All Venice articles – Page 4
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Reviews‘2073’: Venice Review
Asif Kapadia blends documentary and fiction to present a damning hypothesis of Earth’s dystopian future
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NewsDaniel Craig, Drew Starkey prepared for ‘Queer’ sex scenes by “rolling around on the floor”
”We had months of this experimenting with each other, moving to poetry, forgetting the language of it all.”
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Reviews‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu
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Reviews‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
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Features‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’ director on crafting his Venice Critics’ Week debut “outside of the system”
The dark comedy is the first feature from UK born, Paris-based commericals and music video producer Jethro Massey.
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Reviews‘Finally’: Venice Review
The 51st feature from French maestro Claude Lelouch is a playful ‘greatest hits’ musical fable
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Reviews‘King Ivory’: Venice Review
James Badge Dale and Ben Foster take opposite sides of America’s War on Drugs in John Swab’s lacklustre thriller
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Reviews‘The Room Next Door’: Venice Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner is also his English-language debut starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
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Reviews‘The Mohican’: Venice Review
An unassuming Corsican goatherd becomes the figurehead of a resistance movement in this assured thriller
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Reviews‘The New Year That Never Came’: Venice Review
The fall of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu is explored in this 1989-set debut which won the top Horizons prize at Venice
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Reviews‘Vermiglio’: Venice Review
Maura Delpero’s second feature is an accomplished, restrained family drama set in the Italian Alps during the Second World War
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NewsPedro 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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NewsLevelK 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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FeaturesFabrice 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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Reviews‘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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NewsGeorge 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.”