Here's the penultimate set of "bets" regarding what films will be announced for the Telluride Film Festival a week from today.
Let me start today's list with a couple of notes. First, there's a reasonably good chance that 2-3 films won't be included in the program you pickup at Brigadoon. Over the last few years the festival has held back a few titles from the published program but then has added them as "sneaks". Last year, for example, TFF #50 had three "sneaks", The Taste of Things, They Shot the Piano Player and Totem. I had Piano Player at #22 on the final bets and The Taste of Things at #23.
Second note: I will post a "special" edition of MTFB next Wednesday, August 28th from the road as I'll be already headed to Telluride. It will be the final list of titles that I'm saying will play TFF #51 done 24 hours before the fests big reveal on Thursday. Of course, the regular Thursday post next week will be the official lineup announcement.
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
Chain Reactions/Philippe
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
Homegrown/Premo
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns, McMahon
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
And here's this week's:
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) Maria/Larrian
10) The Outrun/Fingscheidt
And a Bonus Ten Bets:
11) Bird/Arnold
12) Disclaimer/Cuaron
13) Separated/Morris
14) Better Man/Gracey
15) Piece by Piece/Neville
16) No Other Land/Adra, Ballal, Abraham and Szor
17) The Seed of the Sacred Fig/Rasoulof
18) The Friend/Siegel and McGeehee
19) Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight/Davitz
20) The Apprentice/Abassi
Other possibilities:
Santosh/Suri
Apocalypse in the Tropics/Costa
Misrecordia/Guiraudie
Chain Reactions/Philippe
Memoir of a Snail/Elliot
Homegrown/Premo
September 5/Fehlbaum
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
One on One: John and Yoko/ Macdonald and Rice-Edwards
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns, Burns, McMahon
The Actor/Johnson
Parthenope/Sorrentino
Hand of Dante/Schnabel
LOOKS AT THE PIANO LESSON
We're expecting Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson to screen at TFF next week. We're hoping that Samuel L. Jackson is along and we'd be really thrilled if producer Denzel Washington happened to show up as well. Actually...put Denzel on the possible guest list as well as potential tribute recipient.
Anyway, Netflix dropped a poster and a trailer for the film earlier this week. The poster is above. Here's the trailer from YouTube:
Meanwhile, Vanity Fair dropped some first look photos of the film on Monday. Here's a tease:
BUZZWORTHY
Hearing from good sources that Ali Abassi's The Apprentice, Nora Fingscheidt's The Outrun and Tim Fehlbaum's September 5 will appear at Telluride.
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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