6 Search Results for “telluride film festival”

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    Hockey, Pasolini and Another Serial Killer at Toronto International Film Festival

    With 300 films, some 150 of them world premieres, the Toronto International Film Festival resists being reduced to a few themes. One inconvenient truth that haunts this and other festivals won’t go away. As the movie audience shrinks, especially among the young who used to sustain the film business, hundreds (maybe thousands) of films are still trying into connect with it. At a festival like TIFF, those films and their More …

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    Telluride Fest: Docs On Rumsfeld, Iranian Exiles, French Radio

    One of Telluride Film Festival‘s many idiosyncracies is that the festival does not announce its program in advance. The festival has begun once the program is out. Here are a few suggestions about movies that have been much-awaited. In my view the most-awaited film at the festival, is The Unknown Known by Errol Morris, his portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the man who brought you the war in Iraq and some great neologisms, More …

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    Review: Nowhere Boy and More at the Aspen Film Festival

    Aspen Filmfest opened the last week of September, just before what would have been John Lennons 70th birthday. With blue skies and yellow leaves outside, the headliner on the big screen was Nowhere Boy, video artist and director Sam Taylor-Woods debut feature bio-pic about John Lennons teen years in Liverpool – named for Lennons  band that preceded the Beatles. The movie opened October 8th nationally. And to commemorate Lennons 70th, More …

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    Movie Review: The King’s Speech

    In preparing for the Toronto International Film Festival and reading some of the press coverage that came out of the Telluride Film Festival, I noticed praise for The Kings Speech by Tom Hooper, starring Colin Firth as the Duke of York (second in line to the throne of England in the 1930s) and Geoffrey Rush as the speech therapist without any real credentials who helps the troubled royal overcome the More …

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    Must-Sees at Sundance

    The truism about Sundance is that it has grown — in all sorts of directions. During the festival, sitting in endless traffic jams, you wish that Park City had grown as gracefully, instead of simply cashing in on an annual infusion of big spenders who have nowhere else to go. That said, bear in mind that Sundance is a filter as well as a spotlight and a megaphone for lots More …

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    Dark Blood – Cry Me a River

    River Phoenix gets an afterlife in Dark Blood, a modern western exhumed by the Eye Netherlands Film Institute. The moral tale, seen for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival, is a polemic set on irradiated Indian land. It was shelved after Phoenix overdosed and died at the age of 23 in 1993 – and presumably after the company that insured the production paid out a huge settlement. More …