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The Burnt Orange Heresy, closing film at Venice 2vfz

Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki have strong chemistry in TBOH which will turn to poison when the picture spins out of control   By Alex Deleon TBOH is an Art heist thriller Directed by Italian Giuseppe Capotondi, based on a 1971 neo-noir novel by American writer Charles Willeford (died 1988) starring Danish actor Claes Bang and Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, and featuring British Rock legend Mick Jagger (76) plus Canadian veteran character actor Donald Sutherland...

76th Venice International Film Festival VENEZIA 76 Awards 641t3a

OFFICIAL AWARDS - 76th Venice International Film Festival VENEZIA 76   The Venezia 76 Jury, chaired by Lucrecia Martel, and comprised of Stacy Martin, Mary Harron, Piers Handling, Rodrigo Prieto, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paolo Virzì, having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:   GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: JOKER by Todd Phillips (USA)   SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to: J’ACCUSE by Roman Polanski (, Italy) &...

Visit to “Lazzaretto” Island (where the VR section is located) 46p6f

Venice 76. Views by Stella Selvatico for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org Articles by Anna Reeves Venice Film Festival Venice Virtual Reality - An Overview by Anna Reeves   Venice VR Section - Third Year  - Running August 28th - September 3rd It is only the third edition of the Venice VR section and yet already it is establishing itself as unmissable. What makes the selection so world class is that is all about great storytelling and not simply displaying the latest ...

Star Spotting at the small port of the Excelsior Hotel - where the celebrities arrive 714u3s

Venice 76. Views by Stella Selvatico for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org ...

The protest on the red carpet 6y4h4a

The protest against the cruise ship ???? in Venice is on the red carpet. Many police agents ready to clear the tapis rouge.   Venice 76. Views by Stella Selvatico for filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org   ...

Venice Awards 2019 A Few Surprising Twists and Turns By Alex Deleon 2i4y3w

By Alex Deleon Italian actress Alessandra Mastronardi was easy on the eyes as the mistress of ceremonies at the final awards evening   Well, to make a long story short Joaquin Phoenix in an egregious jury misjudgement did not get best actor for his astounding performance in JOKER directed by Todd Phillips.   However,  the film itself was awarded the Best film Golden Lion top festival prize.  Again a misjudgement because while Joker was overall a very strong film it simpl...

Venice Rainy Impressions by Alex Deleon 6d5x

In the warm weather many young people camped out under umbrellas in from of the central Red carpet wall.  Priceless festival accommodations.. After a full week of sunshine on the last day the Rains Came... Johnny Depp, a hard nosed officer in a desert fort in The Barbarians The latest from Columbian director Ciro Guerra Mick Jagger, ageless Rolling  Stone (age 76) lends his instantly recognizable features to "The Burnt Orange Heresy" which will be...

La Llorona is The Weeping Woman: Sketched in Venice by Nesta o436u

La Llorona is The Weeping Woman. Three words from the director Jayro Bustamante portray events in this film which is evocatively performed and delivers a narrative drama of Genocide, Communist and homophobic events. In Latin American folklore, La Llorona is one of the most famous oral legends. The lore states a woman was abandoned by her husband and was left alone to raise her two sons, whom she instead drowned in a river out of grief and anger. Sketch by Nesta Morgan ...

Venice 76. Views by Stella Selvatico hbh

Red Carpet on a rainy ☔️ and windy ???? day   Microphone to Bonifacio Angius, the director of Destiny (a short film about faith, religion and superstition). Letizia Battaglia, the extraordinary photographer and star of “La mafia non è più quella di una volta”.   The poster of “The Laundromat” Palazzo del Casinò on a hot sunny day Exhibition “300 Giant Polaroid” at Hotel Des Bains  Li...

Venice Exhibition “300 Giant Polaroid” at Hotel Des Bains Lido 2l494r

Hotel Des Bains (where Luchino Visconti shot “La morte a Venezia”) Photos by Stella Selvatico ...

Venice 76. Views by Alex Deleon 6m1r3z

  Glamorous Chinese superstar Gong Li arrives on Red Carpet for opening of her new film "Saturday Fiction" (Lan Xin De Ju Yuan) accompanied by her latest French Husband, musician Jean-Michel Jarre. (former husband of Charlotte Rampling)... After a full week of sunshine on the last day the Rains Came... Johnny Depp, a hard nosed officer in a desert fort in The Barbarians The latest from Columbian director Ciro Guerra Mick Jagger, ageless Rolling &...

VIDEO 76. Mostra del Cinema - The Laundromat press conference 11533o

Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Steven Soderbergh have arrived in Venice for the world-premiere promotion of “The Laundromat” (a Netflix film) at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world’s wealthiest citizens...

Facts and Figures from the 4th Venice Production Bridge 3j5g5a

The 4th Venice Production Bridge - the Festival film market’s evolution into a specialized meeting point for completing projects - was held from August 29 to September 3, 2019 as part of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. The fourth #VeniceProductionBridge ended yesterday. +8,92% accreditations, +46,26% #BookAdaptationRightsMarket meetings. Check out all the numbers Here are the figures of the 2019 VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE: INDUSTRY DELEGATES a...

VIDEO 76. Mostra del Cinema - Julie Andrews award ceremony 1j1p3w

"It's such a pleasure to receive this award from the first film festival in the world. I consider myself so blessed for having spent most of my life acting. Thanks to the public that cinema and its magic."   “#MaryPoppins was an innovative movie. Even now, when you watch it, you cannot see a single trick. It was and still is amazing.” @JulieAndrews Photos Mostra The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 76t...

Venice offered Scorsese's New York New York Restored in all it's Vainglorious Vanity 1y3i67

Alex Deleon, filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org   An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a rocky romance as their careers begin a long, hard up-hill climb.   One of the highlights of the festival week for me was the fully restored 155 minute version of Martin Scorcese's 1977 box office flop New York, New York.  Oddly enough I thought I had seen it before but realized that I hadn't as it unfolded in full vanity before my eyes at the Giardino theate...

Venice VR Review - "Bonfire" by Eric Darnell and "enger" Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine 6m1e1g

enger - Photo Courtesy of Film Camp Aliens of a feather by Anna Reeves Two virtual realty experiences that are particularly well realised at Venice this year are "Bonfire" by Eric Darnell at Baobab Studios in the States and "enger" by Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine from Australia. They are polar opposites in that one utilises high-end animation with powerful A.I. and the other feels handmade from fingers and glue, yet both leave you with an overriding sense of&...

SIGNIS jury at the 76th Venice International Film Festival 403tz

The of the 2019 SIGNIS jury are Jumpei Matsumoto (Japan), Christoph Strack (), Nancy Usselmann (USA), Massimo Giraldi (Italy) and Sergio Perugini (Italy). Jumpei Matsumoto (Japan) Jumpei Matsumoto, born in 1984 in Nagasaki, graduated at Tokyo University department of architecture, and the Institute of Yoshimoto comedian school. In 2012, He directed the film Mada Ningen. His first commercial film Embers was released in 2014 in Japan and in 2015 in Taiwan. The fil...

Best bets at the Halfway Mark in Venice 76. 655w23

      Alex Deleon for Filmfestivals.com With six days down and another five to go most of the big guns have already been fired and many top contenders for Venice lion awards are have been spoken for. This is not however the kind of festival where odds on favorites will necessarily come in first as Venice juries are notorious for rewarding dark horses and unknowns out of the Blue on the day of judgement.  That being said here are a few of my personal favorites bas...

Strong Venice buzz for SEBERG and Kristen Stewart, and nice reviews 1b215k

SEBERG by Benedict Andrews Out of Competition - Venice With Kristen Stewart, Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Yvan Attal, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, Colm Meaney SCREEN “'Seberg' is a success. 'Seberg' is a combination of radical politics, inter-racial sex and Hollywood tragedy during a deeply troubled time in the United States which has strong parallels to today.” VARIETY “Kristen Stewart delivers a su...

"Netflix: the momentous mistake of the Venice Film Festival " AFCAE takes it side 3b3m2c

We are publishing the following statement fueling the controversy about NETFLIX films' selections in large festivals (without theatrical release)  It came to us from CICAE, AFCAE, art house cinema organizations which see festivals as platform to theatrical film distribution. Many festival might object strongly to that statement.   "For its 76th edition, Alberto Barbera, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, has selected two films, produced and distributed by Netfli...

Luxury Fashion on the red carpet 231r5w

Actress Bella Thorne dazzled in Avakian Fine Jewellery at the 76th Venice Film Festival for the screening of  “Joker” The stunning actress stole the show on the red carpet with a magnificent double choker necklace from the Links Fine Jewellery Collection. The exquisite necklace is comprised of 4,400 round brilliant-cut diamonds with a total of 120cts. Model Sofia Resing chose Avakian Fine Jewellery at the 76th Venice Fi...

Close encounter with one of the greatest stars in Venice 5j6z4q

by John Osborne   I was in the industry office in the Hotel Excelsior, just trying to get tickets to Laundromat. I knew it had a great cast, including Meryl Streep. No tickets available!! So I came downstairs, and on the second floor landing, I ran straight into Meryl Streep!! I was shocked. She smiled at me and I said hi! Hi back. Then I went to the hotel bar patio, look...

The Landromat Sketched in Venice 275x61

Humour baked binger Gary Oldman acts out dark material with complex black heart jokes and Meryl Streep in The Laundromat. Soderbergh directs the Dark, he advances technology, questions unexplained 50 people wealth, a US story by jake Bernstein is out. Sketch by Nesta Morgan A widow (Meryl Streep) investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas) exploiting the world’s financial system. Steven Soderbergh...

Costa-Gavras awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2019 prize s5a2r

La Biennale di Venezia / 76th Venice International Film Festival / 28 August > 7 September 2019       His new film Adults in the Room to be presented Out of Competition   La Biennale di Venezia and Jaeger-LeCoultre are pleased to announce that the great Greek-born French director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing, Music Box) is the recipient of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2019 award of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (28 August - 7 September 2019...

Sketching The Joker and team in Venice k565r

Joaquin Phoenix, actor Todd Phillips, director Emma Tillinger Koskoff, producer Zazie Beetz, actress   The joker says “I’m not political” He really laughs   “A bit of killing joke and close collaboration” Todd comments “Use the taxi driver!” “We have a great composer, he runs in the bathroom” Zazie shades her ... orange eyes! Todd comments “It’s all tone” Emma’s being shy Emma’s fingert...

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