2 for the Show

A celebration of local arts and culture is set to take over downtown Ames this weekend. The city will play host to not one but two festivals on Sunday, including the inaugural Ames Documentary Film Festival.

I was lucky enough to be among the few hundred Telluride Film Festival attendees to see the world premiere of You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s reality-blurring, mind-bending documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. And I’m still not sure what I experienced.

'2 for the Show' hit the road over Labor Day weekend to attend the 53rd Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. The four-day festival played host to many high-profile Oscar contenders, plus a top-secret screening that quickly became the talk of the internet. Read on for a recap of the festival, including our thoughts on all the films we saw.

The End of Oak Street is an admirable attempt to revive the dinosaur blockbuster outside the confines of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchise. However, an underdeveloped plot and a painfully wooden performance from Ewan McGregor prevent the movie from fully capturing that old Spielbergian magic.

After conquering the Oscars with Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan turned his attention to the foundation of all modern epics, finding inspiration in the ancient Greek poet Homer. His resulting adaptation of The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and many more A-list stars, is a towering cinematic achievement and yet another filmmaking leap forward for Nolan.

Rebecca Fons knows art house cinema when she sees it. The Iowan has spent nearly two decades in independent film exhibition and now works in London as a film curator. Ahead of Art House Theater Day on July 30, she shared what it means to bring independent movies to cinemas across the world.