Festivals News

Telluride kicks off 50th SHOW with lineup drop, tribute announcements

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.

Reviews

The Wonder is a haunting reckoning of faith and reason in post-famine Ireland

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.

Festivals Reviews

Cate Blanchett conducts a monumental performance in TÁR

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.