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.
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Telluride 2023: dispatches from The Taste of Things, All of Us Strangers, and The Royal Hotel
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.
Telluride 2023: dispatches from the Zone of Interest, A Strange Way of Life, and Nyad
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 2023: dispatches from premieres of The Bikeriders, Rustin, and Saltburn
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.
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.
One Fine Morning finds the profound in pedestrian rhythms of life
One Fine Morning witnesses a key disappearance play out in the the grinding rhythms of real life.
Oscar-nominated Close is a tragedy of teenage masculinity
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.
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.
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.
Telluride 2022: Aftersun, Close, One Fine Morning
Three stories of loss and longing on the last days of the Telluride Film Festival: Aftersun, Close, and One Fine Morning