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Annette Bening Receives Belated Telluride Film Festival Gold Medallion Tribute

Erik Anderson January 7, 2024

On Saturday, January 6, Telluride Film Festival held a special tribute event in Los Angeles to honor four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening with the... Read More

‘Wildcat’ Review: Ethan Hawke Channels Flannery O’Connor’s Singular Voice in this Moving, Meandering Passion Project | Telluride

Sophia Ciminello September 7, 2023

“I want to do this for a good feeling and for a bad one,” Flannery O’Connor declares in her short book The Prayer Journal. In... Read More

‘All of Us Strangers’ Review: Andrew Haigh Devastates with a Masterful Story of Love and Loss in One of the Year’s Best Films | Telluride

Erik Anderson September 6, 2023

“Is this real?” The connections to our past can be tenuous, where we lose grasp of even simple memories or they can tether us to... Read More

‘The Royal Hotel’ Review: Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick Find Out the Danger of Simply Being a Woman in Kitty Green’s Outback Thriller | Telluride

Ryan McQuade September 5, 2023

On a party boat heading into the harbor of Sydney, Australia, we find Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick), two American best friends in... Read More

AwardsWatch Podcast #200: 50th Telluride Film Festival Recap

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AwardsWatch Podcast #200: 50th Telluride Film Festival Recap

Erik Anderson September 5, 2023

On episode 200 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributor Sophia Ciminello are joined by... Read More

‘Saltburn’ Review: Emerald Fennell Throws a Brilliant Bacchanal of Obsession, Repulsion, and Desire | Telluride

Sophia Ciminello September 4, 2023

Opening a film with a roar of choral singers and stylized Old English titles thrusts the viewer into a very familiar, traditional English world. But... Read More

‘NYAD’ Review: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster Just Keep Swimming | Telluride

Sophia Ciminello September 3, 2023

Known for crafting edge-of-your-seat documentaries (Free Solo, The Rescue), Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin venture into uncharted territory with their first narrative feature, NYAD.... Read More

‘The Bikeriders’ Review: Jeff Nichols’ Greaser Gang Takes a Road to Nowhere | Telluride

Ryan McQuade September 3, 2023

Around five years ago, director Jeff Nichols came across a book of photography by Danny Lyon called The Bikeriders, which showed a group of greased... Read More

‘The Holdovers’ Review: Alexander Payne’s Emotional, Charismatic Comedy is his Best Film in Years | Telluride

Ryan McQuade September 1, 2023

From the opening title cards and credits of Alexander Payne’s latest film, The Holdovers, he instantly transports us back in time by presenting a film... Read More