Victoria Ellison

The Telluride Film Festival, where moviegoers chase the season’s new Oscar contenders, was full of dramas about the hunter and the hunted in its 41st incarnation this Labor Day weekend. Three nominations are likely to go to Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller, Steve Carell as zillionaire wrestling buff John DuPont, and......

Just outside Telluride Labor Day weekend, I almost collided with a bear cub that ran in front of my car. Minutes later, on the sidewalk at the Telluride Film Festival, I almost collided with Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, there for the world premiere of the movie they wrote and......

Artist Bill Morrison rediscovers cinematic obscurities from the British Film Institute and other archives and reworks them into dazzling experimental films. His most famous is Decasia (2002), a hypnotic feature composed of clips from decaying nitrate films. REDCAT surveys Morrison's work on Monday, with a program including three shorts: The......

The Telluride Film Festival, which ran Sept. 2-5, is in one sense a setup for the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins just days later (watch for coverage in these pages and at blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/). Many major films arrive in Toronto propelled by Telluride's buzz and go on to make big......

Ross Lipman, an award-winning UCLA film preservationist, has restored or reconstructed work by Kenneth Anger, John Sayles and Charles Burnett. But his own cinema-based artwork is almost the opposite: not the re-establishment of a single original work but the deconstruction and blending of many video documents into a new work......