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) Saturday Night/Reitman
9) Misrecordia/Guiraudie
10) Piece by Piece/Neville
And a Bonus Ten Bets:
11) Separated/Morris
12) Better Man/Gracey
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) Maria/Larrain
18) Bird/Arnold
19) Disclaimer/Cuaron
20) Santosh/Suri
Other possibilities:
The Outrun/Fingsheidt
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Apocalypse in the Tropics/Costa
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
The Apprentice/Abassi
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns, McMahon
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
NYFF SPOTLIGHT ANNOUNCMENT
The New York Film Festival announced the rest of the films playing in its Spotlight section yesterday and that offered up minimal clues regarding the TFF #51 lineup. It does appear the one more Venice selection will also play Telluride as NYFF labeled the documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics (dir: Petra Costa) without a premiere status. The film is slated to screen in Venice on Sept. 29th which would give it time to make it to T-ride. The IMDb description says the film...
"Focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy."
Sound familiar?
Otherwise three other films we thought were playing TFF #51 seem to be confirmed by their lack of premiere status: Maria, Emilia Perez and The Friend.
SOME OTHER POSSIBLE GUESTS
Back on Aug. 5th I wrote a bit about what folks might turn up at TFF#51 as guests based on some of the films that looked like they could or would play as a part of the fest.
Today I'm adding a few more possibilities:
Better Man: Robbie Williams
Disclaimer: Alfonso Cuaron, Cate Blanchett, Sasha Baron Cohen, Kevin Kline
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight; Embeth Davitz
NEW POSTER FOR SATURDAY NIGHT
We have the release on Tuesday of a second poster for Jason Reitman's Saturday Night. Here it is:
I'm pretty sure this is playing at TFF but I did see some references to a "world" premiere occurring in Toronto from some film media outlets on Tuesday. TIFF continues to list it as a Canadian Premiere which is reassuring regarding its Telluride status.
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE-12TH EDITION
For the 12th 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".
Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com
The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will be Sept. 15th.
I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.
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