Venice Film Festival 2011: Preview
The 68th Venice Film Festival kicks off at the end of this month (31 August) with a whole host of world premieres including Tomas...
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7 September 2023
Venice 2023: The Theory of Everything review
★★★★☆ The ‘multiverse’ is one of the worst concepts to enter storytelling since Victoria Principal woke up in Dallas and discovered it had all been a dream. And so it’s weird to find yourself in a universe where the concept finally gets a decent cinematic treatment in Timm Kröger’s The Theory of Everything, not to be confused with Eddie Redmayne’s black hole.
10 September 2022
Venice 2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed wins Golden Lion
The head of this year’s Venice jury Julianne Moore awarded the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, to Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, her profile of artist Nan Goldin and her campaign against the Sackler family. It’s a brilliant, committed piece of activist cinema.
8 September 2019
Venice 2019: Joker has last laugh with Golden Lion win
In what has to be one of the crazier award ceremonies to grace the Venice Lido on its 76th edition, Todd Phillips’ Joker took home this year’s Golden Lion in a move guaranteed to provoke a flood of hot takes, an avalanche of think pieces and further lubrication for Oscars season.
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