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Vanessa Redgrave to receive Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice 4w165

British actress Vanessa Redgrave has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 75th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September, 2018).   The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon recommendation of the Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera. This is the second Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 75th Venice Film Festival. As already announced, the Golden Lion t...

A Star is Born to hold World Premiere at the 75th Venice Film Festival 2x5k4p

Director/writer Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born, starring Cooper and Lady Gaga, to hold world premiere at the 75th Venice Film Festival   The Biennale di Venezia announced today that A Star is Born, the much-anticipated directorial debut of four-time Oscar®  nominee Bradley Cooper (American Sniper, American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook) and feature film debut of award-winning actor and Oscar® -nominated musical artist Lady Gaga (Best Song, “Til It Happens ...

Venice Film Festival The Golem (1920) Pre-opening Event of the 75th Venice Film Festival 2w6n6u

  La Biennale di Venezia / Pre-opening event (Tuesday 28 August) of the 75th Venice International Film Festival 2018   In Sala Darsena on the Lido a classic of silent film The Golem – How He Came Into The World (1920) by Paul Wegener in a world premiere screening of a newly restored 4K digital copy made from the original negative / Scoring with original music by maestro ir Shkurtaj commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia and perfor...

Special Orrizonti jury prize to problematic 'Caniba' at Venice 631u48

The special jury prize in the Orrizonti section of the 74th Venice Film Festival was awarded to Caniba directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel. The film debuted on September 4. The filmmakers allege that they employ “a decentered, nonanthropocentric approach to the visual practice of the moving image". Further, "their camera does not focus primarily on humans as privileged actors in the world but rather on the fabric of affective relations...

Hollywood Dominated Venice 74 405h6p

by Alex Deleon   The 2017 Venice Film Festival was so overwhelmingly dominated by Hollywood films and personalities that it was to all intents and purposes an American festival that happened to be taking place in Italy.  First of all the career awards.  Tandem career Lions were presented to senior Hollywood icons, Robert Redford (81) and one time First Lady of Protest Jane Fonda (79) on the second night of the fest. Both still looking good in spite of their dental lengthiness ...

Some Venice Moments at Palazzina by Starck 94h40

Among the many celebrities who attended Palazzina diner partie this year: Penelope Cruz and husband Javier Bardem who brought Loving Pablo to Venice. Friday September 1s the cast of the film Diva! was the guest of Palazzina dinner gala. The world premiere screening is going to be at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and on Sky arte in autumn. 8 the actress who took part at the shooting of the director sco Patierno, Nastro D’argento winner at the Panorama section of Be...

Orrizzonti best screenplay award to Alireza Khatami for 'Oblivion Verses' 2n6a

The award for Best screenplay in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 30-Sept 9) went to the Iranian director Alireza Khatami for Oblivion Verses (Los versos del Olvido). It is Khatami’s first feature film, a film where the spectator assembles the story with no traditional plot or storyline and no embellishment of characters with only 20% dialogue. The silence is important, which Khatami explains using Heidegger’s “Being and Time”. " Silence suspe...

Venice Orizzonti awards to Vahid Jalilvand and Navid Mohammadzadeh for 'No Date, No Signature' 41x3m

Iranian films are noted for their in depth exploration of moral subjects. Details are turned over and over again for this examination. This results in films with an almost timeless content because even under scrutiny the themes produce more questions. There is no real causality in these intriquing treatises of the human condition. No Date, No Signature (Bedoone Tarikh, Bedoone Emza), which premiered on September 2 at the 74th Venice Film Festival (Aug 30- Sept 9), is one example. The cine...

Watch the full ceremony of Venice 74 th edition Awards 13f1g

Watch the Video Capture of the Awards Ceremony of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Sala Grande theater, Palazzo del Cinema, 9th September 2017     OFFICIAL AWARDS – 74th VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL   VENEZIA 74 The Venezia 74 Jury, chaired by Annette Bening, and comprised of Ildikó Enyedi, Michel Franco, Rebecca Hall, Anna Mouglalis, David Stratton, Jasmine Trinca, Edgar Wright&n...

Nesta Morgan sketches Mother! at Venice Press conference 1u3e6a

  Nesta Morgan http://www.art4film.com//  mother! by Darren Aronofsky press conference and photocall ...

Nesta Morgan sketches The Villa 5k4f39

La vie en La villa - parfait ! FRENCH film :-) I think it's Stephen Frears signature on reverse side of the page (in blue) ! (see Nesta's sketch of Stephen Frrear's Victoria & Abdul) Nesta Morgan http://www.art4film.com//  ...

Nesta Morgan sketches Stephen Frears in Venice for Victoria and Abdul 55481s

"The film that Mr Trump must go to see!" (Stephen Frears) British humour gives large pat on back to Director Frears ! Best film in my book :-) Eddie Izzard, Ali Fazal, Judi Dench all excel in their performance. Nesta Morgan http://www.art4film.com//  ...

Nesta Morgan Sketching The Leisure Seeker 2p4u1b

Loving moment director #PaoloVirzi shouts as opportunist tips water on my sketch @theleisureseekers @la_Biennale :-) http://www.art4film.com// ...

Final Cut In Venice Awards 2017 5v685r

FINAL CUT IN VENICE 2017 AWARDS (74th Venice International Film Festival) 3 Sept - 5 Sept Workshop to  films in post-production from Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. For this 5th edition of Final Cut in Venice, La Biennale di Venezia has decided to strengthen the workshop with a new cash award of € 5,000...

Celluloid Dreams - Venice Winners 5p2k1d

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Jaeger-LeCoultre awards its iconic Reverso watch at the closing ceremony of the 74th Venice International Film Festival 6m6x3a

Official sponsor of the Film Festival for over a decade, Jaeger-LeCoultre reaffirms its commitment to encouraging and celebrating filmmaking. During the Official Awards Ceremony on the closing night of the festival, Jaeger-LeCoultre presented its iconic Reverso watch to the winners of the Best Film (Golden Lion) Award,  Best Actress and Best Actor (Coppa Volpi Award). These three personalised timepieces – adorned with a lacquered engraving depicting a lion, the symb...

THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK by Elwira Niewera and Piotr Rowalski wins best Doc in VENICE CLASSICS 4183e

   THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK by Elwira Niewera and Piotr Rowalski   > D/HD • POLAND/ • 2017 • 82’ Directed by: Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rowalski Produced by: Film Art. Production, Kundschafter Filmproduktion Original languages: English, Italian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish, German, Spanish A cinematic journey on the trail of Hollywood filmmaker and “human chameleo...

TEMPORADA DE CAZA (Hunting Season) wins the Audience Award of the 32nd Venice Critics' Week p1i4w

  Natalia Garagiola wins the SIAE Audience Award for TEMPORADA DE CAZA (Hunting Season), her first feature film co-produced by Argentina, USA, , and Qatar at the 74th Venice Film Festival.   Today, F...

Watch the Awards Ceremony and Prize recipients a4f4o

The jury and Annette Bening the President gave their awards this week end. ...

World Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s out of competition film 'Piazza Vittorio' 7423i

  The World Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s out of competition film Piazza Vittorio at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 9) is an evocative document on one of Rome’s most beloved squares in Esquilino, the XV "rione" or district. Ferrara shows how the area has developed since the last century with historic footage. The open-air markets of that time were packed with people who sold fruit, vegetable, bread, cheese and meat. This kind of market is disappearing and...

Venice Highlights by Alex Deleon 1r5tj

MY VENICE HIGHLIGHTS         Alex Deleon      Annette Bening jury president was regal at the closing ceremony In a sense everybody sees a different festival depending on choices made and the fallout of the daily agenda. My festival started out slowly but picked up steam tooward the end.  Arriving late I missed many the films I wanted to see and didn't see any of the einners, but I did catch a few good ones. ...

Final Venice Wrap Newsletter 1q2s6d

Filmfestivals.com partnered with The Venice Production Bridge to bring you these dailies and more extensive editorial coverage of the festival and industry events.     Read this online                  FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                         ...

Venice gives its Awards 535y2r

OFFICIAL AWARDS – 74th VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL   VENEZIA 74 The Venezia 74 Jury, chaired by Annette Bening, and comprised of Ildikó Enyedi, Michel Franco, Rebecca Hall, Anna Mouglalis, David Stratton, Jasmine Trinca, Edgar Wright and Yonfan having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:   GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: THE SHAPE OF WATER by Guillermo del Toro (USA)   SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to: FOXTROT ...

Venice Collateral Awards 5b3f26

COLLATERAL AWARDS   Arca CinemaGiovani Award Venezia 74 Best Film: FOXTROT by Samuel Maoz Best Italian Film: BEAUTIFUL THINGS by Giorgio Ferrero   BNL People's Choice Award – Giornate degli Autori GA’AGUA (LONGING) by Savi Gabizon   Brian Award LES BIENHEUREUX by Sofia Djama   Circolo del Cinema di Verona Award – 32nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week TEAM HURRICANE by Annika Berg   Civitas Vitae ...

Raincheck Weather at Venice on Day Eight of fest 4hy57

  by Alex Deleon   A sudden summer Downpour bombards the festival (the second of the week) -- and many stay  put indoors, like myself, unable to get to a screening invitation -- -- Is this the wettest Mostra on Record, or just a little climate change?               ...

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