Alexander Payne's "Downsizing"
George Clooney’s “Suburbicon”
Guillermo Del Toro’s “The Shape of Water”
Martin McDonaugh‘s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Andrew Haigh‘s “Lean On Pete”
Paul Schrader‘s “First Reformed”
Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama”
Abdellatif Kechiche's "Mektoub Is Mektoub"
Where's Darren Aronofsky's "Mother," Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner 2049," Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris' "The Battle of the Sexes," Tomas Alfredsson's "The Snowman," and Joe Wright's "The Darkest Hour"? Probably all TIFF and/or Telluride bound.
Next week TIFF and Venice are supposed to announce a slew of titles. We'll know more come Tuesday with Toronto and Wednesday with Venice.
[Variety]
I briefly mentioned Ben Affleck's "Animals" yesterday, but I need to get more into it, because this thing, now streaming on Netflix, is one of the most baffling efforts I've seen from a serious director in a long time.