Telluride 2021 Preview: 10 Must-See Films To Watch

Melissa McCarthy spoke about starring in Meghan Markle’s special 40th birthday video during an appearance on “Lorraine”.

One of the few positive things the pandemic has done for movie buffs is left us with an onslaught of leftover 2020 titles held for this year’s fall festival circuit. Case in point: the 59th Annual New York Film Festival.

The 2021 Emmys lit up our TV screens on Sunday night!

The show must go on! After the coronavirus pandemic forced Broadway theaters to close their doors for more than one year, stars are finally ready to shine at the 2021 Tony Awards.

The hit new Broadway musical Six just re-opened and the cast made their television debut this week as well!

Will Smith’s “King Richard,” in which he plays the father of tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams, will close the 2021 AFI Fest, it was announced on Wednesday.The Closing Night screening will take place on Nov. 14 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Paris Hilton praised Britney Spears for landing a spot on the 2021 Time 100 Most Influential People list.

Met Gala and they looked stunning. Notable celebrities like Zendaya, Kylie Jenner, and Nicki Minaj did not attend the event but there were plenty of other stars at the biggest night of fashion.

Emiliano De Pablos Spain’s Lolita Films, co-founded by auteur Javier Rebollo (“La mujer sin piano”), is re-teaming with Argentina’s Amateur Cinema on road movie project “Camionero,” directed by “Para la guerra” helmer Francisco Marise.Selected for San Sebastian Festival’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Camionero” is co-penned by Rebollo, who earned a best director award at San Sebastian 2009 with “La mujer sin piano.”The companies are linking up once more after co-producing

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Another fall season, another deluge of fall film festival movies and previews. If you’ve been playing along, and hopefully, you have, you’ve already seen our coverage from the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado and Italy’s Venice International Film Festival.

Even though COVID might prevent a lot of folks from making the trip to the UK for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, the event is shaping up to be yet another fall film festival jam-packed with awesome features. READ MORE: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films According to BFI, this year’s LFF is going to feature 159 feature films, including 21 World Premieres.

TELLURIDE – For those of us lucky enough to attend Cannes, there was a genuine sense of euphoria about returning to an in-person film festival following the pandemic forced cancellation in 2020. Returning to Telluride, which only featured a historic “Nomadland” outdoor screening last year, due to said pandemic, warmed the heart.

Will Smith hits a winner with King Richard. Playing the driven, eccentric and controversial father of budding tennis prodigies Venus and Serena Williams in the late 1980s and 1990s, the protean actor finds a new gear as he inhabits a complicated and gutsy man who trailblazes a path for two highly talented girls in their early teens in a sport where Black aspirants were virtually unheard of, especially in the female ranks.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentTVNow, RTL Deutschland’s streaming service, high-flying Berlin-based production house X Filme Creative Pool and production-distribution powerhouse Beta Film are partnering on what looks like one of the biggest German drama series productions of 2021: “House of Promises.”Beta Film is handling world sales and will present first moving images of the series at October’s Mipcom trade fair in Cannes, it said Friday.Described by Beta Film as a “high-end”

TELLURIDE – To say that Richard Williams was a controversial figure in the world of tennis would be something of an understatement. The father and coach of legendary players Venus and Serena Williams was known to bicker with reporters and tournament officials.

It really is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the fall film festival season. It would seem, with the announcement of each festival lineup, that these events are just completely jam-packed with high-profile films.

th.Since 2008, 11 of the 13 winners of the Oscar for Best Picture have played at Telluride, with “The Hurt Locker” and “Green Book” being the only two that didn’t.Here’s the full announced lineup from the Telluride press release. The festival has also been known to drop in surprise screenings of films that have not been announced.•              THE AUTOMAT (d.