writer-director-star Jordan Firstman<\/a> announced that the evening\u2019s TBA would be a newly restored print of Jerry Seinfeld\u2019s 2007 animated film \u201cBee Movie.\u201d \u201cJust kidding,\u201d he added. \u201cI love Jerry.\u201d<\/p>\nThe 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 guards equipped with night-vision goggles would be watching for anyone who managed to keep a phone accessible.<\/p>\n
Taking the stage, Huntsinger made one last plea for secrecy. \u201cWhat happens in Telluride stays in Telluride,\u201d she told the crowd, before bringing out Nathan Fielder, the deadpan comic mind behind the reality-bending television shows \u201cNathan for You,\u201d \u201cThe Rehearsal\u201d and \u201cThe Curse.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Telluride had been guarding so carefully was \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d a nearly three-hour documentary about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, co-directed by Fielder and documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim. The film, which A24 will release theatrically in October, had been made largely in secret over three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor those of you who don\u2019t know who we are and are disappointed, I apologize,\u201d Fielder, joined onstage by Oppenheim, told the crowd to laughs. \u201cBut hopefully by the end of the film, you\u2019ll be slightly less disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie begins 34 days before Holmes is due to report to federal prison, with Fielder, Oppenheim and a small crew given extraordinary access to her life with her partner, Billy Evans, and their young children. Holmes and Evans embrace what they call \u201cradical transparency,\u201d opening their home to the cameras in hopes of convincing the filmmakers \u2014 and eventually the world \u2014 that the public has fundamentally misunderstood her.<\/p>\n
But as anyone familiar with Fielder\u2019s reenactment-heavy work can imagine, \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d quickly becomes something far stranger than a conventional documentary. Fielder finds himself drawn from behind the camera into the story, struggling to determine whether Holmes and Evans are being candid with him or manipulating him. From there, the movie takes a series of increasingly surreal turns, including elaborate reenactments involving a Hollywood actress (her arrival is too good to spoil) that further scramble the line between reality and performance.<\/p>\n
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During a post-screening Q&A moderated by Emma Stone, who co-starred with Fielder in the darkly comic A24 series \u201cThe Curse,\u201d Fielder said that his own inability to get a firm grip on what he was witnessing became one of the forces driving the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all smart and we\u2019re really working at the top of our intelligence,\u201d he recalled thinking as he and the crew tried to make sense of their time with Holmes and Evans. \u201cWhy can\u2019t we make sense of what\u2019s happening in this house?\u201d<\/p>\n
The project began, appropriately enough, with a magic trick.<\/p>\n
Oppenheim said he and Fielder were at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles several years ago when a magician asked the audience to name a celebrity. Someone called out Elizabeth Holmes. Afterward, Oppenheim told Fielder he had heard through a friend of a friend that Holmes was looking for someone to document her life.<\/p>\n
Fielder had read John Carreyrou\u2019s \u201cBad Blood,\u201d the bestselling 2018 account of Theranos\u2019 rise and collapse and initially saw little reason to make another documentary about Holmes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the story was really fully told,\u201d he told the Telluride crowd. Holmes, however, had largely disappeared from public view, and Fielder was curious about what she might have to say for herself.<\/p>\n
Meeting her only deepened that curiosity. Sitting across from Holmes, Fielder said, he found her \u201csort of honest and charming,\u201d even as his brain was warning him, \u201cNo, don\u2019t trust.\u201d That disconnect \u2014 between what he knew about Holmes and what he felt in her presence \u2014 became central to the movie.<\/p>\n
A24 gave Fielder and Oppenheim unusual freedom to pursue the project without any deadline or obligation to turn what they captured into a finished film. If nothing came of it, Fielder recalled being told, \u201cyou can just throw everything away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 and became one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most celebrated young entrepreneurs by claiming the company could perform a wide range of medical tests using only a few drops of blood. The company collapsed after investigations exposed serious problems with its technology and business practices. In 2022, Holmes was convicted on four counts related to defrauding investors and later sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n
As shown in \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d once Holmes reports to federal prison, the filmmakers\u2019 access to her changes dramatically, with Evans \u2014 who takes over Holmes\u2019 Twitter feed and assumes power of attorney over her decisions \u2014 becoming their main conduit. Fielder said the relationship grew strained as Evans tried to exert greater control over the project. Neither Holmes nor Evans has seen the finished movie.<\/p>\n
Fielder is hoping to keep the film\u2019s biggest surprises under wraps. During the Q&A, he told the Telluride audience he hoped future viewers could experience the film without knowing where it was headed. Stone seconded the request.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won\u2019t be upsetting me,\u201d Fielder joked. \u201cYou\u2019ll be upsetting Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fielder said that even after three years immersed in her world, he still doesn\u2019t know quite what to make of Holmes \u2014 or how much of what she says can be believed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really am struggling to this day to understand exactly what I experienced in this,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t quite know what I went through.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the crowd filed out of the Herzog, one reaction seemed to recur more than any other: \u201cThat was wild.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TELLURIDE, Colo.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Telluride Film Festival has always enjoyed keeping a secret. Tucked away in the Colorado mountains with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1521,261898,261900,261896,138621,4894,93,89754,1043,14454,61,60,270,261785,261897,17340,261899,261202,742],"class_list":["post-617071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-audience","tag-bee-movie","tag-big-surprise","tag-billy-evans","tag-crowd","tag-day","tag-entertainment","tag-federal-prison","tag-film","tag-holmes","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-nathan-fielder","tag-oppenheim","tag-project","tag-secret-screening","tag-telluride","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}