Venice Review: ‘Babyteeth’ is a magnificent portrayal of love
Milla is a teenager, she lives with her parents Henry, a psychiatrist, and Anna, former…
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Venice Review: ‘About Endlessness’ is a triumph
Roy Andersson shocked the 2014 Venice Film Festival when his A Pigeon Sat On A…
Oscar Predictions: Post-Telluride, mid-Venice, pre-TIFF set your sights on Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver and ‘Parasite’
With Telluride just finishing, Venice still underway, and Toronto starting tomorrow, we are smack in…
Venice Review: ‘The King’ is a satisfying look into the Middle Age
We’re in the 15th century. The reign of Henry IV (Ben Mendehlson) is reaching its…
Venice Review: ‘The Laundromat’ is a missed opportunity
April 3, 2016. German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung publishes an enquiry penned by Bastian Obermayer on…
Venice Review: ‘Joker’ is Joaquin Phoenix’s glorious dance of madness
Ridi, Pagliaccio. Opera fans will instantly recognize what I’m talking about. It’s a very famous…
Venice Review: ‘J’Accuse’, or Polanski at his Polanskiest
It’s never easy to talk about Roman Polanski and his films. Remember the old saying…
Venice Review: James Gray’s ‘Ad Astra’ is ambitious but disappointing
A popular Latin expression reads “per aspera ad astra”, signifying the journey of self-realization of…
Venice Review: The affecting power of family and film in ‘The Truth’
Truth. A simple word that can change lives. We seem to want it, we desperately…
2019 Venice Film Festival Preview: ‘Marriage Story,’ ‘Ad Astra,’ ‘The Laundromat’ and more
We’re only one week away from the start of the fall festival season. The engines…