Gianfranco Rosi, who scooped the 2013 Venice Golden Lion with “Sacro GRA”, is back on the Lido with “Below the Clouds.” It’s a passionate personal exploration of Naples and its suburbs that lie under the Mount Vesuvius volcano. Shot in black-and-white, “Below the Clouds” criss-crosses between different characters and situations. These include a teacher who […]
“By the way, when you edit this, I don’t need to be saying ‘distinctive’ 500 times.” Jeb Brody is describing the ethos behind the upcoming film slate at Imagine Entertainment, where he’s served as president of features since early 2024. And a big part of is job is trying to determine what projects are worth […]
A fishing village in Cornwall is the setting for the latest eerie work from the director of 'Enys Men,' premiering in Venice.
Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of the novel Hamnet reimagines the poetic act of creating the greatest play in the English language.
The gaming sphere is saturated with long, epic-length RPGs that sweep players away into vast lands of fantasy and mystery that can take upwards of hundreds of hours to explore fully. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 are all fantastic games, but they’re also a huge time investment to fully play. […] The post 5 RPGs So Short That You Can Finish Them in One Weekend appeared first on ComicBook.com .
When she approached Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera 13 years ago with a proposal for a market event devoted to films from Africa and the Middle East, industry veteran Alessandra Speciale says the festival chief “immediately understood the importance of the program.” At the time Speciale, who’d been running a similar program at […]
Writer and director Amir Azizi’s new film, led by Amirhossein Hosseini, world premieres in Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, or Venice Days.
The NCAA Football is finally here! And the best way to start a weekend of college football is with hosts Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Nick Saban and Pete Thamel for “College GameDay.” Where is “College GameDay” this weekend? On Sunday, Aug. 30, “College GameDay” takes place outside of St. John Arena […]
Oscar winning costume designer Milena Canonero revealed how she picked the film’s color palette during a Cartier masterclass conversation with Coppola held during the Venice Film Festival.
If you watched Ken Burns’ 16-hour “Country Music” documentary when it came out in 2019, you might’ve been wishing that every legend whose life flashed by too fast could get his or her own breakout, but Merle Haggard most of all. The singer-songwriter, who died in 2014, could frankly use a little help on the […]
Switzerland-based distributor First Hand Films has taken world sales on “Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence,” which reconstructs the overlooked story of Italy’s first female director, ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The doc, which is directed by Valerio Ciriaci and launches in the Venice Classics section, blends rare films and photographs […]
Indonesian auteur Kamila Andini is gearing up for what she calls “the hardest story I’ve ever created” with “Four Seasons in Java,” a magical realist drama that confronts the dark underbelly of progress and power in contemporary Indonesia. The film, now in post-production and at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, follows Pertiwi, a woman who returns […]
In a quaint theater in the Colorado mountains where we lay our scene, a clear Oscar contender emerges. Before Chloé Zhao’s anticipated drama “Hamnet” held its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday, the director took the stage with her two stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal to lead the audience in a […]
Filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”) is back in Venice with “Motor City,” a film with about three lines of audible dialogue driven by needle-drops, a terrific score and a charismatic cast of Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster in a love triangle and righteous revenge tale set in 1970s Detroit. The film opens, though, […]
Silver Lion winner Cai Shangjun is back at the Venice Film Festival with competition title “The Sun Rises on Us All,” a restrained drama about guilt, complicity and the elusive possibility of forgiveness. The film stars Xin Zhilei (“Blossoms Shanghai”) as Meiyun, whose life is upended when she encounters Zhang Songwen (“The Pioneer”) as Baoshu, […]
Italian producer Annamaria Morelli, who took the reins at Fremantle-owned production company the Apartment in early 2024, is having a pretty good year. She recently landed movies in both the Cannes and Venice competitions, including Paolo Sorrentino’s well-received Lido opener “La Grazia.” The Apartment was behind Mario Martone’s Cannes competition drama, ”Fuori,” on which it […]
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