Telluride film festival 2016

‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US

Barry Jenkins’ highly acclaimed new film follows one boy as he grows into manhood, hiding his sexuality. Here, the director and cast talk about the future Oscar contender

Benjamin Lee

15, Sep, 2016 @5:33 PM

Damien Chazelle on La La Land: 'Los Angeles is full of people chasing dreams'

The Whiplash director is tipped to net a second Oscar nomination as his third movie heads to Toronto film festival following ecstatic receptions at Venice and Telluride. He talks about swinging for the fences with his love letter to Hollywood, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling

Nigel M Smith

08, Sep, 2016 @11:09 AM

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography review – Errol Morris takes a charming snapshot

A warm and hugely entertaining documentary about a woman whose work gained fame for utilising the Polaroid 20x24 camera

Benjamin Lee

05, Sep, 2016 @11:53 AM

Norman: the Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer review – Richard Gere ups his game in iffy film

The actor gives a strong performance as a desperate social climber in this fractured drama that works best as a flawed character study

Benjamin Lee

05, Sep, 2016 @10:30 AM

Carrie Fisher in Telluride: 'I’m just getting bigger and older. That's not good'

Speaking at a screening of Bright Lights, about her relationship with mother Debbie Reynolds, the actor and writer reveals she is taking classes to cope with the ageing process

Nigel M Smith

04, Sep, 2016 @8:41 PM

Amy Adams in Telluride: 'I'm a really harsh critic of myself'

At the Telluride film festival with sci-fi drama Arrival, the five-time Oscar nominee cheerled for supporting roles and said working with Spike Jonze had freed her of some perfectionist tendencies

Nigel M Smith

04, Sep, 2016 @5:36 PM

Matt Damon was set to star in Oscars contender Manchester By the Sea

During a discussion with Laura Linney at the Telluride film festival, playwright-turned-film-maker Kenneth Longeran reveals that Damon had been lined up to play the role that has earned Casey Affleck awards buzz – while also apologising to Linney for ill-treatment on the set of You Can Count On Me

Nigel M Smith

04, Sep, 2016 @7:27 AM

Wakefield review: two hours with Bryan Cranston in an attic is less fun than it sounds

The Breaking Bad star gives a showy performance as a businessman who leaves his job to hole himself away and spy on wife Jennifer Garner in this grating and bizarre adaptation of EL Doctorow’s short story

04, Sep, 2016 @7:21 AM

Una review – Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn child abuse drama is stagey disappointment

A two-hander about a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her as a child fails to deliver on its intriguing promise

Benjamin Lee

03, Sep, 2016 @6:06 PM

Sully review: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks turn a mile-high miracle into middling drama

Eastwood vividly depicts the 2009 harrowing landing of a major aircraft on the Hudson river multiple times in his otherwise perfunctory drama centered on the embattled pilot who saved 155 lives

Nigel M Smith

03, Sep, 2016 @4:12 PM

Moonlight review – devastating drama is vital portrait of black gay masculinity in America

Writer/director Barry Jenkins’ bold and uniquely told film about the struggle to accept one’s own sexuality is both heartbreaking and deeply relevant

Benjamin Lee

03, Sep, 2016 @3:29 PM

Maudie review – Sally Hawkins adds a flourish to portrait of reclusive artist

This biopic of Canadian painter Maud Lewis sticks by its less-is-more ethos to the end, but Hawkins and Ethan Hawke turn a tragic tale into an absorbing one

Jordan Hoffman

03, Sep, 2016 @6:41 AM