Tag: 2018 Venice Film Festival

The Nightingale | Review

Bloody White People: Kent Hits Hard with Brutal Revenge Trip Jennifer Kent follows up her formidable debut The Babadook with a less inventive, but decidedly...

Interview: Rick Alverson – The Mountain

The Mountain feels like a departure for Rick Alverson, whose brand of deliberately challenging and unconventional cinema is evolving beyond the scope of his...

The Mountain | Review

Who’s Wally?: Alverson Goes Retro with Punishing, Complex Period Drama Always intent on making his audience do some of the work, American indie helmer Rick Alverson...

The Favourite | Review

Courtship at Court: Lanthimos Delights with 18th-century Royal Love Triangle At Her Majesty Queen Anne’s palace, its a disheveled state of affairs. There’s an ongoing...

ROMA | Review

Going Home Again: Cuarón Aces Return to Mexico with Autobiographical, Intimate drama From one woman reaching the shore to another going back to it, from...

Vox Lux | Review

A Star is Worn: Corbet Confirms his Talent with Daring Sophomore Effort 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways,...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Review

Six of the West: Coen Bros. Release Minor, Uneven Collection of Frontier Short Stories In thinking about the anthology form in cinema, Joel and Ethan...

Suspiria | Review

Dance the Dance of Another: Guadagnino Goes Deeper & Weirder in Ambitious Argento Remake. Luca Guadagnino has always been a supremely divisive filmmaker, capable of...

Three Adventures of Brooke | 2018 Venice Film Festival Review

Of Time and the City: Yuan Qing Delights with Tender, Dainty Rohmerian Debut An airy, relaxed tale of meandering bliss and the pursuit of meaning...

Tumbbad | 2018 Venice Film Festival Review

Greedy Monster: Rahi Anil Barve’s Uneven Attempt at Horror-Fantasy Indian Epic A debut feature for both Rahi Anil Barve and his co-director Adesh Prasad,...

2018 Venice Film Festival – Tommaso’s Top 5 Most Anticipated: Guadagnino, Loznitsa, Mieli, Nugroho & Corbet

It’s a particularly rich programme in Venice for the 2018 edition of the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica. Director Alberto Barbera certainly got the attention...

The Conversation: Looking Towards the Lido

With less than ten hours separating us from the Venice Film Festival selections, the 2018 edition is one of the most anticipated competitions for...

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