‘First Man,’‘Star Is Born’ Kick Off Awards Season Race at Venice Festival
With this year’s lineup, the Venice Intl. Film Festival has taken a quantum leap toward becoming a cinematic juggernaut, prevailing over Toronto and Telluride and giving Cannes cause for concern....
View ArticleVenice Topper Alberto Barbera Weighs in on Fall’s Festival Power Shift
Ever since 2012, when he returned to head Venice, Alberto Barbera has turned the fest into a gateway to Oscar gold, despite being locked into competition with early fall festivals Toronto and...
View ArticleVenice Film Festival Signs Gender-Parity Pledge
The Venice Film Festival followed Cannes and Locarno in signing a pledge on gender parity Friday, but festival organizers insisted that the practices in the protocol are already in place and bristled...
View ArticleEuropean Arthouse Entity Blasts Venice Chief Alberto Barbera For Pro-Netflix...
In the latest salvo against Netflix from the European arthouse community the International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) has lashed out against Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto...
View ArticleSteve Bannon’s Press Team Denies He Attended Venice Premiere of ‘American...
Steve Bannon’s press team Thursday denied that the former top Trump advisor attended the world premiere of Errol Morris-directed “American Dharma,” the documentary about him that created a stir on the...
View ArticlePedro Almodovar to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice Film Festival
Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar will be honored by the Venice Film Festival with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The Spanish director, 69, is having a good year after his “Pain and...
View Article‘Joker,’‘Ad Astra,’‘The Laundromat,’‘Marriage Story’ to Compete in Venice
A robust roster of awards contenders, including Brad Pitt space odyssey “Ad Astra” and Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded financial scandal comedy “The Laundromat,” will launch from the Venice Film...
View ArticleVenice Competition Lineup: Only Two Films Directed by Women Make the Cut
Here’s the (supposed) good news: The Venice Film Festival’s main competition lineup has twice the number of works directed by women as last year. The bad news: That means only a whopping total of two...
View ArticleVenice’s Alberto Barbera on Gender Parity, Netflix, Polanski and Hollywood...
Immediately after unveiling the Venice Film Festival lineup Thursday, artistic chief Alberto Barbera found himself contending with hot-potato issues, including the continued poor representation of...
View Article‘Joker’ Leads Films Primed to Kick Off Oscar Season at Venice
The 2019 Venice Film Festival, running Aug. 28-Sept. 7, reflects the seismic changes under way in Hollywood. “There is a strange situation this year with American cinema due to what’s happening,” says...
View ArticleVenice Film Festival Kicks Off, With Brad Pitt, Kristen Stewart, ‘Joker’...
The Venice Film Festival kicks off Wednesday with a lineup that’s a bit lighter on Hollywood fare than usual but still studded with hot titles and big stars expected to appear on the Lido, including...
View ArticleRoberto Cicutto, Former Cinecittà Chief, to Head Venice Biennale
Roberto Cicutto, the veteran Italian film producer of Ermanno Olmi’s 1988 Venice Golden Lion winner “The Legend of the Holy Drinker” and more recently head of Italy’s Luce-Cinecittà which runs the...
View ArticleVariety to Honor Venice Artistic Director Alberto Barbera and La Biennale
Variety will bestow its Intl. Achievement in Film Award on Alberto Barbera and La Biennale di Venezia at a ceremony at the Venice Film Festival next month. It is the first time that Variety is honoring...
View ArticleHow Venice Topper Barbera Earned Variety’s Intl. Achievement in Film Award
The Venice Film Festival, after some ups and downs over the years, has been hitting its stride for the past decade thanks to Alberto Barbera, who has steadily steered the event forward by finding ways...
View ArticleVenice’s Alberto Barbera Built Fest Into Awards Season Must-Stop
There is no doubt that Venice these days is the world’s top event to premiere a future Oscar winner, but it wasn’t always like that. When artistic director Alberto Barbera returned to the Lido in 2012...
View ArticleVenice Topper Barbera Puts Emphasis on Emerging Talent With Biennale College
Last year, the small Southern African nation of Lesotho entered the Academy Awards race for the first time with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” one of 28...
View Article10 ‘Dune’ Cast Members Among Hollywood Stars Descending on Venice Film Festival
The 78th Venice Film Festival gets underway Wednesday with a slew of Hollywood stars expected on the red carpet for the Sept. 1-11 event, beginning with Penelope Cruz for Pedro Almodovar’s opening film...
View ArticleVenice Film Festival Launch Party Honors Alberto Barbera, as Bong Joon Ho...
On Tuesday night, the eve of the 78th annual Venice Film Festival, the Hotel Danieli and Variety co-hosted a rooftop party honoring fest topper Alberto Barbera and the Biennale, its parent...
View ArticleVenice Lineup Shows How Cinema Italiano Thrives in Rocky Market
The country’s box office is still sputtering but Italian cinema is instead “in a state of grace,” as Venice chief Alberto Barbera put it recently as he announced the five features from Italy that are...
View ArticleVenice Chief Alberto Barbera Talks Missing Out on Steven Spielberg’s...
Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera is smiling and looking relaxed after unveiling the festival’s strongest lineup in recent memory, a rich mix of hotly anticipated pics from the U.S. and...
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