Festivals: Venice
Friday One Sheet: THE BRUTALIST
Typography is no stranger to the design of Brady Corbet's "Monumental" new film, The Brutalist. The credits in both the film, and its recent trailer, do interesting things. This carries into this iconic poster, with the Statue of Liberty upside...
A Superb Trailer for Brady Corbet's 70mm Epic, THE BRUTALIST
One of the best films of the year gets one of the best trailers of the year. Harnessing an early scene in the film, before breaking into a montage of the celebration of artictectural form, with the joy and pain...
Friday One Sheet: THE ORDER
I am generally indifferent to collage style posters, particularly when designers transitioned from hand-painted to photoshop. However, I do admire the commitment to verticality taken by design house, Fable, for Justin Kurzel's neo-nazi procedural, The Order. The pull quotes, the above...
Venice 2024 Review: THE MOHICAN, Quiet Battle Between Tradition and Corruption
Frédéric Farrucci sophomore feature blends neo-Western elements with social issues exploring land exploitation, identity, and resistance.
Venice 2024 Review: THE WITNESS Sees a Family Drama Become Political in Iranian Minimalist Thriller
Iranian filmmaker Nader Saeivar crafts a quietly intense narrative that intertwines personal and political conflicts, offering an exploration of power, repression, and resistance within the framework of contemporary Iranian society.
Venice 2024 Review: QUIET LIFE Subverts Expectations with Tense, Stylistically Fluid Exploration
lexandros Avranas presents a visually stark and ambiguous exploration of bureaucratic indifference and familial trauma, blending elements of thriller, satire, and political drama while challenging conventional narrative forms and styles.
Venice 2024 Review: MALDOROR Revisits Belgium's Darkest Crime Through Genre Lens
Fabrice du Welz's latest film revisits a notorious real-life crime through a tense psychological action thriller that intertwines vintage aesthetics and sanity-challenging obsession.
Venice 2024 Review: QUEER Hypersexualizes William S. Burroughs' Semiautobiography
For his eagerness, Daniel Craig gets a pass taking on another gay role.
CLOUD Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's New Film Premieres Next Week
Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.
Venice 2023 Review: FOREVER-FOREVER, Post-Soviet Young and Restless
Anna Buryachkova's feature debut offers a female-centric lens on post-communist adolescence in Eastern Europe.
Venice 2023 Review: MALQUERIDAS Exposes Motherhood Incarcerated
Director Tana Gilbert juxtaposes personal moments against the stark reality of prison life in her feature-length debut, shot clandestinely in a prison.
Venice 2023 Review: FOR NIGHT WILL COME, Gen Z Response to TWILIGHT
Élodie Bouchez and Mathias Legout Hammond star in the latest film by French director Céline Rouzet, a vampiric coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of a seemingly peaceful French suburb.
Venice 2023 Review: VIVANTS (ON THE PULSE), Nostalgic Behind-the-Scenes Newsroom Drama
Director Alix Delaporte peeks behind the curtains of a bustling Parisian newsroom in a film memoir serving as an homage for the trade.
Friday One Sheet: POOR THINGS
Welcome to the wonderful world of Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek graphic designer and illustrator behind one of my favourite posters of the past decade, an earlier Yorgos Lanthimos film, The Killing of A Sacred Deer, with its immense verticality, and...
INFESTED: Shudder Acquires French Horror Thriller Ahead of Venice Bow
Kaleb, who's about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He's fighting with his sister over a matter of inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend. Passionate about exotic animals, he comes home one day with a venomous spider and accidentally let it slip away.
Venice 2022 Review: SKIN DEEP, A Melancholic Exploration of Gender Identity
Director Alex Schaad's feature-length debut uses the subtle sci-fi concept of body-swapping to explore gender identity and body dysmorphia.
Venice 2022 Review: WORLD WAR III, Slapstick Iranian Thriller Unveils Trickling Terror
Directed by Houman Seyyedi, the wartime adventure is Iran's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Venice 2022 Review: BLANQUITA, Immersive, Agile Thriller
Fernando Guzzoni directed the searing drama.
Friday One Sheet: L'IMMENSITA
A quick one this week from Venice, where at the big film festivals, the Movie Star is alive and well. This festival teaser for Emanuele Crialese's period set love story L'immensità, offers the visage of Penelope Cruz either deep in...
Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Venice Title THE HOLE IN THE FENCE
Our friends at Altered Innocence have let us know that they have acquired the U.S. rights for Joaquín del Paso's thriller, The Hole in the Fence (El hoyo en la cerca). The film promises to carry a Lord of...
