Every year, Venetians reenact the welcome given to Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus and Armenia, who renounced her throne in favor of Venice in… Read More »Venice reenacts the welcome to Queen Caterina with a regatta

The 74th Venice Film Festival reunited Jane Fonda and Robert Redford fifty years after they played newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park, the 1967 classic.… Read More »The movies that are the talk of Venice and the world

There is nothing in life like the certainty of death. Absolutely everything else is uncertain. Foxtrot begins with a view of truck hood as it… Read More »‘Foxtrot’ paces the life of a traumatized family and their soldier boy

  Jane Fonda and Robert Redford were awarded two Golden Lions last night for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Film Festival. Both U.S. actors… Read More »Jane Fonda: ‘I live for sex scenes’ with Robert Redford

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson has brought to Venice Under the Tree, his third feature film. Of those your correspondent has seen so far in the third… Read More »‘Under the tree,’ an Icelandic saga of common men and women

Venice extends the red carpet for the stars that keep arriving for the 74th  International Film Festival. Tonight the Biennale will honor Jane Fonda and Robert… Read More »Stars walk down the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival

  William Friedkin, the maker of The Exorcist, the 1973 classic movie, had never seen an exorcism. Almost half a century later, and with curiosity… Read More »Friedkin: If I knew, I would not have made ‘The Exorcist’

  The best thing about The Shape of Water is the movie’s name. The photography is great, too, and so is the music. There are… Read More »Guillermo del Toro did it again with ‘The Shape of Water’

It may be misleading, but certainly tempting, to attribute American filmmaker Alexander Payne’s extraordinary sensitivity for drama to his Greek origins (his ancestors anglicized the… Read More »Downsizing: Alexander Payne’s Lilliputian dystopia