Here we are the day before the actual reveal of the 2018 Telluride Film Fest lineup. Consequently, here is my final list of 25 films I expect will make the list when it's announced tomorrow morning:
1) The Favourite
2) The Old Man and the Gun***
3) Roma
4) First Man
5) Destroyer***
6) The Front Runner***
7) Boy Erased***
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me?***
9) Shoplifters
10) Cold War
11) The Other Side of the Wind
12) White Boy Rick***
13) Dogman
14) Peterloo
15) Non-Fiction
16) Meeting Gorbachev
17) Free Solo
18) Graves Without a Name
19) Birds of Passage
20) Girl
21) Watergate
22) Angels Are Made of Light
23) The White Crow***
24) They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
25) Ghost Fleet
***designates film's first screening should it play Telluride (and I'm still relatively confident there will be at least one more)
Other films still in play:
The Biggest Little Farm, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, On the Basis of Sex, He Dreams of Giants, Nothing Like a Dame, The Aspern Papers, The Great Buster.
I'LL HAVE THE LINEUP POSTED TOMORROW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE... EXPECTING IT BETWEEN 9:00 AND 10:00 EDT
A NEW FILM TO CONSIDER
Peter Bogdanovich photo via IMDb
MTFB reader Dr. Jack Gindi dropped me an email a couple of days ago mentioning a film that he felt I should think about as a TFF #45 possibility. That film: Peter Bogdanovich's The Great Buster. It's a documentary about the great film comedian Buster Keaton.
Admittedly, I knew nothing of the film but told Jack I'd give a look and after a little review I can report that he could be onto something.
Largely because it's Bogdanovich, who, as the good doctor pointed out, will probably be in Telluride this week with the crew that's expected to land with the Orson Welles' final film The Other Side of the Wind. Additionally, Bogdanovich has remained a member of the fests Board of Advisers. Also, the film is being handles by the Cohen Media Group which has had a good history with T-ride (last year they had The Insult and Faces Places at TFF #44).
So, all things considered...The Great Buster sounds like something we should seriously consider making The SHOW this weekend.
SURVEYING THE LANDSCAPE
A lot of folks who specialize in Oscar prediction are posting/publishing their takes prior to the beginning of the Fall Fest Trifecta of Telluride/Venice/Toronto.
I've included a link to a few. A couple of them actually reference yours truly:
Kristopher Tapley/Variety
Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Matt Neglia/Next Best Picture
Richard Lawson/Vanity Fair
Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit
You read all this and you'll have a really good perspective about what's coming down over next 2-3 weeks.
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