TFF #52 Poster Released / 50 Fall Film Possibilities /
Cannes Sales Update /
TFF #52 POSTER RELEASED
It dropped yesterday and here it is:
And the press release from TFF:
We are proud to unveil our 2025 Festival poster, created by celebrated cartoonist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes.
Daniel Clowes is one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in contemporary graphic storytelling. Best known for his seminal comic-book series Eightball and the cult classic graphic novel Ghost World, Clowes has defined the landscape of alternative comics for over three decades. His body of work includes Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, David Boring, Ice Haven, The Death-Ray, Wilson, and Patience. His most recent book, Monica, was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the 100 greatest works of fiction of the 21st century.
Clowes received an Academy Award nomination (with Terry Zwigoff) for the screenplay adaptation of Ghost World and has been recognized with a PEN America Literary Award, as well as numerous Eisner and Harvey Awards. His work has been exhibited in a solo retrospective, Modern Cartoonist, at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and other venues. His illustrations have appeared on movie posters, album covers, multiple covers of The New Yorker, and even a Hermès scarf. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife Erika.
Clowes shared, “I’m thankful to the Telluride Film Festival for giving me the opportunity to focus my energy on something unassailably positive and noble in these dystopic times.”
Festival director Julie Huntsinger adds, “We’ve long admired Dan’s unparalleled ability to tell emotional, layered stories through both image and language. His poster for this year’s festival is a rich and brilliant capsule of that – a perfect reflection of his depth and wit through the lens of cinema and all that it can offer.”
50 FALL FILM POSSIBILITIES
Ezra Cubero writing for Silver Screen Express has posted his annual set of speculation about which films might go where as regards Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York. It's an interesting take with some surprise.
I culled the post and began by creating a list of the films that Cubero thinks have some shot at the TFF #52 lineup. It's a lengthy list which follows below (with director listed to the right).
After the Hunt/Guadagnino
Anemone/Day-Lewis
At the Sea/Mundruczo
Blue Moon/Linklater*
Bugonia/Lanthimos
Christy Martin Biopic/Michod
Deliver Me from Nowhere/S. Cooper
Eleanor the Great/Johansson
Hamnet/Zhao
Hedda/DaCosta
The History of Sound/Hermanus
It Was Just an Accident/Panahi
Jay Kelly/Baumbach
Kiss of the Spiderwoman/Condon*
Late Fame/Jones
A Magnificent Life/Chomet
Marty Supreme/J. Safdie
The Mastermind/Reichardt
Nouvelle Vague/Linklater
Rental Family/Hikari
The Rivals of Amziah King/Patterson**
Roofman/Cianfrance
The Secret Agent/Filho
Sentimental Value/Trier
Sirat/Laxe
The Smashing Machine/B. Safdie
Sound of Falling/Schiliniski
* indicates a premiere at Sundance
** indictaes a premiere at South by Southwest
Notable films that Cubero does not mention as a Telluride possibility at all:
Alpha/Ducournau
The Ballad of a Small Player/Berger
Die My Love/Ramsay
Father Mother Sister Brother/Jarmusch
Frankenstein/Del Toro
One Battle after Another/PT Anderson
And one last note. Cubero doesn't pick Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On for telluride but does write about it saying: "Telluride might not happen." Which isn't a total rejection of its chances.
Cubero was pretty solid on this last year hitting 13 films he listed as "Yes" or "Maybe" for Telluride that actually made the lineup. His post last year went up on June 24th.
CANNES SALES UPDATE
Indiewire has kept track of sales during and after the 78th Cannes Film Fest and I have taken a look at buyers/titles that do not have an announced release date or do have a release date post-Telluride. I also focused on distributors that have had a fairly serious presence at TFF over the past few years.
Here's the rundown beginning with Neon, which went on a buying spree.
Neon (7): It Was Just an Accident, Sirat, The Secret Agent, Alpha, Orwell 2+2=5, Sentimental Value, Splitsville.
Mubi (5): Sound of Falling, Die My Love, The History of Sound, The Mastermind, My Father's Shadow.
Sony Pictures Classics (3): The President's Cake, Eleanor the Great, A Magnificent Life.
Janus Films (3): Magellan, The Love That Remains, Resurrection.
Netflix (2): Left-Handed Girl, Nouvelle Vague.
A24 (1): Pillion.
Kino Lorber (1): Amrum.
Lots of TFF potential here.
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