Tag: 2014 Venice Film Festival
2024 Venice: Aude Léa Rapin & Lawrence Valin Bookend + Bernhard Wenger, Alexandra Simpson & Muhammed Hamdy in Venice Intl. Critics’ Week Comp
While tomorrow is the big daddy of announcements for the fall film festival season, this morning, we learn the identity of the nine feature...
H. | 2014 Venice Film Festival Review
What’s the Matter with Helen?: Attieh & Garcia’s Bizarre Parable Goes Over Heads
Generally, one would assume that a concise understanding of something would be...
The President | 2014 Venice Film Festival Review
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Makhmalbaf’s Conspicuous Allegory
Early on in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s grimly steadfast The President, you may start by racking your brain for specific...
71st Venice Film Fest: Hong Sang-soo, Duane Hopkins & the Safdies Pack Horizons Section
The Venice Film Festival's Horizons section (aka Orizzonti) is logically comparable to Cannes' Un Certain Regard section. As well as including about a dozen shorts...
71st Venice Film Fest: Oppenheimer, Akin, Bahrani, Andersson & Ferrara Compete for Golden Lion
Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...
No Write-Off…Ann Hui’s “The Golden Era” to Close out 71st Venice Film Fest
Hong Kong director Ann Hui's The Golden Era (Huang jin shi dai) now becomes the second title revealed for the next edition on the...
