Ten Bets #5 for TFF #51 / Conclave Reportedly to TFF and
First Looks / Anora Has A Trailer / Almodovar's The Room Next Door
Set for Venice
TEN BETS #5 FOR TFF #51
Some movement this week primarily around the news about Edward Berger's Conclave (see below). Here's this week's updated Ten bets for TFF. Next week we should know more with added information from Toronto and Venice.
1) Anora/Baker
2) Conclave/Berger
3) Emilia Perez/Jacques Audiard
4) The Room Next Door/Pedro Almodovar
5) The Seed of the Scared Fig/Mohammad Rasoulof
6) A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Cousins
7) Nickel Boys/Ross
8) Maria/Pablo Larrain
9) Queer/Luca Guadagnino
10) Bird/Arnold
Other possibilities:
The End/Oppenheimer
I'm Still Here/Salles
Parthenope/Sorrentino
In the Hand of Dante/Schnabel
Hard Truths/Leigh
The Piano Lesson/Washington
Untitled Noah Baumbach
Megalopolis/Coppola
Napoleon (new restoration)/Gance
Leonardo DaVinci/Burns
Oh, Canada/Schrader
The Actor/Johnson
SNL 1975
All We Imagine as Light
Memoir of a Snail
CONCLAVE REPORTEDLY TO TFF AND FIRST LOOKS
Jordan Ruimy writing at World of Reel reported Monday that Edward Berger's Conclave will screen at Telluride.
"Now, I’m hearing that “Conclave” is going to premiere at the Telluride Film Festival during the first week of September. No word yet on whether it’s a world premiere given that Venice could still be an option."
MTFB has had Conclave on each of the weekly Ten Bets lists from the initial list.
With Ruimy's reporting and Indiewire's Anne Thompson reporting that Sean Baker's Anora will also play Telluride (reported here last week).
Meanwhile, Vanity Fair has released the first images of Conclave. Here's a couple of those:
ANORA HAS A TRAILER
Speaking of Anora, NEON dropped a first trailer this week for the Palme d'Or winning film. Here that is from YouTube. Fair warning, it's billed as a "Red Band" trailer.
ALMODOVAR'S THE ROOM NEXT DOOR SET FOR VENICE
Variety reported on Tuesday that Pedro Almodovar's The Room Next Door will screen at the Venice Film Fest. Of course that doesn't preclude a TFF North American Premiere. We'll see where it gets scheduled for Venice when they announce that. If it's set to screen the first couple of days there, that would be an indicator that it could head to Telluride.
The Variety story has tells us that Mike Leigh's Hard truths is not screening at Venice. That the film wasn't selected for either Cannes or Venice is a little concerning.
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