FINAL BETS...
Here we are TFF fans. The program should drop on Wednesday. The forecast looks wet (***see below) so make sure you bring an umbrella.
Here, without any guarantee of accuracy are my Bets for what will be revealed on Wednesday.
1) The Power of the Dog/Campion
2) The Card Counter/Schrader
3) The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Sharpe
4) Spencer/Larrain
5) A Hero/Farhadi
6) C'mon, C'mon/Mills
7) The Hand of God/Sorrentino
8) The Rescue/Chin and Vasarhelyi
9) The Velvet Underground/Haynes
10) Julia/Cohen and West
11) Becoming Cousteau/Garbus
12) Cyrano/Wright
13) Petite Maman/Sciamma
14) King Richard/Green
15) Hallelujah-Leonard Cohen Doc/Geller and Goldfine
16) Encounter/Pearce
17) Muhammad Ali/Burns, Burns and McMahon
18) The First 54 Years/Mograbi
19) The Lost Daughter/Gyllenhaal
20) Three Minutes-A Lengthening/Stigter
21) Flee/Rasmussen
22) Red Rocket/Baker
23) The Story of Looking/Cousins
24) The French Dispatch/Anderson
25) The Same Storm/Hedges
Other Possibles: Prayers for the Stolen, Last Exit: Space, Unclenching the Fists, A Chiara, The Starling, Bergman Island.
For me...hot titles are French Dispatch, Power of the Dog, Card Counter, C'mon C'mon, Louis Wain, Hand of God, Flee, King Richard and A Hero. That could change. If The Starling SHOWS...it'll probably go on my list.
THE GUESTS AND TRIBUTES
I have no way of knowing who will and won't physically be in Telluride this week. In a non-Covid world there are a number of cool candidates who could be on the guest list and in consideration for Tributes. So, I'm approaching this as if it were a non-Covid year though I expect that the numbers of talent in town may be smaller as a result of the pandemic and could we see some folks remotely?
Nevertheless, looking at the feature films that I have on the Final Bets we could see the following around Telluride this week:
The Power of the Dog: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
The Card Counter: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Willem Dafoe
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy
Spencer: Kristen Stewart, Sally Hawkins
A Hero; Asghar Farhadi
C'mon C'mon: Joaquin Phoenix
Cyrano: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennet, Ben Mendelsohn, Kelvin Harrison, Jr.
King Richard: Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis
Encounter: Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer
The Lost Daughter: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson
Red Rocket: Simon Rex
The Starling: Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Kline, Timothy Olyphant
The Same Storm: Mary Louise Parker, Elaine May
Then there is the cast of The French Dispatch: Bill Murray, Timothee Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro and so many more.
Hot prospects for Tributes: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Campion, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Kristen Stewart, Asghar Farhadi, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Dinklage, Will Smith, Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Olivia Colman, Melissa McCarthy, Kevin Kline, Elaine May, Joe Wright, Sally Hawkins, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand and Benicio Del Toro.
COUSINS LOOKING TRAILER
From the very first Ten Bets post back on June 24th I have been all but certain that Mark Cousins would be presenting something for Telluride. On that first Ten Bets I listed The Story of Looking although through the summer two other Cousins' projects seemed like they might be possible as well (The Storms of Jeremy Thomas and an updated Story of Film: A New Generation).
It looks as if Looking will almost certainly land this week in the San Juans and, honestly, I wouldn't be all that surprised if one or both of the others also play.
You can have a preview of The Story of Looking as a trailer for the documentary was released yesterday. Here it is via YouTube:
CRAZY THOUGHTS: (Warning: These never pan out): Dune, Nightmare Alley, Don't Look Up, Soggy Bottom, The Tender Bar, Eternals, Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
LISTS OF THE FALL FILMS THAT ARE "MUST SEES"
The last week, prior to the start of the fall film fest onslaught, any number of outlets posted/published "must see" and "hot titles" lists. So how hot do we think the TFF #48 lineup is? Let's review which suspected TFF titles made which lists:
Film Stage's 50 Films to See This Fall includes: The Card Counter, The Velvet Underground, Bergman Island, The French Dispatch, Spencer, The Power of the Dog, Flee, The Lost Daughter, A Hero., C'mon C'mon, Red Rocket.
Time's 23 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2021 includes: The Card Counter, The French Dispatch, Spencer, The Power of the Dog, King Richard
Indiewire's 23 Must See Films at Venice, Toronto and New York includes: Bergman Island, The Card Counter, Flee, The Hand of God, The Power of the Dog, Red Rocket, The Rescue, Spencer, The Velvet Underground
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
For the ninth non-consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride. All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".
Report your ratings with any of the following contact methods:
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
***CAN YOU SAY HURRICANE NORA?
LAST WORD FOR TODAY:
I'll keep on top of things this next couple days. If anything breaks of interest I'll post here and Tweet it. I will post the lineup here on Wednesday when it drops. Of course, I'll be posting a few things along the way including TBAs and what I'm up to.
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