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?
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The Audition 2015: Martin Scorsese Short starring Leonardo DiCaprio + Robert De Niro and for Macau business Cancelled at Venice Film Festival.
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Venice Film Festival 2015 Jury: Oscar Winner Alfonso Cuarón President alongside The Hunger Games actress while Europeans dominate juries.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Zhang Yimou and John Woo Honorary Awards + Air Disaster Drama starring Ken Watanabe Tops Japanese Academy Award Nominations.
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Lebanon, Michael Moore documentary Capitalism: A Love Story and ‘True believers of socialism’ in Toronto, Venice.
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Colin Firth and Nicholas Hoult: Gay drama was Venice Film Festival Queer Lion winner also with Matthew Goode, Tom Ford at premiere.
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Jared Leto, Sarah Polley and Diane Kruger: The curious case of Mr. Nobody with Jaco van Dormael and Linh-Dan Pham.
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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.…
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British cinema is back in full force at this year’s Venice Film Festival According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007 Lions tomorrow are: Best…
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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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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,…
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Venice Festival: The Golden Lion going to Mike Leigh’s British-made abortion drama Vera Drake has angered Italian nativists rooting for Gianni Amelio’s The Keys to the House.
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This year’s Venice Film Festival was fraught with assorted snafus that negatively impacted average festivalgoers and big names alike, among them Al Pacino and Harvey Weinstein.
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-Silvio Berlusconi Venice Film Festival controversy plus showings of risque Louise Brooks silent and history-making Jessica Tandy Oscar winner.
Elisabetta Canalis and George Clooney, Paris Hilton: Venice Film Festival also with Romain Duris, Alba Rohrwacher and Patrice Chéreau.
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…
The Queen with Helen Mirren. 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…