Many Telluride Movie Competition attendees prioritized, within the first days of this 12 months’s fest, screenings of high-profile titles that have already got distributors. However by Monday, extra of them — us — had been capable of department out a bit bit and atone for lesser-known titles that don’t but have a backer. One such movie, … Read more
A topic’s appeal can take a documentary a great distance. That’s the case in Matt Tyrnauer’s newest challenge, Nobu, a glowing portrait of Nobu Matsuhisa. The Japanese chef is finest identified for his empire of luxurious sushi eating places (and extra lately, resorts), the place company can expertise his medley of dishes impressed by his … Read more
In December 2023, a report got here out that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was constructing a sprawling underground bunker on a secluded stretch of ranch land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The undertaking is shrouded in layers of NDAs, however it’s supposedly 5,000 sq. ft and could have its personal power and meals provides. … Read more
From teenage mannequin to upper-crust caterer to home doyenne to media-spanning billionaire to scapegoated convict to octogenarian thirst lure fanatic and Snoop Dogg chum, Martha Stewart has had a life that defies perception, or a minimum of congruity. It’s an unlikely journey that has been carried out largely within the public eye, which supplies R.J. … Read more
On the Academy Awards ceremony held earlier this 12 months, Emma Stone was awarded her second finest actress Oscar, a mere seven years after profitable her first. You may assume that profitable a number of appearing Oscars could be an excessive rarity, however you’d be unsuitable. Stone turned the forty fifth performer ever conferred multiple. … Read more
In Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, a reverential adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson produced by his father Denzel Washington, the actress Danielle Deadwyler is the middle round which all different performances revolve. She performs Berniece, the religious and no-nonsense co-protagonist of Wilson’s bracing drama about generational trauma and inheritance. On this position, as in … Read more
A yr after the Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade, a legion of state legislators throughout America moved shortly to limit abortion entry. Some focused remedy abortions and mandated counseling for these searching for the process. Others proposed outright bans and applied “bounty hunter” legal guidelines, which widened the scope of implication from affected person … Read more
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ huge display interpretation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning e book The Nickel Boys, had its world premiere on the Telluride Movie Pageant‘s Herzog Theatre on Friday night time. Reactions amongst attendees, together with quite a few Academy members, have been strongly divided — many have been impressed and deeply moved by … Read more
Director Edward Berger, who made among the finest motion pictures of 2022 with a vivid adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Entrance, shifts gears rewardingly to a film set virtually fully contained in the Vatican. Conclave, tailored from the favored novel by Robert Harris, demonstrates Berger’s versatility and in addition gives among the finest … Read more
Alexandra Fuller‘s bestselling 2001 memoir of rising up in Africa is so cinematic, full of private drama and political upheaval in opposition to a vivid panorama, that it’s a marvel it hasn’t been become a movie earlier than. Nevertheless it was price ready for Embeth Davidtz’s eloquent adaptation, which depicts a toddler’s-eye view of the … Read more