Venice Film Festival 2024
‘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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‘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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‘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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‘April’ Review: A Doctor Dispenses Off-The-Books Abortions in Miraculous, Wrenching Georgian Drama
'Beginning' star Ia Sukhitashvili reunites with director Dea Kulumbegashvili for her second feature, about an OB-GYN operating in a remote rural community.
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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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‘Diva Futura’ Review: A Messy but Well-Acted Celebration of the Golden Age of an Italian Porn Empire
Based on a memoir by Debora Attanasio, the Venice Film Festival entry charts the rise of an adult entertainment studio through the 1980s and 1990s.
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Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga Bring Gotham to Venice, Electrify Fest With Ambitious ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’
Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker returned to Venice Wednesday night for the long-awaited world premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux with his Harley Quinn, Lady Gaga, on his arm. The duo, together with director Todd Phillips — who last appeared on the lido with Joker five years ago, winning the fest’s prestigious Golden Lion — were congratulated […]
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