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‘Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid’ Review: James Carville Doc Is a Punchy Portrait of a Political Provocateur
Director Matt Tyrnauer focuses on the Democratic operative's long career and his unlikely marriage to Republican adviser Mary Matalin.
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‘Piece By Piece’ Review: Morgan Neville’s Animated Pharrell Williams Doc Inspires Wonder, and Some Questions
Premiering at Telluride, the filmmaker's latest chronicles the early years and success of Williams exclusively through LEGO animation.
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Telluride Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup
With Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie and Selena Gomez expected at the Rocky Mountain festival, this year's slate is heavy on both politics and stars.
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‘They Shot the Piano Player’ Review: A Deeply Felt Portrait of a Virtuoso Who Wandered Into the Crosshairs of a Police State
‘Chico & Rita’ helmers Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal reteam for another animated film, this time combining documentary material and invented sequences to tell the story of a beloved Brazilian musician.
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With ‘Cassandro,’ Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams Leaps Into a New Ring
The Gael GarcÃa Bernal drama about a gay lucha libre wrestler marks a career transition for the Oscar winning documentarian: "He took the stage in his full gown and spins around and rips his train off and throws it to the audience. And I was like ... This is my first scripted film."
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Her Dramatic Turn in ‘Tuesday,’ Strike Anxieties and What She’s Learned From Older Women
The strike "enrages me, because it doesn't have to be this way," says Louis-Dreyfus, whose A24 film played Telluride after securing a last-minute interim agreement from the Screen Actors Guild.
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‘Daddio’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn Shine in a Taxi-Set Two-Hander
First-time writer-director Christy Hall's film follows a woman and her driver as they open up to each other over the course of a cab ride.
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‘Nyad’ Directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi on Actors vs. Athletes, Controversies Over Swimmer Diana Nyad and “Bittersweet” Strike Premiere
"This film is not about a record," Vasarhelyi says of their Netflix biopic starring Annette Bening as the distance swimmer and Jodie Foster as her coach. "It's about a woman who wakes up at 60 and realizes she's not done."
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As Flannery O’Connor in ‘Wildcat,’ Maya Hawke Inhabits the Sharp Literary Chronicler of ‘White Hypocrisy’
The movie, directed by Maya's father, Ethan, and co-starring Laura Linney, toggles between the Southern author's own controversial biography and dramatized scenes from her stories.
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‘Nyad’ Review: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster Are Superb in a Moving Tribute to Marathon Swimmer
Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin ('Free Solo') direct their first narrative feature, about Diana Nyad's history-making swim from Cuba to Florida at age 64.
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Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Saltburn’ Could Return Emerald Fennell and Barry Keoghan to Contention
The 'Promising Young Woman' filmmaker, who won an Oscar three years ago, and 'Banshees of Inisherin' actor, an Oscar nominee earlier this year, are both seen as rising stars in the business.
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‘The Mission’ Review: An Empathetic and Sobering Doc Reconstructs the Life of a Missionary Killed on a Remote Island
'Boys State' directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss tell the story of John Allen Chau, who was killed in 2018 while trying to establish contact with Sentinelese tribespeople.
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