Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2020

Venice is reclaiming its place as a top cultural destination with the opening of the Venice Film Festival — the first major in-person cinema showcase of the coronavirus era after Cannes canceled and other international festivals opted to go mostly online this year.

Italian director Andrea...

Tuesday, Jul. 7, 2020

The show will go on for the Venice Film Festival in September, but with a few modifications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Organizers said Tuesday that they are pushing forward with plans for its 77th installment, which will include a slightly reduced number of films in the main...

Thursday, Jul. 25, 2019

The 76th Venice Film Festival will feature three Netflix productions alongside Hollywood titles, embracing the streaming giant after the Cannes Film Festival excluded it for a second year in a row.

Among Venice's 21 competition titles, unveiled Thursday in Rome, is the Netflix-produced...

Sunday, Sep. 9, 2018

"Roma," Alfonso Cuaron's intimate, black-and-white portrait of the women who raised him in Mexico City's turbulent 1970s, has won the top prize at the 75th Venice Film Festival.

Cuaron accepted the Leone d'Oro on Saturday, which he said was the birthday of the woman who inspired the lead...

Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2018

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris said when he interviewed Steve Bannon for his latest film, "American Dharma," Morris likened him to Satan, and was surprised when President Donald Trump's former chief strategist "embraced the idea."

Speaking at a press conference Wednesday at the Venice...

Friday, Aug. 31, 2018

Damien Chazelle's last movie, "La La Land," was about a man clinging to nostalgia. His new one, "First Man," doesn't merely flirt with the past. It throttles back in time.

But Chazelle's reason for revisiting NASA's 1969 mission to the moon isn't to polish the shining legend of Neil...

Wednesday, Jul. 25, 2018

“Sunset” (“Napszallta”)the new film from Oscar-winning Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, will have its debut in competition at the Venice Film Festival which runs Aug. 29-Sept. 8.

“Sunset” takes place in Hungary’s capital just before World War I. The film tells the story of Irisz Leiter, a...

Sunday, Sep. 10, 2017

Guillermo del Toro's monster thriller "The Shape of Water" took top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, capping an 11-day event where the demons of social division and environmental disaster loomed large on the screen.

Del Toro was named winner of the Golden Lion by a jury...

Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017

Jim Carrey, the comic actor who was one of 1990s Hollywood's biggest stars, doesn't exist.

So says the Jim Carrey who came to the Venice Film Festival this week with "Jim and Andy," a documentary about his experience playing comedian Andy Kaufman in the 1999 biopic "Man on the Moon."...

Tuesday, Sep. 5, 2017

Director Darren Aronofsky says his film "mother!" — a delirious nightmare starring Jennifer Lawrence — is a "roller-coaster ride."

Fittingly, it thrilled some viewers at the Venice Film Festival, and left others a bit queasy.

A horror story that travels from menace to mind-bending...

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