION:

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The Composite Telluride / Visitations: Paul Mescal

THE COMPOSITE TELLURIDE

We cap off the run of posts that highlight the way people rated the films at Telluride today with what I call The Composite Telluride in which I add up a film's ratings from both The People and the Pros.  This year 11 films had enough responses from both groups to make this list.  There are three films that made one list but didn't make The Composite because they failed to get enough people to see them from one group or the other.  Those were Nouvelle Vague which didn't make the People's list and If I Had Legs I'd Kick you as well as A Private Life which weren't seen by enough Pros.

So, here's the Composite.  Each title is listed with it's composite rating (on a scale of 10) and its positions on the Pro list then the Peoples list.

1) Hamnet 9.19 [1-1]

2) Sentimental Value 8.79 [2-3]

3) It Was Just an Accident 8.58 [3-4]

4) Bugonia 7.85 [9-2]

5) Jay Kelly 7.79 [4-8]

6) The History of Sound 7.67 [5-7]

7) [TIE] Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 7.30 [8-6]

7) [TIE] Tuner  7.30 [10-5]

9) Blue Moon 7.12 [7-10]

10) Frankenstein 6.64 [12-9]

11) Ballad of a Small Player 6.11 [11-13]

After these additions the All Time Composite Top Ten looks like this:

1) (TIE) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013 (Won Best Picture)

1) (TIE) Argo (9.25) 2012 (Won Best Picture)

3) Roma (9.20) 2018 (Won Best Foreign Language Film)

4) (TIE) Moonlight (9.19) 2016 (Won Best Picture)

4) (TIE) Hamnet (9.19) 2025 (???)

6) Birdman (9.18) 2014 (Won Best Picture)

7) Parasite (9.11) 2019 (Won Best Picture)

8) Stories We Tell (9.10) 2012

9) Poor Things (9.04) 2023 (Nominated Best Picture)

10) (TIE) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013

10) (TIE) Anora (8.97) 2024 (Won Best Picture)

So Chloe Zhao's Hamnet lands tied with Moonlight for the fourth best Composite score of all time.

An expanded  list of The Composite and updated All Time ratings for all three categories (Pros, Peeps and Composite) can be found on the "Film Ratings from Past Fests" page.  The tab for that is above.

One last thing.  The top 10 films that were most viewed as a percentage of the total number of people who rated films for The People's Telluride.

1) Hamnet 86%

2) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 78%

3) Sentimental Value 67%

3) Bugonia 67%

5) Jay Kelly 66%rin

6) Blue Moon 64%

7) Tuner 63%

8) Ballad of a Small Player 58%

9) Frankenstein 56%

10) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 44%

VISITATIONS: PAUL MESCAL

Paul Mescal on Hamnet and The History of Sound from The Rolling Stone.

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The Professional's Telluride / Telluride Wins Toronto / Visitations: Cooper, Mescal, Harmanus / The People's Telluride-Final Call

THE PROFESSIONAL'S TELLURDE

They're back.  It's time to reveal the results of MTFB's annual poll of film industry professionals who agreed to rate the films on a 1-5 scale and allow me then to collate and average those scores.  The pros are a mix of critics, awards experts and other industry insiders.  To make the list this year a film had to be rated by at least half of the Pros.  That threshold allowed a dozen films to make the list.

Here are the Pros for TFF #52:

Erik Anderson/Awards Watch

J. Don Birnam-Jorge T/SplashReport.com

Josh Bis/Seattle Film Critics Society and TheSunBreak.com

Christina Jeurling Birro/Pop Culture Confidential

Clayton Davis/Variety

Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter

Mark Johnson/The Awards Alchemist

Dave Karger/Turner Classic Movies

Scott Kernan/Awards Daily

Tomris Laffly/Film Critic and Journalist

Joey Magidson/Awards Radar

Ryan McQuade/Awards Watch

Will Mavity/Next Best Picture

Clarence Moye/The Contending

Matt Neglia/Next Best Picture

Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com

Chris Willman/Variety

Anonymous

And here are your Professionals average ratings:

1) Hamnet 4.64

2) Sentimental Value 4.49

3) It Was Just an Accident 4.35

4) Jay Kelly 4.01

5) The History of Sound 3.88

6) Nouvelle Vague 3.76

7) Blue Moon 3.69

8) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 3.50

9) Bugonia 3.48

10) Tuner 3.14

11) Ballad of a Small Player 2.89

12) Frankenstein 2.87

Just missing out on making the list because they were one pro shy of the threshold were The Secret Agent, La Grazia and A Private Life.

Historically, Hamnet's 4.64 will put it in the Professionals all time top ten at #7 and because there is a tie for the 10th spot, no film drops out of this top ten.

New all time PROs Top Ten Films

1) Moonlight (4.87) (16) (Won Best Picture)

2) Parasite (4.75) (19) (Won Best Picture)

3) Roma (4.73) (18) (Nominated Best Picture)

4) Birdman (4.72) (14) (Won Best Picture)

5) 12 Years a Slave (4.70-tie) (13) (Won Best Picture)

6) Central Park Five (4.70-tie) (12)

7) Hamnet (4.64) (25)

8) Foxcatcher (4.63) (14)

9) La La Land (4.58) (16) (Nominated Best Picture)

10) Poor Things (4.53) (23) (Nominated Best Picture)

10) Anora (4.53) (24) (Won Best Picture)

TELLURIDE WINS TORONTO

The Toronto International Film festival's People's Choice Award for 2025 was won by Chloe Zhao's Hamnet.  Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein was second and Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man took third.

As you can see above, Hamnet scored well with the Professionals at Telluride and we'll reveal The People's Telluride results on Thursday.

VISITATIONS

Scott Cooper for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere from Entertainment Weekly.

Paul Mescal and Oliver Hermanus for The History of Sound from Indiewire.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-FINAL CALL

This is the final call for film ratings from The People.  You folks who watched films at TFF #52.  The deadline to rate is 5:00pm PDT this evening.  Email them to me at mpgot@gmail.com.

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Critical Consensus / Trailer and Clip: Nouvelle Vauge and History of Sound / Visitations: Buckley, Mescal, Roher / The People's Telluride #13

 CRITICAL CONSENSUS

I am posting Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores as of yesterday for many TFF #52 films:

Ballad of a Small Player     MC: 51     RT: 69    Combo: 120

Blue Moon                          MC: 78     RT: 97    Combo: 175

Bugonia                               MC: 74     RT: 92    Combo: 166

Frankenstein                        MC: 75     RT: 80    Combo: 155

Hamnet                                MC: 88     RT: 89    Combo: 177

The History of Sound          MC: 62     RT: 66    Combo: 128

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You    MC: 82     RT: 93    Combo: 175

It Was Just an Accident       MC: 88     RT: 98     Combo: 186

Jay Kelly                             MC: 66    RT: 86     Combo: 152

La Grazia                             MC: 69    RT: 76     Combo: 145   

The Mastermind                  MC: 79     RT: 89    Combo: 168

Nouvelle Vague                   MC: 72     RT: 88    Combo: 160

Pillion                                  MC: 85     RT: 100  Combo: 185

A Private Life                      MC: 66     RT: 69    Combo: 135

The Secret Agent                 MC: 87     RT: 100  Combo: 187

Sentimental Value:               MC: 89    RT: 95     Combo: 184

Spingsteen: Deliver Me...    MC: 69    RT: 100   Combo: 169

And ordered by combined Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes score:

1) The Secret Agent: 187

2) It Was Just an Accident: 186

3) Pillion: 185

4) Sentimental Value: 184

5) Hamnet: 177 

6) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You: 175 (tie)

6) Blue Moon: 175 (tie)

8) Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere: 169

9) The Mastermind: 168

10) Bugonia: 166

11) Nouvelle Vague: 160

12) Frankenstein : 155

13) Jay Kelly: 152

14) La Grazia: 145

15) A Private Life: 135

16) The History of Sound: 128

17) Ballad of a Small Player: 120     

I'll have my own set of Professionals deliver their verdict in Monday's post.

TRAILER AND CLIP

From YouTube:

Trailer for Nouvelle Vague:

Clip from The History of Sound:

 VISITATIONS

Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal on Hamnet from Deadline.               

Daniel Roher on Tuner from The Hollywood Reporter.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE #13

You've have a few days left to get your ratings in for The People's Telluride.  At the moment we're at about half the respondents (maybe a bit more) that normally participate each year.  Additionally, the Pros are doing their part and I plan to have the The Professionals ratings up a week from today.

Again, email me a list of the films you saw and rate each on a 1 to 5 scale.  1 means it was very bad, 5 means you thought it was terrific.  Decimals are fine.

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

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