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Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:45 pm**

Could it be the Sophia Tolstoy film he was working on?

New York Times wrote:He has also been working on a screenplay, partly adapted from the diaries of Sophia Tolstoy — a surprisingly contemporary portrait of a marriage, he said, “where she talks about her difficult life with the great man.” He plans to make the film with a small, quarantined crew at a house in the French countryside in the spring.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:53 pm**

Some interesting out-of-competition docs/shorts too, including new work from Steve James, Oliver Stone, Sergei Losnitza, Lucretia Martel, and Sally Potter

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:25 pm**

diamonds wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:45 pm Could it be the Sophia Tolstoy film he was working on?

New York Times wrote:He has also been working on a screenplay, partly adapted from the diaries of Sophia Tolstoy — a surprisingly contemporary portrait of a marriage, he said, “where she talks about her difficult life with the great man.” He plans to make the film with a small, quarantined crew at a house in the French countryside in the spring.

Yes, it is. It's a monologue film with Nathalie Boutefeu, who also co-wrote the script.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:25 pm**

The Sally Potter short seems to be the deleted Chris Rock subplot from her last movie The Roads Not Taken. I hated most of what actually made it into Roads Not Taken so I can't say I'm optimistic about what she cut out.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:33 pm**

Venice festival director Alberto Barbera says in this Variety article that TÁR, Bardo, and Bones and All will play Telluride as well

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:20 pm**

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:33 pm Venice festival director Alberto Barbera says in this Variety article that TÁR, Bardo, and Bones and All will play Telluride as well

Barbera also implies in this Deadline interview that Spielberg’s The Fabelmans will sneak at Telluride, addresses the inclusion of Kim Ki-duk, and says he thinks Killers of the Flower Moon won’t be ready until next year’s festival cycle

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:56 pm**

Toronto has made its first big wave of announcements, including world premieres of new films by Hong Sang-soo, Peter Farrelly, Tyler Perry, and Catherine Hardwicke; they'll also have new films from Sarah Polley, Sam Mendes, and Sebastián Lelio that will premiere at Telluride

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:20 pm Barbera also implies in this Deadline interview that Spielberg’s The Fabelmans will sneak at Telluride

Deadline has removed this language; Barbera may have misspoken

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:12 pm**

The Narrator Returns wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:25 pm The Sally Potter short seems to be the deleted Chris Rock subplot from her last movie The Roads Not Taken. I hated most of what actually made it into Roads Not Taken so I can't say I'm optimistic about what she cut out.

I haven't followed Potter's most recent work, but Chris Rock the comedian? Given his remake of an Eric Rohmer film and an earlier attempt to join an aborted remake of Kurosawa's High and Low, surely he must be a cinephile at heart. (When is he going to visit Criterion's closet?)

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:33 pm**

Surprising to not see Blonde, The Master Gardener, White Noise, or Bardo on the list of titles at TIFF. Then again, Birdman was also rejected by TIFF, so they may just not like Innaritu.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:44 pm**

Could also pop up later as the full schedule is released, though I think Blonde will be released on Netflix during the Toronto festival, so I doubt it shows up there

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:10 pm**

Blonde hits Netflix on September 28th, ten days after TIFF closes.

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:14 pm**

Oh, did it get moved? I could have sworn I saw an earlier date, like the 17th. Now that I search it, I’m seeing the 23rd as well…

Posted: **Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:12 pm**

Baumbach's WHITE NOISE opening NYFF now in addition to Venice.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:23 am**

The least surprising news imaginable. The main slate will be predictably boring too.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2022 2:18 am**

Persona wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 2:12 pm The TRIANGLE OF SADNESS clips have looked so terribly on the nose, it kind of reminds me of the new Kendrick Lamar record in that you have a work from someone potentially brilliant in their field but whose current mode seems to be "let's just lay everything and the kitchen sink on thick as possible" and with minimal interest in expressing things artfully or with great focus of intent. I don't know, what I've seen of TRIANGLE feels like the fall-off from FORCE MAJEURE is becoming precipitous, but I hope I am wrong. And I realize there is some personal preference at play here as bluntness in art seems to be more in fashion these days.

Finally caught up with this at the Melbourne International Film Festival last night and liked it a lot, though I can see why some Östlund fans haven’t vibed with it: he’s let go of some of his previous films’ Haneke-style provocations and ethical dilemmas and embraced pure absurdist farce with this one (someone on Letterboxd said that it was as if Adam McKay decided to direct an art film, and I think that’s about right).

One link that I’m sure others have noticed but really stood out to me is to Jacques Rozier’s The Castaways of Turtle Island. I know it’s pretty obscure, but would be surprised if Östlund hasn’t seen it and wasn’t at least partially inspired by it, because the films have a lot in common – particularly in their final acts (they even, if I recall correctly, have the exact same twist ending in their respective final scenes). It’s funny because I was wondering why that film had never received an English-language remake – it’s such rich material, and its outline is totally viable as a Hollywood comedy – so maybe this is the closest we’re going to get.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2022 3:44 am**

Interesting, though I’m glad to have forgotten the bulk of that Rozier’s second half so the twist can still surprise me!

Posted: **Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:16 pm**

Main slate for the NYFF is up!

Posted: **Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:27 pm**

Navel-gazing warning: I've been restraining myself as long as possible from this most self-indulgent exercise, but with the majority of the Venice, Toronto, and New York festival lineups announced, I can no longer resist speculating about what I'll be trying to see in three weeks at the 49th Telluride Film Festival:

Very Likely Appearing at Telluride (>60% chance)
These are almost all basically confirmed by virtue of their Toronto/NYFF premiere status, barring some last-minute change of plans or error on the part of those festivals; the two exceptions are the Iñárritu and Guadagnino films, which Venice director Alberto Barbera indicated would be at Telluride but haven't been credibly confirmed otherwise. This is only 12 films, where usually there'd be 15-18 of the eventual 30ish titles confirmed by now, which points to the potential for a lot of unexpected surprises in the final program.

Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)'
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
Bardo (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Empire of Light (Sam Mendes)
Good Night Oppy (Ryan White)
Holy Spider (Ali Abassi)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
TÁR (Todd Field)
The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley)

Possibilities (40-60% chance)
These all seem like decent possibilities, mostly due to the filmmakers' histories with the festival.

Close (Lukas Dhont)
A Compassionate Spy (Steve James)
The Pale Blue Eye (Scott Cooper)
The US and the Holocaust (Ken Burns)

Long Shots (<40% chance)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Poitras) — the premiere status of this one at NYFF isn't clear; it's called a U.S. premiere in some places and not others, so I'll say it has a slim chance
Argentina 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
Athena (Romain Gavras)
Babylon (Damien Chazelle) — very unlikely this plays any festivals at all, but if it was going to it would probably be a sneak at Telluride given Chazelle's relationship with the festival, and it's probably the film I most want to see this year so let me have this fantasy for a few more weeks
Blonde (Andrew Dominik) — no indication it's playing anywhere except Venice yet, and the eventual schedule release for that festival should give a sense of whether it would even be a possibility
Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill) — like Blonde and Argentina 1985, zero indication that it's playing anywhere but Venice, but I'd love to see Hill get a career recognition tribute
Living (Oliver Hermanus)
Pinocchio (Guillermo Del Toro) — supposedly this isn't going to be finished in time, but if it was I'm sure they'd scramble to get it in
She Said (Maria Schrader)

Biggest Disappointments (<5% chance)
Telluride has been known to steal premieres from other festivals at the last minute or convince studios/directors to unexpectedly screen films, so there's only the slimmest of possibilities that these will appear, which bums me out, especially given the frequent appearances of Schrader, Baumbach, and Aronofsky at this festival.

The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
Master Gardener (Schrader)
R.M.N. (Crisitan Mungiu) — this was my top candidate for the Crushingly Depressing Eastern European Drama I look forward to so much at this festival each year
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
White Noise (Noah Baumbach)

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:53 pm**

The NYFF Spotlight selection, including new documentaries from Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, and Elvis Mitchell; a 50th anniversary screening of Solaris including live accompaniment of a new score; and the US premiere of Lars von Trier’s Kingdom Exodus

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:09 pm**

That's wild that they're going to premiere all five parts of Kingdom Exodus, I feel like festivals usually screen the first one or two episodes of most TV serials like this

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 5:56 pm**

Full schedule for TIFF revealed. Damien Chazelle is giving a talk midway through the festival, so here's hoping by then the Babylon trailer will drop

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:32 pm**

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:09 pm That's wild that they're going to premiere all five parts of Kingdom Exodus, I feel like festivals usually screen the first one or two episodes of most TV serials like this

Indeed, TIFF has a Kingdom Exodus screening but the listed runtime is just 120 mins.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 10:58 am**

The 44th Moscow International Film Festival opened Friday.

Festival head Nikita Mikhalkov, the Academy Award-winning director of “Burnt By The Sun,” ... praised Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.

“These days, the heroes are in Donbas,” he said.
“That is where the new elite and the new heroes are being born. Actually, a new world and a new society are being born there. The problem is that unfortunately not everybody understands that this is serious and it’s here to stay,” he said.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 11:17 am**

Lemmy Caution wrote:
The 44th Moscow International Film Festival opened Friday.

Festival head Nikita Mikhalkov, the Academy Award-winning director of “Burnt By The Sun,” ... praised Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.

“These days, the heroes are in Donbas,” he said.
“That is where the new elite and the new heroes are being born. Actually, a new world and a new society are being born there. The problem is that unfortunately not everybody understands that this is serious and it’s here to stay,” he said.

A leopard doesn’t change its spots.

Posted: **Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:20 pm**

Lineup for the 49th Telluride Film Festival, including world premieres for Sarah Polley, Sebastián Lelio, Sam Mendes, Anton Corbijn, Adam Curtis, Ken Burns, and more:

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The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the SHOW:
• ARMAGEDDON TIME (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway
• BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-U.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano
• BOBI WINE, GHETTO PRESIDENT (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-U.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi
• BONES AND ALL (d. Luca Guadagnino, U.S., 2022) In person: Luca Guadagnino, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance
• BROKER (d. Hirokazu Kore-eda, South Korea, 2022) In person: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Song Kang-ho
• CLOSE (d. Lukas Dhont, Belgium-France-Netherlands, 2022) In person: Lukas Dhont, Eden Dambrine
• A COMPASSIONATE SPY (d. Steve James, U.S.-U.K., 2022) In person: Steve James
• THE CORRIDORS OF POWER (d. Dror Moreh, U.S., 2022) In person: Dror Moreh
• EMPIRE OF LIGHT (d. Sam Mendes, U.K.-U.S., 2022) In person: Sam Mendes, Micheal Ward
• THE END OF THE WORLD (d. Matthew Tyrnauer, U.S., 2022) In person: Matthew Tyrnauer, Jonathan Lethem
• THE FUTURE TENSE (d. Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, Ireland, 2022) In person: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor, Molly Lawlor
• GODLAND (d. Hlynur Pálmason, Denmark-Iceland-France-Sweden, 2022) In person: Hlynur Pálmason, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
• GOOD NIGHT OPPY (d. Ryan White, U.S., 2022) In person: Ryan White, Steve Squyres
• HOLY SPIDER (d. Ali Abbasi, Denmark-Germany-Sweden-France, 2022) In person: Ali Abbasi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
• ICARUS: THE AFTERMATH (d. Bryan Fogel, U.S., 2022) In person: Bryan Fogel
• IF THESE WALLS COULD SING (d. Mary McCartney, U.K., 2022) In person: Mary McCartney
• LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (d. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, U.K.-U.S., 2022) In person: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell
• LAST FLIGHT HOME (d. Ondi Timoner, U.S., 2022) In person: Ondi Timoner, Morgan Doctor, Rabbi Rachel Timoner, and the Timoner family
• LIVING (d. Oliver Hermanus, U.K., 2022) In person: Oliver Hermanus, Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood
• THE MARCH ON ROME (d. Mark Cousins, Italy, 2022) In person: Mark Cousins
• MERKEL (d. Eva Weber, U.K.-Denmark-Germany, 2022) In person: Eva Weber
• MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK (d. Mark Cousins, U.K., 2022) In person: Mark Cousins
• ONE FINE MORNING (d. Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 2022) In person: Mia Hansen-Løve, Léa Seydoux
• RETROGRADE (d. Matthew Heineman, U.S., 2022) In person: Matthew Heineman, General Sami Sadat, Matt Chaney
• “SR.” (d. Chris Smith, U.S., 2022) In person: Chris Smith, Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey
• SQUARING THE CIRCLE (d. Anton Corbijn, U.K., 2022) In person: Anton Corbijn
• TÁR (d. Todd Field, U.S., 2022) In person: Todd Field, Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss
• TORI AND LOKITA (d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Belgium-France, 2022) In person: Joely Mbundu
• WILDCAT (d. Melissa Lesh and Trevor Beck Frost, U.S., 2022) In person: Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck Frost, Harry Turner, Samantha Zwicker
• WOMEN TALKING (d. Sarah Polley, U.S., 2022) In person: Sarah Polley, Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, August Winter, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil
• THE WONDER (d. Sebastián Lelio, U.K.-Ireland, 2022) In person: Sebastián Lelio

The 2022 Silver Medallion Awards, given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema, will be presented to Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett (with TÁR); award-winning writer-director Mark Cousins (with THE MARCH ON ROME and MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK); and celebrated actor, writer, and filmmaker Sarah Polley(with WOMEN TALKING). Tribute programs include a selection of clips, the presentation of the Silver Medallion, and a screening of the aforementioned films.

Additional episodic works and short films also playing in the main program are:
• ANASTASIA (d. Sarah McCarthy, U.K.-Russia, 2022) In person: Sarah McCarthy, Anastasiia Shevchenko, Vladislava Shevchenko, Mikhail Shevchenko
• ANGOLA DO YOU HEAR US? VOICES FROM A PLANTATION PRISON (d. Cinque Northern, U.S., 2022) In person: Cinque Northern, Liza Jessie Peterson
• THE BEST CHEF IN THE WORLD (d. Ben Proudfoot, U.S., 2022) In person: Ben Proudfoot
• GUERRILLA HABEAS (d. Emma Wall and Betsy Hershey, U.S., 2022) In person: Emma Wall, Betsy Hershey, Gregory Copeland, Baba Sillah, Mamou Drame
• LE PUPILLE (d. Alice Rohrwacher, Italy-U.S., 2022)
• MARIANNE (d. Lara Porzak and Rebecca Ressler, U.S., 2022) In person: Lara Porzak, Rebecca Ressler, Marianne Wiggins
• RUSSIA [1985-1999] TRAUMAZONE (d. Adam Curtis, U.K., 2022)
• THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST Episode 1 (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, U.S., 2022)

“While it can often feel like the world is crumbling around us, I continue to remind myself, at least we have movies,” remarks TFF executive director Julie Huntsinger. “And for every bit of doubt that meets that sentiment, our resolve to keep it true is exponentially intensified. My hope for this year’s Festival is that as our film-watching community gathers in Telluride, we remember that we cannot take this act for granted; that we will continue on after the Festival’s end and redouble our efforts to ensure we will long be able to sit in a dark room and be fortified by the enchanting and sometimes difficult stories we see. This year’s films challenge us and remind us how wonderful and hard it is to be alive.”

TFF’s 2022 Guest Directors, Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko, serve as key collaborators in the Festival’s programming decisions. Both will be present to introduce their finely curated film selections:
• ELEGY OF A VOYAGE (d. Aleksandr Sokurov, France-Russia-Netherlands, 2001)
• GETTING TO KNOW THE BIG, WIDE WORLD (d. Kira Muratova, Soviet Union, 1978)
• L’ATALANTE (d. Jean Vigo, France, 1934)
• OASIS (d. Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 2002)
• WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOME? (d. Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1987)
• THE WONDERS (d. Alice Rohrwacher, Italy-Switzerland-Germany, 2014)

“It was important to us to include the films that not only changed us as directors but also struck us as a miracle,” comment Balagov and Kovalenko. “They keep us from getting used to war and its nightmare, allow us to feel human and inspire hope that darkness will eventually vanish.”

Five film revival programs include two shows presented in collaboration with The Film Foundation: the five-hour miniseries EIGHT DEADLY SHOTS (d. Mikko Niskanen, Finland, 1972); ÉL (d. Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1953); two shows presented by Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films: THE MÉLIÈS AMERICAN NEGATIVES: World Premiere 3-D Screening and THE ROBBER SYMPHONY (d. Friedrich Feher, U.K., 1936); as well as KENTUCKY PRIDE (d. John Ford, U.S., 1925).

Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring films about movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and cultural icons, will screen the following programs:
• 1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR (d. Ran Tal, Israel-U.S.-U.K., 2022)
• DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY (d. Nancy Buirski, U.S., 2022)
• FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE (d. KD Davison, U.S., 2022)
• THE LAST RIDER (d. Alex Holmes, U.K., 2022)
• THE MÉLIÈS MYSTERY (d. Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange, France, 2021)
• MIÚCHA, THE VOICE OF BOSSA NOVA (d. Daniel Zarvos and Liliane Mutti, Brazil-France, 2022)
• THE PADILLA AFFAIR (d. Pavel Giroud, Spain-Cuba, 2022)
• SALVATORE: SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS (d. Luca Guadagnino, Italy, 2020)
• SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON (d. Mitra Farahani, France, 2022)

Special Screenings and Festivities programmed throughout the Festival include ORLANDO (d. Sally Potter, U.K.-Russia-Italy-France-Netherlands, 1992); THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER – FEATURING BRANDI CARLILE (d. Kathlyn Horan, U.S., 2022); THE FIRE WITHIN: A REQUIEM FOR KATIA AND MAURICE KRAFFT (d. Werner Herzog, U.K.-France-Switzerland-U.S., 2022); THEATER OF THOUGHT (d. Werner Herzog, U.S., 2022); WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER (d. Thomas von Steinaecker, Germany-U.K., 2022); Bobi Wine in Concert; and a poster signing with 49th TFF poster artist Leanne Shapton.

As usual, I’ve highlighted those that jump out as priorities on first glance, but any suggestions and recommendations are extremely welcome; I can probably only make it to 17 or so of these at best, and those are subject to the vagaries of scheduling, which I don’t have access to just yet.

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