Every year, the curation at the Telluride Film Festival is almost second-to-none. If you want a good idea of what quality films to expect this fall season then what Telluride head Julie Huntsinger and her team select is the way to go.
With the TIFF announcement coming, along with premiere statuses, we can somewhat scroll through the TIFF lineup and look for labels such as “Canadian Premiere” and “International Premiere” for better clues.
Michael Patterson’s Telluride prediction blog will probably be all over this later today, but I’ll get a head-start. This is how Telluride looks right now:
Telluride-bound:
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
TAR (Todd Field)
Bardo (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Empire of Light (Sam Mendes)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
The Wonder (Sebastian Lelio)
Telluride-bound Cannes holdovers:
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
Holy Spider (Ali Abassi)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)
Unconfirmed possibilities:
White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
Living (Hermanus)
Golda (Guy Nattiv)
Pale Blue Eye (Scott Cooper)
Close (Luca’s Dhont)
Good Night Oppy (Ryan White)
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
Curiously, NOT going to Telluride:
Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”
Florian Zeller’s “The Son”
Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter”
Tobias Lindholm’s “The Good Nurse”
Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears”
Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King”
Mark Mylod’s “The Menu”
Peter Farrelly’s “The Greatest Beer Run”
Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Other People’s Children”
Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer”
Hong Sang-soo’s “Walk Up”
Henry Selick’s “Wendell & Wild”