Three stories of loss and longing on the last days of the Telluride Film Festival: Aftersun, Close, and One Fine Morning
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Telluride 2022: The Wonder, Bones and All
Two esteemed international directors brought stories of hunger and horror to the Telluride Film Festival in the form of a World Premiere for Sebastián Lelio’s gothic mystery The Wonder and a US premiere for Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal love story Bones and All
Telluride 2022: Empire of Light and Armageddon Time
The nineteen eighties were in the air at Telluride, with new films from Sam Mendes and James Gray revisiting a tumultuous year of personal histories in England and New York, respectively.
Telluride 2022: Women Talking, Icarus: the Aftermath, and Broker
The opening day of Telluride saw premieres of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, Bryan Fogel’s sequel to Icarus, and Kore-eda’s Broker.
A megachurch navigates a crisis in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Adamma Ebo’s film about a disgraced prosperity gospel preacher (Sterling K. Brown) and the church’s stand-by-your man “First Lady” (Regina Hall) on the precipice of an Easter resurrection, it plays like satire. It has the conceits of a mockumentary, with its oblivious subjects still under the impression that they can reshape their image through force of will and the power of positive projection.
Telluride 2022: Up, up, and away, 49th edition of the Show launches tomorrow
September marks the beginning of “Awards Season” proper, with three major international festivals providing platforms for some of the world’s greatest filmmakers to make a splash in front of adoring audiences. Venice kicked off earlier this week, TIFF launches on September 8 in Toronto, and high in the San Juans mountains, Telluride Film Festival provides a breathtaking setting for a Labor Day weekend packed with films.
Orcas Island Film Festival Rebounds in 2022
The much-beloved Orcas Island Film Festival took 2020 off for the pandemic but eased its way back in 2021 in a more …
Spin Me Round star Alison Brie talks to us about her hilarious new movie, opening this weekend at SIFF
Spin Me Round is the latest collaboration between Alison Brie and Jeff Baena, whose other films include The Little Hours and Horse Girl. Often, as with The Little Hours and Spin Me Round, Baena’s spouse Aubrey Plaza also stars. Alison Brie’s character is Amber, a young manager in the Exemplary Manager program at Tuscan Garden who finds there may be in Italy for reasons other than her potential in restaurant management.
Golden Space Needle winner The Territory brings indigenous activism into focus
The title of The Territory refers to a large swath of rainforest inhabited by the dwindling population of Uru-eu-wau-wau people, who first came into contact with non-Native Brazilians in 1981. Until recently, strict protections have made this land one of the few remaining bulwarks against the rampant clear-cutting that threatens to fundamentally erase the lush and biodiverse Amazon river basin.
Alex Pritz’s documentary juxtaposes life among the Uru-eu-wau-wau with those of indigent farm workers seeking to establish their own settlements within the untouched lands as a way of elevating themselves from poverty.
Girl Picture is a dramatically beautiful story of first love and teen angst
Rönkkö and Mimmi are best friends, the kind of buddies that tell each other everything, wear each others’ clothes, and support each other through thick and thin. Throw in more than a few hormones, discovering what your body wants, and how to even talk to someone you’re interested in and you’ve got the jumbled pile we call puberty; that’s exactly where we find these two women.