Yes, Robert Rodriguez's Machete opens Stateside on Friday, but its first public screening is tonight in Venice, a Midnight opener, Out of Competition, and the first yeas and nays are in. A yea: "Machete
The very first rumblings from the Lido are raves. Most of us can't see Mike Goodridge's review for Screen, but Awards Daily can, so here we go: "Already back on track after Venice Golden Lion winner
Above: Antony Cordier’s Happy Few. David has been doing an excellent job rounding up information on the films that will premiere at the 67th Venice Film Festival (see here, here, here, and here). Here
Now that we've had a look at the films in the official competition at this year's Venice Film Festival (September 1 through 11) — and Neil Young, by the way, is already placing odds on who'll win
Following Round 1 on Tuesday and Round 2 yesterday (with the titles slated for the Orizzonti section), we now have the nearly-but-not-quite complete list of films lined up for the Competition at
We've known for some time now that Catherine Breillat's Sleeping Beauty (image above) would open the Orizzonti (Horizons) section of this year's Venice Film Festival and that Hong Sang-soo's Oki's
As mentioned yesterday, the Venice Film Festival will open on September 1 with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and close on September 11 with Julie Taymor's The Tempest. Today, Venice Days, an independent
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
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
"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