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...