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Judging from talk in restaurants and on the Telluride gondola, one of the films provoking the strongest reaction at the festival this year is The Mission. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, tells the story of missionary John Chau whose shocking demise in 2018…

Daddio is a knockout, the sort of breakthrough by a virtual unknown that many might dream about but only rarely takes place. Entirely set in a taxi stuck for a long time at night on a jammed highway heading from New York City's JFK airport to Manhattan…

Human Rights Watch states the case very clearly: North Korea "remains one of the most repressive countries in the world." In a 2022 report, the nonprofit said, "The North Korean government does not respect the rights to freedom of thought, opinion, expression or information… Fear of collective…

What to do with a broken violin peg, or a leaky euphonium? For students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, such a predicament doesn’t mean catastrophe. They have at their disposal a repair shop where a quartet of dedicated individuals attend to damaged instruments, restoring them to exemplary…

Diana Nyad was a swimming legend, a stellar athlete in the 1970s who achieved the heights of her sport, and then went on to a successful decades-long career in the broadcast booth for ABC Sports, ESPN, and elsewhere. The new movie Nyad is not about any…

Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris unveiled his new documentary The Pigeon Tunnel – about the spy-turned-novelist David Cornwell, aka John le Carré – at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday. Audience buzz afterwards ranked it among Morris's best work, a canon that includes the classics The Thin Blue Lin…

EXCLUSIVE: Emerald Fennell likened making Saltburn, her dangerously dark comedy of class and lack of manners, "to taking your clothes off and exposing yourself." The filmmaker, who won an Oscar and BAFTAs for her debut feature Promising Young Woman, clarified that the "transgressive" material that…

Ethan Hawke has directed, written and/or acted in quite a few notably esoteric projects throughout his multi-faceted career, and he's now come up with another in Wildcat. This one makes use of four Flannery O'Connor stories that tie in to aspects of the writer's difficult life and truly do illuminate…

Colman Domingo blows through the title role like a force of nature in Rustin, an exhilarating biographical drama about the highly significant but not widely known civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, whose career and reputation in the 1960s were minimized, at…

Thank god for Alexander Payne. The filmmaker is, and always has been, a true humanist. A writer-director more interested in human beings, something that has always been the special effect of his movies. A two-time Oscar-winning writer, his latest film, The Holdovers, which had its world premiere on…

EXCLUSIVE: A trailer has been released for The Monk And The Gun, the latest work from Bhutanese director Pawo Choyning Dorji, whose last film Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom was nominated in the Best International Feature category of the Oscars.  The playful ensemble drama is set to receive its world…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman are bringing the sound of Cuba to the Telluride Film Festival. Their documentary Música!, about four young Cubans "who view music as a way of life," premieres at the festival today. Additional screenings are happening Saturday and…