Fall Film Festival Recap: The Best & Worst of TIFF, Telluride and Venice
The fall film season kicks off each year with a trio of prestigious festivals: the just-completed Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Venice Film Festival (now in its 74th year), and the smaller but no less interesting Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. It is at these festivals where many of the year's Oscar contenders typically make their debuts. (Last year, five best picture nominees—including eventual winner Moonlight—had their world premieres at one of these festivals.) And this year's crop includes promising upcoming releases from Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Aaron Sorkin, Joe Wright, and Armando Iannucci ... as well as more divisive films from the likes of Alexander Payne, George Clooney, and Louis CK.
Below, learn more about the critical response to these and other notable films (and TV shows) debuting at the three festivals in 2017.
Lian Neeson stars as Mark Felt, known to many as “Deep Throat,” the whistleblower who aided the Watergate investigation, in a film that failed to reach the high standards of All the President’s Men. Adapted from Felt's own book (written with John D. O’Connor) and directed by Peter Landesman (Concussion), the film “feels more like a prosaically engrossing TV-movie that whets your appetite for a more definitive treatment of the subject,” according to Owen Gleiberman of Variety. However, Screen Daily’s Allan Hunter believes it’s a “solidly engrossing political drama, anchored by a commanding central performance from Liam Neeson.”
Drama | USA
Directed by Peter Landesman
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