What happened inside Tellurides secret screening of Nathan Fielders new Elizabeth Holmes documentary

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Set us as preferred TELLURIDE, Colo. — The Telluride Film Festival has always enjoyed keeping a secret.Tucked away in the Colorado mountains with nary a red carpet or paparazzo in sight, the low-key film festival doesn’t announce its lineup until the day before opening and surprise additions have long been a fixture of the event.But even by Telluride standards, organizers went to unusual lengths this year to keep their biggest surprise under wraps.

They had carved out a prime Sunday evening slot for a world premiere that, fingers crossed, would remain unknown until the audience was seated inside the theater.Festival director Julie Huntsinger offered only a few clues beforehand.

The film involved some “very known names,” she told The Times.“Do not miss it.

Your jaw will be on the ground for the entire length of the film.”For three days, trying to crack the mystery became Telluride’s unofficial parlor game.Was it Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning”? Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Three”? Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary “Musk”? By Sunday, the mounting speculation had become fodder for jokes: Introducing his new movie “Club Kid” earlier in the day, writer-director-star Jordan Firstman announced that the evening’s TBA would be a newly restored print of Jerry Seinfeld’s 2007 animated film “Bee Movie.” “Just kidding,” he added.

“I love Jerry.” Movies The ‘Ripley’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ star steps up in a performance of depth as Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor who took on Hamlet at the end of his life.The festival kept the suspense going right up to showtime.Before entering the Werner Herzog Theatre on Sunday evening, hundreds of moviegoers were required to lock their phones in pouches to prevent spreading the word.

Inside, they were warned that security guar...