Hints and Allegations / Who Could Be at TFF #51? / Looks at
Possible Double Plays
HINTS AND ALLEGATIONS
I had a couple of readers send me information about possible confirmations/inclusions about films and/or attendees this past week.
Back on July 23rd I posted an MTFB special about announcements from Toronto, Venice and New York. One of the films I especially noted was Andrea Arnold's Bird as it was labeled as a North American Premiere on the TIFF official website but had been posted here on X as a Canadian Premiere. However, MTFB reader Bobby Harris contacted me to reveal that TIFF's entry for Bird on the website has been changed to Canadian:
So, for me, that's going to mean that I'm putting Bird back on the Ten Bets/Possible list when it gets updated on Thursday.
Additionally, I had another reader reach out to convey intell about three possible attendees for TFF. I'm going to be a little cagey here as to who/where the info came from as well as explicitly naming names-at least for now. I will say that a couple of the names would confirm that Anora and Emilia Perez will play Telluride. The third person's presence would indicate one or possibly two films neither of which are currently among the "Bets" or "Possibles".
WHO COULD BE AT TFF#51?
For fun, let's assume I'm right about almost everything playing at TFF #51; what star wattage could we see in town, on panels, doing Q&A's?
Anora: Sean Baker, Mikey Madison
Conclave: Edward Berger, Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini
Emilia Perez: Jacques Audiard, Zoe Saldana, Sele na Gomez, Karla Sofia Gascon, Adriana Paz
The End: Joshua Oppenheimer, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay
The Piano Lesson: Malcolm Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Dedwyler, John David Washington
Nickel Boys: RaMell Ross, Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjunue Ellis-Taylor
Piece by Piece: Morgan Neville, Pharrell Williams
The Apprentice: Ali Abassi, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong
The Friend: Scott McGeehee, David Siegel, Carla Gugino, Naomi Watts, Bill Murray
Maria: Pablo Larrain, Angelina Jolie
Saturday Night: Jason Reitman, Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman, Nicolas Braun, Jon Batiste
Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola, Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza. Dustin Hoffman
Parthenope: Paolo Sorrentino, Gary Oldman
Hand of Dante: Julian Schnabel, Oscar Isaac, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese
The Actor: Duke Johnson, Andre Holland
Harvest: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Caleb Landry Jones, Henry Melling
Bird: Andrea Arnold, Barry Keoghan, Frank Rogowski
LOOKS AT POSSIBLE DOUBLE PLAYS
Inspired by a "first look" post from World of Reel, here are some promo shots of films that will possibly screen at Telluride as well as Toronto or Venice: No guarantees that all of these make it to T-ride.
All We Imagine as Light:
Allegorie Citadine:
Bird:
Conclave:
Emilia Perez:
The End:
The Piano Lesson:
Piece by Piece:
Separated:
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