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MTFB OSCAR TAKE: BEST PICTURE AND MORE UPDATED

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, International Feature, Animated Feature and Documentary Feature.  These categories were last predicted here on Jan. 10th.  As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Belfast (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) West Side Story (3)

4) King Richard (6)

5) Dune (4)

6) CODA (7)

7) Licorice Pizza (5)

8) Don't Look Up (8)

9) tick, tick...BOOM (9)

10) Being the Ricardos (Alt.)

Alternates: House of Gucci and The Tragedy of Macbeth

Comment:  The top six films look solid.  Licorice Pizza and Don't Look Up are probable and then after those it's a free for all.  As you can see, I currently have tick, tick...BOOM and Being the Ricardos in to get nominated and House of Gucci and The Tragedy of Macbeth as alternates but you could also see Drive My Car and Nightmare Alley sneak in and don't discount the outside shots of the Lost Daughter, No Time to Die or Spiderman: No Way Home.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog  (1)

2) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast (2)

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune (3)

4) Steven Spielberg/West Side Story (4)

5) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza (5)

Alternates: Ryusuke Hamaguchi/Drive My Car and Maggie Gyllenhaal/The Lost Daughter

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) Drive My Car/Japan (1)

2) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (2)

3) The Hand of God/Italy (5)

4) A Hero/Iran (3)

5) Flee/Denmark (4)

Alternates: Compartment #6/Finland and I'm Your Man/Germany

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Encanto (1)

2) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (3)

3) Flee (2)

4) Luca (4)

5) Raya and the Last Dragon (5)

Alternates: Belle and Sing 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

1) Flee (2)

2) The Rescue (1)

3) Summer of Soul (3)

4) Ascension (5)

5) Procession (Alt.)

Alternates: The First Wave and The Velvet Underground 

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES

Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen willbe live with Variety's Screening Room with Peter DeBruge tomorrow.  Here's where you can register for that Q+A.

Writer and Director Maggie Gyllenhaal talks The Lost Daughter for Indiewire.

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MTFB's Oscar Take: Picture, Direction, International, Animated and Documentary Updated / Interviews, Profiles and Podcasts / The Hollywood Reporter Has a LIst

MTFB'S OSCAR TAKE: PICTURE, DIRECTION, INTERNATIONAL, ANIMATED AND DOCUMENTARY UPDATED

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, International Feature, Animated Feature and Documentary Feature.  These categories were last predicted here on Nov. 11th.  As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Belfast (1)

2) The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Licorice Pizza (6)

4) King Richard (3)

5) Dune (4)

6) Nightmare Alley (5)

7) West Side Story (7)

8) The Tragedy of Macbeth (9)

9) Spencer (8)

10) CODA (10)

Alternates: tick, tick...BOOM and C'mon C'mon

BEST DIRECTION

1) Belfast/Brannagh (1)

2) The Power of the Dog/Campion (2)

3) Dune/Villenueve (3)

4) Licorice Pizza/Anderson (4)

5) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro (5)

Alternates: Spencer/Larrain and West Side Story/Spielberg

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

1) The Worst Person in the World/Norway (1)

2) A Hero/Iran (2)

3) Flee/Denmark (3)

4) The Hand of God/Italy (4)

5) Titaine/France (5)

Alternates: Drive My Car/Japan and Compartment #6/Finalnd

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1) Flee (1)

2) Encanto (3)

3) The Mitchell's vs. The Machines (2)

4) Luca (4)

5) Belle (5)

Alternates: Raya and the Last Dragon and The Summit of the Gods

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1) Flee (1)

2) The Rescue (2)

3) Summer of Soul (3)

4) Ascension (4)

5) Procession (5)

Alternates: Who We Are and Attica

NEW TRAILER FOR THE HAND OF GOD

From YouTube:

INTERVIEWS, PROFILES AND PODCASTS 

BELFAST 

Variety

Screen Rant

Collider

The Hollywood Reporter

KING RICHARD

Deadline

Indiewire

Screen Rant

THE POWER OF THE DOG

The Hollywood Reporter

Deadline

THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN

Deadline

A HERO  

Deadline

JULIA

The Guardian

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Awards Chatter/The Hollywood Reporter

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HAS A LIST

The Hollywood Reporter's Tyler Coates has collected a list of 30 films that he suggests are in the running for a Best Picture nomination.  In alphabetical order, here are the TFF #48 films that Coates has on the list:

Belfast

The Card Counter

C'mon C'mon

Cyrano

Flee

The French Dispatch

The Hand of God

A Hero

King Richard

The Lost Daughter

The Power of the Dog

Red Rocket

Spencer

That's 13 of the 30 films on Coates' list.  That's amazing and is an indication of how stunning the Telluride curation was for TFF #48.

The complete Coates' list is linked here.

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MTFB Oscar Take: Updated Best Picture and Director / More from Todd Haynes / Hansen-Love and Bergman Island / AFI-TFF Crossover

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: UPDATED BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTOR

Here's the MTFB latest update on predictions for Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director.  These categories were last predicted here on Oct. 4th.  As always TFF #48 films are indicate in Bold and the film's previous position is indicated to the right in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE

1) Belfast (1)

2) King Richard (3)

3) The Power of the Dog (2)

4) Licorice Pizza (4)

5) Dune (5)

6) West Side Story (6)

7) Nightmare Alley (7)

8) Spencer (9)

9) The Tragedy of Macbeth (8)

10) House of Gucci (New)

Alternates: CODA, Don't Look Up, and tick, tick...BOOM

 BEST DIRECTOR

1) Kenneth Branagh/Belfast (1)

2) Jane Campion/The Power of the Dog (2)

3) Denis Villenueve/Dune (3)

4) Guillermo del Toro/Nightmare Alley (5)

5) Paul Thomas Anderson/Licorice Pizza (4)

Alternates: Reinaldo Marcus Green/King Richard and Pablo Larrain/Spencer

MORE FROM TODD HAYNES

My last post included a Todd Haynes' interview with The Playlist.  Today I include a link to a separate Haynes interview that was posted last Thursday at Awards Daily.  Frank J. Avella wrote it up and it is linked here.

HANSEN-LOVE AND BERGMAN ISLAND

The Playlist's Andrew Bundy posted an interview with Bergman Island director and writer Mia Hansen-Love.  Hansen-Love has made my list of Telluride "Usual Suspects" with fest appearances over the years that have included: Things to Come and Goodbye First Love.

Here's the link to the interview.

AFI-TFF CROSSOVER

The American Film Institute has announced its full lineup for AFI Fest.  AFI's list includes a number of films that cross over with TFF #48 titles, especially documentaries.  They include:

Cow

Red Rocket

Petite Maman

King Richard

Unclenching the Fists

Bernstein's Wall

Citizen Ashe

Julia 

Procession

The Real Charlie Chaplin

And the Shorts:

Love, Dad

Motorcyclists Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit

Play It Safe

Soft Animals

The complete rundown of AFI programming can be found here from Awards Watch.

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MTFB Oscar Take: Screenplays / Indiewire Critic's Survey of the Fall Fests / Todd Haynes on The Velvet Underground / Belfast Adults Are All Supporting

MTFB OSCAR TAKE: SCREENPLAYS

Here's your latest Oscar predictions for Screenplay writing from MTFB.  These categories were last updated here on Sept. 30th.  TFF #48 films are in Bold.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1) Belfast (1)

2) Licorice Pizza (2)

3) King Richard (4)

4) C'mon C'mon (5)

5) Don't Look Up (3)

Alternates: Mass and Spencer 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1) The Power of the Dog (1)

2) Nightmare Alley (2)

3) The Lost Daughter (New)

4) CODA (4)

5) The Tragedy of Macbeth (5)

Alternates: House of Gucci, Dune and West Side Story

INDIWIRE'S CRITICS' SURVEY OF THE FALL FESTS

Indiewire surveyed 137 critics and charged them with evaluating the films they had seen through the run of fall fests including Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York'  Here's how TFF #48 films from that survey:

The overall #1 film from all four fests combined was Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog. 

 

#5 Celina Sciamma's Petite Maman

#8 Sean Baker's Red Rocket

#9 Mia Hansen-Love's Bergman Island\

#11 Pablo Larrain's Spencer

#14 Mike Mill's C'mon C'mon

#15 Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter

C'mon C'mon was the critic's favorite specifically focused on Telluride alone.

The top three documentaries all played TFF #47: Flee, The Velvet Underground and The Rescue.

The Power of the Dog was also named Best Directed Film.

Best Performances from all of the fests combined included Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog at #3 and Kristen Stewart in Spencer at #4.

The complete results can be found here.

TODD HAYNES ON THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

As mentioned above, Todd Haynes' doc about The Velvet Underground was named as one of the three best documentaries that played the fall festivals.  Haynes was recently featured in an interview for The Playlist.

Check out what Haynes has to say.  The interview is linked here.

BELFAST ADULTS ARE ALL SUPPORTING

Focus Features has announced that all of the adult actors in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast will be campaigned as Supporting players for the awards season.  That puts an end to speculation that both Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe would possibly be categorized as leading performers.  Now, child actor Judah Hill will be the lone Belfast cast member who is campaigned as a leading actor.

Variety's Clayton Davis broke the details on Monday.  That story is linked here.

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Sunday TBAs / Saturday's Reckoning / Probable for Sunday/ The People's Telluride

 SUNDAY TBAs

The Werner Herzog Theatre

9:45 PM - THE FRENCH DISPATCH (sneak preview)

Sheridan Opera House

6:15 PM - THE CARD COUNTER (sneak preview)

Masons

4:00 PM - BERNSTEIN’S WALL  10:00 PM - STUDENT PRINTS

Le Pierre

1:15 PM - PETITE MAMAN  10:00 PM - DEAR MR. BRODY (sneak preview)

Abel Gance Open Air Cinema

8:30 PM - BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN (sneak preview)

Town Park Theater

8:45 PM - ENCOUNTER

SATURDAY'S RECKONING

JULIA- Fair

MARCEL THE SHELL WITHE SHOES ON- Great

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND- No

PROBABLE FOR SUNDAY:

The Power of the Dog and The Same Storm.  I was planning on seeing The Electrical Life of Louis Wain at the Zog at 9:00 this morning but they wiped it out to add a screening of The French Dispatch.

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:

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LATE BREAKING: Trailer for The Velvet Underground / Hints for Tributes / App's A Happenin'

LATE BREAKING

Here are some tidbits with just a bit more than 24 hours before the TFF #48 lineup is revealed 

TRAILER FOR THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

I expect that we'll see this title when the lineup is revealed tomorrow.  Here's the recently released trailer for Todd Haynes documentary about The Velvet Underground from YouTube:

 HINTS FOR TRIBUTES:

Tribute recipients initials:  J.C., P.D. and R.A.

APP'S A HAPPENIN'

The App for the 48th edition of The SHOW became available for download last night.  Of course, there's no info accessible as yet.  That won't become available until sometime after the lineup is officially announced on Wednesday morning.

Ten Bets #3 for TFF #48 / Thinking Val is a Possible / Teasers and Trailers from Cannes

 TEN BETS FOR TFF #48

Another week closer and a few alterations to this week's Ten Bets,  Here's where I was last week:

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.

After this last week, here's the look at my latest Ten Bets:

1) The Power of the Dog/Campion

2) Muhammad Ali/Burns. Burns and McMahon

3) Something(s) from Mark Cousins***

4) Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)/Almodovar

5) The Card Counter/Schrader

6) The Velvet Underground/Haynes

7) Nightmare Alley/Del Toro

8) A Hero/Farhadi

9) Val/Poo, Scott

10) Mothering Sunday/Husson

Other Possibles: Dune, Julia,  Petite Maman, Where Is Anne Frank?, Paris 13th District and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Blonde, Cow, House of Gucci, The Last Duel and Bergman Island.

***With what appears now to be three separate projects that could play at Telluride, you have to think Cousins is there with something and maybe all things:

The Story of Looking

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The Story of Film: The Next Generation

Will update again next Thursday.

THINKING VAL IS POSSIBLE

A flurry of positive responses out of Cannes and the combo of A24 and Amazon Studios is making me think a TFF bid for the documentary Val-about actor Val Kilmer- could be in the offing.  You can see above how serious I am as I included the film as one of this week's Ten Bets at #9.

The doc reportedly makes use of hundreds of hours of footage shot by Kilmer himself.

Here's the Cannes trailer from YouTube:

TEASERS AND TYRAILERS FROM CANNES

In addition to the Val trailer, here's a sampling of other teasers and trailers out as a result of Cannes' kickoff that could also play Telluride.  All clips via YouTube:

WHERE IS ANNE FRANK

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

DECEPTION

LAMB

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ICYMI: TFF Wants You Vaxxed / Future Telluride: Inarritu's Current Project / Velvet Underground Teaser

 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: TFF WANTS YOU VAXXED

I'm re-running this post that I originally put up on Saturday:

TFF #48 Passholders received an email from the festival last Friday informing us that we would need to provide proof of vaccination against Covid-19.  The letter also requested that  if we knew of people that were planning to attend the fest without a pass or were planning to attend free screenings that they would also need to be able to produce proof of vaccination.  Here's that language from the email:

For any friends you may know who are intending to join us without passes, we appreciate you sharing this information. Individual indoor venues will have a vaccination card check point at each Box Office, for those wishing to buy individual tickets or enter a free screening. 

Here's the complete text of the email to passholders:

We are grateful that you are considering returning to the Telluride Film Festival to join us after last year’s hiatus. We view our upcoming festival as an opportunity to celebrate renewal but with tremendous humility, acknowledging the tragic loss of life and social upheaval experienced around the globe.

 

Film is a magical instrument that often serves to bring people together – to celebrate it collectively, to experience emotions in the same room, and to live through the eyes of great artists as they point us toward a better future is something we are all looking forward to with delight. 

 

To ensure a safe, as well as relaxed, few days in the mountains, we are asking all attendees who intend to join us this year to be vaccinated against Covid-19, as an act of kindness and community support, and to assist us in creating a secure environment for reconvening the Telluride experience. 

 

Please take a moment to upload your vaccination card below. Receipt of this information will be required for admittance to Festival theaters and other indoor venues, including any shuttle services. We appreciate your understanding and commitment to a healthy re-opening of arts & culture experiences worldwide. For any friends you may know who are intending to join us without passes, we appreciate you sharing this information. Individual indoor venues will have a vaccination card check point at each Box Office, for those wishing to buy individual tickets or enter a free screening. 

We are impatient for September to get here and to be together again. Take very good care until we see you!!

The wife and I submitted our proof of vaccination Saturday morning.

FUTURE TELLURIDE?  INARRITU'S CURRENT PROJECT

Set photo from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Limbo via El Univeral

We've seen and heard whispers about TFF favorite Alejandro Gonzlaez Inarritu's ongoing film project which appears to be titled Limbo.

The Film Stage (via El Universal)  reported recently that filming in Mexico and set photos are giving some hints about what could be included as part of the plot/story of the film.  According to The Film Stage post:

"From their reporting comes word Limbo concerns the Mexican-American War, production having constructed an exact replica of the Chapultepec Castle—site for the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec, a turning point wherein thousands of Mexican soldiers were slain. (Peep their site for a set photo lest the copyright hammer fall upon us.) Considering other set photos feature more modern-looking costumes, perhaps there is some time-jumping in the plot as the director explores Mexican history."

Considering Inarritu's substantial track record at Telluride, you have to keep an eye out for this as a possible selection for TFF #49.

The complete post from The Film Stage is here.

VELVET UNDERGROUND TEASER

Todd Haynes' documentary about the legendary band, The Velvet Underground, is set to play at Cannes within the next few days and there is some contemplation on my part that it could very well be a part of the TFF #48 lineup.

There's a  teaser for the new film now available for viewing on Cannes' official webpage for the film.  

You can find that linked here.

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Ten Bets #1 for TFF #48 / Toronto's Early Line / Winners at Annecy

 TEN BETS #1 FOR TFF #48

Well, here we are.  June 24th, 2021.  Roughly two months away from the start of TFF #48.  It's still not a guarantee but each day we get closer, the more confident I feel that we'll all be seeing each other in the San Juans in September...which sounds like a song title from a Crosby/Hope road picture doesn't it?

Here's this year's first actual attempt at a list of films that I feel like could be on the list for TFF #48 when that drops presumably on Sept. 1st.  As always, there are no "locks" on the Ten Bets- at least at this point- and fair warning, my normal track record for the initial Ten Bets each season is roughly 50%.

So, without further ado and drumroll please...

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.

Again, grain of salt.

I'll update the Ten Bets list each week as the summer progresses right up to the final Ten Bets which is usually 20-25 bets) on Tuesday, August 31st.

TORONTO'S EARLY LINE

The Toronto International Film Festival dropped the titles of a dozen or so films that will be a part of this year's TIFF.  Unlike most normal announcements from TIFF, no premiere status was included.  The closest the statement came was to characterize Denis Villenueve's Dune as a World IMAX premiere.  Absent the specific premiere status I'm going to assume that any and all of the films are still possible for Telluride including Dune.  Other films of note in as far as Telluride potential that were included in the announcement today were:

Dune, Last Night in Soho, Petite Maman, Belfast, Les Bal des Folles, Lakewood and The Starling.

The complete story of the early announced Toronto films is here from Indiewire,

WINNERS AT ANNECY

The world's largest animated film fest, the Annecy Animation Festival has concluded in France with winning films announced last week.  Annecy is of some note to Telluride observers as films that have played there occasionally are programmed in T-ride over Labor Day weekend.

Big winners were: Flee and My Sunny Maad.  Flee won the top award at the fest, the Cristal.  Flee debuted at Sundance last January which normally precludes a slot in Telluride but there are rare exceptions and I feel like this could be one of those.  

The film is being distributed in the United States by NEON.

The complete rundown about the fest is linked here from Variety.

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Indiewire's Cannes Analysis Intrigues / Exploring Amazon / Images from Cannes Films / The Greatest at T-ride?

 INDIEWIRE'S CANNES ANALYSIS INTRIGUES

As I do each year, once the dust had settled from the announcement of the Cannes lineup last Thursday, I began looking at what industry focused websites were saying about the films chosen and not chosen trying to glom onto some nuggets that could point the way to possible Telluride titles.  The most intriguing, to me at any rate, was Eric Kohn's piece for Indiewire.  Here are some nuggets of interest from that article for those of us who are Telluride junkies.

1) The French Dispatch news...If you've been reading here the last couple of years, you've likely picked up on the notion that I'm hot to see this film play T-ride.  Wes Anderson snuck Rushmore into Telluride in 1998 and hasn't been back since.  I have been thinking that there was a chance that Anderson might return to Telluride last year and then again this year with the film and Kohn adds some fuel to that fire as he writes:

"Cannes held the door open for... titles that wanted to wait. “The French Dispatch,” Wes Anderson’s imaginary vision of 20th-century journalists, has been one of Searchlight’s most promising new titles for some time. The movie was set for a Cannes premiere last year and would have later played Telluride"

Yes indeed, Kohn reports that "Dispatch" would have played TFF #47 had it happened.  To me that suggests the possibility that last year's plan could become this year's reality.  Other factors suggesting that it might play: From Searchlight, already announced fall release date post-Telluride (Oct. 22) and no suggestion of its premiere status re: its announced play at the New York Film Fest.

2) Films NOT in Cannes (barring something still to be announced-and there are other films that are still to be announced):

Dune

Soggy Bottom

The Power of the Dog

The Card Counter

Spencer

All or none of which might land a slot at Venice and then???

3) A couple of docs to keep an on: Kohn mentions a few documentaries that we maybe should keep an eye on moving toward Labor Day weekend.

The Val Kilmer doc "Val" is one.  Andrea Arnold's Cow, Todd Haynes The Velvet Underground and Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass all seem like possibilities.

The complete Indiewire story is linked here.

EXPLORING AMAZON

My look at film distributors that have had a significant presence at Telluride over the past five years continues today with Amazon Studios.

Here's their complete past at TFF:

2016: Manchester by the Sea

2017: Wonderstruck

2018: Cold War. Peterloo

2019: The Aeronauts, The Report

2020: All In; The Fight for Democracy

Best shots at TFF #48:

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Being the Ricardos (if it's done)

Val (see above)

AND...if the MGM deal is done and Amazon has control of the MGM inventory???  In play could be:

The Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson project (Soggy Bottom)

Ridley Scott's House of Gucci

George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing

Joe Wright's Cyrano

IMAGES FROM CANNES FILMS

The Film Stage has put together a collection of images from a number of the films that were announced for Cannes last week including some for films that might make the cut for TFF #48.

Examples: The French Dispatch:

And Andrea Arnold's Cow:

Check out some of the other images at The Film Stage linked here.

THE GREATEST AT T-RIDE?

Over the weekend I saw that PBS had dropped a teaser for the latest documentary from Ken Burns; Florentine Films: Muhammad Ali.

The teaser reveals that the doc will land on Sept. 19th which suggests that we could have a shot a seeing it in the San Juans over Labor Day weekend.

Here's the link to the teaser imbedded in a Tweet from PBS:

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Cannes Lineup Revealed / Your 10 Best Cannes-Telluride Crossover Prospects / Outlets with Cannes Analysis

 CANNES LINEUP REVEALED

OPENING NIGHT FILM

ANNETTE by Leos Carax

COMPETITION

UN HÉROS (A Hero) by Asghar FARHADI

TOUT S’EST BIEN PASSÉ by François OZON

TRE PIANI by Nanni MORETTI

TITANE by Julia DUCOURNAU

THE FRENCH DISPATCH by Wes ANDERSON

RED ROCKET by Sean BAKER

PETROV’S FLU by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV

PAR UN DEMI CLAIR MATIN by Bruno DUMONT

NITRAM by Justin KURZEL

MEMORIA by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

LINGUI by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN

LES OLYMPIADES (Paris 13th District) by Jacques AUDIARD

LES INTRANQUILLES (The restless) by Joachim LAFOSSE

LA FRACTURE by Catherine COARSEN

JULIE (EN 12 CHAPITRES) (The worst person in the world) by Joachim TRIER

HYTTI NRO 6 (Compartment NO.6) by Juho KUOSMANEN

HAUT ET FORT (Casablanca beats) by Nabil AYOUCH

HA’BERECH (Le genou d’Ahed / Ahed’s knee) by Nadav LAPID

DRIVE MY CAR by Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI

BERGMAN ISLAND by Mia HANSEN-LOVE

BENEDETTA by Paul VERHOEVEN

A FELESÉGEM TÖRTÉNETE (L’histoire de ma femme / The story of my wife) by Ildikó ENYEDI

FLAG DAY by Sean PENN

OUT OF COMPETITION

DE SON VIVANT by Emmanuelle BERCOT

EMERGENCY DECLARATION by HAN Jae-Rim

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND by Todd HAYNES

STILLWATER by Tom MCCARTHY

ALINE (Aline, the voice of love) by Valérie LEMERCIER

BAC NORD by Cédric JIMENEZ

UN CERTAIN REGARD

AFTER YANG by Kogonada

BONNE MÈRE by Hafsia HERZI

BLUE BAYOU by Justin CHON

COMMITMENT HASAN by Hasan Semih KAPLANOGLU

DELO (House arrest) by Alexey GERMAN JR.

FREDA by Gessica GÉNÉUS (First film)

THE INNOCENTS by Eskil VOGT

LAMB by Valdimar JÓHANSSON (First film)

MONEYBOYS by C.B Yi (First film)

NOCHE DE FUEGO by Tatiana HUEZO

UN MONDE by Laura WANDEL (First film)

REHANA MARYAM NOOR by Abdullah Mohammad SAAD

ET IL Y EUT UN MATIN (Let there be morning) by Eran KOLIRIN

UNCLENCHING THE FISTS by Kira KOVALENKO

LA CIVIL by Teodora Ana MIHAI (First film)

WOMEN DO CRY by Mina MILEVA and Vesela KAZAKOVA

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

H6 by Yé Yé (First film)

CAHIERS NOIRS (Black notebooks) by Shlomi ELKABETZ

O MARINHEIRO DAS MONTANHAS (Le marin des montagnes/Mariner of the mountains) by Karim AÏNOUZ

JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Oliver STONE

JANE PAR CHARLOTTE by Charlotte GAINSBOURG (First film)

BABI YAR. CONTEXTE (Babi Yar. Context) by Sergei LOZNITSA

THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM by Jafar PANAHI, Anthony CHEN, Malik VITTHAL, Laura POITRAS, Dominga SOTOMAYOR, David LOWERY and Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

CANNES PREMIERE

EVOLUTION by Kornél MUNDRUCZO

TROMPERIE (Deception) by Arnaud DESPLECHIN

COW by Andrea ARNOLD

CETTE MUSIQUE NE JOUE POUR PERSONNE (Love songs for tough guys) by Samuel BENCHETRIT

MOTHERING SUNDAY by Eva HUSSON

SERRE-MOI FORT (Hold me tight) by Mathieu AMALRIC

IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE by HONG Sang-Soo

VAL by Ting POO and Leo SCOTT

MIDNIGHT

ORANGES SANGUINES (Bloody oranges) by Jean-Christophe MEURISSE

Other films are yet to be added.  Netflix, again, had no films announced though Cannes Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux said that discussions between the fest and the streaming giant were ongoing.

YOUR 10 BEST CANNES-TELLURIDE PROSPECTS (sight unseen and in alphabetical order):

13th District

Bergman Island

Cow

Everything Went Well

Flag Day

The French Dispatch

A Hero

Mothering Sunday

Red Rocket

The Velvet Underground

OUTLETS WITH CANNES ANALYSIS

Here with a look at some analysis of the Cannes announcement:

Variety

The Hollywood Reporter

The Playlist

The Film Stage

Awards Daily

More on Monday including thoughts about what was NOT announced.

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Cannes Spec heats Up /A Look at SPC

 CANNES SPEC HEATS UP

With the official announcement of the Cannes Film Festival lineup now just two weeks away (June 3), the guessing game about what films make the list is warming up.  As always here, a reminder that, historically, Cannes and Telluride have had a substantial overlap of films in their official selections.

Now, does that continue in this year where we still have Covid concerns, that traditional sharing of titles may be lessened, increased, skewed...

But I'm going to run for awhile on the assumption that there will be that connection between the two fests that has been true for quite some time and that's an average of about 8 or so films that play both.

Just this past week I ran across big "Cannes lists" from Indiewire, Screen Daily and World of Reel and put together a list of TFF possibilities that popped up.

All three publications included: Jacques Audiard's Paris 13th District and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch.  However, Screen Daily reports that Searchlight has not yet committed to premiering on the Croisette and is still gaming out what it feels would be the best release strategy for the highly anticipated film.

Many films that I feel have a shot at TFF #48's lineup are listed in two of the publications including:

Asghar Farhadi's A Hero (IND, WOR)

Andrea Arnold's Cow (IND, SD)

Michelangelo Frammartino's The Hole (IND, SD)

Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday (IND, SD)

Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth (IND, WOR)

Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground (IND, SD)

Ari Folman's Where Is Anne Frank (IND, WOR)

Mia Hansen Love's Bergman Island (WOR, SD)

Francois Ozon's Everything Went Fine (WOR, SD)

Sean Penn's Flag Day (WOR, SD)

{IND= Indiewire  WOR = World of Reel  SD= Screen Daily}

The complete articles from each publication are linked below:

Indiewire

Screen Daily

World of Reel

Check them out and see what other titles you think might screen at Cannes before coming to Colorado on Labor Day weekend.

A LOOK AT SPC 

Today we continue our stroll through film distributors that have had strong presences over the last five years at Telluride,.  Last Monday I got that started with a look at Netflix which has had 16 (maybe 17) films play at TFF in that time span.  Matching it (or nearly matching it ) has been Sony Pictures Classics with 16 films in five years.  

Beyond the five year limitation I placed on looking at recent TFFs and distributors, SPC and Telluride's relationship has been much longer than that.  So, unless the world stops spinning, you can expect to see some SPC titles this year as in many others.

SPC is coming off a very successful one-two punch with last year's The Father picking up two Oscars among six nominations (Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor and Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton for Best Adapted Screenplay) and The Truffle Hunters, which didn't make the Oscar final list of five nominated documentary feature films but won a number of critics' awards and was universally beloved.

Currently in SPC's hands and with what seems to be Telluride potential:

Clint Bentley's Jockey

Ty Roberts 12 Mighty Orphans

Andreas Koefoed's The Lost Leonardo

Julie Cohen and Betsy West's Julia

Eva Husson's Mothering Sunday 

Benjamin Millepied's Carmen

And then there's a couple of real wild cards:

Zachary Fuhrer's John Prine: Hello in There which I really thought was going to play TFF #47 last year and then it was not on the announced list.  I swear I saw someplace that it was going to be released or pop-up at some other fest virtually...but I can't find any evidence that happened. SPC acquired the doc in February of 2019.  So???

And then there's Pedro Almodovar's latest Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers).  Its IMDb Pro entry says it's a 2022 release and that it's "filming" as of March 10th.  But after Almodovar's triumphant return to Telluride screenings with Pain and Glory at TFF #46...who knows?  OK, it's much more likely that it screens at next year's Cannes and then maybe TFF #49.

At this point I have no strong intell or intuitions about any of these SPC films.   If you made me I might point at Julia, Mothering Sunday and Jockey and I'd likely throw in the Prine doc because I'm stubborn.

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