All Venice articles – Page 4
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News
Pedro Almodóvar makes passionate climate change cry in Venice: “We have to pay greater attention”
”Climate change is not something neglectable,” said the Spanish filmmaker, calling out the approach of the Spanish government.
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Reviews
‘Mistress Dispeller’: Venice Review
A ‘mistress dispeller’ seeks to break up an extramarital affair in this intimate Chinese documentary
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Reviews
‘No Sleep Till’: Venice Review
Time stops for the few remaining residents of a Florida coastal town before the hurricane hits in this contemplative US debut
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Features
“Measuring ovations is deeply silly”: what’s behind the rise of the ‘standing ovation’ story?
One exec said he’s seen publicists with “giant stopwatches with glowing screens” independently timing ovations at film premieres.
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News
LevelK boards Giornate degli Autori title ‘Alpha’ ahead of Venice premiere (exclusive)
The suspense drama follows the relationship between a father and son in the Alps.
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Features
Fabrice du Welz’s ‘Maldoror’, about Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux, is first in planned trilogy about “my very strange country”
The film premieres out of competition at Venice on September 2.
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Reviews
‘Wolfs’: Venice Review
George Clooney and Brad Pitt hit the comedy bullseye as two solitary fixers forced to work together
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‘I’m Still Here’: Venice Review
Walter Salles directs Fernanda Torres in a standout performance as a real-life matriarch in military-ruled Brazil of the 1970s
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News
George Clooney says his and Brad Pitt’s ‘Wolfs’ salaries “millions and millions less than reported”
“We would’ve liked [a wider cinema release]; but we are getting a release in a few hundred theaters.”
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Reviews
‘The Brutalist’: Venice Review
Brady Corbet’s meticulous Silver Lion-winning drama centres around a Hungarian architect in 1940s America
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‘Anywhere Anytime’: Venice Review
The theft of a bicycle is the catalyst for this confident, incisive drama about a Sengalese immigrant in Italy
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News
Brady Corbet, director of 215-minute ‘The Brutalist’, says runtimes talk is “silly”
Corbet says the film is about character “who flees fascism only to encounter capitalism.”
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Reviews
‘The Order’: Venice Review
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult go toe-to-toe in Justin Kurzel’s gritty crime drama set in 1980s Idaho
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‘Battleground’: Venice Review
Gianni Amelio explores the moral complications of conflict in this hospital-set First World War drama
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‘My Everything’: Venice Review
Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy stars in Anne-Sophie Bailly’s well-acted if one-sided debut feature
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Features
“Calm on set”: How Venice title ‘My Everything’ has helped to pioneer accessibility practices while filming
’My Everything’ and box office smash ’A Little Bit Of Everything’ both boasted the first ’accessibility coordination manager’ role.
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Reviews
‘And Their Children After Them’: Venice Review
Small town in France, bad teenage decisions for the third feature by the Boukherma twins
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News
Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult on neo-Nazi thriller ‘The Order’: “We’ve still got a lot of work to do”
Hoult reveals he was stalked by Law without his knowledge before filming.
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Reviews
‘Peacock’: Venice Review
Albrecht Schuch headlines this assured Austrian debut as a paid companion whose facade starts to crumble
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‘Cloud’: Venice Review
The cybernet gets viciously real in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest web-inspired thriller