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Venice Film Festival, Gotham Institute and Netflix team up for ‘Next Generation’ film event in New York

The event will screen and honor films from the first ten years of Biennale College Cinema at the Paris Theater… Read More

March 30, 2023

2022 Venice Film Festival Awards: Doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ named Best Film, ‘Bones and All,’ Saint Omer,’ Banshees of Inisherin’ snag dual wins

The awards for the 79th Venice Film Festival were handed out tonight and the theme of the night was doubling… Read More

September 10, 2022

‘The Kiev Trial’ review: Sergei Loznitsa’s latest dip into the archives explores the banality of Nazi evil in Ukraine [B-] | Venice

On Venice’s Lido island, documentarian Sergei Loznitsa was greeted like an exiled novelist, or an ex-political prisoner finally able to… Read More

September 10, 2022

‘Siccità’ review: Paolo Virzì’s Italian apocalyptic satire sinks its teeth into the pandemic, climate change but bites off more than it can chew [C] | Venice

It’s immediately visible that Siccità, or Dry, is setting a grand stage for an incisive comment on the dire nature… Read More

September 10, 2022

‘Saint Omer’ review: Alice Diop’s affecting story about motherhood is a stunner [A] | Venice Film Festival

It’s November 2013, and in the small town of Berck-sur-mer, in northern France, a 15-month old baby is found dead… Read More

September 7, 2022

‘The Son’ review: Florian Zeller’s sophomore effort disappoints despite a great Hugh Jackman [C+] | Venice Film Festival

Florian Zeller’s stage trilogy about parent-child relationships and the devastating consequences of mental illness was one of the biggest surprises… Read More

September 7, 2022

‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton shines in Joanna Hogg’s painful, personal drama [A] | Venice Film Festival

Telling someone they are being “very British” is almost never meant as a compliment. The cursed phrase connotes repression, quiet,… Read More

September 6, 2022

‘Monica’ review: Trace Lysette is a revelation in Andrea Pallaoro’s delicate story of family and acceptance [B+] | Venice Film Festival

Our lives can sometimes be impacted by irreparable trauma, and even though we heal from it, it will leave us… Read More

September 6, 2022

‘L’immensità’ review: A solid performance from Penélope Cruz doesn’t save Emanuele Crialese’s broadly drawn family drama [C+] | Venice Film Festival

Filmmakers often use cinema to tell personal stories, sometimes stories straight from their own childhood. Recently we’ve seen Alfonso Cuarón,… Read More

September 6, 2022

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