Just one year after THE CARD COUNTER (which I loved), 76-year-old writer/director Paul Schrader has finished another film that completed...
Read moreThe downside to seeing a truckload of festivals films year in, year out is that a sense of déjà vu...
Read moreThe awards of the 78th Venice Film Festival were announced tonight by jury president Bong Joon Ho. As usual, it’s...
Read moreIn hindsight it always makes so much sense. Like, of course rule-breaker and game-changer Spike Lee was going to give...
Read moreA number of films at this year’s Venice Film Festival deal with historical atrocities in all their human dimensions. How...
Read moreReaders, I may have seen my favorite film of the 78th Venice Film Festival – potentially of the whole year....
Read moreWe’re halfway through the 78th Venice Film Festival and I must say so far the selection has proved even more...
Read moreAt film festivals we’re served dramas for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so anytime something that doesn’t take itself so seriously...
Read moreTwo of the most anticipated titles of the 78th Venice Film Festival made their world premiere today on the Lido....
Read moreThe 78th Venice Film Festival can add another title to its list of hits with Paul Schrader’s dramatic thriller THE...
Read moreI smell Oscars, guys. Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Who am I to say what a group of...
Read moreThe 78th Venice Film Festival opens today with filmmaking legend Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS, a motherhood drama that sees the...
Read moreVenice has revealed its final lineup - looking at The Power of the Dog, the Card Counter, and perhaps Spencer...
Read moreChloé Zhao's Nomadland has won the Golden Lion in Venice. Since 2000 four films have gone on to get a...
Read morePlot twist: We’ve been able to see one more film from the official selection of the 77th Venice Film Festival...
Read moreFull disclosure: I’m not in Venice. The organizers’ commitment to holding a “physical” (still hating that description) edition of the...
Read moreBefore chance and circumstance turned the Venice Film Festival into a full-blown Oscar campaign stop where the likes of JOKER,...
Read moreAfter SXSW, Locarno, Cannes, Telluride and countless others all called it quits this year, the oldest film festival in the...
Read moreIn hindsight I was never going to get any of it right. Predicting festival awards is in itself an exercise...
Read moreThere was another brief lull here at the 76th Venice Film Festival until things picked up again today with Chinese...
Read more