TFF #48 Spec from Someone Besides Myself / Looks at TFF Possibles: Saints, Rockets and BOOM / Your Cousin Has Another / And Finally from TFF #47

TFF #48 SPEC FROM SOMEONE BESIDES MYSELF

Jordan Ruimy's World of Reel has taken a look at the same Pete Hammond report of the recent Telluride Film Fest Annual "To-Do" in L.A. and drawn some conclusions and done some speculating.  He has some ideas that are intriguing that I thought I'd pass along.

Ruimy's analysis of Hammond's claims that there could be as many as four Netflix films at TFF #48 has him suggesting The Power of the Dog, Blonde, The Hand of God and Don't Look Back.

Other films on Ruimy's guess list include: The French Dispatch, King Richard. C'mon C'mon, Last Night in Soho, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Whale, The Card Counter, The Tragedy of Macbeth and possibly Nightmare Alley.

As of last Thursday's first "Ten Bets" you know that I'm agreeing with Ruimy on: The Power of the Dog, The Card Counter and Nightmare Alley.

This note though: we're still very early in the serious TFF #48 prediction game.

Here's the link to the Ruimy story.

LOOKS AT TFF POSSIBLES: SAINTS, ROCKETS AND BOOM

Michael Gandolfini as a young Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark

A slew of articles about films that are a part of the conversation for possible Telluride inclusion popped up this past week:

Indiewire looks at The Many Saints of Newark, the prequel film to HBO's classic series The Sopranos.  Here's the link to that.

Indiewire also looks at Red Rocket, Sean Baker's follow up to The Florida Project.  That is linked here.

Meanwhile, SlashFilm runs down a preview of  Lin Manuel Miranda's tick, tick...Boom.  That look is here.

YOUR COUSIN HAS ANOTHER

A scene from Mark Cousins' The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

Mark Cousins, who has already been invited to screen The Story of Looking at Cannes, revealed this past weekend that he has another film selected for Cannes Classics.  Cousins' will be screening The Storms of Jeremy Thomas as a separate selection on the Croisette.

The "twofer" raises the prospect that Cousins, whose ties with the Telluride fest are long and deep, might have both films show up on the TFF #48 list when it's announced on Wednesday, August 31st.

Deadline.com has that story as well as first look footage from the film.  That's linked here.

AND FINALLY, FROM TFF #47

Last year, when Telluride announced the list of films that would have been screened had TFF #47 taken place, TFF regular Roger Michell's The Duke was included.  The comedy starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren is now on the cusp of release in the United Kingdom and an official trailer has dropped.

Here's that is via YouTube:

The Duke opens in the U.K. on Sept. 3rd.

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BFI-London Announces / Teaser Trailers for Nomadland and Mandibles / New Photos of Mainstream and Mandibles/ Interviews: Zhao, Coppola and More / Ronstadt Short Doc Acquired

BFI-LONDON ANNOUNCES

The BFI-London Film Festival announced its 2020 slate on Tuesday morning.  Five of the feature films selected for its main slate were also among the 29 films officially selected by the Telluride Film Festival for its 47th edition that had to be canceled.

Three of the titles have become common place additions to a number of film fests:

Francis Lee's Ammonite
Chloe Zhao's Nomadland
Gianfranco Rosi's Notturno

In addition to those three LFF also selected After Love and Never Gonna Snow Again.

The BFI-London Film Festival will take place Oct. 7-18 and will largely be presented virtually but will have a live cinema presentation of some films as a part of its programming.


TEASER TRAILERS FOR NOMADLAND AND MANDIBLES

Teaser for Nomadland:

Mandibles Trailer from YouTube:

NEW PHOTOS OF MAINSTREAM AND MANDIBLES

From Mandibles:

From Mainstream:

INTERVIEWS WITH THE CREATORS OF NOMADLAND, MAINSTREAM, THE DUKE AND NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN



***Chloe Zhao/Nomadland from The Hollywood Reporter

***Gia Coppola/Mainstream from The Hollywood Reporter

***Roger Michell/The Duke from Variety

***Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert/Never Gonna Snow Again from Variety



RONSTADT SHORT DOC ACQUIRED

photo via Variety and The Shout! Factory

Last year at TFF #46 programmers selected to screen the fantastic documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.  Now comes news that a second Ronstadt doc that was chosen for inclusion on the TFF #47 list has been acquired for release by Shout! Studios.

The short doc (runtime about 40 min.) is titled: Linda Ronstadt and the Mockingbirds focuses on a trip to Mexico as Ronstadt explores her musical roots.

The story was reported by Variety and says that the new work is a follow on to last year's film.

Variety reports that the new film is expected to have a 2020 release on various platforms.

The complete Variety story is linked here.

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Two Weeks... / Telluride at Home / First Looks: Fireball and Mainstream / The Usual Suspects-Covid Edition

TWO WEEKS...

Are you like me?

We're two weeks from what would have been the last day of TFF #47.

It's not that I haven't internalized that the fest isn't going to happen this year.  I had been contemplating the possibility for quite a while before the announcement dropped on July 14th.  However, as the dates approach that would have been the 47th edition of the Telluride Film Festival (and my 15th time to attend) I, like I suspect many of you, have a serious pang of longing and regret that our normally glorious weekend of film and fun will come and go more or less as just another weekend in Covid-19 America.

It will be weird and dis-orienting two weeks from today, when I would be winding the weekend down.  My habit over the past few years has been to get up on Labor Day to grab an early screening of something that has become buzzy over the weekend (the last two years that my films on Monday morning have been Cold War and Parasite...not bad, eh?) and then booking to Town Park to grab lunch and ice cream, say goodbye to whomever I could find there that needed saying goodbye to...that's how I met Barry Jenkins four years ago.  And then climb in the mini-van and head south and east.

This year, I'll already be "south and east" when I wake up on Labor Day.  Sooooo....


TELLURIDE AT HOME

I've decided that I'm programming a weekend at home of Telluride films from that past 14 editions that either I have seen or missed when they were in T-ride and that I still haven't visited.  The wife and I started compiling a list yesterday.  We'll whittle it down until we get to 10 or so films.  Then, in the tradition of Telluride, I'll announce my list for "Telluride at Home" on Thursday, Sept. 3rd.  The day before my festival starts.

What about you?  If you were to program a Telluride Fest from the years you've been attending, what would you include?  What would re-visit?  What films did you miss that you still haven't seen but wished you had?  Make a list of ten.

Drop me a line with your list if you feel like it.  I might well publish those here.


FIRST LOOKS: FIREBALL AND MAINSTREAM


As a result of their selections for TIFF and Venice, we have our first glimpses of would-be TFF #$7 films.  Werner Herzog's Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds and Gia Coppola's Mainstream.

From the Toronto PR for Fireball, it's Clive Oppenhiemer and Herzog as they search the world for meteors and stories of meteors.

From Venice, we got a still from her new film, Mainstream via Twitter.  It looks intriguing:

THE USUAL SUSPECTS: COVID-19 EDITION

Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent in Roger Michell's The Duke 

Looking over the 29 feature film titles that were announced as what would have been selections had TFF #47 taken place, I can't help but notice that a number of folks who have had a presence at TFF in past Telluride Film Festivals were returning.  Some, like Chloe Zhao were returning after a maiden voyage with the fest.  Zhao's The Rider screened at Telluride in 2017.  The lineup also included Werner Herzog who is a mainstay of many, many TFF lineups.

Here's a quick rundown of folks that are or may soon be on my list of TFF"s "Usual Suspects" that are included in the TFF #47 lineup:

*Liz Garbus/All In: The Fight for Democracy  (Love, Marilyn TFF #39)
*Andrey Tarkovsky/Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (Tarkovsky's works have often been featured at TFF)
*Frank Marshall/The Bees Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Marshall is on TFF's Board of Advisors)
*Roger Michell/The Duke (Michell's TFF credits include: Venus, Hyde Park on Hudson and Enduring Love)
*Gia Coppola/Mainstream (Coppola's first and only feature thus far, Palo Alto, was at TFF #40)
*Chloe Zhao/Nomadland (Zhao's The Rider was at TFF #44)
*Gianfranco Rosi/Notturno (Rosi was last at Telluride in 2016 with Fire at Sea)
*Mohammad Rasoulof/There Is No Evil (TFF tribute recipient in 2013, last film at TFF was 2017's A Man of Integrity)
*Lisa Immordino Vreeland/Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (multiple TFF appearances: Love, Cecil, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel)

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