Ten Bets #9/Invitation/Master Sneaking/Trouble

Good Monday Everyone...

A note or two news wise...Director Tony Scott appears to have committed suicide in Los Angeles last night and long time actor William Windom has died.  Scott was 68 and Windom was 88.

Scott: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001716/

Windom: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934750/

I've got an interesting William Windom story I'll try to share tomorrow.


TEN BETS #9

By this time last year, I think I was posting up to 20 guesses...maybe not as sure this year...

Last week's "Ten Bets":


1) Rust and Bone
2) Hyde Park on Hudson
3) Midnight's Children
4) Amour
5) No
6) The Central Park Five
7) Bromberg's Chaplin
8) Pixar's "Rainy Day Tales"
9) On the Road
10) Beyond the Hills


This week's "Ten Bets":

1) Rust and Bone
2) Hyde Park on Hudson
3) Midnight's Children
4) Amour
5) No
6) The Iceman
7) The Central Park Five
8) Bromberg's Chaplin
9) On the Road
10) Beyond the Hills

If the past is any indication, this next ten days should see a definite pick up in chatter about the TFF #39 program.


INVITATION

Here's your reminder to come along to the party...The Second Annual(?) Guide to the 'Ride; Flow of the SHOW" is set for Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00 pm at The River Club in Telluride (550 Depot).  It should be fun.

MASTER SNEAKING

Paul Thomas Anderson continued over the weekend his semi-subversive sneak previews of "The Master".  Saturday night included two screenings in different theaters in New York City.  The rumor in the last 24 hours or so is that it pops up in San Francisco tomorrow night.  

At this point I am this whole parade has shaken my attempts to clearly evaluate its chances of playing Telluride.  Frankly, I don't know if the "sneaks" make it more or less likely that we see it at the Palm in a few days.  This whole "sneak preview" road show is unlike anything I've ever encountered since I've been writing this blog.  So...hope the peeps in Toronto and Venice enjoy and maybe us too?

TROUBLE

If there has been a film with some very quiet and very subtle buzz about its possibility of being in Telluride over the last 2-3 weeks or so, that would be "Trouble with the Curve" from writer-director Robert Lorenz and starring (possibly for the last time) Clint Eastwood as well as Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake.  InContention's Kris Tapley is bullish on its chances and in the last few days Anne Thompson (Thompson on Hollywood) has suggested that it could be in T-ride.

A Clint Eastwood tribute would make a lot of sense...

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Good Saturday to Everyone!  TWO WEEKS TO THE SHOW!


70 MM IN TELLURIDE

I continue to hold out some hope that Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" appears as a part of this year's festival.  Part of that hope has continued because of the fact that Telluride has done the 70 mm presentation of films occasionally in the past.  Friend of this blog Christopher Schiller, who has a longer history of attendance at the festival than I do, has been invaluable at recalling those past instances and pointed me to this story that ran in 2002:

http://www.in70mm.com/news/2002/telluride/index.htm


For those of you reading along that have been as obsessed as I have, you know that "The Master" screened this week in Chicago purportedly as an "unfinished" film.  It seems it doesn't have end credits yet.  Further, there is some buzz now that it's going to pop up somewhere on the west coast in a "surprise" screening as well.  Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere addresses that issue and some of the reactions to the Chicago screening here:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/08/uh-oh_1.php


So Wells implies that it's not L.A. which makes sense since PTA has already shown the film in Santa Monica two weeks ago.

So, two weeks out and still fingers crossed...


SESSIONS PLUG

I've been pounding the drum for the festival programmers to chose Ben Lewin's "The Sessions" despite that fact that it has premiered in the U.S. at Sundance.  If you've read this space very often, you know that circumstance would be highly unusual, but not unprecedented.  You also know that I have reported earlier that we've heard that Fox Searchlight wanted/wants to play it at Telluride which at least seems to make it possible.

Anyway, there's a new poster out for the film, as you can see above thanks to this release from Fox Searchlight:
http://content.foxsearchlight.com/inside/node/5240

You'll find the trailer there as well.

INVITATION

Here's your reminder to come along to the party...The Second Annual(?) Guide to the 'Ride; Flow of the SHOW" is set for Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00 pm at The River Club in Telluride (550 Depot).  Come for a rocking good time!

BEST OF THE WEEK

This week's "Ten Bets" were:

1) Rust and Bone
2) Hyde Park on Hudson
3) Midnight's Children
4) Amour
5) No
6) The Central Park Five
7) Bromberg's Chaplin
8) Pixar's "Rainy Day Tales"
9) On the Road
10) Beyond the Hills
 

New "Ten Bets" on Monday.

THE ICEMAN WILL THAW IN T-RIDE

It's one of those quirky rabbit hole trails that I went down on the internet yesterday and lo and behold, it looks to have paid off.  I can say with some level of confidence that Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman" will be playing at Telluride in 2 1/2 weeks.  "The Iceman" is a true crime/mob story featuring Michael Shannon, James Franco, Chris Evans, Winona Ryder and Ray Liotta.  Vromen directed and co-wrote with Morgan Land.

"The Iceman" was given up as a Telluride film in a post on...of all places...MafiaToday.com...I'm not kidding.  You can find the entirety of that post here:
http://mafiatoday.com/tag/richard-the-iceman-kuklinski/

That post correctly reports that "The Iceman" is programmed at Toronto and Venice which lends a good deal of credence to the Telluride claim.  Could it be that Mafia Today has broken Telluride's own "Omerta/Code of Silence"?  Looks like it.

"Iceman's" IMDb entry is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1491044/



ICEMAN HIDING

Yesterday I reported that a website called MafiaToday.com had let drop that Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman" would play at Telluride.  It seemed legit as it also referenced confirmed slots for the film at both Toronto and Venice.  Then, late in the day, I was informed via comment on yesterday's post that MafiaToday.com was either down or didn't exist...

So I took a look and sure enough...no mafiatoday.com.

However, after some poking around, two things...Google still has that post cached and I was able to get to the sourced article from northjersey.com which makes the same claims.  You can find that here:
http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/television/166075186__Iceman__is_dead__but_his_tale_still_chills_audiences_.html

So, all in all, I still feel pretty good about "The Iceman" in the Telluride lineup.






MORE FROM TORONTO

The Toronto International Film Festival looks to have completed their lineup with another huge announcement of films yesterday including the word that their fest will close with "Song for Marion" which has been very high on my Telluride possibles list all summer long.  It's inclusion as the TIFF closer doesn't absolutely nuke it from Telluride consideration...but it also doesn't help.  I've had "Song" as a "Ten Bets" film for a good portion of the run up to T-ride but have let it slide off the list of late...maybe for good reason now.

HitFix has the complete lowdown on all the films added yesterday here:
http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/new-films-from-nick-cassavetes-ed-burns-and-peter-webber-join-toronto-film-festival-2012-lineup

Among the films added that are Telluride possibles (at least according to me):

"Song for Marion"  (still going to say that there is a chance)
"Love is All You Need"
"On the Road"
"Passion"
"Therese Desqueyroux"
"Yellow"
"In the Fog"



NEW YORK SLATE

Right on time (it was Aug. 17th last year, I think) the New York Film Festival which had already announced its opener, centerpiece and closer has announced the rest of their lineup and if the recent past is any guide we can expect that 8-12 of those titles will have played at Telluride...


HitFix says it thinks that Brian DePalma's "Passion" is a potential Telluride choice but otherwise none of the other blog posts I have accessed about New York's lineup explicitly mention TFF #39.  Nevertheless, looking at the announced group of films there seem to be several that have a good chance to have played T-ride.

Here's the NYFF lineup per Thompson on Hollywood:

Opening Night Gala Selection
LIFE OF PI
Director: Ang Lee

Centerpiece Gala Selection
NOT FADE AWAY
Director: David Chase

Closing Night Gala Selection
FLIGHT
Director: Robert Zemeckis

AMOUR
Director: Michael Haneke

ARAF – SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu

BARBARA
Director: Christian Petzold

BEYOND THE HILLS (După dealuri)
Director: Cristian Mungiu

BWAKAW
Director: Jun Robles Lana

CAESAR MUST DIE (Cesare deve morire)
Directors: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

CAMILLE REWINDS (Camille redouble)
Director: Noémie Lvovsky

THE DEAD MAN AND BEING HAPPY (El muerto y ser feliz)
Director: Javier Rebello

FILL THE VOID (Lemale et ha'halal)
Director: Rama Burshtein

FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Director: Alan Berliner

FRANCES HA
Director: Noah Baumbach

THE GATEKEEPERS (Shomerei Ha’saf)
Director: Dror Moreh

GINGER AND ROSA
Director: Sally Potter

HERE AND THERE (Aquí y Allá)
Director: Antonio Mendez Esparza

HOLY MOTORS
Director: Leos Carax

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
Director: Roger Michell

KINSHASA KIDS
Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg

THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (A Última Vez Que Vi Macau)
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

LEVIATHAN
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Director: Abbas Kiarostami

LINES OF WELLINGTON (Linhas de Wellington)
Director: Valeria Sarmiento

MEMORIES LOOK AT ME (Ji Yi Wang Zhe Wo)
Director: Song Fang

NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET (La Noche de enfrente)
Director: Raul Ruiz

NO
Director: Pablo Larrain

OUR CHILDREN (À perdre la raison)
Director: Joachim Lafosse

PASSION
Director: Brian De Palma

SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Après Mai)
Director: Olivier Assayas

TABU
Director: Miguel Gomes

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Vous n'avez encore rien vu)
Director: Alain Resnais

Among these titles the most Telluride-esque are probably:

Amour, Beyond the Hills, Caesar Must Die, Frances Ha, The Gatekeepers, Holy Motors, Hyde Park on Hudson, Like Someone in Love, No, Passion, Something in the Air and You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.

I have linked a load of posts concerning the NYFF selections here:


http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/amour-hyde-park-on-hudson-and-more-set-for-ny-fest

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/nyff-announces-33-new-titles

http://moviecitynews.com/2012/08/the-film-society-of-lincoln-center-announces-main-slate-of-selections-for-the-2012-new-york-film-festival/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/amour-something-in-the-air-beyond-the-hills-more-added-to-new-york-film-festival-slate-20120816

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/cannes-winner-amour-joins-new-york-film-fest-lineup-52361



MASTER TEASE

Well, you know just when I thought I was out they pull me back in...

Cinema Blend, among a billion other websites (including this one) was all about hooking readers up to the second full trailer for "The Master" the last couple of days.  The difference...they're still thinking it's a T-ride possibility.  Here's the text from the post:


"Anderson’s screening the film in select cities ahead of its pre-destined screenings at the prominent fall film festivals (Venice, Toronto and possibly Telluride)."

Here's the link to the full post from Cinema Blend:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Master-Clip-She-Wrote-Me-Letter-32514.html

Oh, and then there's this comment to MTFB concerning yesterday's post:

Anonymous said...

"I think "The Master" shows up at TFF if they can do it on 70mm... that's still a pretty special opportunity a lot of people won't have had yet (if ever)."

Now that just makes me a little dizzy and kind of crazy.  We know from friends of the blog that have reached out to us that Telluride HAS done 70mm in the past.  We know that Jeff Wells has heard that there might be some 70 mm prep going on in T-ride as we speak...though I couldn't get a whiff of it when I was there this past weekend...

So...keep the flame alight...maybe "The Master" still has a shot.



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Good Friday to Everybody!


INVITE

Consider this your pass to join me for the Second Annual (?) "Guide to the 'Ride; Flow of the SHOW".  We'll be gathering at The River Club on Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00 pm and we'll talk film, the festival and what to expect...and there will be refreshments.  Come along...bring a friend!

NEW YORK SLATE

Right on time (it was Aug. 17th last year, I think) the New York Film Festival which had already announced its opener, centerpiece and closer has announced the rest of their lineup and if the recent past is any guide we can expect that 8-12 of those titles will have played at Telluride...


HitFix says it thinks that Brian DePalma's "Passion" is a potential Telluride choice but otherwise none of the other blog posts I have accessed about New York's lineup explicitly mention TFF #39.  Nevertheless, looking at the announced group of films there seem to be several that have a good chance to have played T-ride.

Here's the NYFF lineup per Thompson on Hollywood:

Opening Night Gala Selection
LIFE OF PI
Director: Ang Lee

Centerpiece Gala Selection
NOT FADE AWAY
Director: David Chase

Closing Night Gala Selection
FLIGHT
Director: Robert Zemeckis

AMOUR
Director: Michael Haneke

ARAF – SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu

BARBARA
Director: Christian Petzold

BEYOND THE HILLS (După dealuri)
Director: Cristian Mungiu

BWAKAW
Director: Jun Robles Lana

CAESAR MUST DIE (Cesare deve morire)
Directors: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

CAMILLE REWINDS (Camille redouble)
Director: Noémie Lvovsky

THE DEAD MAN AND BEING HAPPY (El muerto y ser feliz)
Director: Javier Rebello

FILL THE VOID (Lemale et ha'halal)
Director: Rama Burshtein

FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Director: Alan Berliner

FRANCES HA
Director: Noah Baumbach

THE GATEKEEPERS (Shomerei Ha’saf)
Director: Dror Moreh

GINGER AND ROSA
Director: Sally Potter

HERE AND THERE (Aquí y Allá)
Director: Antonio Mendez Esparza

HOLY MOTORS
Director: Leos Carax

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
Director: Roger Michell

KINSHASA KIDS
Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg

THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (A Última Vez Que Vi Macau)
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

LEVIATHAN
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Director: Abbas Kiarostami

LINES OF WELLINGTON (Linhas de Wellington)
Director: Valeria Sarmiento

MEMORIES LOOK AT ME (Ji Yi Wang Zhe Wo)
Director: Song Fang

NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET (La Noche de enfrente)
Director: Raul Ruiz

NO
Director: Pablo Larrain

OUR CHILDREN (À perdre la raison)
Director: Joachim Lafosse

PASSION
Director: Brian De Palma

SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Après Mai)
Director: Olivier Assayas

TABU
Director: Miguel Gomes

YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Vous n'avez encore rien vu)
Director: Alain Resnais

Among these titles the most Telluride-esque are probably:

Amour, Beyond the Hills, Caesar Must Die, Frances Ha, The Gatekeepers, Holy Motors, Hyde Park on Hudson, Like Someone in Love, No, Passion, Something in the Air and You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.

I have linked a load of posts concerning the NYFF selections here:


http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/amour-hyde-park-on-hudson-and-more-set-for-ny-fest

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/nyff-announces-33-new-titles

http://moviecitynews.com/2012/08/the-film-society-of-lincoln-center-announces-main-slate-of-selections-for-the-2012-new-york-film-festival/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/amour-something-in-the-air-beyond-the-hills-more-added-to-new-york-film-festival-slate-20120816

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/cannes-winner-amour-joins-new-york-film-fest-lineup-52361



MASTER TEASE

Well, you know just when I thought I was out they pull me back in...

Cinema Blend, among a billion other websites (including this one) was all about hooking readers up to the second full trailer for "The Master" the last couple of days.  The difference...they're still thinking it's a T-ride possibility.  Here's the text from the post:


"Anderson’s screening the film in select cities ahead of its pre-destined screenings at the prominent fall film festivals (Venice, Toronto and possibly Telluride)."

Here's the link to the full post from Cinema Blend:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Master-Clip-She-Wrote-Me-Letter-32514.html

Oh, and then there's this comment to MTFB concerning yesterday's post:

Anonymous said...

"I think "The Master" shows up at TFF if they can do it on 70mm... that's still a pretty special opportunity a lot of people won't have had yet (if ever)."

 

Now that just makes me a little dizzy and kind of crazy.  We know from friends of the blog that have reached out to us that Telluride HAS done 70mm in the past.  We know that Jeff Wells has heard that there might be some 70 mm prep going on in T-ride as we speak...though I couldn't get a whiff of it when I was there this past weekend...

So...keep the flame alight...maybe "The Master" still has a shot.


YELLOW

Some months back I indicated that if it was ready that Nick Cassavettes new film "Yellow" might find its way to Telluride...which would be cool since I have a former student who did some extra work on the filming here in Oklahoma (though she now thinks she may well have been edited into non-existence).  Nevertheless, with the announcement this week that it will be a part of the lineup for Toronto we know that it is, in fact, ready.  So maybe it shows at THE SHOW.  The Playlist has a set of new photos from the film here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-images-from-nick-cassavetes-drug-drama-yellow-with-sienna-miller-20120814


Yellow's IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588898/


COMING ATTRACTIONS

The last time Sean Penn directed a film was 2007 and it was "Into the Wild" which appeared at Telluride #34.  Now news that he has signed on to direct again and since reports were that he enjoyed the experience in 2007 you have to believe that there's  a chance we see it for TFF #40 or 41.

The project is titled "Crazy for the Storm" and is detailed here by The Wrap:
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/sean-penn-talks-direct-first-film-wild-51491


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Good Thursday World!


INVITATION

Hey...here's a reminder.  If you read the blog, like the blog and want to "hang" and talk film for a half hour or so, come to the "Second Annual Guide to the "Ride"; Flow of the SHOW" soiree at The River Club in Telluride at 550 Depot.  We'll start at 5:00 pm and refreshments are planned.  We're also hoping for a special guest or two.  Join me and our hosts Mitzi and Larry Mallard.

ICEMAN HIDING

Yesterday I reported that a website called MafiaToday.com had let drop that Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman" would play at Telluride.  It seemed legit as it also referenced confirmed slots for the film at both Toronto and Venice.  Then, late in the day, I was informed via comment on yesterday's post that MafiaToday.com was either down or didn't exist...

So I took a look and sure enough...no mafiatoday.com.

However, after some poking around, two things...Google still has that post cached and I was able to get to the sourced article from northjersey.com which makes the same claims.  You can find that here:
http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/television/166075186__Iceman__is_dead__but_his_tale_still_chills_audiences_.html

So, all in all, I still feel pretty good about "The Iceman" in the Telluride lineup.


MASTER NEWS

I continue to hold onto slim hopes that we will see "The Master" in Telluride, although it seems to me that the chance is diminishing almost everyday.  Yesterday came the release online of a new trailer that ran this weekend in some theaters nationally and along with that the announcement that the film will be screening tonight in Chicago at The Music Box Theater.  Frankly, I don't think this bodes well for a Telluride engagement.

Here's the trailer:

NOT FADE AWAY

Won't be at Telluride...at least probably not as it has been announced as the New York Film Fests centerpiece gala (a spot held down by "My Week with Marilyn" last year).  Frankly, I hadn't given "Not Fade Away" much of a chance at a Telluride bow anyway.

"WFA's" IMBd entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230215/

I have linked some of yesterday's posts about the NYFF announcement:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/film-society-taps-david-chases-not-fade-away-for-centerpiece-nyff-premiere

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/nyff-announces-centerpiece-world-premiere

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-images-from-david-chases-not-fade-away-the-new-york-film-festival-centerpiece-selection-20120815

Though one quick note...Tapley's concluding sentence about the three announced films for NYFF's opener (Life of Pi), centerpiece (Not Fade Away) and closer (Song for Marion) obliquely includes the phrase "(official) exclusivity" which makes me think that Tapley thinks or perhaps already knows that one of the three (or more) will play Telluride.  Of the three, I still think "Song for Marion" makes the most sense.

Finally, I'm waiting to see the rest of the NYFF lineup to search for possible T-ride clues.


SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

And we saw the trailer release this week for "Seven Psychopaths" which has an outside shot at playing in Telluride.  Here's the trailer:

"Seven Psychopaths" is written and directed by Martin McDonagh and features Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson.

Here is its IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/

I have also linked a few posts regarding the film and its trailer:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-colin-farrell-sam-rockwell-christopher-walken-woody-harrelson-in-first-trailer-for-seven-psychopaths-20120814

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-seven-psychopaths-trailer/


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Good Wednesday to Everyone!


INVITATION

Another reminder to join me at The River Club on Friday, Aug. 31 at 5:00PM for the Second Annual "Guide to the Ride; Flow of the SHOW". Last year was a lot of fun and we're going to try our level best to have a great time again this year. So, come, enjoy. We may have a special guest or two...we're trying anyway.


THE ICEMAN WILL THAW IN T-RIDE

It's one of those quirky rabbit hole trails that I went down on the internet yesterday and lo and behold, it looks to have paid off.  I can say with some level of confidence that Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman" will be playing at Telluride in 2 1/2 weeks.  "The Iceman" is a true crime/mob story featuring Michael Shannon, James Franco, Chris Evans, Winona Ryder and Ray Liotta.  Vromen directed and co-wrote with Morgan Land.

"The Iceman" was given up as a Telluride film in a post on...of all places...MafiaToday.com...I'm not kidding.  You can find the entirety of that post here:
http://mafiatoday.com/tag/richard-the-iceman-kuklinski/

That post correctly reports that "The Iceman" is programmed at Toronto and Venice which lends a good deal of credence to the Telluride claim.  Could it be that Mafia Today has broken Telluride's own "Omerta/Code of Silence"?  Looks like it.

"Iceman's" IMDb entry is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1491044/


MORE FROM TORONTO

The Toronto International Film Festival looks to have completed their lineup with another huge announcement of films yesterday including the word that their fest will close with "Song for Marion" which has been very high on my Telluride possibles list all summer long.  It's inclusion as the TIFF closer doesn't absolutely nuke it from Telluride consideration...but it also doesn't help.  I've had "Song" as a "Ten Bets" film for a good portion of the run up to T-ride but have let it slide off the list of late...maybe for good reason now.

HitFix has the complete lowdown on all the films added yesterday here:
http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/new-films-from-nick-cassavetes-ed-burns-and-peter-webber-join-toronto-film-festival-2012-lineup

Among the films added that are Telluride possibles (at least according to me):

"Song for Marion"  (still going to say that there is a chance)
"Love is All You Need"
"On the Road"
"Passion"
"Therese Desqueyroux"
"Yellow"
"In the Fog"


FUTURE TELLURIDE

Two developments yesterday that have a better than fair chance of impacting Telluride Film Fests in the future.  Director/writer Jason Reitman tweeted that he had wrapped his latest "Labor Day" starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin and accompanied that tweet with this pic:

And we found out from multiple sources that it appears that Robert Pattinson will work with Telluride regular Werner Herzog in "Queen of the Desert".  This from IMDb news:
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni34121933



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PI TO NY

Yesterday I wrote that I had never expected that Robert Zemeckis' "Flight" was a likely Telluride contender and that its choice to close the NY Film Fest probably closed any crack of an opening in that door.

Today comes news that the opening film for NYFF will be a film that has been on my TFF #39 radar...Ang Lee's "Life of Pi".  That also likely removes its chances for T-ride considerably.



Here's what I mean:

2011 NYFF Opener: "Carnage", Closer:"The Descendants" "Centerpiece: "My Week with Marilyn"
2010: Opener: "The Social Network", Closer: "Hereafter", Centerpiece: "The Tempest"
2009: Opener: "Wild Grass"
2008: Opener: "The Class"
2007: Opener: "The Darjeeling Limited"
2006: Opener: "The Queen"

They just don't book "tentpoles" that overlap with Telluride (the exception being last year's "The Descendants").

So "Life of Pi"...pretty much off the table...however...look for the NYFF regular lineup announcement as a semi-good predictor of TFF fare. 

In 2011 these films overlapped: "A Dangerous Method", "A Separation", "Footnote", "George Harrison: Living in the Material World", "Goodbye First Love", "Le Harve", "Pina", "Shame", "The Artist", "The Kid with a Bike" and "The Turin Horse".  That's 11 of the 24 non-"tentpoles" that NYFF offered that played in both fests.

In 2010 the overlap included: "Another Year", "Carlos", "Inside Job", "Le Quattro Volte", "Of Gods an Men" and  "Poetry".  6 of 25. 

So parsing the NYFF lineup announcement should be instructive.

Here are links to posts concerning the announcement yesterday that "Life of Pi" will open the NYFF:

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/major-awards-race-title-secured-for-50th-anniversary-opener-life-of-pi-is-shipwrecked-at-nyff

http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/ang-lees-life-of-pi-will-open-the-50th-new-york-film-festival

Also, here's the trailer:

VIEW OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Speaking of trailers...here's the just released trailer for Mike Newell's "Great Expectations" which could be a Telluride possibility...InContention/HitFix's Kris Tapley lists it as a "Maybe":



Posts for the trailer release for "Great Expectations:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-international-trailer-for-great-expectations-starring-ralph-fiennes-helena-bonham-carter-20120813

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/great-expectations-trailer-helena-bonham-carter-video/

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-latest-great-expectations-adaptation-gets-an-international-trailer/


MORE FROM TORONTO

Toronto's International Film Festival is set to announce 3 more Galas and 18 Special Presentations this morning...I'll peruse them and see if that announcement gives us any clues for our fest in the San Jauns in 2 1/2 weeks.


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Invitation/Ten Bets #8/Flight Departs for New York

Good Monday from back at home base in the Oklahoma Panhandle...

INVITATION

To the Second "Guide to the Ride, Flow of the Show" at 5PM on Friday, Aug. 31 at The River Club (550 Depot) in Telluride.  We'll talk about the festival and film and have a refreshment or two!




TEN BETS #8

Last week's "Ten Bets":


1) Amour
2) Rust and Bone
3) Midnight's Children
4) The Central Park Five
5) Bromberg's Chaplin
6) Hyde Park on Hudson
7) No
8) On the Road
9) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
10) Beyond the Hills



This week's "Ten Bets"

1) Rust and Bone
2) Hyde Park on Hudson
3) Midnight's Children
4) Amour
5) No
6) The Central Park Five
7) Bromberg's Chaplin
8) Pixar's "Rainy Day Tales"
9) On the Road
10) Beyond the Hills


FLIGHT DEPARTS FOR NEW YORK

I don't think I have included "Flight" from director Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington as a potential Telluride film at any point along the way this year...and over the weekend that decision seems to have been validated as it has been chosen to close The New York Film Festival.  Here's the story from The New York Times Atrsbeat blog:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/robert-zemeckis-movie-flight-with-denzel-washington-will-close-new-york-film-festival/

Flight's Trailer:

Flight's IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907668/


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Master Chances/Best of the Week

Good Saturday from Telluride, CO.  That's right.  I'm here today and will be back in less than 3 weeks for the best 4 days of the year.  Heading home tomorrow as I start school this week.


MASTER CHANCES

I apologize for my obsessing over Paul Thomas Anderson's new film.  I realize it's much like last year's obsessiveness about "The Tree of Life" and I suspect that I'll find another one to obsess about for next year (actually, "12 Years a Slave" is already a leading candidate).

It's just that I think that Anderson might be the best film director in America right now (I think "There Will Be Blood" is the best American film of this relatively new century) and nothing I've seen or heard about "The Master" seems todiminish the notion that it will likely be a fantastic film...so naturally I have been hopeful that it will appear on the Telluride slate.

Then last night a post from Jeffrey Wells on his Hollywood Elsewhere website that throws cold water on the idea.  Wells says that his sources are all saying no "Master" in T-ride.  Wells doesn't seem very happy about that either.

Now, Wells doesn't flat out say it won't happen and actually also reports that there may have been some prep here in Telluride to present in 70mm...which would tilt toward the belief that "The Master" would happen here.  Additionally, in the comments section "Buckzollo" suggests his belief that "The Master" will appear as a TBA here.  That's exactly the form I have thought was most likely.  Purportedly the film will make its Venice debut on Saturday Sept.1 which has led me to think that we could see it here as a "sneak" on Sunday and/or Monday.

So, I'm going to do a little sniffing around while I'm in town today and see if I can get any kind of sense of what's going on.  Ultimately, I'm still not completely abandoning my hopes for the film being in TFF #39...but I put the chances now at 5%.

One other note from the Wells post is that he confirms that Roger Michell's "Hyde Park on Hudson" will play.  "Hyde Park" has been parked on my "Ten Bets" list all summer.

Here's the link to the Wells' post:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/08/no_master_in_te_1.php


BEST OF THE WEEK

Here's the best of posts from MTFB/FAC for this past week:



This week's "Ten Bets"

1) Amour
2) Rust and Bone
3) Midnight's Children
4) The Central Park Five
5) Bromberg's Chaplin
6) Hyde Park on Hudson
7) No
8) On the Road
9) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
10) Beyond the Hills

Check the new "Ten Bets" list on Monday...hint..."Hyde Park" will be moving higher on the list.


CLOUD ATLAS VIEWS

 http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cloud-atlas-visual-timeline-reveals-more-photos-of-the-ever-changing-faces-of-its-cast-20120805


CENTRAL PARK FIVE

Ken Burns and crew have a trailer cut for the Toronto International Film Festival.  As I am calling the documentary the #4 bet this week among the "Ten Bets" I have included that trailer:

MASTER POSTER #2

A second poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" has emerged as it seems that there is some nugget everyday about the highly anticipated film.

Here's the new poster:

Also included is the post from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/kaleidoscopic-new-poster-for-paul-thomas-andersons-the-master-will-leave-you-feeling-blue-20120806

CLINT'S TRAILER

Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake star in Robert Lorenz's "Trouble with the Curve"  The first trailer is out and linked below from YouTube:

Check the story at The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-its-gran-torino-meets-moneyball-in-trailer-for-trouble-with-the-curve-20120807



TROUBLE POSTER


Robert Lorenz's "Trouble with Curve" starring Clint Eastwood (and now a hot Telluride possibility per Mr. Tapley) has a poster.   It looks like this:

Via Rope of Silicon

Here's the post from Rope of Silicon:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-posters-skyfall-character-posters-trouble-with-the-curve-and-red-dawn/ 

MORE ON THE ROAD

Walter Salles "On the Road" still is a real Telluride possibility and has released a second trailer.  Linked here form YouTube:

Find more information here from Awards Daily:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/08/06/kristen-stewart-garrett-hedlund-on-the-road-trailer-2/




TAPLEY'S TAKE

Incontention/HitFix's Kris Tapley is already on record with some Telluride guessing but last night he tweeted two very specific lists in regard to the festival which is a mere three weeks away at this point.

Tweet #1:"Probables" for Telluride:

Probablies for Telluride: Argo, At Any Price, Hyde Park on Hudson, Passion, Rust and Bone, Silver Linings Playbook, Trouble with the Curve.

Tweet #2:  And "Maybes"

Maybes for Telluride: Amour, Great Expectations, Killing Them Softly, The Master, No, Smashed, To the Wonder



First to the "probablies"...Yes Please..."Hyde Park", "Rust and Bone",  have been solidly on the "Ten Bets" list all summer.  "Silver Linings" has flirted with making that list.  "Argo" has been more of a wish than a likelihood.  

As to "Trouble with the Curve", Tapley said a few weeks back he had a hunch about it and he clearly still feels strongly...Eastwood in town?  It would be cool.  

And DePalma's "Passion" wouldn't be a shocker..."Redacted" showed up as a 'sneak" back in 2006...so it's possible.

Then there are his "maybes":  I'm for any scintilla of a chance that "The Master" makes it to the San Juans.  I have also been bullish that "Amour" and "No" will make the trip to T-ride and continue to be.

I think the other "maybes"  are less likely, although I'd be primed for "Killing Them Softly" and Malick's "To the Wonder" and you could certainly make the case that Ben Affleck might show in support of both his "Argo" and the Malick film especially if Mrs. Affleck (Jennifer Garner) went home from last year's fest and raved about it...




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Tapley's Take/Master not Fantastic/Trouble Poster/Coming Attractions

Good Friday All from Las Vegas!


TAPLEY'S TAKE

Incontention/HitFix's Kris Tapley is already on record with some Telluride guessing but last night he tweeted two very specific lists in regard to the festival which is a mere three weeks away at this point.

Tweet #1:"Probables" for Telluride:

Probablies for Telluride: Argo, At Any Price, Hyde Park on Hudson, Passion, Rust and Bone, Silver Linings Playbook, Trouble with the Curve.

Tweet #2:  And "Maybes"

Maybes for Telluride: Amour, Great Expectations, Killing Them Softly, The Master, No, Smashed, To the Wonder



First to the "probablies"...Yes Please..."Hyde Park", "Rust and Bone",  have been solidly on the "Ten Bets" list all summer.  "Silver Linings" has flirted with making that list.  "Argo" has been more of a wish than a likelihood.  

As to "Trouble with the Curve", Tapley said a few weeks back he had a hunch about it and he clearly still feels strongly...Eastwood in town?  It would be cool.  

And DePalma's "Passion" wouldn't be a shocker..."Redacted" showed up as a 'sneak" back in 2006...so it's possible.

Then there are his "maybes":  I'm for any scintilla of a chance that "The Master" makes it to the San Juans.  I have also been bullish that "Amour" and "No" will make the trip to T-ride and continue to be.

I think the other "maybes"  are less likely, although I'd be primed for "Killing Them Softly" and Malick's "To the Wonder" and you could certainly make the case that Ben Affleck might show in support of both his "Argo" and the Malick film especially if Mrs. Affleck (Jennifer Garner) went home from last year's fest and raved about it...


MASTER NOT FANTASTIC

"The announcement came yesterday that Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" will NOT play as a part of Fantastic Fest but will play in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse as a part of a 70mm series of films.  IndieWire has the story here:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-master-will-screen-in-70mm-as-part-of-alamo-drafthouse-series-70mm-at-the-ritz

I'm not sure that this really means anything in terms of telling us about its Telluride chances...but let's chose to believe that it makes it more likely.


TROUBLE POSTER


Robert Lorenz's "Trouble with Curve" starring Clint Eastwood (and now a hot Telluride possibility per Mr. Tapley) has a poster.   It looks like this:

Via Rope of Silicon

Here's the post from Rope of Silicon:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-posters-skyfall-character-posters-trouble-with-the-curve-and-red-dawn/ 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Updating casting news for Jon Wells "August Osage County":

The Wrap: http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/margo-martindale-joins-cast-august-osage-county-50321

The Wrap: http://www.thewrap.com/deal-central/column-post/chris-cooper-talks-join-meryl-streep-august-osage-county-47016

The Playlist: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/abigail-breslin-juliette-lewis-join-august-osage-county-with-julia-roberts-meryl-streep-20120720

The Playlist: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/andrea-riseborough-to-join-meryl-streep-julia-roberts-in-august-osage-county-20120706



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Gatsby and Oscar/More Master Reactions

Good Thursday from Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks!  And on to Vegas!

GATSBY AND OSCAR

Carey Mulligan in "The Great Gatsby"...NOT coming soon to a theater near you.

Baz Luhrman's "The Great Gatsby" has been moved to summer 2013...and The Playlist provides analysis as to how that decision may change up this year's Oscar race:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-amazing-race-as-the-great-gatsby-slips-to-2013-how-important-is-the-right-release-date-to-a-films-oscar-hopes-20120808


Meanwhile, Awards Daily takes a look at the Oscar field as we get closer to the three headed monster that is Telluride/Toronto/Venice:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/08/08/on-the-hunt-for-best-picture-america-comes-roaring-back/


MORE MASTER REACTIONS

Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master".  

I've appended a couple of more posts that address reactions to "The Master" after its secret screening last weekend:

From The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/the-master-screening-paul-thomas-anderson_n_1746860.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment


and also from Studio System News:
http://studiosystemnews.com/secret-screening-of-the-master-draws-raves#.UEwUCqGPWWZ

As a side note, there still seems to be at least some level of steam behind the notion that "The Master" might still be playing Telluride.

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Looking at Lincoln/Clint's Trailer/Another On the Road

Good Wednesday from San Francisco...headed to Yosemite today!

LOOKING AT LINCOLN


The Playlist posts the first real look at Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg's "Lincoln" here:

That post/story is here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-real-look-daniel-day-lewis-in-steven-spielbergs-lincoln-20120807


CLINT'S TRAILER

Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake star in Robert Lorenz's "Trouble with the Curve"  The first trailer is out and linked below from YouTube:

Check the story at The Playlist:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-its-gran-torino-meets-moneyball-in-trailer-for-trouble-with-the-curve-20120807


MORE ON THE ROAD

Walter Salles "On the Road" still is a real Telluride possibility and has released a second trailer.  Linked here form YouTube:

Find more information here from Awards Daily:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/08/06/kristen-stewart-garrett-hedlund-on-the-road-trailer-2/


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