Re-Post Sunday Done Day / Monday TBAs / Remember The People's Telluride

SUNDAY DONE DAY


Really great day at TFF #45 on Sunday.

Jason Reitman and Hugh Jackman at The Front Runner Q and A

Started the day with Jason Reitman's The Front Runner which moves to the #2 spot for the weekend.  I loved it.  Hits all my politics geek buttons and history and film making.  Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart, Vera Farmiga as his wife Lee and J.K. Simmons as campaign manager Bill Dixon are all in fine form.  Reitman is back, my friends!

Then did the Netflix Doc brunch which was lovely and also allowed me to grab Front Runner co-screen-writer Jay Carson as well as Reitman and express my enthusiasm for their film.

Then Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased.  SUbtle and understated with a subject (gay conversion therapy) that could easily have provided any number of histrionics.  Praise to Edgerton and his cast of Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Edgerton himself.  Beautifully realized and emotionally honest.

Matthew McConnaughey during The White Boy Rick Q and A

The day ended with White Boy Rick which is an entertaining film featuring nice work from Matthew McConaughey and non-actor Richie Merritt...who is fantastic as WBR.  McConnaughey in greta form in the Q and A that followed.



MONDAY TBAs

Palm

7:00 PM, FREE SOLO, Program 23, Cinephile

Galaxy

9:00 AM, COLD WAR, 35, Cinephile

3:00 PM, NON FICTION, 6, Cinephile

Herzog
7:00 PM, THE FAVOURITE, 7a, Cinephile

Sheridan Opera House

3:30 PM, SHOPLIFTERS, 32, Cinephile

8:00 PM, DOGMAN, 36, Cinephile

Nugget

1:00 PM, GHOST FLEET, 29, Cinephile

7:00 PM, THE WHITE CROW, 30, Cinephile

Masons

1:00 PM, THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD, 12, Cinephile

3:15 PM, FISTFUL OF DIRT, 17, Cinephile

5:30 PM, THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS, B, Cinephile (This is not a free show.)

7:45 PM, GIRL, 25, Cinephile

Le Pierre

2:30 PM, HUGH HEFNER’S AFTER DARK: SPEAKING OUT IN AMERICA, D, Cinephile (This is not a free show.)

4:45 PM, THE TARNISHED ANGELS, 39, Cinephile (This is not a free show.)

7:00 PM, BORDER, 14, Cinephile

Backlot (all programs always free)

9:00 AM, IT MUST SCHWING! THE BLUE NOTE STORY, E

1:15 PM, WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL, F

3:30 PM, HAL, C

6:15 PM, IT MUST SCHWING! THE BLUE NOTE STORY, E

Noon Seminar, Town Park FREE

Sponsored by Participant Media

Moderated by Annette Insdorf

How do filmmakers find a formal distance when dramatizing family stories?

With Joel Edgerton, Markus Imhoof, Alfonso Cuaron.

THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

For the seventh 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".

When the time comes, you can send those ratings to me in any of the following ways listed as contact info for me listed below.

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Ten (Plus) Bets #6 for TFF #45 / L.A. Fest Reveals Another Possible Film / Girl Has a Trailer /And Speaking of Trailers

It's the first Friday in August!  In four weeks the 45th Telluride Film Festival will begin.

TEN (PLUS) BETS #6 FOR TFF #45

Not much changing among the top ten bets but I am expanding this week to 15 titles plus films that are still potential players.

Last week's Ten Bets:

1) Roma
2) First Man
3) The Old Man and the Gun
4) Cold War
5) The Front Runner
6) Dogman
7) Shoplifters
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
9) Non Fiction
10) The Favourite


This week's Ten (Plus) Bets

1) First Man
2) Roma
3) The Old Man and the Gun
4) The Front Runner
5) Cold War
6) Dogman
7) Shoplifters
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
9) Non Fiction
10) The Favourite
11) Peterloo
12) White Boy Rick
13) The Other Side of the Wind
14) Border
15) Girl



The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Eyes of Orson Welles, On the Basis of Sex, Happy as Lazzaro,  He Dreams of Giants, Cheney (Backseat), Nothing Like a Dame, Mid 90s, Mary Queen of Scots, Boy Erased, American Dharma, 22 July

We definitely should gain more insight next week with additional announcements from Toronto plus New York's lineup and a schedule from Venice.



L.A. FILM FEST REVEALS ANOTHER POSSIBLE FILM

Within the last week we had announcements from the Los Angeles Film Fest, which has a new date as well as the first wave announcement from Fantastic Fest.  I can't divine any real addition or elimination from the FF announcement but it appears that Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Border is probable for Telluride.

The LAFF list tells us that Border will be a "California" Premiere leading me to believe that it will have played somewhere in the U.S. prior to its screening in L.A. 2-3 weeks after T-ride.  Thusly, Telluride seems like a good bet to screen the film from director Ali Abassi.  Neon is distributing the film in the U.S.  Neon distributed Errol Morris' The B Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography in 2016 which played TFF #43.

Here's coverage of the Los Angeles announcement from Deadline and Variety.


GIRL HAS A TRAILER

Netflix has released the first international trailer for Lukas Dhont's Girl.  The film was very well received as a part of Cannes' Un Certain Regard section and won a series of awards related to that screening including UCR Best Actor for lead Victor Polster.

Here's the video from YouTube:

Netflix hasn't announced a date for release in the U.S. as yet.

I have linked coverage of  the trailer release from FirstShowing.


AND SPEAKING OF TRAILERS


I know.  I know.  Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk is destined to screen for the first time in Toronto but when I saw this tweet this morning:

Well, I just had to take a look and if you're so inclined as well...

Trailer via YouTube

Makes me sad all over again that TFF #45 won't be screening this.

That's your wrap on MTFB for this week.  I'll have more on Monday.

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Spitballing Tributes / ScreenTalk Talks Fests / TIFF Second Wave Tomorrow

Welcome to Tuesday...running late today for a variety of reasons...

SPITBALLING TRIBUTES

2017 TFF Tributee Christian Bale

Although it's a little early, I thought we might take a quick stab today at considering who (or in some years it's been what) might be in line for a tribute at this year's TFF.  As a starting point, let's consider the films from latest Ten Bets-since I'm pretty confident about those titles making The SHOW lineup:

1) Roma
2) First Man
3) The Old Man and the Gun
4) Cold War
5) The Front Runner
6) Dogman
7) Shoplifters
8) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
9) Non Fiction
10) The Favourite

I also feel strongly about these making the lineup as well:

The Other Side of the Wind, White Boy Rick, Peterloo.

This group of 13 films gives us a rich list of potential tribute candidates.

Actors from the above films that could get the tribute treatment:

Ryan Gosling/First Man
Sissy Spacek/The Old Man and the Gun
Hugh Jackman/The Front Runner
Rachel Weisz/The Favourite
Emma Stone/The Favourite
Juliette Binoche/Non Fiction
Guillaume Canet/Non Fiction
Matthew McConaughey/White Boy Rick


Directors that could be feted:

Matteo Garrone/Dogman
Olivier Assasyas/Non Fiction
Alfonso Cuaron/Roma
David Lowery/The Old Man and the Gun
Hirokazu Kore-eda/Shoplifters


What do you think?


SCREENTALK TALKS FESTS

Anne Thompson and Eric Kohn of Indiewire sat down after last week's Toronto and Venice announcements to record their ScreenTalk podcast. 

The discussion was far-ranging and included specific mention of films they are willing to tag as Telluride films: The Favourite, Roma, First Man, White Boy Rick.  They also mention Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Peterloo though not in the context of Telluride.  They also spend some time talking about a theory that some distributors are now wary of Telluride suggesting that the four day weekend puts too much pressure on a film.

Could this explain the (at least so far) absence of any mention of films from Focus Features?  Boy Erased, Mary Queen of Scots and On the Basis if Sex?

Last weekend's ScreenTalk is here.


TORONTO'S SECOND WAVE TOMORROW

The Toronto International Film Festival will announce their second wave of films tomorrow morning.  It will be Canadian-centric, though they do sometimes make some other announcements in this wave, they are few. 

Last year I wasn't able to glean any truly useful Telluride info from their second announcement.  In 2016, I was able to eliminate Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World because of TIFF's second wave so there is a occasionally some knowledge that can be gotten.  Perhaps we'll discover the status of Dolan's new film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.


That's today's MTFB.  More will be forthcoming on Thursday!

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Widows Trailer Arrives / White Boy Rick Trailer...Could This Play Telluride?

Good Tuesday...MTFB's summer posting schedule is in full force!


WIDOWS TRAILER ARRIVES

As promised in yesterday's post, here's the first trailer for Steve McQueen's Widows which is set to be released Nov. 16th and, as I wrote, has a 50/50 chance of making the TFF #45 lineup.  Here's the trailer via YouTube:

I have linked coverage for the trailer release and the film here from

Variety

The Film Stage

World of Reel

Trailer Track

Awards Watch

WHITE BOY RICK TRAILER...COULD THIS PLAY TELLURIDE ?

The short answer is yes it could...but...  

Primary factors in its favor is that director Yann Demange's last feature played T-ride- '71- in 2014 to very good response.  IMDb reports that the film has a release date of Sept. 21st which is a tight but not impossible window (see Sully).  

Despite that date, though, I can't find on IMDb who has domestic distribution of the film.  Universal, Sony and Disney all have a piece of foreign distribution but were not involved in producing the film.  The Playlist says that Sony will be releasing the film...

So...maybe?

Here's the trailer via YouTube:

Coverage for the trailer drop is here from:

The Playlist

Indiewire

Trailer Track

USA Today

More to come on Thursday...

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