With the rise of the encroaching Toronto, the domestic competition offered by Rome and a hugely successful Cannes this year, the 70th Venice Film Festival - which begins on 28 August - is facing some pretty stiff competition. The lineup, however, is on the face of it relatively low-key, though there are some very interesting possibilities and potential surprises. Regular attendee George Clooney opens proceedings with Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, whilst in the main competition lie a mix of old hands - Errol Morris with his Donald Rumsfeld documentary, Hayao Miyazaki's last fable - along with fresh talents such as Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves) and Jonathan Glazer (with his Birth follow-up, Under the Skin).
Terry Gilliam also returns after an elongated absence, his The Zero Theorem starring Christoph Waltz as a hacker searching for the meaning of existence. The film hopefully marks a return to form for a filmmaker who...
Terry Gilliam also returns after an elongated absence, his The Zero Theorem starring Christoph Waltz as a hacker searching for the meaning of existence. The film hopefully marks a return to form for a filmmaker who...
- 8/28/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The films screened at the 70th Venice film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more information comes in
The 70th Venice film festival runs from 28 August until 7 September
Opening night film
Gravity, Dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Closing night film
Amazonia, Dir: Thierry Ragobert
Competition
Ana Arabia, Dir: Amos Gitai
Child of God, Dir: James Franco
Die Frau des Polizisten (The Police Officer's Wife), Dir: Philip Groning
L'intrepido, Dir: Gianni Amelio
La Jalousie, Dir: Philippe Garrel
Jiaoyou,, Dir: (Stray Dogs), Tsai Ming-liang
Joe, Dir: David Gordon Green
Kaze Tachinu, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Miss Violence, Dir: Alexandros Avranas
Night Moves, Dir: Kelly Reichardt
Parkland, Dir: Peter Landesman
Philomena, Dir: Stephen Frears
Sacro Gra, Dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Es-Stouh (The Rooftops), Dir: Merzak Allouache
Tom at the Farm, Dir: Xavier Dolan
Tracks, Dir: John Curran
Under the Skin, Dir: Jonathan Glazer
The Unknown Known: the Life and Times of...
The 70th Venice film festival runs from 28 August until 7 September
Opening night film
Gravity, Dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Closing night film
Amazonia, Dir: Thierry Ragobert
Competition
Ana Arabia, Dir: Amos Gitai
Child of God, Dir: James Franco
Die Frau des Polizisten (The Police Officer's Wife), Dir: Philip Groning
L'intrepido, Dir: Gianni Amelio
La Jalousie, Dir: Philippe Garrel
Jiaoyou,, Dir: (Stray Dogs), Tsai Ming-liang
Joe, Dir: David Gordon Green
Kaze Tachinu, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Miss Violence, Dir: Alexandros Avranas
Night Moves, Dir: Kelly Reichardt
Parkland, Dir: Peter Landesman
Philomena, Dir: Stephen Frears
Sacro Gra, Dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Es-Stouh (The Rooftops), Dir: Merzak Allouache
Tom at the Farm, Dir: Xavier Dolan
Tracks, Dir: John Curran
Under the Skin, Dir: Jonathan Glazer
The Unknown Known: the Life and Times of...
- 7/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
A red letter day. There's a new Senses of Cinema out and it opens with the first part of Daniel Fairfax's interview with Jean-Louis Comolli, who edited Cahiers du cinéma from 1965 to 1973. Senses editor Rolando Caputo: "At the time, Cahiers was undergoing its so-called 'Marxist-Leninist' phase, with a heavy overlay of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory." And Slavoj Žižek would have been in his late teens, early 20s. At any rate: "Put simply, at stake was the demystification of the 'cinematic apparatus' to demonstrate how ideology was both embedded within the technology of cinema and an effect of its representational modes."
Fairfax: "Having steadily made films over the last 40 years — including the magisterial series on the French electoral machine, Marseille contre Marseille (1996) — Comolli has also pursued a prolonged theoretical pre-occupation with the cinema, which, in various ways, is profoundly defined by his earlier participation in Cahiers. Refreshingly, he has never sought to repudiate his radical past,...
Fairfax: "Having steadily made films over the last 40 years — including the magisterial series on the French electoral machine, Marseille contre Marseille (1996) — Comolli has also pursued a prolonged theoretical pre-occupation with the cinema, which, in various ways, is profoundly defined by his earlier participation in Cahiers. Refreshingly, he has never sought to repudiate his radical past,...
- 3/20/2012
- MUBI
Year: 2011
Directors: Céline Sciamma
Writers: Céline Sciamma
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
[Editor's note: Watch for more coverage from the 2011 Edinburgh Film Festival in the days to come!]
Michaël is like any other kid his age; he plays football with the boys, swims in the river and shares quiet conversations with his girlfriend Lisa. In fact for a boy who's only just moved into the area and not yet started at his new school, he's proving very popular with the local children. There's one snag though, Michaël isn't a boy, he's a girl called Laure and she's got the whole neighbourhood fooled.
This is the premise of Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies) new film, in which the startlingly androgynous young actress Zoé Héran plays Laure/Michaël, who fools her friends when they ask her name by simply saying "Je m'appelle Michaël", and there are no more questions asked, she is a ten year-old boy in their eyes.
While the motive behind...
Directors: Céline Sciamma
Writers: Céline Sciamma
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
[Editor's note: Watch for more coverage from the 2011 Edinburgh Film Festival in the days to come!]
Michaël is like any other kid his age; he plays football with the boys, swims in the river and shares quiet conversations with his girlfriend Lisa. In fact for a boy who's only just moved into the area and not yet started at his new school, he's proving very popular with the local children. There's one snag though, Michaël isn't a boy, he's a girl called Laure and she's got the whole neighbourhood fooled.
This is the premise of Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies) new film, in which the startlingly androgynous young actress Zoé Héran plays Laure/Michaël, who fools her friends when they ask her name by simply saying "Je m'appelle Michaël", and there are no more questions asked, she is a ten year-old boy in their eyes.
While the motive behind...
- 6/15/2011
- QuietEarth.us
You'd like to think that you have at least one great, very close male friend whose feelings for you are strictly platonic and who has your back no matter what, right? Steve Harvey is here to burst your bubble. In a recent sit down with CNN's Frederica Whitfield about his new book "Straight, No Chaser," Harvey set out to "get rid of [the] myth' that men and women can be friends... Here's what you had to say: Charita commented via Facebook: "Not true. I have had a male best friend for almost 20 years." Je M'appelle wrote via Facebook: "Been there, done that and I agree!"...
- 12/20/2010
- Essence
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