All Festivals articles – Page 17
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News
Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen in talks to star in ‘Babies’, AGC and Monarch to co-finance
AGC Studios, CAA Media Finance jointly represent worldwide rights.
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Neon acquires worldwide rights to horror ‘Hokum’ starring Adam Scott
Cweature Features joins as co-producer alongside Image Nation, Spooky Pictures, and Team Thrives.
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Reviews
‘Bugonia’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are dynamite in explosive Yorgos Lanthimos thriller
The director’s Venice competition title is a gloriously gonzo, sharply satirical chamber piece
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Yorgos Lanthimos says it is getting “more and more difficult” to make independent films
“It’s a very complicated landscape. I wouldn’t rush to separate everything into categories.”
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‘Megadoc’ review: Filmmaker Mike Figgis goes behind the scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’
This eye-opening look at the making of Coppola’s passion project screens in Venice Classics
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‘Jay Kelly’, ‘Urchin’, ‘Sentimental Value’ among Telluride selection
Rocky Mountains festival runs August 29-September 1.
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Laszlo Nemes says “losing cinema” is connected to “conflict in civilisation”
“If we stop telling big stories, we condemn ourselves to downfall as a civilisation.”
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‘The Kidnapping Of Arabella’ review: Chris Pine and Benedetta Porcaroli star in quirky Italian road movie
The actor takes on his first Italian-language role for sophomore director Carolina Cavalli
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‘Orphan’ review: László Nemes sets his striking coming-of-age drama in 1950s Budapest
Accomplished Venice competition title follows a teenage boy struggling to navigate a changing world
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‘Ghost Elephants’ review: Werner Herzog tracks the legendary beast through the Angolan highlands
Herzog joins South African conservationist Steve Boyes on an expedition to find the giant creatures
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Venice opens with Francis Ford Coppola tribute to “encyclopaedia” Werner Herzog
Ceremony host Emanuela Fanelli landed a joke about Venice and Cannes.
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TIFF Discovery selection ‘Oca’ lands worldwide sales agent
EXCLUSIVE: Natalia Solián stars as nun on a pilgrimage.
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Canada’s h264 acquires Metafilms drama ‘Lay Me By The Shore’ with Sean Harris
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director David Findlay shooting in Vancouver and environs through September 5.
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Reviews
‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
The actor plays a fictional Italian president facing the end of his tenure in Sorrentino’s serious-minded follow-up to ‘Parthenope’
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Features
“We will support talent in all genres,” says Fremantle’s Andrea Scrosati on eve of bumper Venice
Production and distribution group has six titles in Venice’s official selection, including Paolo Sorrentino’s opening film La Grazia and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia.
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‘Memory’ review: Ukrainian filmmaker Vladlena Sandu explores her troubled past in lyrical docudrama
Sandu’s exploration of a childhood spent in Crimea and Chechnya opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori
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Venice head Alberto Barbera says festival won’t disinvite guests for political views
“We’ve been asked to turn down invitations to artists – we will not do that, if they want to be here they will be here.”
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Reviews
‘Mother’ review: Noomi Rapace stars as Mother Teresa in one-dimensional biopic
Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska’s punk rock take on the religious figure opens Venice Horizons
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Gaza protests begin at Venice Film Festival red carpet
Political and grassroots organisations gathered on the festival’s first day.
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Lee Sang-il, Chloe Zhao to receive Kurosawa Akira Award at Tokyo film festival 2025
The award is presented to filmmakers who have “made waves in cinema and are expected to help guide the industry’s future”.