Venice Film Festival

Claes Bang made his breakthrough in the Golden Globe-nominated The Square and since then the 52-year old Dane has been on a roll. Currently, he is in Venice representing Italian filmmaker Guiseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy, which will be closing the film festival on September 7.

Ladies were luminous on the opening night of the Venice Film Festival.

As the 76th edition of the Venice film festival is about to kick off tomorrow, there is a lot to contemplate for guests, reviewers and organizers alike. The competition choices as a whole look promising and are sure to generate interest, even though there is no single film that sticks out quite yet, as it had been the case when lineups were announced in previous years featuring such titles as Gravity, A Star Is Born, or Roma.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced a returning initiative in which rising filmmakers from the 2019 Venice International Film Festival and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival will be selected for a three-week residency program in partnership with Film Independent. For the second year in a row, the HFPA and Film Independent will host a three-week program geared at emerging and mid-career filmmakers selected from the Orizzonti section of the Venice International Film Festival and the TIFF Filmmaker Lab.

For more on the HFPA Residency, read The HFPA Celebrates the 75th Venice Film Festival.

Stars sparkle and shimmer at Venice – Guan Xiaotong, Naomi Watts, Guan Xiaotong.

Black and white finally turned up – but in unexpected ways. Legs are featured, and elegance remains prolific.

The Venice film festival carpet has provided everything – with each day providing a new theme. Nudes and pastels have their moment in the spotlight.

Sometimes a carpet isn’t raising. The pieces are individual but won’t make you faint.

Fashion was surprisingly tame at the festival though you can always count on Tilda Swinton to up the game. Dakota Fanning looks like the start of summer rather than the end of it.