Distributor Monday #8: Mubi / World of Reel Confirms and
Reveals Titles for TFF #52 / Another Television
Possibility?
DISTRIBUTION MONDAY #8: MUBI
Unlike the previous seven weeks, Mubi comes to Telluride with a much shorter resume only having initially screened a film at the fest in 2021. Overall Mubi has screened five films in the last four fests.
2021: Unclenching the Fists
2022: No film
2023: Fallen Leaves, High and Low-John Galliano, Tehachapi
2024: Bird
This year Mubi is loaded with potential TFF film after having gone on a buying spree at Cannes.
To start off, let's note that the Jim Jarmusch film, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother is not Telluride bound. This Mubi distributed film is going to North American Premiere as the Centerpiece of the New York Film Festival...so no T-ride play. But here's the rundown of those Mubi films that could play TFF #52 with an * indicating when a participant has previously attended Telluride.
The first of which we covered last Monday as Focus Features also has a piece of its U.S. distribution. Here that info is again:
The History of Sound. Dir. Oliver Hermanus*. Stars: Paul Mescal, Chris Cooper, Josh O'Connell. Release date: Sept. 12th.. IMDb description:
Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
Mescal and O'Connor are two of the hottest tickets around right now. I had been pretty high on its chances of a Telluride play what with the distributor and Oliver Hermanus having previously having Living at TFF #49.
La Grazia (Grace). Dir. Paolo Sorrentino*. Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti. Release date: TBD. IMDb description:
A love story set in Italy.
Seriously, that's the description.
La Grazia is opening the Venice Festival on Aug. 27th giving it plenty of time to make the jump to Colorado.
The Mastermind. Dir. Kelly Reichardt.* Stars: Josh O'Connor, John Magaro*, Bill Camp. The Mastermind played at Cannes in the Plame competition. The film had a fair critical average from Cannes-Ratings.org with a 6.29 our of 10 average. Release date: Oct.17th. IMDb description:
In 1970, Mooney and two cohorts wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. When holding onto the art proves more difficult than stealing them, Mooney is relegated to a life on the run.
Reichardt was last at Telluride in 2019 with First Cow.
Die, My Love. Dir, Lynne Ramsay*. Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek*. Also played in competition at Cannes and had a critical rating just above that of The Mastermind with a 6.53. Release date: Nov. 7th. IMDb description:
In a remote forgotten rural area, a mother struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.
Lynne Ramsay was last in Telluride with We Need to Talk Abut Kevin in 2011.
My Father's Shadow. Dir: Ankinola Davies. Stars: Sope Dirisu, Godwin Egbo. This film was in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes where critics responded strongly giving it a 7.47 average, the 12th best of all the films that were included in the composite ratings. Release date: TBD. IMDb description:
Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.
I have to believe that Mubi lands at least one of these titles. Probably more than one. The two "name" directors, Ramsay and Reichardt are the familiar possibilities but My Father's Shadow and Sound of Falling were more of the critical darlings at Cannes. As to La Grazia, I'm still skeptical it opens Venice and then travels.
Chances:
My Father's Shadow 45%
Die, My Love 40%
The Mastermind 40%
La Grazia 30%
WORLD OF REEL CONFIRMS AND REVEAL TITLES FOR TFF #52
Over the weekend World of Reel's Jordan Ruimy posted some updated Telluride news. The big reveals in the post were the seeming confirmations for Scott Cooper's Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern and The History of Sound starring Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal.
Ruimy also confirms films we were already pretty sure locks: Hamnet, The Ballad of a Small Player, Tuner, It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value and Nouvelle Vague.
Ruimy also confirms films that will NOT play Telluride including: The House of Dynamite, The Smashing Machine, Frankenstein, Mother Father Sister Brother and Marty Supreme.
And finally he's uncertain about whether Bugonia will or won't go the Telluride after Venice. I'm still cautiously optimistic.
And, here from YouTube, is the trailer for The History of Sound:
ANOTHER TELEVISION POSSIBILTY?
Last Thursday I posted a speculation about Apple TV+ returning to Telluride this year with The Savant starring Jessica Chastain. It seemed to me that after Disclaimer last year, that kind of situation might be repeated.
Then over the weekend I found out that Vince Gilligan's new series is set to be released by Apple TV+ on November 7th. The series is titled Pluribus and stars Rhea Seehorn, who, of course, was Kim Wexler for Gilligan for six seasons on Better Call Saul.
IMDb describes the series this way:
Follows the most miserable person on Earth and the one who must save the world from happiness.
So maybe this might be a candidate if TFF decides they want to partner up with Apple TV+ again this year.
PS...TIDBIT...Focus Features has dated Ronan Day-Lewis's Anemone for Oct. 3rd. So...maybe?
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