Golden Globes And TFF / Producers Guild Names Nominees / Gurus o' Gold / ACE Nominates for Eddies / New Video (Old Man and the Gun) and Trailer (Cold War) / Tapley's New Predix for Oscar

Week Two of the New Year begins today...hope it's working out for you.  OSCAR voting starts TODAY! Editors (see below) Cinematographers, Sound Editors, Writers and Directors Guilds all announce their 2018 nominees today.

GOLDEN GLOBES

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out its annual Golden Globe awards for excellence in film and television last night.  TFF films are Bold.

Best Film/Drama: Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Film Comedy/Musical: Green Book

Best Actress/Drama: Glenn Close/The Wife

Best Actress Comedy/Musical: Olivia Colman/The Favourite

Best Actor/Drama: Rami Malek/Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Actor Musical/Drama: Christian Bale/Vice

Best Supporting Actress: Regina King/If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali/Green Book

Best Direction: Alfonso Cuaron/Roma

Best Screenplay: Green Book

Best Foreign Film: Roma

Best Animated Film: Spiderman; Into the Spider verse

Best Score: First Man

Best Song: Shallow from A Star Is Born

Overall, Telluride films scored a total of four Globes: Roma (2-Foreign Language Film and Direction), The Favourite (1-Best ACtress/Musical-Comedy) and First Man (1-Best Score).  Green Book had three and Bohemian Rhapsody had two and they were big awards for Best Film/Drama and Best Actor Drama.

A Star Is Born was shut out of wins in the four main categories it was nominated for (Picture/Daram, Actress/Drama, Supporting Actor and Direction winning only Best Song.  That was something of a stunner as the Gurus o' Gold had the film as a unanimous favorite to win Best Picture/Drama.

PRODUCERS GUILD NAMES NOMINEES

Friday the Producers Guild of America (PGA) named their nominees for a variety of Film and Television categories.  Their 10 film list for Best of 2018:

Black Panther

BlacKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Green Book
A Quiet Place
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice

The documentaries nominated by the PGA were (previously announced on Nov. 20th):

The Dawn Wall
Free Solo
Hal
Into the Okavango
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Won't You Be My Neighbor

Animated Features nominated:

Dr. Seuss' The Grinch
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Three TFF #45 films made the PGA cut: The Favourite and Roma among theatrical films and Free Solo among documentaries.

Complete nominees coverage is linked here from Indiewire.


GURUS O' GOLD

The latest Movie City News' Gurus o' Gold went up on Saturday and included predictions for the two Best Picture Golden Globes categories.  Those, of course, are now known.  Also included is the latest snapshot of the Oscar Best Picture race.

Take a gander at the most recent Gurus guesses here.



ACE NOMINATES FOR EDDIES

The American Cinema Editors named their nominees fro excellence in film editing for film and television this morning.  TFF #45 films nominated included: Roma and First Man in the Film/Drama category, The Favourite in the Film/Comedy category, Free Solo in the Documentary category and in the Non-theatrical film category: A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making, a short documentary about the recovery of Orson Welles The Other Side of the Wind.

The complete list of nominees is linked here from The Wrap.


NEW VIDEO AND TRAILER

Fox Searchlight released nine and a half minutes or so of David Lowery's The Old Man and the Gun on Friday.  Here that is from YouTube:

The film is now available to stream.

Meanwhile, Amazon Studios dropped a new trailer for Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War this weekend as well.  Here it is:

TAPLEYS' NEW PREDICTIONS FOR OSCAR

Variety's InContention Awards expert, Kristopher Tapley had updated Oscar predictions Saturday ahead of the Golden Globes.

Telluride films included in his predictions include:

Roma (8): Picture, Direction, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Foreign Language Film

The Favourite (7): Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress (both Stone and Weisz), Original Screenplay, Costumes, Production Design

First Man (6): Cinematography, Film Editing, Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3): Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay

Cold War (3): Direction, Cinematography, Foreign Language Film

First Reformed (2): Actor, Original Screenplay***TFF #44

Shoplifters (1): Foreign Language Film

Free Solo (1): Documentary

Border (1); Makeup/Hair

A couple of notes...

If Tapley is 100% accurate, TFF #45 feature films earn 30 Oscar nominations.  TFF #44 (First Reformed) gets 2.

Tapley has no picks in the Shorts categories in this latest set of predictions and TFF #45 could snag an additional nomination or two there.

First Man now looks like it will be the most nominated film that doesn't get a Best Picture nomination.  I am dismayed.

I'm also a little surprised that both Can You Ever Forgive Me with a probable two acting nominations and a screenplay nod isn't more in the Best Picture conversation.  Same for First Reformed for the same reasons.

Tapley's inclusion of Pawlikowski for his direction of Cold War is a bold choice but I'd be stunned if that actually happens.

Here's Tapley's complete set of Oscar predictions.

And speaking of Tapley, Kris has kept up an annual tradition by posting his selections for the ten best individual shots from 2018 films at Variety.  That list with commentary went up on the Variety.com site in late December.

Among the films/shots included were TFF #45 and TFF #44 films (photos from Tapley's Variety.com post):

At #10-First Man:

At #8- First Reformed (from TFF #44):

At #7- Cold War:

At #3- Roma

The top shot in Tapley's list came from the horror film Hereditary.

The complete post is here.


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A Very Short Post on Dec. 24th: New Gurus / The Film Stage 50 for 2018

Good Christmas Eve to everyone...

Just a short post today as both flu and Holiday plans have meant a truncated MTFB today.

NEW GURUS

There's a new Gurus of Gold for this holiday week up at Movie City News.  It covers the Big Eight categories; Picture, Direction, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, and Screenplays.

Here's the link to the New Gurus post.


THE FILM STAGE TOP 50

The Film Stage published its list of the 50 best films from 2018 over the weekend.  Included on that list:

#46-The Old Man and the Gun
#34 First Man
#20 The Rider (TFF #44)
#17 The Favourite
#14 Shoplifters
#8 Cold War
#7 The Other Side of the Wind
#2 Roma
#1 First Reformed (TFF #44)


The complete list is here.

That's all for today.  MTFB should be back to what passes for normal on Thursday.


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National Board of Review / Gotham Awards Winners / A Cascade of Interviews

Hello to all on this final Thursday of November 2018...Lots of awards news over the past few days...the season got serious this week.


NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW REVEALS ITS WINNERS

It was a good day for films from Telluride...from 2017/TFF #44 as the National Board of Review named its best films for the year on Tuesday.

Paul Schrader's First Reformed was well honored as it was named  twice.  Schrader was awarded for Best Original Screenplay and the film was named to the NBR 10 Best Films of the Years list.

Also named to the 10 Best list from TFF #45 were Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Roma.

Cold War was named Best Foreign Language Film.  Shoplifters was named one of five additional Best Foreign Language Films of the year.

Kris Tapley tweeted that Roma's inclusion on the 10 Best list precluded it from being named Best Foreign Language Film.

On the 10 Best independent films list were David Lowery's The Old Man and the Gun.  Also listed from TFF #44 were Lean on Pete and The Rider.

Free Solo was named on the list of the five Best Documentaries.

Peter Farrelly's Green Book won the top award as Best Film of the Year.

Among non-Telluride films Green Book, A Star Is Born and If Beale Street Could Talk did very well with the NBR.

Both The Other Side of the Wind and its companion documentary They'll Love Me When I'm Dead were named as winners of the William K. Everson Film History Award.

The complete winners list and more is here from Indiewire.



GOTHAM AWARDS WINNERS

 

The Indie film-centric Gotham Awards were announced on Monday evening and it was a good night for Telluride...in 2017.  TFF #44 films did incredibly well highlighted by wins for Paul Schrader's First Reformed and the win for Chloe Zhao's The Rider as Best Feature.

First Reformed's Ethan Hawke won Best Actor and Schrader won for Best Screenplay.

The only accolade of the evening for a TFF #45 film was a Special Jury Award for the ensemble of women from The Favourite which had been previously announced.

Other TFF #45 that had nominations but were shut out were: The Favourite (Best Feature, Best Screenplay), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Best Supporting Actor) and Roma (Breakthrough Actor).

Complete coverage is here from Indiewire and Gold Derby.

The next big shoe to drop in the awards parade is The New York Film Critics Circle which happens today.


 A CASCADE OF INTERVIEWS

Alfonso Cuaron

Multiple interviews linked here with folks that played with TFF #45:


Damien Chazelle/First Man, Alfonso Cuaron/Roma, Jason Reitman/The FrontRunner and Marielle Heller/Can You Ever Forgive Me? from The Hollywood Reporter

Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira/Roma from Awards Watch

Alfonso Cuaron/Roma from Indiewire

Josh Singer/First Man from Awards Daily

Pawel Pawlikowski/Cold War (from my Tomris Laffly) Film Journal

Yorgos Lanthimos/The Favourite from Indiewire

Hirokazu Kore-eda/Shoplifters from Vulture

Tom Cross (editor)/First Man from Deadline


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First Oscar Predictions for 2018-Part Two / Peterloo Moves / Lowery Talks The Old Man

Hello on this first Thursday in October!


FIRST OSCAR PREDICTIONS FOR 2018-PART TWO

Continuing from Monday's post, here are my first attempts at parsing the Oscar nominees for the Supporting Acting and Screenplay categories.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Emma Stone in The Favourite

1) Claire Foy/First Man
2) Regina King/Widows
3) Nicole Kidman/Boy Erased
4) Emma Stone/The Favourite
5) Rachel Wiesz/The Favourite

Others: Olivia Colman/The Favourite***, Marina deTavira/Roma, Amy Adams/Vice, Michelle Yeoh/Crazy Rich Asians, Elizabeth Debicki/Widows

***depending on category placement

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Me with Richard E. Grant of Can You Ever Forgive Me?

1) Mahershala Ali/Green Book
2) Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me?
3) Timothee Chalamet/Beautiful Boy
4) Sam Elliott/A Star Is Born
5) Sam Rockwell/Vice

Others: Michael B. Jordan/Black Panther, John C. Reilly/Stan and Ollie, Adam Driver/BlackKklansman, Joel Edgerton/Boy Erased

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Roma
2) Green Book
3) The Favourite
4) Eighth Grade
5) First Reformed

Others: Vice, A Quiet Place, Ben Is Back, Stan and Ollie


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) If Beale Street Could Talk
2) First Man
3) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
4) BlackKklansman
5) Boy Erased

Others: A Star Is Born, Widows, The Front Runner, Wildlife, Beautiful Boy


The TFF #45 breakdown should the predictions in these four categories be 100% accurate:

The Favourite (3): Stone and Wiesz/Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay
First Man (2): Foy/Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2): Grant/Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Roma (1) Original Screenplay
Boy Erased (2) Kidman/Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay

Also additional possibilities:

The Favourite (1): Colman/Supporting Actress
Roma (1) deTavira/Supporting Actress
Boy Erased (1): Edgerton/Supporting Actor
The Front Runner (1): Adapted Screenplay


AND...added to Monday's totals, the accumulated predictions for the eight major categories are:

The Favourite-6
First Man-5
Can You Ever Forgive Me?-4
Roma-3
Boy Erased-3

Added Possibilities:

The Front Runner-3
Boy Erased-2
Roma-2
The Favourite-1
Destroyer-1

And from TFF #44

First Reformed is predicted to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Ethan Hawke is a possible nominee for Best Actor.


PETERLOO MOVES

It was announced on Tuesday that Mike Leigh's Peterloo, which played TFF #45 as well as Venice, Toronto and will play as past of the BFI London Fest, will move its release date .  The film was scheduled to be released in the U.S. on Nov. 9th but now Amazon Studios has pushed the release date to April 5, 2019.

The distributor also said that the film will be released this fall in the U.K. so that it will qualify for the BAFTAs.

The film has had something of a rough go this year as it was reportedly not chosen for Cannes.  At Telluride last month the response to my polls of both fest-goers and industry professionals revealed that Peterloo didn't draw enough respondents from either group to merit including it in the ratings lists.

Peterloo details the true story of a Labor movement in Britain in August of 1819 that was organized to gain the right to vote.  That resulted in the deaths of 15 people with another 400 injured as the in an action taken by the cavalry that has become known as the Peterloo Massacre.

For more details concerning the delay of its release, here is the link to the story from The Hollywood Reporter.



LOWERY TALKS THE OLD MAN

Chris O'Falt at Indiewire posted his latest Toolkit podcast this week.  His guest is The Old Man and The Gun director David Lowery.  Lowery also adapted the screenplay from an article by David Grann from his New Yorker article.  Grann was also represented at Telluride by Trial by Fire, also based on another of his New Yorker articles.

Lowery spends some time talking about the making of the film which may or may not but probably is Robert Redford's last acting gig.

The story and the link to the podcast are here.


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The Composite Telluride / Continued Oscar Assessments / The Critical Response to Festival Films / Final Trailer for First Man

Hello to all on this September Thursday...


THE COMPOSITE TELLURIDE

Here it is for TFF #45.  The composite mash-up of ratings from both the People and the Professionals.  The Composite Telluride combines the ratings for films that came from both sets of Telluride attendees that I canvas immediately after the fest.

I began doing The Composite in 2013 and in each year the film that has finished at the top has gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Here's a quick look at the top five Composite films for each year since I started:

In 2013 the top five composite films were:

1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25)
2) Tim's Vermeer (8.97)
3) Gravity (8.75)
4) Nebraska (8.38)
5) All is Lost (8.26)

In 2014 the top five were:

1) Birdman (9.18)
2) Foxcatcher (8.83)
3) The Imitation Game (8.79)
4) Wild Tales (8.43)
5) '71 (8.15)

In 2015 the top five were:

1) Spotlight (8.86)
2) Son of Saul (8.74)
3) Beasts of No Nation (8.62)
4) Steve Jobs (8.17)
5) Carol (8.13)

In 2016 the top five were:

1) Moonlight (9.19)
2) La La Land (8.91)
3) Manchester by the Sea (8.13)
4) Arrival (8.01)
5) Maudie (7.89)

In 2017 the top five were:

1) The Shape of Water (8.72)
2) Lady Bird (8.58)
3) Faces Places (7.96)
4) Darkest Hour (7.90)
5) Hostiles (7.78)

Finally, heading into 2018 the top ten films for the duration of the existence of the Composite Telluride have been:

1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013
2) Moonlight (9.19) 2016
3) Birdman (9.18) 2014
4) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013
5) La La Land (8.91) 2016
6) Spotlight (8.86) 2015
7) Foxcatcher (8.83) 2014
8) The Imitation Game (8.79) 2014
9) Gravity (8.75) 2013
10) Son of Saul (8.74) 2015

Only 12 films of the 33 featured films had enough responses collectively between the two polls to create the Composite Telluride ratings.  Here's where they landed on the 2018 Composite Telluride ratings (combined ratings in parentheses and the film's positions for both The People's Telluride ratings and The Professionals):

1) Roma  (9.20) 1-1
2) First Man (8.51) 2-2
3) Free Solo (8.33) 5-3
4) Cold War (8.16) 6-3
5) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (7.91) 8-5
6) The Favourite (7.66) 9-6
7) Boy Erased (7.43) 4-10
8) White Boy Rick (6.94) 7-11
9) The Front Runner (6.74) 10-13
10) Destroyer (6.69) 12-9
11) Border (6.57) 16-8
12) The Old Man and the Gun (6.56) 14-10


As you can see, the largest disconnect between The Pros and the People was with Ali Abassi's Border with The People rating it at #16 while The pros had it at #8.  Another large disagreement was on Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased with the People ranking it as the #4 film of the fest while The Pros have it at #10.

It will be interesting if Roma or First Man should win Oscar for Best Picture as either film would continue a TFF ratings trend.  A Roma win would continue the streak of Telluride films that have placed at the top of the Composite ratings in each year I've done them.  A First Man win would continue the almost uninterrupted trend of #2 films from The People's Telluride to win Best Picture.  That's been true every year of The People's T-ride save for 2016 when Telluride favorite Barry Jenkin's Moonlight won over Damien Chazelle's La La Land.  Had La La Land won (which most pundits expected) that #2 trend would still be unbroken.

Something's got to give this year.  And, of course, there's always the possibility that The Telluride streak gets busted this year (eight straight BP winners and nine of the last ten played Telluride).  Maybe A Star Is Born wins (many are predicting that to happen) and that ends the streak.

Finally, Roma moves to the #2 spot on the all time Composite list which bumps Laszlo Nemes' Son of Saul to #11.

The new all time Composite list:

1) 12 Years a Slave (9.25) 2013
2) Roma (9.20) 2018
3) Moonlight (9.19) 2016
4) Birdman (9.18) 2014
5) Tim's Vermeer (8.97) 2013
6) La La Land (8.91) 2016
7) Spotlight (8.86) 2015
8) Foxcatcher (8.83) 2014
9) The Imitation Game (8.79) 2014
10) Gravity (8.75) 2013


CONTINUED OSCAR ASSESSMENTS

Various Oscar prognosticators continue to weigh in with their perspectives on the season as Telluride/Venice/Toronto festival gauntlet has come to an end (New York's fest is just underway) and here's a look at the highlights of more of those as MTFB continues to pivot to its secondary mission to follow the awards season fortunes of the films that screened as a part of TFF #45.

Variety's Kristopher Tapley has a Best Picture piece posted.  Tapley names ten films that seem to have the edge for Best Picture at this time.  Included among them are T-ride selections Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Favourite, First Man and Roma.  Among "Other Films to Consider" Tapley includes The Front Runner and Cold War.

Tapley is on record as having said that he won't get to large scale predictions in multiple categories for Variety until December.

His complete article is linked here.

Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson goes with early takes for the six major Oscar categories: Picture, Direction, Actress, Actor and Supporting Actress and Actor.

By category, here's what T-ride films/performances he sees in the race at this point:

Best Picture: Roma, First Man (Lawson becomes the first journalist who echoes my opinion-voiced on the gondola in Telluride-that First Man shares some stylistic attributes with last year's multi-nominated Dunkirk).  Lawson also suggests The Favourite is "still in play" and that the BP fortunes of The Front Runner and Boy Erased "dimmed" in Toronto.

Best Actress: Lawson says Olivia Colman/The Favourite and Melissa McCarthy/Can You Ever Forgive Me? are probable.  He also opines that both Yalitza Aparicio/Roma and Nicole Kidman/Destroyer could make the race as well.

Best Actor: Lawson, like many, think Robert Redford has a real shot at a nomination for The Old Man and the Gun owning in some measure to the fact that Redford has said it's his last acting gig.  Ryan Gosling/First Man is also mentioned and Lawson says we shouldn't count out Hugh Jackman in The Front Runner.

Best Supporting Actress: As many do, Lawson suggests both Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz could earn nominations for The Favourite.  Also on his radar is Claire Foy from First Man.

Best Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me? is the TFF most likely Supporting Actor nominee according to Lawson.  He also suggests that Russell Crowe might be possible from Boy Erased.

Best Direction: Lawson suggests that the five directors nominated could include Alfonso Cuaron/Roma, Damien Chazelle/First Man and Yorgos Lanthimos/The Favourite.

The complete Vanity Fair piece is linked here.

The Guardian also put together a post-festival Oscar analysis that isn't as focused as those above.  It does, however, conclude with what it says are Ten Safe Nominee Bets which include TFFers:

Alfonso Cuaron/Roma/Direction
Richard E. Grant/Can You Ever Forgive Me?/Supporting Actor
Olivia Colman/The Favourite/Actress
Robert Redford/The Old Man and the Gun/Actor

The complete article from The Guardian is here.


THE CRITICAL RESPONSE TO FESTIVAL FILMS

Many outlets posted/published lists of the critical reaction to films that played at all three just concluded festivals.  Here are a couple of takes:

Metacritic

The critical aggregating outfit had an extensive article posted Sunday with a breakdown of films into four categories: Award Winners, Other Highlights, Minor Disappointments and The Duds.  Here's where TFF #45 ended up with their Metacritic composite score:

Award Winners:

Roma (Golden Lion/Venice) 96
The Favourite (Grand Jury Prize/Venice) 92

Other Highlights (alphabetical):

The Biggest Little Farm 74
Can You Ever Forgive Me? 83
First Man 83
Fistful of Dirt 71
Free Solo 79
Non-Fiction 83
The Old Man and the Gun 84
The Other Side of the Wind 82
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead 81

Minor Disappointments:

Boy Erased 68
Destroyer 62
The Front Runner 67
The Great Buster 69
Peterloo 69

No Telluride films were included among The Duds.

The Metacritic post is here in its entirety.

The Film Stage also categorized films across the three film festivals.  Here's where they had films from The SHOW:

The Best ( a grade of A listed alphabetically):

The Favourite
First Man
Roma

The Rest:

The "B" group:

Can You Ever Forgive Me? B+
Non-Fiction B+

Destroyer B
The Front Runner B
The Old Man and the Gun B
Peterloo B
White Boy Rick B

Angels Are Made of Light B-


The "C" Group:

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead C

The Film Stage post is here.


And finally, Indiewire published "The 12 Best Movies of the Fall Festivals" on Sunday which included The Favourite and Roma.  Find out the other ten films in the complete article here.


TFF HISTORY PROJECT

For those who enjoy re-visiting Telluride's past film fests, the Selected History Page has been updated for both 2017 and 2018.  Additionally, I have added the link for the TFF #45 program to the Extended History 1996-Present page.  I'm still planning to expand the Extended History with the information available for the fests beginning with 2006 right up to 2018 over the next few months.


FINAL TRAILER FOR FIRST MAN

Three weeks before its release, Universal has revealed a new and final trailer for Damien Chazelle's First Man.  Here it is from YouTube:

First Man starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong opens on Oct. 12th.


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Friday Done, Saturday Looms / TBAs for Saturday / The Other Big News

TBAs for Saturday:

Massons Hall

11:45am-Watergate
8:00pm-Great Expectations
10:30pm-Dogman

The Zog

10:00pm-Free Solo


MY FRIDAY

Things changed with the discovery that the Patron/Press screening would be The Old Man and the Gun.  I took that in and then caught the North American premiere of Damien Chazelle's First Man.

Robert Redford talks with John Horn after the world premiere of David Lowery's The Old Man and the Gun

Sissy Spacek

Old Man and the Gun- Pleasant.  Was like a warm blanket to see Redford in fine form playing a lovable character.  Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck are capable in support.  Tom Waits damn near steals the film.  Honestly, I felt like the film suffered a bit from lack of depth.  Again, pleasant.

First Man-is first rate.  Gripping, pulse pounding but also moving with genuinely touching moments. Gosling and Foy are great and Jason Clarke as doomed astronaut Jason Clarke also does a bang up job in support.

I was a big fan of La La Land two years ago and First Man does not disappoint as a follow up.  The Venice raves were earned.  I think it's a "can't miss" for you Telluriders this weekend.

MY SATURDAY...depending on if I can make the appropriate moves around town and Mountain village: Roma (Cuaron tribute), Destroyer, Can You Ever Forgive Me and The Favourite (Stone tribute).


THE OTHER BIG NEWS

Tom Luddy is not here in Telluride this year.  Co-director Julie Huntsinger revealed during the opening press conference today that Luddy is back in Berkeley as a health pre-caution.  She says not serious or life threatening but rather a decision based on cautiousness.


That's it for today.

TFF #45 Lineup Announced / Useful Info for Some of the Films Announced Today / Who's # 1?

TFF #45 LINEUP ANNOUNCED

45th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program:

·       ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT (d. James Longley, U.S.-Denmark-Norway, 2018)

·       BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (d. Pamela E. Green, U.S., 2018)

·       BIRDS OF PASSAGE (d. Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, Colombia-Denmark-Mexico, 2018)

·       BORDER (d. Ali Abbasi, Sweden, 2018)

·       BOY ERASED (d. Joel Edgerton, U.S., 2018)

·       CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (d. Marielle Heller, U.S., 2018)

·       COLD WAR (d. Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland-France-U.K., 2018)

·       DESTROYER (d. Karyn Kusama, U.S., 2018)

·       DOGMAN (d. Matteo Garrone, Italy-France, 2018)

·       DOVLATOV (d. Aleksei German, Russia-Poland-Serbia, 2018)

·       FIRST MAN (d. Damien Chazelle, U.S., 2018)

·       FISTFUL OF DIRT (d. Sebastián Silva, U.S., 2018)

·       FREE SOLO (d. Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, U.S., 2018)

·       GHOST FLEET (d. Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, U.S., 2018)

·       GIRL (d. Lukas Dhont, Belgium-Netherlands, 2018)

·       GRAVES WITHOUT A NAME (d. Rithy Panh, France-Cambodia, 2018)

·       MEETING GORBACHEV (d. Werner Herzog and André Singer, U.K.-U.S.-Germany, 2018)

·       NON FICTION (d. Olivier Assayas, France, 2018)

·       PETERLOO (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2018)

·       REVERSING ROE (d. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, U.S., 2018)

·       ROMA (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.S.-Mexico, 2018)

·       SHOPLIFTERS (d. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2018)

·       THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM (d. John and Molly Chester, U.S., 2018)

·       THE FAVOURITE (d. Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland-U.K.-U.S., 2018)

·       THE FRONT RUNNER (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2018)

·       THE GREAT BUSTER (d. Peter Bogdanovich, U.S., 2018)

·       THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (d. David Lowery, U.S., 2018)

·       THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (d. Orson Welles, U.S., 1976/2018)

·       THE WHITE CROW (d. Ralph Fiennes, U.K., 2018)

·       THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD (d. Morgan Neville, U.S., 2018)

·       TRIAL BY FIRE (d. Ed Zwick, U.S., 2018)

·       WATERGATE – OR, HOW WE LEARNED TO STOP AN OUT-OF-CONTROL PRESIDENT (d. Charles Ferguson, U.S., 2018)

·       WHITE BOY RICK (d. Yann Demange, U.S., 2018)

USEFUL INFO FOR SOME OF THE FILMS ANNOUNCED TODAY


Here's a partial list of films announced this morning as part of the TFF #45 lineup with a trailer and an IMDb link (in alphabetical order):

BOY ERASED

Dir: Joel Edgerton
Main Cast: Lukas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton
Release date: Nov. 2
Distrib: Focus Features

Trailer:

Boy Erased IMDb link

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Dir: Marielle Heller

Main Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant

Release date: Oct. 19

Distrib: Fox Searchlight

Trailer: 

Can You Ever Forgive Me? IMDb link


COLD WAR

Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski
Main Cast:Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot
Release date: Dec. 21
Distrib: Amazon
Trailer:

Cold War IMDb link


DESTROYER

Dir: Karyn Kuwasa
Main Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan
Release date: Dec. 25
Distrib: Annapurna
Trailer: Unavailable

Destroyer IMDb link


THE FAVOURITE

Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Main Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Wiesz, Emma Stone
Release date: Nov. 23
Distrib: Fox Searchlight
Trailer:

The Favourite IMDb link

FIRST MAN

Dir: Damien Chazelle

Main Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy

Release date: Oct. 12

Distrib: Universal 

Original Trailer:

New Trailer as of yesterday:

First Man IMDb link

THE FRONT RUNNER

Dir: Jason Reitman

Main Cast: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga

Release date: Nov. 21

Distrib: Columba/Stage 6

Trailer:Unavailable

The Front Runner IMDb link

GIRL

Dir: Lukas Dhont

Main cast: Victor Polster

Release date: Nov. 16

Distrib: Netflix

Trailer:  

Girl IMDb link

NON-FICTION

Dir: Olivier Assayas

Main Cast: Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet

Release date: TBD

Distrib: Sundance Selects

Trailer: Unavailable

THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN

Dir: David Lowery

Main Cast: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck

Release date: Sept. 28

Distrib: Fox Searchlight

Trailer:

The Old Man & the Gun IMDb link


THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

Dir: Orson Welles
Main Cast: John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich
Release date: Nov. 2
Distrib: Netflix
Trailer:

The Other Side of the Wind IMDb link


PETERLOO

Dir: Mike Leigh
Main cast: Rory Kinnear
Release date: Nov. 9
Distrib: Amazon
Trailer:

Peterloo IMDb link

ROMA

Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

Main cast: Yalitza Aparicio

Release date: Oct. 5

Distrib: Netflix

Trialer: 

Roma IMDb link


SHOPLIFTERS

Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Main cast: Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki
Release date: Nov. 23
Distrib: Magnolia
Trailer:

Shoplifters IMDb link


WHITE BOY RICK

Dir: Yann Demange
Main cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Release date: Sept. 14
Distrib: Columbia
Trailer:

White Boy Rick IMDb link


WHO'S #1?

You may or may not have seen a post from Awards Circuit yesterday that linked to their YouTube account.  If you did not, they rank the world's most important film festivals in as far as awards season is concerned.

No spoilers but...

Here's that video:

I'm out...almost literally...we hit the road to T-ride in about two hours... Hoping to see some of you tonight.

Next post will be Friday morning with a view toward what I'll be planning to see and do...

Then check back throughout the weekend for TBAs and reactions to the films that I see.

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

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