Venice 2011. Top Picks
Daniel KasmanFor those that must partake, an ordered list of films seen and favorites from Venice 2011.
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Venice 2011. Epic Festival Finale
Daniel KasmanMy final film at the 2011 Venice film festival is appropriately conclusive: Lav Diaz’ 6-hour Century of Birthing.
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Venice 2011. Financial Panthers
Daniel KasmanJohnnie To’s Life without Principle, his second film of 2011, and second dealing with the current financial crisis, premieres at Venice.
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Venice 2011. Golden Lion for Aleksandr Sokurov's "Faust"
David HudsonSilver Lion for Cai Shangjun (People Mountain People Sea). Acting awards for Michael Fassbender and Deanie Ip.
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Venice and Toronto 2011. Emanuele Crialese's "Terraferma"
David HudsonFor some, Terraferma is an “absorbing drama” about immigration. Others see no need for it to be competing in a major film festival.
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Venice 2011. Mass of Hitlers, Crowds of Faith
Daniel KasmanA double feature of an experimental Hitler montage, Conference, and Romuald Karmakar’s documentary The Flock of the Lord.
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Venice and Toronto 2011. Chantal Akerman's "Almayer's Folly"
David HudsonThe trades are not impressed, but Akerman’s first narrative feature in seven years does have its champions.
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Venice 2011. Feel the Temptation
Daniel KasmanAleksandr Sokurov finishes his tetralogy of power with a magnificent, grotesque adaptation of Goethe’s Faust.
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Venice 2011. Gestures from the End of the World
Daniel KasmanAbel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth is a small, apocalyptic but love-filled ode to self-doubt, New York City and the female body.
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Venice 2011. Typhoon Fury
Daniel KasmanSono Sion’s Himizu, his second film of 2011, is set just after Japan’s devastating natural catastrophe.
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Venice 2011. Index
David HudsonAll the coverage of the coverage, plus our own reviews and interviews.
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Venice 2011. Cavemen/Mussolini/Moblon
Daniel KasmanAugusto Tretti’s bluntly hilarious economic-political satire Il potere roars through Venice.