Hello from Telluride!
I’m Rebecca Ford, and I’m writing to you from my picturesque condo in Colorado, where I’m trekking around town with David Canfield as we try to catch as many movies as we can, and get a lay of the land for the Oscar season to come. The festival is off to a strong start, with a Thursday night that was packed with world premieres. We started out with Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders, a star-studded ensemble film about a motorcycle club, which features a knockout performance by Jodie Comer that left everyone buzzing.
That evening, I made my way over to get a first look at Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, which is a charming trip back to the classic filmmaking of the 1970s and features strong performances from Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who should both be a part of the acting races if this film wins audiences over as I expect it to. Meanwhile, David checked out Rustin, featuring a memorable lead performance by Colman Domingo.
Later that night, two of the festival’s buzziest titles premiered at the same time: Emerald Fennell’s bold Saltburn and Andrew Haigh’s metaphysical love story, All of Us Strangers.Earlier that day, at the festival’s kickoff brunch, we polled filmmakers and festgoers about which films they were anticipating the most, and those two came up the most often. If you’re not at the festival, you’re in luck because we have the exclusive first interviews with the filmmakers for both Saltburn(“My favorite thing in general is sympathy for the devil,” Fennell told me) and All of Us Strangers (“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh said of leads Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott. “Both of them were pretty fearless.”).
It’s been a busy week here of exclusive first looks from both Venice and Telluride films. Just today, I posted first looks of Ava DuVernay’s powerful new film, Origin, and Richard Linklater’s latest, the noir action-comedy Hit Man. They’ll both premiere at Venice next week.
Speaking of the Venice Film Festival, as we’re in the mountains, Richard Lawson is on the Lido, catching world premieres in much more formal attire. He’s already seen Michael Mann’s Ferrari, starring Adam Driver. “Ferrari is careful to make its people real: complex and capable of change,” he writes in his review. And there’s much more to come in the next few days. The best way to keep up with everything going on in Venice and Telluride? The Awards Insider live blog, which we will be updating daily—and often hourly—with reviews, awards-season thoughts, and more buzz from the ground. You don’t want to miss it.
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