UK/US/France • d: Danny Boyle • NR • 116m
In the late 1960s, the millionaire Rupert Murdoch (Guy Pearce) and veteran newspaper editor Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) team up to hatch a wild plan: to challenge London’s leading newspaper with a brash new form of journalism. And they hope to win comeuppance against the snobbish British aristocratic elite. As Lamb reinvents Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, he becomes an attack dog, devolving his newspaper into a sensationalistic, sexually explicit and right-leaning rag—and watches sales skyrocket. Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, 127 HOURS) works from James Graham’s adaptation of his own hit play, taking darkly exuberant comic delight in a wild underdog story with radically destructive results. Claire Foy plays the woman’s page editor Jules Davies, and the trio’s superb performances, along with Boyle’s inventive visual pastiche, make INK mesmerizing, disturbing entertainment. –Larry Gross
About the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival has been, for the last 50 years, a celebration of the art of film: honoring the great masters of the cinema, discovering the rare and unknown, bringing new works by the world’s greatest directors and the latest in American independent film to a small mountain town in Colorado. The New York Times called Telluride “the smallest, most original, and most stimulating of the major festivals,” while Entertainment Tonight simply said it was “the world’s best festival.”
About Telluride By The Sea
The Music Hall and the Telluride Film Festival collaborate on an exclusive presentation of six new features, brought directly from their Colorado debuts. This unique and intimate Portsmouth event treats audience members from across the Northeast to an exclusive peek into the Telluride experience—packing one September weekend in Portsmouth with the latest international cinema, private parties, great music, delicious food, and inspired conversations with other cinephiles of all ages, tastes, and backgrounds.
Schedule
Fri., 9/25 • 7pm • THE DEBUT
Sat., 9/26 • 1pm • FATHERLAND
Sat., 9/26 • 3:30pm • TENDER LOVING CARE
Sat., 9/26 • 7pm • INK
Sun., 9/27 • 12pm • WILD HORSE NINE
Sun., 9/27 • 3pm • ELSINORE
Sun., 9/27 • 6:30pm • BURGUNDY
