Telluride at Dartmouth: Death of a Pope, SNL, Road Trip, And More
Tickets on sale this week
You’re not going to miss the opportunity to see Isabella Rossellini on the big screen, are you? That’s an experience worth whatever the price of admission, but wait, there’s more—a cast that also includes Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow. It’s Conclave, and it is the opening movie at this year’s Telluride at Dartmouth film festival starting on September 20.
Conclave is a psychological thriller about the covert operation in the election of a new pope. (“The pope is dead. The throne is vacant.”) If the trailer (above) is a fair representation of the film, the cinematography is eye-grabbing. And again, there’s Isabella Rossellini, whom I haven’t seen since her portrayal of Simone Beck, Julia Child’s co-author, in the now streaming (alas, cancelled) production of Julia.
Saturday Night: You have to be of an age to remember the debut of Saturday Night Live, which apparently was then called “Saturday Night.” This is an “inventive reconstruction of SNL’s opening night . . . a ticking-clock comedy thriller.” A large, youngish cast portrays the season regulars; Matthew Rhys plays the inaugural host George Carlin, Jon Batiste as Billy Preston.
Nickel Boys: a chronicle of Black boyhood in Florida in the Jim Crow era. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead.
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story of a young white girl in apartheid Rhodesia. “In this adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir, actor-director Embeth Davitz explores the end of the tenuous truce between white landowners and Black farm workers in the lead-up to the 1980 election in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).” —mubi.com
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a film about oppression in Iran, earned a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival
Telluride at Dartmouth was born almost 40 years ago through a long-standing relationship between the Festival and College. Each year, several films come directly from Colorado for special advance screenings at the Hopkins Center. This is a unique opportunity for the Dartmouth community to get a sneak peek at great new cinema from around the world.
The “Will” in Will & Harper is comedian Will Ferrell in a buddy-movie documentary of a cross-country road trip with friend-in-real-life Harper Steele, who has recently transitioned to a woman.
Memoir of a Snail is a stop-motion animated film about “finding silver linings in the clutter of everyday life.”
Telluride at Dartmouth runs from September 20 through 27 at Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth College. Tickets typically sell out quickly; they are on sale for Hopkins Center members on September 4 and for the general public on September 6. Here are the details on times and tickets, and fuller descriptions of each film.
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