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EXCLUSIVE: Venice Film Festival, Netflix and The Gotham Film & Media Institute are teaming up on a program of movies at iconic New York venue, the Paris Theater. Scroll down for program lineup in full. Titled Venice Film Festival Presents: Next Generation, the four day event (April 20-23) will…

EXCLUSIVE: Unlike its predecessor, Dune: Part Two won’t be debuting at the Venice Film Festival, we can reveal. The sequel, one of the year’s most anticipated movies, has an early-November global launch date so Venice is too early, we hear from sources — partly due to the VFX work still to do, partly…

The Venice Film Festival has set filmmaker Liliana Cavani and actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai to receive this year's Golden Lions for lifetime achievement. The 80th Venice fest runs from August 30-September 9 on the Lido. Related Story Could Kenneth Branagh’s Starry Agatha Christie Murder Myste…

Could Hercule Poirot be headed to this year’s Venice Film Festival? We hear there’s a chance that 20th Century and Ken Branagh’s A Haunting In Venice could get a fairytale launch on the Lido. Nothing is set but the prospect has been discussed and we understand the film is likely to be submitted to…

Chris Pine is clearing up the air on what really happened with Harry Styles at the Venice Film Festival in a viral moment known as “Spitgate.” During the Don’t Worry Darling screening, many fans believed that Styles spat on Pine as he was taking a seat to watch the film. In a new interview, Pine is…

Hello and welcome back to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast, I am your host Valerie Complex. On today’s episode we’re chatting with director-producer Dina Amer. Amer is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She helped produce the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary The Square, in which the…

Alice Diop's French drama Saint Omer opens in theaters today, and I remember the emotions I felt when I saw the film at Venice last year. It was a very personal experience for me — as if someone was telling my story on screen. At the beginning of my eventual interview with Diop, I asked where she sees…

After two truncated years of pandemic-related disruptions, film festivals around the world returned with full-flowing in-person events this year. Berlin kicked things off with Carla Simon's Catalonia-set drama Alcarràs scooping the Golden Bear. The top prizes at Venice, San Sebastian, Sundance…

Andrew Dominik shared his thoughts on the unexpected backlash against his Marilyn Monroe drama Blonde during an In-Conversation event at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Sunday. The feature, starring Ana de Armas as the tragic, iconic actress, divided critics when it world premiered at the…

French novelist Annie Ernaux, whose novel Happening was the inspiration for Audrey Diwan’s 2021 Venice Golden Lion winner of the same name, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 82-year-old writer is known for her body of semi-autobiographical works charting the lives of women and social change…

Falling somewhere between Ken Loach's most recent films about poverty (Sorry, We Missed You; I, Daniel Blake) and a telenovela, On the Fringe, Juan Diego Botto's debut as a director, sets out to give a snapshot of Spain's eviction crisis. An end-title tells us that around a hundred households are evicted every day in…

EXCLUSIVE: French director Alice Diop's breakout feature Saint Omer has secured distribution in a raft of territories for Paris-based Wild Bunch International (WBI) following its Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize win. In Western Europe, the film has been sold to the U.K. (Picturehouse), Italy (Minerva Pictures)…