Notes from Friday at Telluride where the festival had world premieres of Nickel Boys, Conclave, and Piece by Piece.
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Telluride kicks off 51st SHOW with lineup drop, tribute announcements
Telluride announces the lineup for the 51st show.
Jeff Nichols revisits a rough and tumble motorcycle club in The Bikeriders
Taking inspiration from Danny Lyon’s iconic book of photography The Bikeriders, director Jeff Nichols uses his admiration for the images of mid-century motorcyclists as the basis for a fictionalized account of a Chicago-based motorcycle club.
June Squibb is an unlikely action star in Thelma
This caper starring June Squibb as a 93-year-old granny on a Cruise-inspired impossible mission to avenge her honor after being phone scammed & Fred Hechinger as underemployed Grandson of the Year might be the Most Sundance Movie of the fest: impeccably made, note-perfect, heartwarming comedy.
SIFF-favorite Ghostlight returns for an encore performance
Directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson leverage the chemistry of a real-life family in crafting a drama about a working-class Chicago-area household. When we first meet the family in a principal’s office as they’re still reeling from the aftershocks of an unspecified trauma and the mounting stress of a looming lawsuit.
SIFF 2024: Making Of, Killing Romance and Sebastian
These are three films Morgen was incredibly eager to view and it ended up being a mixed bag of contentment and disappointment. She talks of a French meta-film about film, an over-the-top South Korean dark comedy, and an intimate portrait of male prostitution.
SIFF 2024: The Box Man, Bonjour Switzerland, Chuck Chuck Baby
With a smattering of films Morgen was able to see during SIFF, she tells us why these three, that are all set to have a wider release or show at a SIFF cinema near you, are worthy of your time… or at least strange enough to experience for yourself.
After wowing Sundance and SIFF, I Saw The TV Glow opens wide in Seattle
Into each generation a new Donnie Darko is born. With Lynchian threads as applied to post-millennial trans awakenings, grounded in a deep love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and coming with its own slew of possible interpretations, Jane Schoenbrun’s eerie, visually entrancing, and sonically inventive cautionary love note to the nineties just might be it for the Zoomies.
SIFF 2024 Notebook: The Primevals
The Primevals (2023 | USA | 90 minutes | David Allen) It sounds strange with hindsight, but there was a time when …
Evil Does Not Exist: after a tantalizing festival circuit, Hamaguchi’s latest lands a local run
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.