Actress Marion Cotillard didn’t really explode onto the domestic film stage until “La Vie en Rose,” and what a coming out it was. She managed to win an Oscar that few (ahem) saw coming and transformed that newfound respect and goodwill into a thriving Hollywood career, but it was hardly an overnight success story.
'Dark Knight Rises' and 'Rust & Bone' star Marion Cotillard honored in Telluride
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:08 pm · September 1st, 2012
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'Central Park Five' is a crushing indictment of mob mentality and miscarried justice
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:59 am · September 1st, 2012
“I hope this film makes you angry,” filmmaker Sarah Burns said by way of introduction to this morning’s screening of “The Central Park Five.” She co-directed the film with her father, Ken Burns (a Telluride staple — as is Sarah: this is her 20th fest) and husband David McMahon. And angry is a good way to put it.
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Germany selects Berlinale winner 'Barbara' for the foreign-language Oscar race
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:37 am · September 1st, 2012
Christian Petzold’s superb Stasi-era drama is also playing Telluride this weekend.
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Review: Seductive, elliptical 'The Master' answers to no man
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:29 am · September 1st, 2012
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest stimulates and mystifies in equal measure.
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Laura Linney returns to Telluride with stuffy 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:19 pm · August 31st, 2012
Actress Laura Linney — a part-time Telluride resident — missed the festival last year for the first time in eight years. Well, she’s back this year with the film that kept her away in 2011.
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Spike Lee unveils adoring Michael Jackson doc 'Bad 25' in Venice
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:50 pm · August 31st, 2012
This cinematic tribute to Jackson’s 1987 blockbuster album will air on ABC at Thanksgiving.
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Filmmaker Roger Corman to be toasted by the Telluride Film Festival
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:08 am · August 31st, 2012
The maverick filmmaker gets another tribute in the twilight of his career.
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Review: Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron defeat the dream in smart, muscular 'At Any Price'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:00 pm · August 30th, 2012
Boos greeted Ramin Bahrani’s unsubtle but gutsy film at its first Venice screening.
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Clint Eastwood to serve as 'mystery guest speaker' for Republican National Convention
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:17 pm · August 30th, 2012
What could it mean for his Oscar season hopes?
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Academy changes original song rules again
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:02 pm · August 30th, 2012
Plus: Best Art Direction becomes Best Production Design.
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'Frances Ha,' 'Hyde Park on Hudson' and more set for 39th Telluride Film Festival
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:47 am · August 30th, 2012
I’ve just landed at the airport and gotten a look at the fresh-off-the-presses release announcing the line-up for the 39th annual Telluride Film Festival. As I await the shuttle into Telluride for my fourth-straight SHOW, and as many of my Los Angeles brethren board the charter flight into Montrose here, let’s dig in and see what’s in store.
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A look ahead to the rest of the Venice Film Festival
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:18 pm · August 29th, 2012
The fest kicked off today with ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist,’ but what’s coming up?
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More on the four GKIDS animated feature qualifiers
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:17 pm · August 29th, 2012
‘From Up on Poppy Hill,’ ‘Le Tableau,’ ‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ and ‘Zarafa’ officially join the race.
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Review: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' weighed down with all-caps ambiguity
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:10 am · August 29th, 2012
Director Mira Nair’s touch is still AWOL in thoughtful but drab Venice opener.
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Toronto festival audiences to see a different cut of Walter Salles's 'On the Road'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:24 pm · August 28th, 2012
Despite mixed reaction at Cannes, one of the films I’ve been most looking forward to all year has been Walter Salles’s “On the Road.” It’s set to play Toronto next month, and I have heard that Tom Luddy — one of the Telluride Film Festival programmers — is high on the film, so it could pop up there (fingers crossed). But as it turns out, it won’t be the version seen on the Croisette in May.
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Baumbach, Chase, De Palma, Kiarostami and Zemeckis set for NYFF programs
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:24 pm · August 27th, 2012
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today a bunch more goodies for the upcoming 50th annual New York Film Festival.
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Tom Holland, 16-year-old star of 'The Impossible,' joins the Best Actor race
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:13 pm · August 27th, 2012
We’ve seen it time and again. Young performers like Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”), Mary Badham (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) and Tatum O’Neal (“Paper Moon”), though largely considered leads in their films, are campaigned in the supporting ranks. But in the case of young Tom Holland in Juan Antonio Bayona’s “The Impossible”: not so fast.
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GKIDS picks up 'Ernest & Celestine' for a fall 2013 release (UPDATED)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:18 pm · August 27th, 2012
But the indie studio still has a lot to play with this year.
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