Report From Telluride
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‘Moonlight’ Review: Barry Jenkins Tracks a Tragic Childhood in Powerful Film
The writer-director of “Medicine for Melancholy” skillfully and hauntingly examines the pain of being raised by a drug addict in a homophobic community
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‘Una’ Telluride Review: Rooney Mara Molestation Drama Undercuts Its Own Impact
In this adaptation of the stage play “Blackbird,” director Benedict Andrews keeps the audience at a distance, and drives a chemistry-killing wedge between Mara and Ben Mendelsohn
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‘The Ivory Game’ Telluride Review: Urgent Documentary About Elephant Killing Is a Roar for Action
An extinction crisis for one of earth’s mightiest creatures, fed by an illegal trade in ivory, is made vividly clear in an advocacy documentary that moves like an espionage thriller
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‘Sully’ Telluride Review: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks Successfully Co-Pilot True-Life Heroism Drama
The behind-the-scenes tale of “The Miracle on the Hudson” underscores a stirring portrait of its celebrated and scrutinized pilot
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‘Steve Jobs’ Telluride Review: Michael Fassbender Is Stunning in Breathtaking, Relentless Biopic
Film from director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is a “talk opera” that doesn’t sugar-coat the Apple founder’s life
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‘Suffragette’ Telluride Review: Carey Mulligan Is the Reason to See This Masterwork
Produced, written, directed by and starring women, this isn’t a film the Oscars can pass by
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‘He Named Me Malala’ Telluride Review: Film About Teen Pakistani Activist Draws Tears and Applause
Davis Guggenheim’s documentary is a surprise choice for the festival-opening “secret screening”
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Reese Witherspoon’s Odd F-Bombs, Michael Keaton Mania, ‘Weird Tales’ Show-Stealing: 7 Telluride Takeaways
An Argentine comedy trumps “Birdman” and “The Imitation Game” while the confab says it could care less about Best Picture candidates
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‘Birdman’ and ‘Foxcatcher’ Leave Telluride Audiences Blissed Out and Bowled Over
New Michael Keaton and Steve Carell movies make their U.S. debuts, kicking off what might be an awards-season battle
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Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Imitation Game’ Steals the Show From Reese Witherspoon and Jon Stewart in Telluride
The British actor didn’t make it to Colorado, but his film “The Imitation Game” is the hit of the festival’s opening day
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Telluride: Joyce Maynard Slams ‘Salinger’ Doc, Says Author Was a ‘Victimizer’ of Young Women
Maynard, who began a relationship with Salinger when she was a teenager, tells TheWrap she finds omissions in Shane Salerno’s film “very troubling”
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Bruce Dern’s ‘Nebraska’ Victory Lap Runs Through Telluride
After playing “Fifth Cowboy From the Right” for 30 years, the veteran character actor “left myself the hell alone” in Alexander Payne’s beloved movie
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Telluride: T Bone Burnett Says He’s Taking ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Concert on the Road
The last time Burnett hit the road with a Coen brothers soundtrack, "O Brother Where Art Thou" sold 8 million albums
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Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Big Miscalculation’ ‘Gravity’ Wows Telluride
Cuaron says his drama with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in space was a four-and-a-half year nightmare to make
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’12 Years a Slave’ Stuns Telluride: Do We Have an Oscar Front-Runner?
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o leap to front of awards conversation after first screening of Steve McQueen's brutal historical drama