Catherine Breillat
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. The Sleeping Beauty (roundup) screens in Toronto on September 14, 15 and 19.
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins"
David Hudson"Takashi Miike must be at least two people," writes Lee Marshall in Screen. "The Japanese maverick averages between two and three films a year — and yet this last-man-standing samurai tale, his second
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Wang Bing's "The Ditch"
David Hudson"Having dealt at length with China's 'anti-rightist' campaign in his epic documentary Fengming: A Chinese Memoir, Wang Bing continues to probe the devastating consequences of this little-aired historical
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Venice 2010. Abdellatif Kechiche's "Black Venus"
David Hudson"Abdellatif Kechiche's Couscous [The Secret of the Grain] was pipped at the post for the Golden Lion in 2007 by Ang Lee's unpleasant Lust, Caution," writes Roderick Conway Morris for the International
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Venice 2010. Antony Cordier's "Happy Few"
David Hudson"Two young married couples who decide to swap partners for sex live to regret it in Happy Few, a story that takes itself far too seriously to be taken seriously by an audience," finds Deborah Young
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Venice 2010. Aureliano Amadei's "20 Cigarettes"
David HudsonThe Venice Film Festival has an announcement to make and it's all the more delightful if the voice in your head that you read it with has an Italian accent: "The Controcampo Italiano Jury, chaired
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Ben Affleck's "The Town"
David Hudson"As a director, Ben Affleck is more of a grafter than a dreamer," writes David Jenkins for Time Out London. "The same could be said of his writing. Hell, why don't we throw his acting in there as
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John Woo
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Jerzy Skolimowski's "Essential Killing"
David Hudson"There is not a moment of respite for viewers in Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's 83-minute-long political thriller Essential Killing, full of blood and wild nature," writes Camillo de Marco for
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Venice 2010. Pablo Larraín's "Post Mortem"
David Hudson"Pablo Larraín is a Chilean director whose feature Tony Manero (2007) revived the memory of John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever in the most unexpected of contexts," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw
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Venice 2010. Index
David HudsonPhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. This year's Venice Film Festival: Coverage of the coverage and more, an index-in-progress. Lions and other awards are listed here. A final wrap
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Casey Affleck's "I'm Still Here"
David Hudson"Spare a thought for Joaquin Phoenix, a pampered Hollywood prince who lives to rap and raps to live," writes the Guardian's Xan Brooks. I'm Still Here, which premiered in Venice over the Labor Day