Julian Schnabel’s ‘In the Hand of Dante’ Gets Embraced in Venice
Julian Schnabel‘s long-gestating offbeat period drama In the Hand of Dante has finally met an audience. The Oscar…
Paolo Sorrentino’s Buzzy Drama ‘La Grazia’ Gets U.S. Release Date
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, widely hailed as a return to form for the 2013 Oscar winner, has…
‘A House of Dynamite’ Is Kathryn Bigelow at Her Best
The director’s latest, her first film in seven years, is an absurdly riveting thriller with the kind of…
‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ Review: An Overly Fawning Tribute
Shown out of competition in Venice in conjunction with the festival giving a lifetime achievement award to its…
‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch’s Family Triptych
Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But…
Werner Herzog Doc ‘Ghost Elephants’ Sells to National Geographic
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the world streaming rights to Werner Herzog‘s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants,…
George Clooney Fights Infection to Make ‘Jay Kelly’ Red Carpet
Venice welcomed back festival frequent flyers George Clooney and Noah Baumbach on Thursday night, giving Baumbach’s Jay Kelly…
Sorrentino Finds Beauty in Unknowability
Despite his current reputation as a creator of aggressively aestheticized films, Paolo Sorrentino was once a director of…
Toni Servillo in Paolo Sorrentino Character Study
The first thing to be said about Paolo Sorrentino’s captivating portrait of an esteemed political leader in the…
Noomi Rapace in Spiky Mother Teresa Biopic
Mother Teresa (1910-1997), the ethnically Albanian nun born in what is now known as North Macedonia and whose…
Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix Back Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’
Hollywood heavyweights, including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Rooney Mara, have come on board Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza-set…