Venice Film Festival
‘The Brutalist’: Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About the Tireless Seven-Year Journey Behind His Buzzy Epic
A monumental triumph of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally secured a U.S. distribution deal over the weekend. The movie, which won Corbet the Venice Film Festival’s best director prize Saturday, will be released by indie tastemaker A24 sometime later this year with […]
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Box Office: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Scares Up Near-Record $111M Domestic Opening
Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is off to a rip-roaring start at the domestic box office as if no time had passed between now and when the first film graced the big screen 36 years ago. From Warner Bros., the first event pic of the fall season opened to a monstrous $111 million, coming […]
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Rising Star Drew Starkey on ‘Queer’ and How U.S. Audiences “Can Be Very Uptight” About Sex Scenes
Drew Starkey was a day into rehearsals for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer when he found himself rolling around the floor in a sweaty clinch with Daniel Craig. “We jumped into it, just grabbing and throwing our bodies on top of one another, rolling around, getting intermingled,” Starkey recalls, “I think it unlocked something subconsciously, gave us […]
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A24 Buys Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ for U.S.
A24 has won the bidding war to acquire U.S. rights to Brady Corbet’s buzzy Venice Film Festival winner The Brutalist. A24 announced the deal, brokered with CAA Media Finance, on Sunday, ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10. Adrien Brody stars in the historical epic as László […]
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Tilda Swinton on Translating Pedro Almodóvar Into English for Venice Winner ‘The Room Next Door’
Has Tilda Swinton ever given a bad performance? Through an astounding career that has ranged from avant-garde theater and experimental cinema to Marvel movies, the Scottish actress never fails to dazzle, delight and dumbfound. So it is again with her turn in The Room Next Door, her second collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar (after the 2020 […]
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‘Love’ Review: A Charming and Intelligent Norwegian Dramedy to Win Over Hearts and Minds
The film, about two colleagues with very different approaches to sex and romance, is the second in a planned thematic trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud.
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Venice Film Festival Awards: Pedro Almodóvar Wins Golden Lion for ‘The Room Next Door’
The 2024 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony has wrapped up after a sweltering week and a half on the Lido. The prestigious Golden Lion award for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. The Spaniard’s first-ever English-language feature received a whopping 17-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the festival. Almodóvar said […]
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‘Happy Holidays’ Review: A Cleverly Structured Palestinian Drama Explores Constriction and Complicity in Israeli Society
The latest feature by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scandar Copti ('Ajami') observes four characters whose fates are linked through a series of surprising events.
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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Trudges Ahead With a Slightly More Watchable Sequel
Sienna Miller, Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson also star in the sprawling adventure, intended as part of a four-film series about the settlement of the American frontier.
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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: A Slippery, Well-Acted Singaporean Thriller About Observation and Surveillance
The latest from director Yeo Siew Hua ('A Land Imagined') centers on a couple whose secrets are exposed after their young daughter goes missing.
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‘Of Dogs and Men’ Review: A Thoughtful and Quietly Powerful Israeli Docudrama Explores the Aftermath of Oct. 7
Director Dani Rosenberg ('The Vanishing Soldier') shot his latest feature at the Nir Oz kibbutz just weeks after the attacks that ignited the current Israel-Hamas war.
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Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Pavements’ Lands at Utopia After Venice Bow
Utopia has picked up the U.S. rights to Pavements, director Alex Ross Perry’s musical portrait of the 1990s al-rock band a day after a world premiere in Venice earlier this week. “One of our favorite filmmakers, one of our favorite bands, Pavements joining Utopia is simply a dream come true. The band’s iconic status has […]
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