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The best thing Emerald Fennell does with her sharp satiric follow-up to A Promising Young Woman is giving the always-sublime weirdo Barry Keoghan a whole goddamned movie to finally let his freak flag fly. She brings a distinctly female gaze to a twisty class comedy about an Oxford scholarship nerd falling in (and in love with) with the college’s landed party people elite through the transformative power of doing a fortuitous favor for a fellow student.
For the fourth day of the Telluride Film Festival, we caught screenings of fresh takes on familiar myths in the form of Poor Things, Anatomy of a Fall, and El Conde.
For the third day of the Telluride Film Festival, we caught screenings of The Royal Hotel, All of Us Strangers, and The Taste of Things.
For the second day of the Telluride Film Festival, we caught the world premiere of Nyad plus A Strange Way of Life and Cannes Grand Prix winner The Zone of Interest.
Telluride Film Festival kicked off the 50th edition of “The SHOW” on Thursday afternoon, complete with a luchador erupting from a giant cake on the town’s main thoroughfare and a host of world premiere screenings sprawling out over an extra day. Quick takes below, with updates throughout the festival.
The most mysterious of the big fall film festivals, Telluride keeps its lineup a secret until festivalgoers are already en route to the high-altitude of the San Juan mountain town. Sure enough, just as I was boarding my flight for Colorado they provided me ample reading material to prep for the extended Labor Day weekend of moviegoing.
One Fine Morning witnesses a key disappearance play out in the the grinding rhythms of real life.
In his follow-up to Girl, Lukas Dhont presents a tragedy of toxic masculinity and its insidious effects on a teenage friendship in rural Belgium.
As an English nurse hired to witness a possible miracle in Ireland, Florence Pugh is a steely presence in The Wonder, Sebastián Lelio’s adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel. A spiritual detective story of sorts emerges in a remote Irish village where a young girl appears to have survived for months without eating. A council of serious men — physicians, town elders, a priest — decide that a two week observation by two nurses taking eight hour shifts is the only way to determine whether the feat is divine intervention or some sort of hoax.
Saturday brought another tribute, this time to the legendary Cate Blanchett to coincide with the US premiere of Todd Field’s TÁR. We spend two hours and forty masterfully controlled minutes with the prodigious, highly-lauded, multiply-degreed conductor Lydia Tár.
