Clarity from New York and Toronto / Ten (Plus) Bets #8 for
TFF #51 / Vanity Fair Looks at Saturday Night
CLARITY FROM NEW YORK AND TORONTO
Announcements on Tuesday from both the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival helped to sharpen the focus on what films are likely to be screening as a part of the 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival.
New York Fest reveals seemed to confirm earlier extrapolations that the following will play TFF #51:
All We Imagine as Light
Anora
Misrecordia
Nickel Boys
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
In addition NYFF premiere designations signal that the following are also likely for TFF #51:
Dahomey
Grand Tour
No Other Land
Meanwhile, Toronto Centerpiece announcements tend to confirm The Seed of the Sacred Fig in addition to the inclusion of Flow and Santosh as TFF #51 films.
Additionally, the fate of Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is once again, up in the air, as NYFF lists it with no premiere designation as opposed to a U.S. Premiere designation which would normally signal a Telluride play. Meanwhile Toronto's lineup lists it as a North American Premiere. Both things can't be true. I'm thinking Oh, Canada might be in TFF #51 after all.
With three weeks left we expect to hear more from both of these fests as well as nod or two from London.
TEN (PLUS) BETS #8 FOR TFF #51
Woooo...we ARE getting down to it for 2024!
Here's your now weekly prediction about what will be screening at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. First a look at last week's predicted field:
1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
9) Better Man/Gracey
10) Piece by Piece/Neville
And a Bonus Five Bets:
11) The Apprentice/Abassi
12) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
13) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
14) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
15) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
Other possibilities:
Maria/Larrain
Megalopolis/Coppola
Separated/Morris
Saturday Night/Reitman
Parthenope/Sorrentino
In the Hand of Dante/Schnabel
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns
The Actor/Johnson
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Harvest/Tsangari
Allegorie Citadine/ Rohrwacher and JR
And with three weeks remaining, here is this week's Ten+ Bets:
1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Audiard
4) The End/Oppenheimer
5) All We Imagine as Light/Kapadia
6) The Piano Lesson/Washington
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
9) Better Man/Gracey
10) Piece by Piece/Neville
And a Bonus Ten Bets:
11) Dahomey/Diop
12) Grand Tour/Gomes
13) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
14) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
15) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
16) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
17) The Apprentice/Abassi
18) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
19) Maria/Larrain
20) Saturday Night/Reitman
Other possibilities:
Separated/Morris
Oh, Canada/Schrader
Flow/Zibalodis
Santosh/Suri
Megalopolis/Coppola
Allegorie Citadine/ Rohrwacher and JR
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
The Outrun/Fingscheidt and/or Blitz/McQueen
VANITY FAIR LOOKS AT SATURDAY NIGHT
Vanity Fair's Anthony Breznican has written a big piece about Jason Reitman's Saturday Night. That went up yesterday and includes a bunch of photos from the set. The film is set to open on Oct. 11th.
There have been rumors for awhile that it would screen at Telluride but there hasn't been any real evidence that that's true. I could see it bypassing TFF and playing Toronto and/or New York. On the other had, Reitman has so frequently been to Telluride that I have to believe that there's a better than fair chance that it DOES play TFF #51.
The other film that falls into that category of uncertainty is Ali Abassi's The Apprentice.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they both make it to the San Juans.
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