Italy/UK/US • d: Noah Baumbach • R • 132m
When Jay Kelly (George Clooney), a past-his-prime movie star, attends the funeral of a friend (Jim Broadbent), he starts a fistfight with a rival (Billy Crudup) and thus triggers a personal crisis. Soon, Jay has embarked on a deep, funny and late-in-the-game quest to better know his emotional and psychic world (which, hitherto, he’s fastidiously avoided.) In Noah Baumbach’s painfully funny journey of memory and discovery, Clooney is effortlessly commanding as he captures Jay’s insecurity and self-absorption. Adam Sandler, as Jay’s long-suffering manager, gives a fine performance, as does the stellar supporting cast: Laura Dern, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Emily Mortimer, Patrick Wilson, Greta Gerwig, Alba Rohrwacher, Stacy Keach and Lars Eidinger. Baumbach wrote his emotionally layered and deeply affecting film with Mortimer, and it joins the list of supreme films about the psyche of the motion picture world, along with Fellini’s 8 1/2 and Woody Allen’s STARDUST MEMORIES.
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., 9/12 • 7pm • JAY KELLY
Sat., 9/13 • 12:30pm • NOUVELLE VAGUE
Sat., 9/13 • 3pm • LA GRAZIA
Sat., 9/13 • 7pm • BUGONIA
Sun., 9/14 • 12pm • THE SECRET AGENT
Sun., 9/14 • 3:30pm • SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Sun., 9/14 • 7:15pm • A PRIVATE LIFE
