Cry Macho Trailer and Pics / French Dispatch Poster / Fantastic Fest Announcement Reveals...

CRY MACHO TRAILER AND PICS

There are some folks that think that Clint Eastwood's Cry Macho might be a TFF #48 selection and there is a case to made.  Eastwood has been the TFF before.  Most recently he attended in 2016 for the screening of Sully.  Eastwood was in attendance as were stars Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart.  Additionally, the project is from Warner Bros which, we believe from Pete Hammond's earlier reporting, will likely be screening at least one film in Telluride.  

My hope all along has been that WB title would be Denis Villenueve's Dune but my expectation for that happening has really cooled over the last two weeks.  So, if not Dune, then Cry Macho makes some sense as the next best guess for a WB title.

Cry Macho is set for a Sept. 17th release which hews closely to the model taken by Sully which was released Sept. 9, 2016.

Warners dropped both a trailer and a poster for the film since last Thursday's post.  Here's the poster:

And here, from YouTube, is the trailer:

BTW...I'm still not 100% convinced Cry Macho plays.  The other WB title in the mix is The Soprano's sequel The Many Saints of Newark.

FRENCH DISPATCH

I know a number of folks who are relatively adamant that Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch will play TFF #48.  I'm more circumspect as there have been reports that the film's New York Film Festival screening will be it U.S. Premiere and if that's true it will mean that the film is NOT a Telluride player.

Nevertheless, enough people I respect think that it will play that I'm not inclined to completely remove it from my "Other Possibilities" list.

Personally, I hope we see it in T-ride.

At any rate, we got a new poster for the film from Searchlight this week (it looks Sergeant Peppery):

FANTASTIC FEST ANNOUNCEMENT REVEALS...

Fantastic Fest admittedly only rarely reveals information that unmasks a possible TFF title, but it's not impossible.  It has happened an occasion.  The FF folks revealed the first half of their lineup on Thursday and to the best of my ability, it doesn't look like any of the titles are going to be an overlap with TFF #48.  When you look at the Fantastic Fest designations the term that you want to look for is "Texas Premiere".  The films with that designation and their release status are:

Agnes (Tribeca)

The Beta Test (Tribeca)

Knocking (Sundance)

Last of the Wolves (NYAFF)

Limbo (NYAFF)

Midnight (NYAFF)

Mother Schmuckers (Sundance)

Premen (IMDb says released April 9th)

Sooo...no Fantastic Fest/Telluride double dip like there was in 2019 when the two fests shared Parasite.

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Ten Bets #2 for TFF #48 / A New Possibility Emerges / Trailer for Many Saints

TEN BETS #2 FOR TFF #48

Hi there... from Massachusetts.  

Yes, the Post-ish-Covid  2021 Art Show Circuit continues with the second and final show of the summer season so I am on the road.  

Blew a tire on I-90 today, got the donut spare on after a bit of a struggle and thanks to Conner at Mavis Tire in Chatham, NY and the crew there...got a new tire on before the end of the business day.

Despite the delayed arrival and the eminent Berkshires Art Fest, here's your Thursday edition of MTFB and, as promised, an updated Ten Bets for TFF #48...there's a wrinkle or two.

Last week's Ten Bets (and "Other Possibles" list):

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) Muhammad Ali/Burns, Burns and McMahon

3) The Card Counter/Schrader

4) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro

5) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

6) Bergman Island/Hansen-Love

7) Cow/Arnold

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) Blonde/Dominik

10) The Story of Looking/Cousins

Don't discount the possibility of: Dune, Julia, Mothering Sunday, Petite Maman, Where Is Anne Frank?, Paris 13th District and The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

News this week about films from Pedro Almodovar (see below) and Mark Cousins has altered this week's Ten Bets which look like this:

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) Muhammad Ali/Burns. Burns and McMahon

3) The Story of Looking/Cousins

4) Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)/Almodovar

5) The Card Counter/Schrader

6) The Storms of Jeremy Thomas/Cousins

7) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

10) Cow/Arnold

Other Possibles: Dune, Julia, Mothering Sunday, Petite Maman, Where Is Anne Frank?, Paris 13th District and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Blonde and Bergman Island.

Will update again next Thursday.

A NEW POSSIBILITY EMERGES

We found out this week that Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers and Mark Cousins' The Storms of Jeremy Thomas are both going to be available to program for TFF #48 if  Telluride Fest programmers decide to include them.

Almodovar, who for a long while had a run at Telluride recently has been absent.  There had been a 13 year stretch between 2006's Volver and TFF #46 in 2019 when Pain and Glory screened.  I think that return and the success of P&G (Two Oscar nominations for Best International Feature and for Best Actor for Antonio Banderas) makes Parallel Mothers, starring 2006 TFF Tribute recipient Penelope Cruz, a very real possibility for a TFF #48 slot.

Parallel Mothers is set for release in Spain on Sept. 10th.

TRAILER FOR MANY SAINTS

One of  the films that Warner Bros. could bring to Telluride is the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark.  The film is set for an Oct. 1st release date (after some juggling among the WB lineup this past week).  Warners dropped a trailer for the film which you can enjoy here thanks to YouTube:

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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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