The Golden Donkey Venice 2010
The Ferroni BrigadeAbove: Brigade members Olaf Möller and Christoph Huber. Photo copyright Gerwin Tamsma. While the Ferroni Brigade is a merry bunch indeed, its members only rarely look that happy; or
Venice 2010
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Venice 2010. Wrap
David HudsonIt's been a week and a half since the night of those controversial awards. Time to wrap Venice 2010 with one final roundup. The festival closed with Julie Taymor's The Tempest and, while the lineup
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Tsui Hark's "Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame"
David Hudson"Tsui Hark, who directed about half of the best films of Hong Kong's golden age (Peking Opera Blues, Once Upon a Time in China, Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain) and produced most of the other
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Monte Hellman
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. Roundup for Road to Nowhere.
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Takashi Miike
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. 13 Assassins (roundup) screens in Toronto today, Thursday and Sunday. Series: A Decade with Takashi Miike.
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Venice 2010. Monte Hellman's "Road to Nowhere"
David Hudson"Monte Hellman's first feature film in 21 years is one of his finest and deepest, a twin peak to his 1971 masterpiece, Two Lane Blacktop. Road to Nowhere displays this director's trademark virtues
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Athina Rachel Tsangari's "Attenberg"
David HudsonLet's begin this one with Josef Braun's first review in his first dispatch from Toronto: "Like last year's Dogtooth, which [Athina Rachel] Tsangari co-produced, Attenberg is marked by its somewhat
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Venice, Telluride and TIFF 2010. Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies"
David HudsonBlogging from Telluride for TCM, morlockjeff found that among the "most powerful" of the films he caught was Incendies, "directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and set during the Lebanese
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Vincent Gallo's "Promises Written in Water"
David Hudson"My sense is that Promises Written in Water wasn't as bad as some were hoping, and was better than some were expecting," writes Stephanie Zacharek for Movieline. "Me, I'm on the fence: I'm a fan of
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Álex de la Iglesia's "A Sad Trumpet Ballad"
David HudsonJay Weissberg in Variety on the film for which Álex de la Iglesia has won the Silver Lion and an Osella for Best Screenplay in Venice, Balada triste de trompeta, known among English-speakers as either
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Venice 2010. Lions and Awards
David HudsonSofia Coppola's Somewhere (roundup) has won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival. Bloomberg reports that jury president Quentin Tarantino assures us that this was a unanimous decision
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Venice 2010. Notes from Venice
Boyd van HoeijNotes on some of the most interesting competition titles that screened at the Venice Film Festival this year, which wraps with its award ceremony today. A very strong Competition lineup that proves