Venice Film Festival
1-2 Special Takes ‘Rose of Nevada’ for North America (Exclusive)
Mark Jenkin's Cornish time-travel drama, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner, premiered in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival.
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Best of the Fall Fests: THR’s Critics Picks
A cathartic tearjerker about Shakespeare’s family, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear threat thriller and a wrenching Gaza docudrama are among THR reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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Venice Days Top Prize Awarded to Amir Azizi’s ‘Inside Amir’
The jury lauds the film, about a young man in Tehran, Iran, on the verge of emigrating, as "a meditation on everyday life."
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‘In the Hand of Dante’ Review: Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler Star in Julian Schnabel’s Bonkers, Wildly Uneven Literary Adaptation
Premiering out of competition at Venice, the film — based on Nick Tosches' 2002 novel revolving around Dante's 'Divine Comedy' — also features Jason Momoa, Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese.
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Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson Face Nuclear Attack in Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Trailer
The political thriller premiered this week at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its streaming launch next month.
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‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs Doc Offers a Colorful but Unrevealing Insider’s Take
Premiering at Venice, the filmmaker's first non-fiction feature surveys the career and inspirations of the designer, who is also her close friend.
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Sofia Coppola Prepares to Premiere Her Intimate Portrait of Friend Marc Jacobs in Venice, But “I Didn’t Want It to Be About Me”
Coppola and American fashion designer Marc Jacobs spoke at a Venice Film Festival press conference for their new documentary 'Marc By Sofia'.
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‘The Ivy’ Tells of an Unexpected Bond, Unresolved Desire, and Trauma (Exclusive Venice Clip)
Ecuadorian director Ana Cristina Barragán's third feature world premieres in Venice's Horizons program: "I want to push the boundaries of the intimacies we’ve come to accept as normal."
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Mayra Hermosillo’s ‘Vanilla’ Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer)
Set in 1980s Mexico, the ‘Narcos: Mexico’ actress’ feature directing debut, follows a girl, 8, who sees her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt.
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‘Waking Hours’ Takes Us on a Nocturnal Journey With Afghan People Smugglers (Exclusive Venice Teaser)
"Along the Balkan route, cinema vérité and theater merge," say directors Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini about the doc debuting in the Venice Critics' Week.
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‘Landmarks’ Review: Lucrecia Martel’s Visually Splendid True Crime Doc Chronicles the Systemic Theft of Native Land
The first non-fiction feature from the Argentinian director of 'Zama' and 'The Headless Woman' focuses on the killing of an indigenous community leader by white landowners.
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‘Late Fame’ Review: Willem Dafoe Is Low-Key and Magnificent as a Former Poet Seemingly Rescued From Obscurity
Greta Lee also stars in Kent Jones’ New York-set drama, adapted by Samy Burch from a novella by Arthur Schnitzler, and headed for the New York Film Festival after its Venice premiere.
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