AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 303 – 52nd Telluride Film Festival Preview
We’re a mere 11 days before the 52nd Telluride Film Festival kicks off on Labor Day weekend and we have a packed show. On episode 303 AwardsWatch Editor-In-chief Erik Anderson is joined by Executive Editor Ryan McQuade, Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello, contributors Mark Johnson and Jorge Tenreiro and Christina Birro of Pop Culture Confidential to break down what we think will be at Telluride this season, who might be getting Silver Medallions and much more.
On this episode the crew looks at how Toronto and New York film festival designations give us the clues we need to see what will, or might, be showing up at Telluride including coveted world premieres, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, and Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player with Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton among them. Telluride is also full of Cannes winner carryovers and we expect to see Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prize winner) and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s double winner The Secret Agent (Best Director, Best Actor Wagner Moura) — all NEON films — in the lineup. There’s also a certain amount of sleuthing involved in the guessing game and is there a chance that A24 debuts Mother Mary here? We’ll have to wait and see…
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This podcast runs 1h4m. We will be back in next week to talk about Spike Lee’s newest film Highest 2 Lowest and talk about our Top 5 Spike Lee joints. Till then, let’s get into it.
Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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