There is one problem with the lively new James Carville documentary, Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, premiering at Telluride: For much of the film, Carville worries about the dangers of having Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate. Obviously, the movie (which was acquired by CNN Films) was conceived and filmed before Biden dropped out …
Although Naomi Watts wrangles a huge Great Dane, The Friend is far from your average doggie movie. There are no slapstick scenes of the dog running away with her, and no mawkishness even though the film is about grief. This is a fresh, unsentimental yet touching story about Iris (Watts), a writer and teacher, adjusting …
Less than 24 hours after CNN aired the first joint interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Bill Maher had some thoughts on the questions Dana Bash asked the duo. The host kicked off the latest episode of Real Time by asked the audience if they watched the Thursday night sit-down interview with the Harris, the …
Brooke Shields’ youngest daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy, is opening up about the moment she learned of her mother’s sexual assault while watching her 2023 documentary Pretty Baby. “I was learning about things the same time that the world was and I just took it more deeply and personally,” Grier recently told People magazine in a …
Conclave, the German filmmaker Edward Berger’s follow-up to his Oscar-celebrated interpretation of All Quiet on the Western Front, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Herzog Theatre on Friday night. And if my gut reaction to the film, and that of industry insiders with whom I consulted after it ended, are any indication, …
In Piece by Piece, Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet from Stardom) tries to upend the conventions of the celebrity documentary using LEGOs. Yes, you read that correctly: LEGOs. Premiering at Telluride before its October 11 theatrical release by Focus Features, Piece by Piece tells the life story of multihyphenate Pharrell Williams …
The 51st Telluride Film Festival officially kicked off on Friday afternoon with the world premiere of Piece by Piece, an animated documentary about the innovative singer, songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, as the Patron Preview screening at the Werner Herzog Theatre. And the consensus of those in attendance was that the film is a …
Betty A. Bridges, an actress and the mother of Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges who appeared on her son’s sitcom, Hill Street Blues, Ally McBeal and many other shows, has died. She was 83. Bridges died Wednesday in hospice care at Todd’s home in Phoenix, publicist Elizabeth Much announced. During her four-decade career, Betty Alice …
[This story contains spoilers from the Apple TV+ limited series Lady in the Lake, including its finale, “My story.”] The process of turning Laura Lippman’s 2019 novel Lady in the Lake into an Apple TV+ limited series began more than three years ago and involves the series’ late executive producer, Jean-Marc Vallée, who died suddenly …
Although he’s primarily known as a director of thrillers and horror movies, Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa has never made regular genre flicks. There’s always a twist, aesthetic or otherwise, to the way he approaches his subjects — whether it’s a detective tracking a twisted serial killer in his international breakthrough, Cure, the real ghosts haunting …