Tag: Venice Film Festival

ALL HAIL QUEEN JULIANNE. The awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival were handed out tonight and they were fabulous. ...

The Venice Film Festival announced winners: VENICE 79 Golden Lion All The Beauty And The Bloodshed Silver Lion Grand Jury ...

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 ...

Masterpiece alert! Guys, this is why I go to these film festivals – to be completely unprepared for and swept ...

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

The Telluride Film Festival was populated by many of the biggest names in Oscar coverage, for whatever that's worth. The ...

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 ...

Just one year after THE CARD COUNTER (which I loved), 76-year-old writer/director Paul Schrader has finished another film that completed ...

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 ...

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

It looks like White Noise will likely be among those doing the one-two punch of Venice and Telluride. At least ...

With Venice, Telluride, and Toronto behind us, we are knee-deep in the festival season. Movies have been seen. Audiences have ...

The awards of the 78th Venice Film Festival were announced tonight by jury president Bong Joon Ho. As usual, it’s ...

In hindsight it always makes so much sense. Like, of course rule-breaker and game-changer Spike Lee was going to give ...

A number of films at this year’s Venice Film Festival deal with historical atrocities in all their human dimensions. How ...

Readers, I may have seen my favorite film of the 78th Venice Film Festival – potentially of the whole year. ...

We’re halfway through the 78th Venice Film Festival and I must say so far the selection has proved even more ...