Awards
Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp wraps up the Telluride Film Festival and talks “Nickel Boys” with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in his weekly newsletter.
Movies
A robust number of near-experimental documentaries and narratives already call out to us from this year’s lineup, sure to yield a crop of future award winners.
It’s the halfway point of the fest and themes are beginning to emerge — technological detachment, pets — along with stars Dev Patel, Steven Yeun and Rachel Sennott.
Entertainment & Arts
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Director Mohammad Rasoulof is banned at home in Iran but continues to make prize-winning work, including his latest thriller, ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig.’
We stuffed as many movies into our Cannes schedules as possible during the last two weeks. Though there was much competition, here’s what stayed with us.
Other major awards were won by Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” and the actors Jesse Plemons, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón.
New movies from Andrea Arnold, Yorgos Lanthimos, Paul Schrader and Zambia’s Rungano Nyoni strayed from expectations, scraping at the feel and texture of dreams.
The length of standing ovations at film festivals is not a metric of success. Why do we keep pretending they mean anything?