Although he’s primarily known as a director of thrillers and horror movies, Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa has never made regular genre flicks. There’s always a twist, aesthetic or otherwise, to the way he approaches his subjects — whether it’s a detective tracking a twisted serial killer in his international breakthrough, Cure, the real ghosts haunting …
The Venice Film Festival finally got to meet Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. The erotic thriller from A24 had its world premiere inside Palazzo del Cinema on Friday evening on the Lido. The capacity crowd seated inside Sala Grande responded with a wild standing ovation for star Nicole Kidman and her cast of collaborators Harris Dickinson, Antonio …
“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and starred in a drama about a clown in a concentration camp leading children into the gas chambers, people say: ‘What? …
Filmmaker Halina Reijn’s sex-positive erotic thriller Babygirl, starring Nichole Kidman in a characteristically bold performance, may have just changed the, errr… mood… at the Venice Film Festival. Babygirl‘s first press screenings in Italy received rapturous applause Friday morning, and the movie’s many sexual moments and thematically subtle message could be overheard sparking animated discussions among …
Five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron may need to save a space on his mantle that’s roughly the size of an Emmy. The acclaimed Mexican auteur’s long-in-the-making streaming series debut, Disclaimer, received an enthusiastic standing ovation at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Thursday night. Cuaron and his backers at Apple Studios treated the …
Beetlejuiced The opening day of the Venice Film Festival was dominated by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Lots of red carpet glamor with a slew of movie stars from Monica Bellucci to Catherine O’Hara. Michael Keaton had fun all day pointing his iPhone at fans and filming them. Beetlejuice-themed cosplayers scattered around the red carpet area …
This year’s Venice Film Festival is the most star-studded in recent memory. The list of A-listers heading to the Lido’s red carpet — Brad Pitt and George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Jenna Ortega, Daniel Craig, Joachim Phoenix and Lady Gaga — boggles the mind. But the international film journalists attending this year’s festival …
Five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón has finally unfurled his big-budget streaming series debut, Disclaimer. The psychological thriller, starring fellow Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, received its first press screenings Wednesday in Italy at the Venice Film Festival. The director and his acclaimed cast then met the media Thursday on the Lido to discuss the show’s creation …
Netflix has picked up Pablo Larraín’s Maria, which stars Angelina Jolie as famed opera singer Maria Callas. The move comes ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 29. Following its debut on the Lido, it will stream on Netflix at an undisclosed date. On Wednesday, Larraín said in a statement: …
Venice Immersive is the XR (Extended Reality) section of the Venice Film Festival, the part that is dedicated to immersive arts and media. It has been going for eight years already while it was only a few months ago that the Cannes Film Festival made a furtive attempt to introduce a space dedicated to virtual …