Cannes Questions Linger as Film Market Could Go Virtual / History Completed / New Twitter

CANNES QUESTIONS LINGER AS FILM MARKET COULD GO VIRTUAL

Photo of Cannes flag via The Playlist

Covid-19 continues to re-shape all elements of the world including how the film industry works.  Normally, the Cannes Film Festival, in addition to its flashy festival,  serves as a hub of film sales for global markets.  Now, both Variety's Nick Vivarelli and The Playlist's Charles Barfield are reporting that there is movement to potentially creating a virtual film market in the event that Cannes does not happen in May.

Vivarelli reports that a couple of possible virtual markets are at least in the talking stage.

The last official line from the fest itself is that a determination about whether it will go forward or not will be made prior to Apr. 15th.  That's the day before Cannes has said it would announce the lineup for its 73rd edition.

Of course, our focus in this space on the situation with Cannes stems from the fact that Telluride often programs a number of titles from various of the Cannes platforms to screen at TFF each year.  The average is around 7-8 films that play both Cannes and TFF.

The effect of a year where Cannes does not happen is uncertain.

Here are the links to the two stories mentioned above:

Vivarelli in Variety

Barfield in The Playlist


HISTORY COMPLETED

If you read last Monday's post you know that a disaster befell "The Expanded Telluride Film Festival History Part 2: 1996-Present" page over the weekend and that, at one point I had lost the the whole thing.

However, after some nifty Google hoop-jumping that saved about half of it and the use of a big chunk of Spring Break time, that History is back and more.  Today's post serves to announce that the full on three project to provide a semi-detailed look at each festival's SHOWs, Guests, Tribute recipients, Guest Directors and Special Medallion recipients has been completed to the extent possible through TFF #46.

I'm keeping the "Selected TFF History" page alive for the time being for those who don't necessarily feel compelled to jump that deeply into TFF's past.

Here's the direct link to the newly completed history page.

Enjoy!


NEW TWITTER

Well, I'm adding a new Twitter account linked to the blog.  For years @Gort2 has been my Twitter handle and I'm not giving it up, but I am adding a Twitter account that will be more exclusively TFF and fim related that has a handle that seems more intuitively connected to the blog itself...so follow if you want..or don't.  It's an experiment and I could change my mind about its utility.

Nevertheless, the new/added Twitter account is @TheMTFB. 



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Cannes and Covid-19 / Sometimes History Disappears

CANNES AND COVID-19

Speculation and responses to that speculation continue in France regarding the status of the Cannes Film Festival as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.

Some outlets in France have claimed that the decision has already been made and that the 73rd edition of the festival will not go on.  Pushback from fest organizers has been adamant that no decision has been made and ultimately won't be made until April 15th.  That's the day before the official announcement of the slate of films is scheduled to occur.

I have linked three stories regarding the Cannes/Covid-19 situation here:

Reportage from Deadline

The story from Variety

The Hollywood Reporter

The Playlist on Cannes decision happening on April 15th.

Stay tuned...


SOMETIMES HISTORY DISAPPEARS

If you've been reading along recently, you know that I have been closing in on finishing the expanded history of the Telluride Film Festival.  As of my last post I was down to the last four years of the fest to be added and thus completing what has been a nearly three year project (I was back tracking old posts the other day and discovered the first entry of the expanded history for TFF #32 was posted on April 10, 2017).

So, there I was, typing away this past week.  I had gotten TFF #43 and #44 added and had just begun the work to get TFF #45 onto the Expended History page and...I don't know what buttons I pushed...but something happened and the entire Expanded History Part Two since 1996 was gone.  And I mean gone.

Fortunately, after some Google search work and using Google's Cache function, I was able to retrieve all of the text that had been on the History thru TFF #37.  With some work, I was able to resurrect the poster photos for each of the fests from TFF #23 (1996) to TFF #37.

That then  was re-published and should you look at the Expended History this morning you'll see that I have also re-added the work past TFF #37 to include the full entries for TFF #38 through TFF #40.

I'm currently on Spring Break and hermiting it up so I'm going to see if I can finish the project by the end of this week.  And I'll try not to mistakenly repeat the sequence of keystrokes that made the original posts of each TFF magically disappear.


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