Venice Film Festival

Having now seen all 23 (!) films in competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival, it’s time to play our...

Ok, so BLONDE premiered. Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name, it’s an artful reconstruction of Marilyn...

If Hirokazu Koreeda (SHOPLIFTERS, BROKER) is Japan’s king of family dramas, Kôji Fukada is his evil twin. The latter makes...

Good storytelling has magic, and when Martin McDonagh tells you a story, you know you’re in the hands of a...

Darren Aronofsky is a director who, in my eyes, has never missed. Even the least celebrated of his work shows...

When filmmakers take a break from telling other people’s stories and draw inspiration from their own past, the result can...

In 2001, Todd Field rocked the indie film world with his debut narrative feature IN THE BEDROOM, which went on...

When it was announced that Noah Baumbach’s latest will open the 79th Venice Film Festival, I debated whether to read...

I’ve been going to the Venice Film Festival since 2014 and, judging from the lineup they just announced, the upcoming...

There was another brief lull here at the 76th Venice Film Festival until things picked up again today with Chinese...

As was often the case, this year’s Venice competition started off strong but lost some steam as it crossed the...

After the surprising inclusion of JOKER in Venice’s competition lineup, festival artistic director Alberto Barbera revealed in an interview that,...

Another year, another trip to the dreamy sun-kissed wonderland that is Lido. For the 76th time, cinema-lovers from around the...

Alfonso Cuaron's astonishing and personal film Roma takes the Golden Lion at Venice, while Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite wins the...

"An expanded, intellectualized retelling of a popular witch tale that actually tries to give each of its nasty scares a...

And into Oscar territory, we go. With The Favourite, Roma and First Man all having screened at Venice, we'll hear...

Alfonso Cuaron's rivetting  Roma has bowed at the Venice Film Festival to rave reviews. Set in Mexico City, it is...

This is the second time Vivian Qu has brought a film to the Toronto Film Festival. She was last here in...

George Clooney as a director has been hit-and-miss for me, dropping perhaps to his lowest point last time around with...

We're just moments away from the official Telluride lineup being announced but La La Land has been seen and the...