Venice International Film Festival

Review: 'Pieta's' vengeance tale shows capitalism's cruel side

2013-05-16 19:30:00

South Korean provocateur Kim Ki-duk's new film "Pieta," about a cold, wraith-like loan-shark enforcer in a poverty-stricken village, is expectedly gruesome in some of its details. But it's the explicitness about capitalism's emotional wreckage that...

William Friedkin takes a high-speech chase through his career

2013-05-12 13:45:00

Filmmaker William Friedkin, who's best known for such landmark films as "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist" in the early '70s, looks back on a long career directing movies, opera and theater in his new memoir, "The Friedkin Connection." Why do...

Bernardo Bertolucci to chair Venice Film Festival jury

2013-05-09 09:37:00

Oscar-winning Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, a self-described recluse who receded from the public eye a decade ago, will preside over the jury for the 70th annual Venice Film Festival. The “Last Tango in Paris” director, 73,...

French director Olivier Assayas makes it personal in "Something in the Air"

2013-05-02 15:38:00

There is fire everywhere in Olivier Assayas’ scorching new coming-of-age drama “Something in the Air.” It is in the passions, the politics and the sex roiling through the filmmaker’s vision of 1970s-era Paris. For this is a...

Review: Romance and rebellion in 'Something in the Air'

2013-05-02 17:10:00

There is fire everywhere in Olivier Assayas' scorching new coming-of-age drama "Something in the Air." It is in the passions, in the politics and in the sex roiling through the filmmaker's vision of 1970s-era Paris. For this is a memoir of sorts of...

PASSINGS: Sara Montiel, Josep Joan Bigas Luna

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Sara Montiel Spanish actress was 1950s Hollywood star Sara Montiel, 85, a famed, sultry-voiced Spanish actress who achieved Hollywood stardom in the 1950s, died Monday in Madrid, according to her biographer, Peter Villora. The cause was undetermined....

Cannes 2013: Sofia Coppola's 'Bling Ring' to open Un Certain Regard

2013-04-17 12:59:00

“The Bling Ring,” Sofia Coppola’s tale of good girls gone bad in Southern California, is heading to Cannes — but not as part of the main competition. The fact-based drama will instead premiere in Un Certain Regard, where it will...

'The Company You Keep's' Brit Marling in black and white

2013-04-03 12:11:00

Brit Marling may not be a household name yet, but the budding actress and screenwriter is well on her way. The Georgetown-educated Marling has been around the indie movie scene for a couple of years with the films "Political Disaster" and "Another Earth,"...

'Spring Breakers' posts biggest limited-release debut of 2013

2013-03-17 13:12:00

Break out the red cups. "Spring Breakers," Harmony Korine's R-rated tale of four college girls on a debauched party trip, posted this weekend the biggest debut of the year for a film playing in limited release. Screening in two theaters in New York...

Oscar 8-Ball: Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master'

2012-12-17 11:46:00

Thinking about our love for "The Master," we can't help but recall that early moment in the film when the military official tells the gathered veterans that "people on the outside will not understand the condition you have." Yes, academy members, we're...

A world of difference in reactions over foreign, U.S. film violence

2013-02-15 13:05:00

Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...

A Second Look: Aleksandr Sokurov's calling card in three literary adaptations

2013-02-02 00:00:00

In 1999, the Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov, the prolific filmmaker who remains probably best known for the 2002 art-house hit "Russian Ark," launched the eccentric Men of Power tetralogy, dealing mainly with the obscure inner lives of 20th-century...

Shia LaBeouf stands on the red carpet prior the screening of 'The company you keep' during the 69th Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2012 at Venice Lido. 'The company you keep' is presented out of competition.

2012-11-27 09:37:00

Jury member, French DJ Bob Sinclar, poses during an interview at the 69th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido.

2012-09-04 00:00:00

Michael Shannon arrives for the screening of "The Iceman" at the 69th Venice Film Festival August 30, 2012 at Venice Lido.

2012-08-31 07:06:00