2020 Venice Film Festival Awards: Is Frances McDormand on her way to a third Best Actress Oscar for Chloé Zhao’s Golden Lion winner Nomadland?
The Audition 2015 poster with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. ‘The Audition’ 2015: Martin Scorsese short starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert De Niro pulled from Venice Film…
Everest 2015, with Jake Gyllenhaal at the Venice Film Festival. What global warming? Venice Film Festival jury: Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón president The 2015 Venice Film Festival, to be held…
Carnage review mix is less than enthusiastic: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski’s post-arrest comeback. Based on Yasmine Reza’s play God of Carnage, Roman…
Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy with Madonna. June 22 update: Warren Beatty used to be known as a Ladies’ Man. Before Annette Bening, there were stories about Natalie Wood, Leslie…
Family conflict at the core of Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning psychological drama The Tree of Life. Pictured above: Maïwenn, Mélanie Laurent, Kirsten Dunst, Edgar Ramírez, Marisa Paredes, Dede Gardner, Pablo…
Controversial ‘I Am’ Topics: From Anti-Gay Discrimination & Child Abuse to Abusive Cops & Sperm Donor Search “Why can’t the guy get AIDS from a popular Bollywood actress?” According to…
Somewhere movie with Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere movie, hardly a unanimous critical hit (see further below), was the unanimous Golden Lion winner at the 2010 Venice…
Zhang Yimou on the set of A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop a.k.a. A Simple Noodle Story. Best known for his lush collaborations with Gong Li (Raise the…
‘Lebanon’: Israeli war movie was Golden Lion winner at Venice Film Festival. Golden Lion winner Samuel Maoz: Lebanon dedicated to war veterans – but not for flag-waving reasons “I dedicate…
Colin Firth, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode. Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, Matthew Goode: ‘A Single Man’ at the Venice Film Festival Actors Julianne Moore, Colin Firth,…
Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham and director Jaco van Dormael: The curious case of ‘Mr. Nobody’ talent. ‘Mr Nobody’ director Jaco van Dormael and actors Jared…
Veteran Stefania Sandrelli, who has a supporting role in A Perfect Day. According to Agence France-Presse, at least in first few days the 2008 Venice Film Festival, which ran Aug.…
Peter Greenaway directs Nightwatching. British cinema is back in full force at the 2007 Venice Film Festival According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007…
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…
Nicole Kidman in Fur is Rome Film Festival entry while Helen Mirren is the queen of the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren: The Queen of Venice Film Festival “Thank you,…
Venice Festival: The Golden Lion victory of Mike Leigh’s abortion drama at the snafu-plagued Biennale has infuriated Italian nativists rooting for local father-son tale.
Roman Polanski’s Carnage with Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly. What do Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, George Clooney, Todd Solondz, Tomas Alfredson, and Madonna have in…
Michelle Bonev ca. 2000s. Bulgarian actress-turned-filmmaker Michelle Bonev has become embroiled in an ugly controversy involving the notorious Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; the Venice Film Festival; an award for…
Elisabetta Canalis and George Clooney. Elisabetta Canalis and George Clooney images: Venice Film Festival Pictured above are Hollywood actor George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis, an Italian television presenter and sometime…
Lust Caution: Sex scenes fail to offend Venice Film Festival jury. Yesterday, surprising many prognosticators, the controversial, near-sexually explicit spy thriller Se, Ji / Lust, Caution earned Ang Lee his…
For the first time in the history of the Venice Film Festival, all films competing for the 2006 Golden Lion will have their world premiere at the festival, which opens…