With the Lions awarded and the last of the reviews trickling in, the time has finally come to wrap the 66th Venice Film Festival with an index of entries on individual films and notes on several more
"These days, I'm not convinced Atom Egoyan could even get The Sweet Hereafter right," writes Tom Carson for GQ, "and since that's still the directing credit his festival bios tout a dozen years later
Cinema Scope's new front page - the splash page, you might call it - sports a still from Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers and, inside, in the Spotlight section previewing the fall festival season, we
"Narrated by its whistle-blowing hero (and based in part on two of his books), The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers traces how the doubts of one connected insider
Shirin Neshat's Women without Men and Hana Makhmalbaf's Green Days are both set in Iran during turbulent periods of that nation's history - Women, half a century ago; Green Days, just months ago. Both
"Jane Campion's Bright Star gives us not a brash or bratty Keats," writes Jessica Winter at Moving Image Source, "but textbook emo-Keats: feline and kind, delicate and almost vaporous, a little histrionic;
"Nemo Nobody is dying," writes Todd Brown at Twitch. "Nemo Nobody is in love. Nemo Nobody is old and infirm. Nemo Nobody is a wide-eyed child. Nemo Nobody is rich and successful. Nemo Nobody is a wild
Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen won the Special Jury Prize in Venice and screens today, tomorrow and Saturday in Toronto. "So over-the-top boisterous that I initially misinterpreted its gleeful
"With his movie debut A Single Man, Tom Ford proves he's just as much of a stylist in the director's chair as he was when he turned around the fortunes of Italian fashion house Gucci in the
The Venezia 66 Jury, headed up by Ang Lee, has awarded the Golden Lion to Samuel Maoz's Lebanon; here's the roundup of reviews so far. The Silver Lion for Best Director goes to Shirin
Where to begin. Perhaps with Scott Foundas's introduction to "Serge Bromberg, who began fervently collecting films at age nine, and today, four decades later, might best be described as an
Jennifer's Body hits theaters next week, but since it's opened the Midnight Madness program in Toronto, we can go ahead and get it out of the way right now. "I'm on record as liking