Venice 2013 Dispatch, Last Day: Jun Kunimura Rocks The UNFORGIVEN Japanese Remake
Bookmakers are saying that Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs is now the frontrunner to win the Golden Lion choosen by the international jury headed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Second on the classification is Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, while the third position goes...
Venice 2013 Dispatch, Last Days: Saying Goodbye To Tsai Ming-liang
The 70th Venice film festival will be over in 48 hours. With almost all of the competition films having screened, we still have no idea who could actually bring the awards home. On the contrary of the past editions, this...
Venice 2013 Dispatch, Lost The Count Of Days: A Sliced Penis Is Not So Funny
We've lost track of our days here at the Venice Film Festival. Time is so strict that it makes it impossible to talk about every single film and vision going on the big screen. The main competition remains maybe the...
Venice 2013 Dispatch, Day Four: Everybody Wants To Be (Or Do) Xavier Dolan. And Let's Piss Off Miyazaki Fans
Welcome back to the Venice Film Festival. We're exactly at half fest, and maybe, just maybe, some potential winners are starting to emerge from the main competition.....
Venice 2013 Dispatch, Day Two And Three: How To Die Of Boring Films Only To Be Saved By Stephen Frears And Emma Dante
The most important news of the day is that Apichatpong Weerasethakul has changed his name to "Joe". It's not a reference to the new David Gordon Green film, and it might even be old news, but just call the dude...
Venice 2013 Dispatch: DAY 1 - Sono Sion Is The God Of Cinema, And Alfonso Cuarón Is A Virtuoso Masturbator
Here's our first dispatch from the 70th Venice Film Festival and it's already a delirium of images and evocations....
Venice 2013: Full Lineup Includes Sono Sion & Miyazaki Hayao
The Venice Film Festival's complete lineup is here! Competing for the Leone D'Oro are such veteran auteurs like American documentarian Errol Morris (The Unknown Known), ex Monty Python-er Terry Gilliam (The Zero Theorum), Japanese sensei Miyazaki Hayao (The Wind Rises)...
Venice 2013: Hopping Vampires, Bruce LaBruce, And Daniel Radcliffe Will Premiere In Venice Sidebar
The Giornate degli Autori, Venice Film Festival sidebar section, modeled on the prestigious Director's Fortnight of Cannes and promoted by the associations of Italian film directors and authors (Anac and 100autori), has revealed its 2013 programme. Among the selected titles, we...
70 International Directors Invited to Celebrate 70 Years of the Venice Film Festival with Future Reloaded Project
In celebration of the 70th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 - September 7, 2013) the Biennale di Venezia has created the special project, Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded.70 movie directors from all over the world have been invited to...
The Five Most Memorable Performances In Filipino Indie Cinema
One of the benefits that the current new wave has brought to Filipino cinema is surely an array of new, savage and extreme roles for actors in the local industry. Enough with the love teams, the Enteng Kabisote's and the...
Mainstream Cinema is Still Dead at the Filipino Film Critics Awards
The mainstream industry is (artistically) dead. That's what the Gawad Urian, the society of the Filipino film critics, made clear once more with their latest awards celebration. This is nothing new, since its been years since the organization nominated the...
Giuseppe Tornatore's THE BEST OFFER Wins Big at the Embarassing Italian Oscars
Do you know the worst awards show in the world? They are the David di Donatello -- sort of an Italian Academy Awards -- the only awards where the presenters talk more than the winners, where the hosts confuse one...
Horror Icon Catherine Spaak Dies THE THOUSAND AND ONE DEATHS
Veteran actress Catherine Spaak - star of Italian classics like Dino Risi's The Easy Life and Dario Argento's The Cat O' Nine Tails - will star in a new gore movie, The Thousand And One Deaths (Le Mille e Una...
5 Filipino New Wave Directors You Should Know (And Love)
Skeptical critics always think that the time to sing the death of the Filipino new wave cinema has arrived. But just as they're warming up you get four new Filipino works at the latest Cannes Film Festival and you realize...
Paul Schrader Joins The Venice Film Festival
American auteur Paul Schrader will be back at the Venice Film Festival (28 August - September 7) as Head of Jury of the sidebar section Orizzonti. The movie brat guru, director of critical hits such as American Gigolo and loyal...
Italian Films Have Never Been So Good: A Recap Of The Season's Best
Ok, I've never been a fan of the actual Italian cinema, with its compulsive sclerosis of family dramas or broken couples. But while we're heading towards the end of the season, with summer at the doors and cinephiles ready for...
Pen-ek Ratanaruang Goes Political In New Documentary PARADOXOCRACY
Pen-ek Ratanaruang, one of the most celebrated Thai filmmakers of the panorama, is back with Paradoxocracy, a documentary about Thailand's modern political history. The movie will feature a mix of archival footage and interviews, covering hot topics like the violent...
Kim Ki-Duk's MOEBIUS Reportedly First Film Selected For Venice Competition
After announcing Bernardo Bertolucci as the Jury President of the 2013 Venice Film Festival (28 August - September 7), we finally have the first title competing for the prestigious Golden Lion. Though there has not yet been an official announcement,...
