Festivals

On September 1st, the Venice Film Festival welcomed a new Todd Field film into the world. Field is often referred to as ‘an actor’s director,’ and after a fifteen-year hiatus, the cinema world was eager to see Tár, which he specifically wrote for Cate Blanchett, one of the most talented actresses working today.

Renowned American documentarian Frederick Wiseman has a long and rich relationship with the Venice Film Festival. Over the course of his career he has had numerous movies debut at the Venice Biennale, and in 2014 he was the recipient of the festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Italian director Luca Guadagnino is becoming a Venice Film Festival darling, returning to the festival after Suspiria (2018), with a film that festival director Alberto Barbera is calling his best so far, Bones and All with Timothée Chalamet. It is driving the young fans crazy and attracting the biggest crowds so far.

The prospect of seeing Golden Globe winner Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All prompted reporters to cram into the Sala Darsena at the Venice Film Festival at 8:30 on an unseasonably chilly Italian morning. The horror-love story of two lost souls – Timothée as Lee and Taylor Russell (Waves) as Maren – driven by their inner urges to consume human flesh is directed by Luca Guadagnino and co-stars Mark Rylance and an almost unrecognizable, Chloë Sevigny.

The bellinis were flowing on the Lido as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hosted its annual Biennale reception for filmmakers, dignitaries, and other special guests at the 79th Venice Film Festival. Held poolside at the historic Excelsior Hotel, the gathering has become a tradition by the HFPA to not only pay tribute to the creative talent attending but to announce the new recipients of the Association’s co-sponsorship of the Venice Film Residency Program.

The fact that this is the first post-Better Call Saul project for Bob Odenkirk makes Cecilia Miniucchi's Worlds Apart a must-see. The film premiered on September 1 at the Venice Film Festival in the “Giornate degli Autori” section.

The 79th Venice Film Festival opened with a screening of Noah Baumbach’s newest film, White Noise, on August 31. It’s the first time the American writer-director has written an adapted screenplay, the source material being a novel of the same name by American author Don DeLillo.

Dusk was imminent on the Lido but the lights were bright outside the Mostra Internazionale D’Arte Cinemagrafica. It was opening night for the 79th annual Venice Film Festival and the world’s media had come to capture the celebration for the premiere feature, White Noise.