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Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Being a TIFF Platform Jury Member: “I’ll Be Open”

Interviews (Film)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Being a TIFF Platform Jury Member: “I’ll Be Open”

Brandon Lewis September 4, 2025

“But he’s so good!” That was Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s reaction to the news that Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair’s chief film critic, had been let go from... Read More

Telluride Silver Medallion and Tribute to Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Reflecting on ‘It Was Just an Accident’ and Lifelong Political Filmography

J Don Birnam September 3, 2025

The Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Colorado has seen legendary, subversive non-American filmmakers celebrated by the Telluride Film Festival over the past 52 years. From... Read More

It Takes Two: James Sweeney and Dylan O’Brien Talk ‘Twinless’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]

Interviews (Film)

It Takes Two: James Sweeney and Dylan O’Brien Talk ‘Twinless’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]

Erik Anderson September 3, 2025

“You’re gonna make me cry, I’m not even kidding,” says Dylan O’Brien through a laugh. He’s responding to my congratulations over his performance award at... Read More

‘My Father and Qaddafi’ Review: Jihan K Crafts a Moving Portrait of Living Under a Regime of Brutality [A-] Venice

Mina Takla September 3, 2025

Life doesn’t always give us answers – but that doesn’t mean the questions always linger, haunting us at every turn. There is a pain in... Read More

‘Roqia’ Review: [B] Venice

Mina Takla September 3, 2025

Playing in competition at this year’s Venice Critics’ Week, Yanis Koussim’s Roqia is a rare Middle Eastern genre film that takes narrative risks that mostly... Read More

‘In the Hand of Dante’ Review: Julian Schnabel’s Less Than Divine Comedy of Errors Belongs in the 9th Circle of Hell [D+] Venice

Adam Solomons September 3, 2025

The opening music for Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante, an audacious but ruinously messy epic which takes place across seven centuries and has... Read More

2025 Creative Arts Emmys Predictions: ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Severance’ and ‘The Studio’ Should Dominate

Tyler Doster September 3, 2025

This weekend, for two nights, the Television Academy will present Creative Arts Emmys for the best in artisan work for the last year of television.... Read More

‘Frankenstein’ Review: To the Victor Go the Spoils [B] Telluride

Ryan McQuade September 3, 2025

For close to one hundred years, Frankenstein has always been a complex, fascinating tale of the moral consequences from man’s decision to create something beyond... Read More

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 305 – 2025 Telluride Wrap-Up

Erik Anderson September 3, 2025

The 52nd Telluride Film Festival has wrapped up and that means it’s time for the AW team to gather and talk about what we saw,... Read More

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Review: Kaouther Ben Hania’s Harrowing Look at a Palestinian Genocide Flashpoint is the Most Indispensable Film of the Decade [A] Venice

Yasmine Kandil September 3, 2025

In January of 2024, Hind Rajab was evacuating her home in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City, as ordered by Israeli forces, alongside six... Read More

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