The 10 Best Movies at the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals. Plus: Nathan Fielder’s Stunning Elizabeth Holmes Doc.
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What will this episode cover about the Telluride and Venice film festivals?
I'm Sean Fennessey.
I'm Amanda Dobbins.
And this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about the fall film festivals. On today's show, I am back in L.A. and ready to report on my annual sojourn to the Telluride Film Festival. Amanda is still in Venice, Italy, and ready to report on the proceedings there. We've seen all the major movies that played, and we'll give you our favorites and not-so-favorites on today's episode. But first, some movie news right after this. This episode is presented by State Farm. You know the feeling. Long day, good meal, you finally sit down, and now you're just staring at your screen. Slasher, rom-com, period drama, psychological thriller, but some decisions don't have to be that hard. State Farm is here to help.
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Ciao, big guy. It's 6 p.m.
It's cocktail hour. Wow. Good for you.
This Negroni was purchased. It was sold pre-mixed in a plastic bag. And then in a little paper envelope. And then I poured it into this glass. It's pretty good.
That sounds horrible. But okay, I'm happy for you. I'm happy you've got some social lubrication for this conversation show. Hopefully things will go great. Have you been having a nice time in Italy?
Yeah, it's been great. I'm very pro-Italy. This has been a very fun experience of a festival. And this is my third time here. I would say that the crowd control is the best that it's been. The logistics are the best that it's been this weekend. Had a fun party atmosphere to it. There were people around. I was seeing people I know. I've run into friends. And, you know, maybe some of that is just that I've been coming long enough that I have festival friends and know the route. But it hasn't rained here, which is great. Last year, Yossi and I had to wade through a lot of light flooding. I almost got stuck on the Lido after J. Kelly. And I've navigated the regatta with no problems. You know about the regatta?
I do because I've seen the film The Social Network.
Didn't you know about the Venice Regatta?
Well, no, I mean, yes. That one's
not in Venice. Every year, smack dab in the middle of the Venice Film Festival, they hold a historical regatta and they close the main waterway, the Grand Canal in Venice, which is also like, you know, closing Fifth Avenue in New York or something like they close the main street. And they also close many of the shuttles to and from the island where all of the films are. But I was not stopped. And I got a shuttle that worked. And I saw the films. And that's what I do.
We will talk about those films. Every year when you go to this festival, you come on the pod and you start describing it. And you give me more and more reasons to never go. It's just amazing. There are so many things that make no sense about the Venice Film Festival. We'll get into all that. Before we talk about the rest of our experiences at the festival, one of the things that you were hoping would be at the festival that you're at is the Luca Guadagnino film Artificial, which is the since-dispensed-with-by-Amazon portrait of Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, co-founder, I should say. And we have a new trailer or teaser trailer for the film. This movie has been... A subject of much discussion, I think, in the world of movie nerds, but I'm not totally sure if this film has quite reached the public at large.
And so we got the first look at it now. It's coming out later this year from Neon. There's going to be a screening of the film at the New York Film Festival in one month. You've just watched it. I'm very curious for your thoughts on it, given that you're a Luca fan. I don't know. Completist? Defender?
Well, I'm not a Luca completist because I did not make it to his seven or eight hour documentary about Bertolucci here at the
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What will this episode cover about the Telluride and Venice film festivals?
0:15–13:31
2
Why was the secret Nathan Fielder documentary on Elizabeth Holmes such a hot topic at Telluride?
13:31–25:38
3
How did the ‘Artificial’ trailer featuring Luca Guadagnino generate buzz among festival‑goers?
25:38–38:54
4
What was the overall vibe and atmosphere like at the Telluride and Venice festivals this year?
38:54–53:07
5
How did the hosts handle the hectic festival schedule and logistics?
53:07–1:09:25
6
Which films did the hosts rank as the best selections from Telluride and Venice?
1:09:25–1:22:05
7
How are the standout festival films expected to influence the upcoming Oscar race?
1:22:05–1:37:43
8
What are the hosts’ final thoughts and plans for future episodes?
1:37:43–1:50:55
Speakers
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