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Glenn Close Pulls Out Of San Sebastian Jury Due To Family Emergency

Glenn Close Pulls Out Of San Sebastian Jury Due To Family Emergency
Glenn Close no longer will preside over the San Sebastian jury and has canceled her trip to the festival due to a family emergency.

“I deeply regret that I will not be able to take part in the Festival as there has been a family emergency for which I must stay home,” Close said in a statement. “I apologize to the Festival, the Jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees, and the festival audience, that I will not be there to celebrate with you all.”

Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín, who already was announced as part of the jury, will serve as the president. Mosteirin’s feature film as a producer, Bolivia, received the Young Critics Award at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. He recently executive produced Marcelo Piñeyro’s series El Reino (The Realm) for Netflix.

The jury will be filled out by French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat,
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Festival In Focus: San Sebastian Kicks Into Gear As Spain Enjoys Industry Boom

Festival In Focus: San Sebastian Kicks Into Gear As Spain Enjoys Industry Boom
With the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear awarded to Spanish director Carla Simón and four of the country’s titles featuring in competition at Cannes, there’s a quiet air of confidence among Spanish industry professionals, including José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian Film Festival.

“This has been the best year for Spanish cinema,” Rebordinos tells Deadline shortly after revealing the line-up for San Sebastian’s latest edition, running from September 16-24.

This year the prominent Spanish festival, celebrating its 70th edition, kicks into gear with some 200 films across its six competitive and seven non-competitive sections. The selection will be bookended by Friday night’s opening film Prison 77 (Modelo 77), from Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez, and Neil Jordan’s latest film Marlowe, starring Diane Kruger and Liam Neeson, which will close the festival. The full lineup includes the European Premiere of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder,
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Steven Spielberg on TIFF premiere ‘The Fabelmans’: “I set out to tell the story of my mum and dad’s divorce”

Steven Spielberg on TIFF premiere ‘The Fabelmans’: “I set out to tell the story of my mum and dad’s divorce”
Filmmaker and co-writer Tony Kushner reflect in press conference.

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner used a TIFF press conference on Sunday (September 11) to discuss co-writing The Fabelmans on Zoom in the pandemic, the joys of pre-digital filmmaking, and the emotional depth of Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical story.

‘The Fabelmans’: Toronto Review

The coming-of-age tale received a rapturous reception at its world premiere on Saturday night in Toronto and chronicles fictitious Sammy Fabelman’s childhood passion for filmmaking growing up in Arizona and California in the 1960’s against the backdrop of family dynamics.

“It was joyful being able to recreate those films,
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Magnolia Pictures takes Venice Giornate degli Autori People’s Choice winner ‘Blue Jean'

Magnolia Pictures takes Venice Giornate degli Autori People’s Choice winner ‘Blue Jean'
Distributor plans 2023 release.

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights from Film Constellation to Venice Giornate degli Autori People’s Choice award winner Blue Jean.

‘Blue Jean’: Venice Review

The distributor plans a 2023 release on Georgia Oakley feature directing debut stars Rosy McEwen as a closeted gym teacher in Thatcher’s Britain in the late 1980’s who faces a double life as the government prepares to pass a law stigmatising gay people. A new student shakes things up in Rosy’s life.

Oakley wrote the screenplay to Blue Jean and Hélène Sifre’s Kleio Films produced, with backing from
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TIFF Special 2022: digital edition

TIFF Special 2022: digital edition
Features interviews with festival CEO Cameron Bailey and filmmakers Sally El Hosaini, Sebastian Lelio and Mary Harron.

Screen’s latest special edition previews the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, which runs September 8-18, and features interviews with festival CEO Cameron Bailey and filmmakers Sally El Hosaini, Sebastian Lelio and Mary Harron.

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Oscars 2023: Best Actress Predictions

  • 08 September 2022
  • by Anne Thompson and Marcus Jones
  • Indiewire
Oscars 2023: Best Actress Predictions
We will update these predictions throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks. Nominations voting is from January 12 to January 17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is March 2 through 7, 2023. And finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

Our Awards Editor, TV & Film Marcus Jones is currently filling in for Anne Thompson on Oscars Predictions updates. See her preliminary thoughts for what to expect at the 95th Academy Awards here.

The State of the Race

During the weekend of Venice and Telluride, there were two actresses dominating the conversation for better or worse.

“TÁR,” Cate Blanchett’s new film with writer/director Todd Fields that is a portrait of a female artistic genius in a downward spiral, had many festival goers declaring that the Best
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After Telluride and Venice, the Oscar Best Picture Race Remains Wide Open

  • 06 September 2022
  • by Eric Kohn and Marcus Jones
  • Indiewire
After Telluride and Venice, the Oscar Best Picture Race Remains Wide Open
Is this what normal looks like? A year after Telluride launched “King Richard,” “Belfast” and “Power of the Dog,” the festival was a quieter affair with fewer stars and more challenging movies. It’s also the year that the Academy reinstated its theatrical requirement for Oscar eligibility — and in 2022, it’s harder than ever to bring theater audiences to challenging movies.

Existential challenges aside, the festivals are already finding their favorites and several titles will continue to build their presence with stops in Toronto, New York, London, and more. Here are some of the key narratives that will grow in the coming weeks.

Best Picture Is Wide Open

A year ago, the one-two punch of Venice and Telluride launched “The Power of the Dog,” “The Lost Daughter,” “Belfast,” and “King Richard.” Eventual winner “Coda” lurked in the background as Apple prepared to reintroduce the movie that won Sundance earlier in the year.
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‘The Wonder’ Telluride Review: Florence Pugh In Sebastian Lelio’s Gothic Netflix Drama

‘The Wonder’ Telluride Review: Florence Pugh In Sebastian Lelio’s Gothic Netflix Drama
The Wonder is Gothic without the architecture. Set in rural central Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-1800s, director Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel methodically moves the chess pieces around in telling the tale of an 11-year-old girl who has locals mystified as to what God is intending by letting her survive for four months without eating. Atmospheric and intriguing up to a point, it nonetheless feels like much ado about a mildly curious situation that’s been milked for rather more than it’s worth.

Lending the material an added dimension at the outset, Leilo opens the proceedings on a soundstage from which he shortly moves into the set itself. English nurse Lib (Florence Pugh) has been engaged to come to the Midlands to see what she can make of peasant girl Anna (Kila Lord Cassidy).

A young widow,
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‘The Wonder’ Review: Florence Pugh Watches Over A Miracle Or Does She? [Telluride]

‘The Wonder’ Review: Florence Pugh Watches Over A Miracle Or Does She? [Telluride]
Telluride – At this point in his career, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio continues to veer toward slightly unexpected choices. He broke through the global cinephile consciousness with 2013’s “Gloria,” a crowd-pleaser about a fiftysomething woman trying to find love in the discos of Santiago. He then tackled the story of a transwoman dealing with her boyfriend’s passing in “A Fantastic Woman.” That near masterpiece won him the Oscar for International Film, among other accolades, and made him an auteur you couldn’t ignore.

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‘The Wonder’ Review: Florence Pugh Discovers a Miracle

‘The Wonder’ Review: Florence Pugh Discovers a Miracle
Considering that Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder” is a religious mystery (of sorts) set in the Irish Midlands circa 1862, the first shot of the film is so wildly unexpected that audiences might fear that the projectionist has played the wrong file. We open, not on the foggy moors of a country still reeling from the Great Famine that had starved it to death some 13 years earlier, but rather in the cavernous space of a modern soundstage — the kind of facility that might house the sets for a period drama like this one. It looks more like a logo of a production company than it does the opening image of a movie. Only when a disembodied Florence Pugh starts talking to us over the soundtrack are we able to make sense of what we’re watching.

“Hello,” she says with a comforting softness, “This is the beginning of a film called ‘The Wonder.’” At this point,
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‘The Wonder’ Film Review: Florence Pugh Stuns as a Woman of Science in a Community of Faith

‘The Wonder’ Film Review: Florence Pugh Stuns as a Woman of Science in a Community of Faith
You’ll need to have faith in your core to be swept away by Sebastián Lelio’s lovely and elegiac “The Wonder,” a mournful and textured psychodrama that gently nurses one into hope and spiritual serenity.

But not a religious kind of faith, to be clear: You’ll just need to believe in, or at least gradually come to accept, the power of stories as a means of survival.

A deeply feminine tale of fortitude with heart and teeth, “The Wonder” (making its world premiere at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival) hints at this very suggestion right at the start — perhaps a tad too expressly — and opens on what looks like a contemporary film stage. As the camera pans, it unveils the yarn’s eventual setting, the impoverished Irish Midlands of the 19th Century, haunted by unspeakable grief under the recent shadow of the Great Famine.

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‘The Wonder’ Review: You Won’t Believe Sebastián Lelio’s Latest, but Not in a Good Way

‘The Wonder’ Review: You Won’t Believe Sebastián Lelio’s Latest, but Not in a Good Way
The Lord works in mysterious ways, Christians are fond of telling us. More mysterious still is the matter of faith, a uniquely human idea which operates on the principle that phenomena we can’t explain are true, not because we understand them but because we don’t need to.

Set in an almost medieval-feeling 1862, “The Wonder” asks audiences to ponder the meaning of a miracle. Is it possible, as the devout residents of a small Irish community believe, for an 11-year-old girl to survive for four months without food? The child, Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), suddenly stopped eating, and swears that since then, she’s been sustained by “manna from heaven.” As word of this “wonder” spread, pilgrims have come to see the phenomenon for themselves. Local authorities understandably have their doubts, calling for an English nurse, Lib Wright (Florence Pugh), to observe the situation.

An outwardly stoic but
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Florence Pugh and Sebastián Lelio on the Battle Between Religion and Science in ‘The Wonder’

Florence Pugh and Sebastián Lelio on the Battle Between Religion and Science in ‘The Wonder’
For some filmmakers, winning an Oscar marks the start of a new chapter. For Sebastián Lelio, it was the end of one.

In 2018, when the Chilean filmmaker won the Best International Feature award for his beloved trans character study “A Fantastic Woman,” he was emerging from a whirlwind of projects: He had already shot his first English-language feature, the British lesbian romance “Disobedience,” and was nearly finished with production on “Gloria Bell,” the English-language adaptation of his own 2013 midlife crisis crowdpleaser “Gloria.” With four movies in five years, Lelio had established himself as one of the most celebrated Latin American filmmakers working today and successfully brought his penchant for engaging, female-focused character studies to English-language audiences.

“It was this big episode of my life where a lot of things happened,” Lelio said in an interview with IndieWire over Zoom from his apartment in Chile. “The pandemic times were an interesting
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Glenn Close To Preside Over San Sebastian Film Festival Jury

Glenn Close To Preside Over San Sebastian Film Festival Jury
American actress Glenn Close has been announced as the jury president for the Official Section of the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, running from September 16-24.

Close will be joined by the French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat, Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg, Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín, the Spanish writer Rosa Montero, Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, and the Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.

The jury awards the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell awards for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, as well as jury prizes for Cinematography and Screenplay. The Official Awards will be announced and presented at the festival’s Closing Gala on September 24.

Close was last at the Spanish festival with The Wife, which closed out the Official Section in 2017. The film went on to earn Close her eighth Academy Award nomination.

As previously announced, Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez will open the
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‘Empire Of Light’, ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, ‘The Wonder’, ‘Women Talking’ to world premiere at Telluride 2022

‘Empire Of Light’, ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, ‘The Wonder’, ‘Women Talking’ to world premiere at Telluride 2022
The US festival runs from September 2-5,

Telluride Film Festival (Tff) has unveiled the programme for its 49th edition, with the US festival running from tomorrow (September 2) to September 5.

Ahead of its play at Toronto and BFI London Film Festival, Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light will world premiere. Set in an English seaside town during the 1980s, the film follows a love story and an old cinema. Olivia Colman and Colin Firth star, alongside Screen Star of Tomorrow 2020 Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Tanya Moodie, Tom Brooke and Crystal Clarke. It is produced by Mendes and Pippa Harris’ Neal Street Productions in association with Searchlight.
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2022 Telluride Film Festival lineup includes ‘Bardo,’ ‘Empire of Light,’ ‘Women Talking’

2022 Telluride Film Festival lineup includes ‘Bardo,’ ‘Empire of Light,’ ‘Women Talking’
The 49th annual Telluride Film Festival will host the world premiere screenings of Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” and Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” – as well as North American premieres of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Bardo,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Todd Field’s “Tar,” James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Broker” among other top fall titles.

In keeping with the Telluride Film Festival’s famously late-breaking announcement process, the 2022 lineup was revealed on Thursday morning, just one day before the prestigious festival kicks off.

Due to the nuances of how the Toronto International Film Festival positioned some of its debuts as well as the roster of features debuting at the Venice Film Festival this week, industry observers had long expected many of the 2022 titles to screen in the Colorado town. But that doesn’t make the Telluride list any less impressive in its variety.
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Telluride 2022 Includes World Premiere of Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light

Telluride 2022 Includes World Premiere of Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light
The Telluride Film Festival announced the full lineup for its 2022 edition, which includes the world premiere of Sam Mendes' Empire of Light, Sarah Poley’s Women Talking, Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Polley is also one of the artists to get a Silver Medallion tribute during the festival, together with Cate Blanchett and documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins.
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Telluride Film Festival Unveils 2022 Lineup

Telluride Film Festival Unveils 2022 Lineup
As customary, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled its lineup on the eve of its kickoff. For its 49th edition, taking place from September 2-5, the festival features new work by James Gray, Luca Guadagnino, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hlynur Pálmason, Todd Field, the Dardennes, Sarah Polley, Mia Hansen-Løve, Werner Herzog, and more, as well as a robust section of classics and filmmaker-related docs.

The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show:

• Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway

• Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano

• Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi

• Bones And All (d.
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Sam Mendes, Sarah Polley Movies to Premiere at Telluride Film Festival

Sam Mendes, Sarah Polley Movies to Premiere at Telluride Film Festival
The world premieres of Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” and Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” will take place at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival, which announced its lineup on Thursday, one day before the festival begins.

Other notable films in the Telluride lineup include Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “Bardo,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Todd Field’s “TÁR” and James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” which are making their North American debuts after premiering at European festivals.

Among the documentaries heading to Telluride, premieres are Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” Anton Corbijn’s “Squaring the Circle,” Ryan White’s “Good Night Oppy,” Mary McCartney’s “If These Walls Could Sing” and Eva Webber’s “Merkel.”

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Documentary director and film historian Mark Cousins will have two films at the festival,
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Telluride Film Festival Set With World Premieres Of Sam Mendes’ ‘Empire Of Light’, Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’, Cate Blanchett Tribute And More

Telluride Film Festival Set With World Premieres Of Sam Mendes’ ‘Empire Of Light’, Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’, Cate Blanchett Tribute And More
The 49th Telluride Film Festival opens Friday in a much-awaited edition that is set to feature world premieres of Searchlight’s Oscar hopeful Empire of Light from director Sam Mendes, starring Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth; Women Talking from director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand in the ensemble; Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh; and Sony/Netflix’s sizzling new version of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover with Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell; among other films.

Considered a must stop on the awards circuit, Telluride also will feature Silver Medallion tributes to Cate Blanchett, docu filmmaker Mark Cousins and Polley. Netflix, Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, Amazon and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are among those also throwing dinners and parties over the Labor Day weekend event, which runs September 2-5 in the Colorado Rockies town.

In addition to the world premieres,
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