Festival fever: 40 films we predict will premiere at Venice, Toronto and...
New films from Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hanks, Emily Blunt and Amy Adams are set to be unveiled at the upcoming festivals. Here’s our run-down of what to expectHere we go again. After this year’s Cannes...
View ArticleTelluride to debut Oscar hopefuls including Sully, Moonlight and Una
World premieres starring Clint Eastwood, Rooney Mara, Tom Hanks and Amy Adams among those at boutique festival in the Colorado mountainsSome of the most highly anticipated awards contenders this season...
View ArticleBleed for This review – Miles Teller boxing biopic is flattened by cliche
The story of Vinny Paz, who broke his neck and still got back in the ring, is sensational. But this boring, miscast film, screening at Telluride, fails to connectEveryone has a boxing film in them. But...
View ArticleMaudie review – Sally Hawkins adds a flourish to portrait of reclusive artist
This biopic of Canadian painter Maud Lewis sticks by its less-is-more ethos to the end, but Hawkins and Ethan Hawke turn a tragic tale into an absorbing oneSally Hawkins will get a lot of attention for...
View ArticleSully review: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks turn a mile-high miracle into...
Eastwood vividly depicts the 2009 harrowing landing of a major aircraft on the Hudson river multiple times in his otherwise perfunctory drama centered on the embattled pilot who saved 155 lives In...
View ArticleWakefield review: two hours with Bryan Cranston in an attic is less fun than...
The Breaking Bad star gives a showy performance as a businessman who leaves his job to hole himself away and spy on wife Jennifer Garner in this grating and bizarre adaptation of EL Doctorow’s short...
View ArticleMatt Damon was set to star in Oscars contender Manchester By the Sea
During a discussion with Laura Linney at the Telluride film festival, playwright-turned-film-maker Kenneth Longeran reveals that Damon had been lined up to play the role that has earned Casey Affleck...
View ArticleAmy Adams in Telluride: 'I'm a really harsh critic of myself'
At the Telluride film festival with sci-fi drama Arrival, the five-time Oscar nominee cheerled for supporting roles and said working with Spike Jonze had freed her of some perfectionist tendenciesAmy...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher in Telluride: 'I’m just getting bigger and older. That's not good'
Speaking at a screening of Bright Lights, about her relationship with mother Debbie Reynolds, the actor and writer reveals she is taking classes to cope with the ageing process“Mother and I live next...
View ArticleDamien Chazelle on La La Land: 'Los Angeles is full of people chasing dreams'
The Whiplash director is tipped to net a second Oscar nomination as his third movie heads to Toronto film festival following ecstatic receptions at Venice and Telluride. He talks about swinging for the...
View Article‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay...
Barry Jenkins’ highly acclaimed new film follows one boy as he grows into manhood, hiding his sexuality. Here, the director and cast talk about the future Oscar contenderSeven months ago, the Oscars...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and a shrunken Matt Damon: Oscars race...
The Venice film festival kicks off awards-season with star power – from Clooney’s Suburbicon to Damon in sci-fi comedy Downsizing – as it fights off competition from Telluride, Toronto and NetflixThe...
View ArticleFilm Stars Don't Die in Liverpool review – a stranger-than-fiction love story
A tremendous central duo breathe life into Paul McGuigan’s endearing retelling of the real-life romance between a struggling young actor and Oscar-winner Gloria GrahameThere is a tremendous warmth and...
View ArticleGuardian film editor on meeting stars: 'It's rare someone is as you imagine'
Catherine Shoard on how she got her start, Hollywood’s diversity drive, and who’s hardest to interviewWhat do you do at the Guardian? I commission and edit news, reviews, interviews and features about...
View ArticleVenice film festival 2018: all star lineup, despite lack of female film-makers
The festival, opening Wednesday, has come under fire for featuring only one female director in competition – yet this year looks only to cement its position as the prime Oscars launchpadFor the Venice...
View ArticleTelluride film festival boasts Robert Redford and Nicole Kidman in...
The Old Man & the Gun, The Front Runner and White Boy Rick among premieres screening at the weekendThe Telluride film festival kicks off this week with a heavy dose of star power, featuring the...
View ArticleJudy review – Renée Zellweger goes full rainbow in vanilla biopic
Zellweger rises to the challenge superbly in a standard-issue heartwarmer, premiering in Telluride, that sugarcoats the sadnessFor Judy Garland fans, the final station of the cross in the ordeal of her...
View ArticleJ-Lo for the win? Taking an early look at Oscars 2020 frontrunners
The major fall festivals are now over, giving us a clearer idea of which stars might find themselves prepping an acceptance speech for FebruaryAfter what’s been a mostly God-awful year at the movies,...
View ArticleThe Electrical Life of Louis Wain review – Cumberbatch’s cat artist drowns in...
Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of eccentric Edwardian artist famed for his cute cats is brimful of star cameos but gets lost in mannered performances Here is a sentimental biopic that buries you in a...
View Article‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom...
Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79Almost 50 years ago, Tom Luddy co-founded the Telluride...
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