Each the Venice Movie Pageant and the Telluride Movie Pageant has been host to plenty of well-received movies.
Because the 51st Telluride Movie Pageant winds down and the 81st Venice Movie Pageant kicks off, each have been – as anticipated – host to plenty of extremely anticipated movies, a great chunk of which have been met with reward. We already lined the raves for Jason Reitman’s Saturday Evening out of Telluride that might thrust it into awards competition, however what else has blown audiences away on the pageant circuit over the weekend? Let’s have a look!
The Venice Movie Pageant is undoubtedly one of the prestigious festivals on the market, so it’s no shock that some severe Oscar contenders have already had their debuts. With Maria, Angelina Jolie is now an odds-on favourite for at the least a nomination, starring as famed soprano Maria Callas. After an eight-minute standing ovation, we are able to already see her taking house the Volpi Cup for Finest Actress. Tabloid gossip was a part of Venice this yr as properly, as Brad Pitt – Jolie’s ex – additionally had a film out: Wolfs, reuniting him onscreen with George Clooney for the primary time in years. By most accounts, it’s their chemistry that serves because the spine and helps propel it forward of its launch later this month.
However within the time it could take you to see each of these films, you could possibly have just about watch the whole lot of The Brutalist, which stars Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the USA. Reactions out of the Venice Movie Pageant are hailing it as a masterpiece, with some even evaluating its epic scope to The Godfather and There Will Be Blood. That alone generates the type of hype it wants and will place as a favourite for probably the most coveted award on the fest, the Golden Lion.
And naturally the States has seen its share of well-received movies proper out of Telluride, Colorado. One which has gotten a whole lot of consideration is Higher Man, a musical biopic not of Eddie Vedder however Robbie Williams – and he’s performed by a CG monkey! (Hey, it makes as a lot sense as Pharrell’s story – additionally debuting at Telluride – being informed in Lego type.) Sean Baker’s Anora was additionally screened, though its debut got here on the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place it took house the Palme d’Or, the primary American movie to take action since The Tree of Life. We can also’t neglect to say Memoir of a Snail (from Mary and Max’s Adam Elliot), RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys and Andrea Arnold’s Hen.
Now, that is barely even scratching the floor of all that has screened at each the Venice and Telluride movie festivals. However with awards season formally launched, reception at each – and the entire fests that can comply with, mainly TIFF – is at all times one thing to keep watch over.
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