Venice Film Festival
‘The Damned Don’t Cry’ Review: Fyzal Boulifa’s Refined, Strikingly Queer Mother-Son Melodrama
In the little-remembered 1950 noir “The Damned Don’t Cry,” Joan Crawford plays a Texan housewife whose grief for her late...
Magnolia Pictures Buys Venice Hit ‘Blue Jean’ for North America
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to Venice Film Festival sensation “Blue Jean.” The directorial debut of Georgia...
‘Victim’ Review: A Mother’s Love and a Son’s Lie Expose a Community Corroded by Hate and Politics
It isn’t that people’s first instincts are bad in “Victim,” Slovak director Michal Blaško’s compelling, apprehensive feature debut. A distraught...
Salomé Villeneuve Explores Childhood Memories in Nature in Venice Selected Short ‘III’
Every frame is like a painting for Salomé Villeneuve. “I love to plan images,” she says. “I love to dream...
Homemade Films Brings New Projects to Venice, Boards Mahdi Fleifel’s ‘Men in the Sun’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Greece’s Homemade Films has boarded Mahdi Fleifel’s upcoming feature “Men in the Sun,” currently in the final stages of development....
‘The Listener’ Review: Tessa Thompson Speaks to the Sleepless as the Audience Dozes Off
If you found yourself wide awake in the wee small hours with personal demons rattling in your brain, and you...
Julianne Moore and Venice Jury Stand in Quiet Solidarity With Imprisoned ‘No Bears’ Director Jafar Panahi
Venice’s red carpet became a stage for quiet protest on Friday, as festival director Alberto Barbera and jury president Julianne...
Casting director Bonnie Timmermann Talks Ana de Armas, Mark Ruffalo, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen
Casting director Bonnie Timmermann, behind such films as “Heat” and “Dirty Dancing,” finds herself on the opposite side of the...
