Our first dispatch from the 51st Telluride Film Festival! Christina is in the mountains of Colorado covering the legendary film festival. Christina talks about the exciting 2024 movie line up that was just announced yesterday. And talks to AwardsWatch Ryan McQuade about why Netflix buying Pablo Larraín's 'Maria', starring Angelina Jolie, sent shock waves through the film community. Stay tuned for more!
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I'm Christina Yerling-Biro, and this is a short first dispatch from the 51st Telluride Film Festival, a beacon for cinephiles and one of the major fall film festivals taking place parallel to Venice and right before Toronto. I'll be reporting from the festival and after I'll have interviews and reviews and so on. You can check out our Telluride preview episode that I have the pleasure of doing over at awardswatch.com and I'll be collaborating with them throughout. Julie Hunsinger, executive director at the Telluride Film Festival keeps the official lineup under wraps until the day before the festival, so we've just got the official lineup yesterday, and it's an exciting mix of what seems like powerful movies, awards hopefuls, wonderful new discoveries, and there'll be a ton of filmmakers and actors here on the mountain from Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez, director Joshua Oppenheimer, Jason Reitman, Pablo Lorraine, you name it. One of the films announced that I'm really looking forward to are Romel Ross Nickelboys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. I hear that this could be one of the most powerful films of the fest. I'm seeing that later today. Jason Reitman's Saturday Night, the film about the first episode of SNL in 1975. Malcolm Washington's adaptation of August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson, his father Denzel, is producing. A much buzzed-about film, Edward Berger's religious thriller Conclave with Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini, Joshua Oppenheimer's apocalyptic musical The End sounds so interesting. Starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon cannot wait for that one. Films that first premiered in Cannes earlier this year, Sean Baker's Palm Door winner Anora will be here, Andrea Arnold's Bird, Muhammad Rasaluf's The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light will also be here at Tellurite. That's just a short little summary of the lineup as we head into the movie theaters later today. I'll be back with you here, but maybe more quickly on Instagram and X @ChristinaBiro with reviews and thoughts on the films, but I wanted to leave you with a little something else besides all the movies premiering of course there's a lot of movie news, acquisitions, awards, predictions, and buzz. The news that Pablo Lorraine's biopic about opera singer Maria Callis, starring Angelina Gili, has been bought by Netflix, became a huge thing. So I asked Executive Editor at Awards Watch Ryan McQuaid here covering the festival why this is such big news and why it almost seems to be controversial to some. George Clooney and Brad Pitt's new movie "Walls" is on Apple TV+ September 27th. So if you want to see George Clooney and Brad Pitt go to Apple TV+ or if you want to see Brad Pitt and George Clooney go to Apple TV+ and if you want to see their new movie "You can't do it, we can help you, I can do it, do it, definitely go to Apple TV+." So Ryan yesterday, shockwaves because it turns out that Netflix has bought Pablo Lorraine's Maria starring Angelina Gili. Talk to me about why is this a shocker? Well it's a shocker because for multiple reasons. One it's right before the festival start. We kind of knew that Maria was going to be a title that dropped this announcement. I think it was the Little Gold Men Vanity Fair Podcast kind of knew that there was already a buyer and through some conversations with mutuals at the studio and just around. There was kind of the feeling but maybe not the feeling that this wasn't a film on their radar but I think the other most reason that people didn't think that this was going to happen was because of Amelia Perez which has already started its campaign run and people have been... so Maria Perez is the hit out of Cannes with Carla Sofia Gascon which Netflix bought. It's the musical that's coming to tell you right as well and I think there you have Gascon everyone talking about her being as a presumptive Oscar best actress nominee. Yeah and the collective best actress prize was all the women of Amelia Perez which has been front and center already in the marketing and in the trailers even though they refused to show that it's a musical but you know that's just how movies market everything nowadays they don't... the bookie man in Hollywood is the musical folks but I was both surprised and happy because I wanted Maria to have a good home and I think that it'll have a very good campaign because Netflix is great at getting people in. Films are a different story but it is a competitive year as always it's the start of it and you give them the benefit of the doubt because if you can get into those five then you got a shot. But are people worried that they're going to sort of take each other out the women of Amelia Perez and Angelina Jolie and that Netflix can essentially can they run two huge campaigns at once. They can run two campaigns at once I mean they did it last year was Carrie Mulligan and with Annette Benning to very different films to very different campaigns to very different careers and they were able to get them both in now obviously they weren't able to get them over to the winning side of things because the favoritism by the academy and the appeal was to the other three actresses and they were bigger films in the year and I expect Maria to be a film that we're talking about and Amelia Perez is across the board still the contender for Netflix they think that that's their picture play because they also have the piano lesson and while that doesn't have an actress pull that's stuff that could take away from other categories and I think which is the Denzel Washington and his family is film well Denzel is producing it right Washington is the director hits his son and John David Washington is the obviously his son and an actor and the lead along with Daniel Detweiler Corey Hawkins and Samuel Jackson who we all assume will be a very strong supporting actor contender so that's kind of where they're at they have Detweiler and Zoe Saldana right that are going to be competing in supporting actress no one's talked about that as like well as Saldana and Detweiler going to cancel each other out so if they if we're not talking about that and supporting actress then we'll give me fine and lead actress I and this is where my personal thing happens is that every year and and I know that this is going to sound super selfish but you know Christine asked the question folks I've I always every year want to see the representation from my community up on the screen what regardless of what the subject matter is about and there are always fantastic campaigns for Asian actors and for black actors and for female actors and now and for gay actors and just everybody in between and the ones that I feel are always underrepresented is the Latino community and to have a Latino trans woman at the forefront of this that is a extremely special thing and it's a delicate thing also too it's a I mean that campaign has to be very done to the tea and I expect them to have all that but it would it feel like a monumental moment might get sidracted by a monumental performance from Angelina Jolie that we've already seen the stills I saw a clip yesterday for it I'm very much in the bag for it and I'm excited to see it me too so I know everyone is reactionary online and that's how it is I'm more just disappointed because I thought that was just going to be their sole play and most studios already have their actress play I don't know I haven't seen the films we're obviously gonna see them hopefully this weekend and I'll be able to judge it better there but you know Gascon is getting already her tributes in her prizes that are being announced at regional festivals and things and Jolie is getting a tiff tribute and she's probably gonna get a maybe a nice shiny medallion to tell your eye for it and the campaign is already beginning and but at the end of the day if a winner wants to emerge someone or something is going to have to be set aside and so it'll be fascinating to see how that works out but I'm very hopeful that we can still have them in the race and that this movie which is very important I think Amelia Perez is a very important film even not seeing it I know how important this thing is talking with you and others it just is a little it did leave me a little disappointed at first but I think that they are going to do fine to sum it up Netflix has its hands full a lot they do but they're a great team and all the people over there that I work with there you know or that Eric works with or you work with or everybody they're fantastic they're one of the hardest working they're great people and they they get these actors and these directors in every place they need to be have great conversations we have great interviews we have conversations I mean you talked with Gascon already you know and I'm I know Angelina will do some interviews as well too and I'm confident in that team to get them in and then I'm I am confident that they are going to finally break through they're gonna have it rubber has to meet the road at a certain point over the last six years and I think they know it and I think that they're confident in both of those films that one can be the bigger player and maybe the other one is more of a supporting player with a big name attached to it and also they have a relationship with Pablo Rain from Alkonda last year so it made sense it would like it would make it would have made sense with queer I know we haven't I know you know we don't want to get on that too quickly but queer announced with with a 24 and a 24 is had Lucas films before this is Luca Guarranino's with Daniel Craig based on the boroughs novel queer and they announced that that got picked up by a 24 now we all kind of assumed it would be Amazon because Amazon's done a fantastic job kind of curating Lucas films last couple years and they have his next film and they have challenges from this year but a 24 is also someone you know I believe they had called me by your name if I'm not mistaken or they had something else from him maybe I'm wrong about that I don't know we'll see I have to check that afterwards so don't hold me to that but I do believe that they have hadn't at least one of his films before so they're familiar with him and they didn't I mean they have Coleman Domingo just now them getting queer her Coleman Domingo for for Sing Sing I don't know it'll be fascinating to see and that's what's so beautiful about it it's the beginning of the race we haven't even started we haven't even started yet we haven't even gotten to our shuttle yet folks and we will soon we're heading up the mountain thank you so much Ryan we'll talk to you again this weekend I hope oh yeah because we're gonna be together here we'll be here together and we'll be we'll be attached to the hip talking about some some reactions to things and there should be a should be some fun stuff to talk about thank you so much Ryan I will talk to you again subscribe to pop culture confidential for more wherever you get your podcasts and follow me on at Christina Bureau at Instagram and X and stay tuned for more see you next time coming up on five minute news I'm Anthony Davis you might think it's partisan because maybe it's critical of one side or the other but it's not just the truth and I think that's also something that's kind of unusual for Americans listening to the radio or to podcasts because the news landscape in the States has been so partisan for so many decades so five minute news is verified truthful independent unbiased and essential world news daily [BLANK_AUDIO]
Our first dispatch from the 51st Telluride Film Festival! Christina is in the mountains of Colorado covering the legendary film festival. Christina talks about the exciting 2024 movie line up that was just announced yesterday. And talks to AwardsWatch Ryan McQuade about why Netflix buying Pablo Larraín's 'Maria', starring Angelina Jolie, sent shock waves through the film community. Stay tuned for more!
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