Venice Film Festival Awards 2020: Is Frances McDormand on her way to a third Best Actress Oscar for her work in Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland?
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Au Revoir les Enfants (movie 1987) review: Louis Malle’s Oscar-nominated Occupied France-set semi-autobiographical drama is possibly the director’s finest effort.
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Isabella Leong and Rainie Yang as lesbian lovers in Spider Lilies. The Speed of Life wins first Queer Lion: Early Venice Film Festival winners The Venice Film Festival’s first Queer …
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White Nights (movie 1957) review: Luchino Visconti’s romantic drama has the look – but not the feel – of a Hollywood production. Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell are great.
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Seven Samurai (movie 1954) review: This acclaimed Akira Kurosawa classic is one of those rare films that keep improving with each new viewing. Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura star.
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The Great Journey (movie 2004) review: Mohamed Majd and Nicolas Cazalé’s spot-on performances give a huge boost to Ismaël Ferroukhi’s’s father-son road (to Mecca) tale.
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The Sea Inside (movie 2004) review: Javier Bardem is an inadequate lead in Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia melodrama. But the supporting cast is first-rate.
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A Hatful of Rain (movie 1957) review: Eva Marie Saint is the one standout in Fred Zinnemann’s early drug addiction drama seriously impaired by its three male leads and overall …
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21 Grams (movie 2003) review: Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are two cast members who help lift Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga’s overreaching psychological drama.
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Faces (movie 1968) review: John Cassavetes’ landmark and widely admired independent drama is a narrative trainwreck and a long-winded cinematic chore. John Marley stars.
Three Colors: Blue (movie 1993) review: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s sublime psychological drama provides Juliette Binoche with one of the best roles of her prestigious career.
Vera Drake (movie 2004) review: Imelda Staunton delivers a superb performance as a mid-1950s abortionist in Mike Leigh’s uneven socially conscious family drama.
Venice Festival awards: The Golden Lion went to the British abortion drama Vera Drake, angering Italian nativists rooting for a local Gianni Amelio drama starring Kim Rossi Stuart.