Lebanese-French director Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult was recognized at the Venice Film Festival last Friday, when Kamel El Basha was awarded the Coppa Volpi for… Read More »Film director goes from prize in Venice to prison in Beirut
The Venice Film Festival recognized directors and actors for movies that premiered at the 74th edition. The Venezia 74 Jury was chaired by Annette Bening, and… Read More »The winners of the Venice Film Festival
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. As we have reviewed here, it… Read More »Venice rewards a love story between a mute woman and a river monster
Your correspondent does not claim any pedigree in the art of reviewing movies. Yet for all his humble credentials, Javier Bardem playing Pablo Escobar… Read More »Javier Bardem’s two-hour train crash about Pablo Escobar
With their strong bias for style and good looks, it is unsurprising that Italians have such a weakness for George Clooney. And in Venice, he… Read More »‘Suburbicon,’ Clooney’s satire about America’s heart of darkness
Among the classic movies presented this year at the Venice Film Festival, Novecento stands out in a class of its own. Gérard Depardieu, who starred… Read More »‘Novecento’ was a ‘film like no other,’ says Depardieu in Venice
Stars from all over the world paraded down the red carpet at the cinema palace in the Lido, the island off Venice where the oldest… Read More »Clooney, Cardinale, Dench and other big names in Venice
A lonely teenager in a middle-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires learns she is pregnant with her lover’s child. This is the story of Invisible,… Read More »Mora Arenillas and the invisible loneliness of Buenos Aires
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
