For the past decade, not a year has gone by without major awards-season contenders bowing at the festival.
Category: Venice International Film Festival
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Venice Film Festival: Filmmakers Race to Finish Their Movies
With the Venice Film Festival beginning, filmmakers are racing to the finish line to have their work ready for screening.
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Isabelle Huppert on the Importance of the Venice Film Festival
The veteran French actress of stage and screen is the jury president of this year’s Venice Film Festival.
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Venice Film Festival: Marina Cicogna’s Glamorous Legacy
Cicogna, who died in November, was the face of the Venice Film Festival for decades and a pioneer for women in the Italian film industry. She also knew how to throw a party.
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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ to Compete at Venice Film Festival
Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature and new movies from Luca Guadagnino and Pablo Larraín will also debut at this year’s event.
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‘Seven Samurai’: Masterless Warriors in a Cinematic Masterpiece
Akira Kurosawa’s epic has always been known for its action-film artistry, but there is emotional heft and nuance as well.
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Marina Cicogna, Italy’s First Major Female Film Producer, Dies at 89
A countess from an influential Italian family, she charted her own course and produced films by the likes of Pasolini and Zeffirelli.
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‘Poor Things’ Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival
The film, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, stars Emma Stone as a woman who goes on a sexual and philosophical journey. The announcement of its win was met with a roar of applause.
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At Venice Film Festival, Trapped Women and Controlling Men
This year’s lineup includes films from Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos and Bradley Cooper in which female characters squirm under the thumbs of egocentric men.
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Woody Allen Draws Protests and Praise at the Venice Film Festival
The director premiered his 50th film, “Coup de Chance.” It won over critics but not protesters, who asked organizers to “turn the spotlight off of rapists.”
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Venice: Emma Stone Is a Bizarro Barbie in ‘Poor Things’
In the wild new comedy from Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite”), Stone plays a sexually questing woman with the mind of an infant.
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Venice Film Festival: Adam Driver Calls Out Netflix and Amazon Amid Strikes
His film “Ferrari,” a big-budget indie from Michael Mann, is the kind of adult drama the major studios have shied away from.