Venice Film Festival
‘Youth (Homecoming)’ Review: Documentarian Wang Bing Concludes His Chinese Garment Workers Trilogy in Compelling Fashion
A follow-up to 2023's 'Youth (Spring)' and this year's 'Youth (Hard Times),' the film follows several factory workers as they return to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year.
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Nicole Kidman Misses Venice Film Festival Awards Due to Mother’s Death
Nicole Kidman arrived in Italy for the Venice Film Festival awards but had to leave shortly after landing due to the sudden death of her mother, Janelle Ann Kidman. The Perfect Couple star took home the prize for best actress for Babygirl at the Italian festival but was not in attendance to accept the award. […]
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Ellen Burstyn Honored With Liberatum’s Pioneer Award in Venice
On Wednesday evening, Liberatum hosted its Women in Creativity gala in conjunction with the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning actress Ellen Burstyn was honored with the Liberatum Pioneer Award for her work in cinema and for advancing society forward in movements like women’s liberation in Hollywood. In attendance were Bones and […]
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Documentary Crew Uses Venice Red Carpet to Spotlight Ukrainian Prisoners of War
A film crew took advantage of the Venice Film Festival spotlight Wednesday and wore clothing on its prestigious red carpet embroidered with the distances from the Lido to various locations where Russians are holding Ukrainian prisoners. Their documentary Songs of Slow Burning Earth, directed by Olha Zhurba, celebrated its world premiere in the Out of […]
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Venice Diary Day 6: Oddballs on the Red Carpet
The security guards guarding the stars on the Lido have an often tricky job. Not only do they have to protect divas from their fans — they also have to deal with more than the usual number of oddballs, imposters and seat-stealers. The Fan in a Thong A 50-year-old man was camped out all night […]
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Daniel Craig’s Racy Turn in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’ Earns Raves at Venice Film Festival With 9-Minute Standing Ovation
The Venice Film Festival showered Luca Guadagnino’s Queer with lots of love Tuesday night at the film’s world premiere. In particular, the capacity crowd inside Sala Grande went wild for star Daniel Craig, who broke away from his James Bond persona for a provocative and challenging role opposite Drew Starkey, who also earned cheers from […]
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‘Queer’ Review: Daniel Craig Burns a Hole in the Screen With Obsessive Desire in Luca Guadagnino’s Trippy Gay Odyssey
Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman and Lesley Manville also star in this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel, which travels from postwar Mexico City to the Amazon.
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‘Familiar Touch’ Review: A Tender Debut Frames Older Adulthood as Its Own Coming-of-Age
Kathleen Chalfant stars in Sarah Friedland's drama following an octogenarian as she confronts the realities of dementia and moving into an assisted living facility.
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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Erotic Films Seduce Venice
Venice has got its sexy back. Erotica of all varieties — gay, straight, kinky and theoretical — is on glorious display at this year’s Venice Film Festival, with plenty of sizzling action onscreen and little of it gratuitous. Two of the, em, hottest festival titles this year — Halina Reijn’s Babygirl and the TV series […]
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Antonio Banderas Points to ‘Philadelphia’ for Inspiring His AIDS Activism at Venice’s amfAR Gala
On Sunday night on the island of Lido — amid the goings on of the 81st Venice Film Festival — amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, held its annual gala. The World Gold Council, the Red Sea International Film Festival, Chopard, Campari and the San Clemente Palace Kempinski Hotel made the night possible, along with […]
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Armani Hosts Star-Studded Soiree at Venice Film Festival With Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett
This is the seventh year that Armani has been the official beauty sponsor of the Venice International Film Festival, getting actresses from Cate Blanchett to Sydney Sweeney red carpet ready. The festival kicked off on Aug. 28 and will continue until Sept. 7, with stars including Blanchett, Clara Galle, Kaya Scodelario and Ncuti Gatwa — […]
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‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore Save Pedro Almodóvar’s Uneven English-Language Feature Debut
A woman with terminal cancer asks a complicated favor of an old friend in this adaptation of a Sigrid Nunez novel, also featuring John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola.
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