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So far, there is no consensus Oscar frontrunner like there was at this time last year, and many of the biggest Oscar hopefuls haven’t yet been seen. We’ll have a good sense of one of them early next week. The New York Film Festival plans to show a work in progress film by a “legendary” filmmaker this Monday. It has to be one of several Oscar-bait films that weren’t completed in time to be shown at the festivals. So it’s either Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse or The Adventures of Tintin, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, or David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The festival will begin selling tickets by Friday, so we’ll know soon. I’m told this is the first time that the festival has done this kind of thing, and that the unfinished film will be screened Columbus Day at 7 PM at Avery Fisher Hall.
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It’s NYFF’s first time showing an unfinished film? Didn’t Beauty and the Beast show as a WIP at NYFF like in 1991?
My money is on J.Edgar, MAYBE War Horse.
“Legendary” would more accurately apply to Spielberg, Scorsese or Eastwood, rather than Daldry, Fincher or Reitman (as much as I love all of them). Since this is the NY Film Festival, I’ll predict it’s Scorsese.
Could a 3D movie with CGI really be shown as a work in progress? I’m leaning towards J Edgar as a more likely option.
Correct! It’s Scorsese!
You’re told this is the first time that the festival has done this kind of thing? What screen a work in progress? Disney showed “Beauty & The Beast” as a work in progress and had Robbie Benson introduce it. It was so well received they actually released it on Laser Disc and then eventually DVD.
Hugo at the NYFF? I don’t think so. Has to be J Edgar.
NYFF and Eastwood go hand in hand.
J. Edgar is probably not a work-in-progress anymore. Spielberg isn’t exactly the NYFF type. It’s probably Scorsese. None of the others are exactly legendary filmmakers yet.
In fact, J. Edgar ISN’T a work-in-progress. It’s been rated by the MPAA.
I’d wager on Eastwood. He has a relationship with the Film Society of Lincoln Center — as they did a big retro on him last year
didn’t the NYFF show a ‘work-in-progress’ cut of Beauty and the Beast in ’91?
They changed the wording to “master filmmaker”.
It’s Dragon Tattoo.
“Legendary”, you say? Must be Diablo Cody.
It’s Hugo. No doubt. And it’s going to be a surprisingly spectacular gem.
Just seen Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the material world, awsome and he made this while making Hugo and Shutter Island, he is legendary. Go Marty.
Everyone’s in love with Fincher these days so I’m leaning toward Dragon Tattoo, but since Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is all about New York, I’d say that’s the one.
I think the fact that the screening is being held in Avery Fisher Hall is a big factor, place is normally home to the NY philharmonic a massive extremely beautiful theatre. Dragon or Hugo!