Telluride 2. 01. 6: Amy Adams' Arrival, Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn in Una. Telluride Day 2 brought out the rain, followed by the sun and the stars. Walking down the picturesque mountain village. Although sometimes it. Waiting on line for last night. As for Arrival, when audiences walked out of that one, there was a mix of head- scratching puzzlement and swooning satisfaction of those who put together the film. It tries to reclaim sci- fi from its dumbed- down summer genre peers like Independence Day: Resurgence and elevate it back to the heady heights of 2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Interstellar. I admired it more than I loved it. Louise Banks, a university linguistics professor dealing with a still- fresh tragedy in her past. On her way to the classroom one day, she notices mobs of students staring at TV screens, while the few students who do turn up to her lecture are quickly diverted by an urgent chorus of chirping and pinging of their cell phones. She turns on the TV, and the cable news talking heads are on high alert. It turns out 1. 2 alien space ships are hovering over Earth, spread out across the globe, including one in rural Montana. They look like giant, 1. And what do they want? And whoever or whatever is inside of these monolithic spacecrafts isn. Global panic breaks out. If these aliens do have a language and they are indeed trying to send a message, the military can. So they bring in Banks and Jeremy Renner. Villeneuve, the French- Canadian director of last year. Which turns out to be an advantage since he brings a fresh perspective to his aliens. What they look like are enormous, seven- legged octopi who communicate via squid- ink pictograms that Banks and Donnelly race to decipher. The Toronto International Film Festival is where the awards race picture begins to take shape -- let the Los Angeles Times help bring it into focus. It has been almost 40 years since Steven Spielberg made “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That’s not a Spielberg film that people tend to revisit the way. When a dozen extraterrestrial pods enter the atmosphere, the government brings in an esteemed linguist. From the trailer for 'Arrival,' which just showed at the Toronto International Film Festival, you'd assume it's a CGI-heavy sci-fi movie about aliens. The whole lead- up to the scientists. Villeneuve also has some narrative sleight- of- hand tricks up his sleeve that are too audacious to give away. He may be biting off a bit more than his film can possibly chew despite its undeniable smarts and suspense, but by the end you. Subscribe now to keep up with the latest in movies, television and music. Turning about 1. 80 degrees away from Arrival, this morning I caught up with writer- director Benedict Andrews. Adapted from David Harrower. GIFFX – GI Film Festival 2016 – Celebrating 10 Years of Military Filmmaking. Home; GIFFX – GI Film Festival 2016 – Celebrating 10 Years of Military Filmmaking. Telluride Day 2 brought out the rain, followed by the sun and the stars. Now older, her psychic scars seem fresh, she. Her search for answers won. And, perhaps not surprisingly, Mara goes fathoms deep with her performance (I. She has a watchful mysteriousness that you always want to get to the bottom of. When Una finally meets up with Ray, Mendelsohn. But as their encounter plays out over the course of many hours, the power balance between the two gradually shifts back and forth like a see- saw until we. She may not even know. While the back- and- forth between these two actors is hypnotic, the film. I suspect Andrews wanted to strip his story of the play. But just because a movie allows you to do that doesn. A little of these time- jumps goes a long way. Actually, as powerful as Una is, it probably would have benefited from being more stagey . Like Room last year, Una isn. It may be the best- acted feel- bad movie of the year.
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