Both the Venice Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival has been host to a quantity of well-received movies.

As the 51st Telluride Film Festival winds down and the 81st Venice Film Festival kicks off, each have been – as anticipated – host to a quantity of extremely anticipated movies, a great chunk of which have been met with reward. We already lined the raves for Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night out of Telluride that would thrust it into awards rivalry, however what else has blown audiences away on the competition circuit over the weekend? Let’s have a look!

The Venice Film Festival is undoubtedly one of the most prestigious festivals out there, 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 a minimum of a nomination, starring as famed soprano Maria Callas. After an eight-minute standing ovation, we are able to already see her taking dwelling the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Tabloid gossip was half of Venice this 12 months as properly, as Brad Pitt – Jolie’s ex – additionally had a film out: Wolfs, reuniting him onscreen with George Clooney for the first time in years. By most accounts, it’s their chemistry that serves as the spine and helps propel it forward of its launch later this month.

But in the time it might take you to see each of these films, you might have just about watch the entirety of The Brutalist, which stars Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the United States. Reactions out of the Venice Film Festival 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 may place as a favourite for the most coveted award at the fest, the Golden Lion.

And of course the States has seen its share of well-received movies proper out of Telluride, Colorado. One that has gotten rather a lot of consideration is Better 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 advised in Lego type.) Sean Baker’s Anora was additionally screened, though its debut got here at the Cannes Film Festival, the place it took dwelling the Palme d’Or, the first American film 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 Bird.

Now, that is barely even scratching the floor of all that has screened at each the Venice and Telluride film festivals. But with awards season formally launched, reception at each – and all of the fests that can comply with, mainly TIFF – is all the time one thing to control.

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