This week, with Ryan Lattanzio protecting the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, David Ehrlich joined “Display screen Discuss” co-host Anne Thompson from the mountains of Telluride, Colorado to debate the 60-feature line-up for the Labor Day celebration of cinema.
David offers us early critiques of a number of movies which are already breaking in Venice: He loved Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” starring his typical suspects Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, however desires to see the director get extra bold subsequent time. He additionally loved Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” during which George Clooney performs a model of himself, however would have appreciated Adam Sandler to have extra to do.
At Telluride, Anne and David are excited to see two e book variations: Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker “Hamnet” starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and Philippa Lowthorpe’s “H is for Hawk,” starring Claire Foy, which cope with grief for a misplaced baby and a father, respectively. There are lots of movies from the UK, to some extent filling in for a scarcity of American titles, and, as typical, many movies that already hit at Cannes and Sundance and Berlin.
Anne adored Sundance title “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” whose star Rose Byrne is one to beat within the Finest Actress Oscar race. As for Finest Actor, Ethan Hawke is unaccountably shifting in one in all two Richard Linklater movies in Telluride, “Blue Moon.” The opposite is Cannes title “Nouvelle Imprecise.” It’s the Austin director’s first time right here.
Different new titles debuting in Telluride are “Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere,” starring Jeremy Allen White because the New Jersey rocker through the creation of “Nebraska” and Edward Berger’s “Ballad of a Small Participant,” starring Colin Farrell as a down-and-out gambler.
Anne and David agree that the spate of Cannes titles will play properly at Telluride on their highway to Oscar, as they did final yr, together with prize-winners “Sentimental Worth,” from Joachim Trier; “It Was Simply an Accident,” from Jafar Panahi; “The Secret Agent,” from Kleber Mendonça Filho; and “Urchin,” from rookie Harris Dickinson. Frank Dillane additionally deserves consideration for his efficiency as an unhoused man in Dickinson’s characteristic directorial debut.
Is it a powerful lineup? David factors out that Venice landed most of the juiciest new titles, together with Laura Poitras’ documentary “Cowl-Up,” about investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, and wonders why Neon hasn’t already acquired it. That movie will come to Telluride. One we nonetheless have to attend for? Kathryn Bigelow’s “A Home of Dynamite,” which travels to the New York Movie Competition subsequent month.
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