Julian Schnabel’s ‘In the Hand of Dante’ Gets Embraced in Venice
Julian Schnabel‘s long-gestating offbeat period drama In the Hand of Dante has finally met an audience. The Oscar…
Kathryn Bigelow back at Venice with White House political thriller
VENICE, Sept 3 — The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Kathryn Bigelow, is…
‘A House of Dynamite’ Is Kathryn Bigelow at Her Best
The director’s latest, her first film in seven years, is an absurdly riveting thriller with the kind of…
‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ Review: An Overly Fawning Tribute
Shown out of competition in Venice in conjunction with the festival giving a lifetime achievement award to its…
Willem Dafoe in Poetic Character Study
There is an elegiac tone and a dash of wit in this lovely, small-scale film held together by…
‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Family Triptych
Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But…
Mads Mikkelsen in Absurdist Black Comedy
Mads Mikkelsen brings a deadpan look and a great deal of grace to his role as a psychologically…
‘Frankenstein’ Director Guillermo del Toro Talks Monsters, AI and Netflix
Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a centuries old Gothic novel penned in 1818, generated a…
Werner Herzog Doc ‘Ghost Elephants’ Sells to National Geographic
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the world streaming rights to Werner Herzog‘s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants,…
George Clooney Fights Infection to Make ‘Jay Kelly’ Red Carpet
Venice welcomed back festival frequent flyers George Clooney and Noah Baumbach on Thursday night, giving Baumbach’s Jay Kelly…
Sorrentino Finds Beauty in Unknowability
Despite his current reputation as a creator of aggressively aestheticized films, Paolo Sorrentino was once a director of…
Toni Servillo in Paolo Sorrentino Character Study
The first thing to be said about Paolo Sorrentino’s captivating portrait of an esteemed political leader in the…