Venice Lineup Announced

by Nathaniel R

Hirokazu Kore-eda is back quickly after "Shoplifters" with "The Truth" starring Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve, and Ethan Hawke

Since we never get to go to Venice *sniffle* we can't grant them as much time as we do TIFF each year but here's a quick check in with their lineup of films. The festival kicks off on Wednesday August 28th and wraps on Saturday September 7th, just as TIFF's first weekend is in full swing. Telluride happens during all that, too --it's a busy time for cinephiles, critics, stars, and filmmakers... 

COMPETITION TITLES
* means they're also playing at TIFF 

About Endlessness from Roy Andersson on Vimeo.

• About Endlessness (Roy Andersson, Sweden) the shortest title in competition at 73 minutes which is amusing given the title. We love Roy Andersson! 
• Ad Astra (James Gray, US)
• Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy, Australia)
• Ema (Pablo Larrain, Chile) *
• Gloria Mundi (Robert Guediguian, France)
• Guest of Honor (Atom Egoyan, Canada) *
• A Herdade (Tiago Guedes, Portugal) *
• The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh, US)*
• La Mafia non e piu quella di Una Volta (Franco Maresco, Italy)
• Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, US) *
• Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
• The Mayor of Rione Sanita (Marion Martone, Italy)
• No. 7 Cherry Lane (Yonfan, China) *
• An Officer and a Spy (Roman Polanski, France)
• The Painted Bird (Vaclav Marhoul, Czech Republic) * the longest title in competition at 169 minutes
• The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia / Germany)
• Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye, China) *
• The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan/France) - OPENING NIGHT FILM
• Waiting for the Barbarians (Ciro Guerra, Italy)
• Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas, France)

OUT OF COMPETITION

The Burnt Orange Heresy, set in present day Italy stars James Figueras and Elizabeth Debicki. Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland have supporting roles

• 45 Seconds of Laughter (Tim Robbins, US) -doc
• Adults in the Room (Costa-Gavras, France/Greece)
• The Burnt Orange Heresy (Giuseppe Capotondi, UK/Italy) -CLOSING NIGHT FILM
• Citizen K (Alex Gibney, UK/US) -doc
• Citizen Rosi (Didi Gnocchi and Caroline Rosi, Italy) -doc
• Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania/Luxembourg) -doc
• The King (David Michod, UK/Hungary)
• The Kingmaker (Lauren Greenfield, US) -doc
• Mosul (Matthew Michael Carnahan, US)
• Roger Waters: Us + Them (Roger Waters, UK) -doc
• Seberg (Benedict Andrews, US)
• State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa, The Netherlands/Lithuania) -doc
• Tutto il mio folle amore (Gabriele Salvatores, Italy)
• Vivere (Francesca Archibugi, Italy)
• Woman (Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Anastasia Mikova, France) - doc

HORIZONS
This is the section that leans towards newer filmmakers and modes of cinematic expression akin to some 'discovery' sections at other festivals 

Raymund Ribay Gutierrez is the first Filipino filmmaker to have two shorts competing at Cannes. He's made his debut feature now "Verdict" which will play in Horizons

• Atlantis (Valentyn Vasyanovych, Ukraine)
• Balloon (Pema Tseden, China)
• Bik Eneich - Un Fils (Mehdi M Barsaoui, Tunisia/France/Lebanon/Qatar)
• Blanco den Blanco (Theo Court, Spain/Chile/France/Germany)
• Giants Being Lonely (Great Patterson, US)
• Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (Sahara Karimi, Afghanistan)
• Just 6.5 (Saeed Roustaee, Iran)
• Madre (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spain/France) - this is an expansion of last year's Oscar nominated short film of the same name
• Mes Jours de Glorie (Antoine de Bary, France)
• Moffie (Oliver Hermanus, South Africa)
• Nevia (Nunzia de Stefano, Italy)
• Pelican Blood (Katrin Gebbe, Germany/Bulgaria)*
• Revenir (Jessica Palud, France)
• Rialto (Peter Mackie Burns, Ireland)
• Shadow of Water (Sasidharan Sanal Kumar, India)
• Sole (Carlo Sironi, Italy)
• Verdict (Raymund Ribas Gutierrez, Phillippines) 

SPECIAL EVENTS & RESTORATIONS

• Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan) a restored version of the 2004 classic will screen multiple times. there will also be a "live" performance by Tsai Ming-Liang but we aren't sure what that means.

VENICE CLASSICS
These compete for "best restored film" for a jury composed of film students

• Crash (1996, Canada) - the good Crash, the one by David Cronenberg
• Current (1963, Hungary)
• The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955, Mexico) - a Buñuel!
• The Crossing of the Rhine (France, 1960)
• Death of a Bureaucrat (Cuba, 1966)
• Ecstasy (1932, Czechoslovokia) - this is the one that's famous for having the "first nude scene in cinema" though that claim has been disputed, starring the actress Hedy Lamarr.
• Francisca (1981, Portugal)
• The Grim Reaper (1962, Italy)
• The Hills of Marlik (1964, Iran)
• The House is Black (1962, Iran)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, US)
• Maria Zef (1981, Italy)
• Mauri (New Zealand, 1988) - the director was the first Maori woman to ever write and direct a narrative feature film
• New York New York (1977, US)
• Out of the Blue (1980, Canada/US)
• Pigeon Shoot (1961, Italy)
• The Red Snowball Tree (URSS, 1973)
• The Spider's Stratagem (1970, Italy)
• Way of a Gaucho (1952, US) - Jacques Tourneur!
• The White Shiek (Italy, 1952) -a Fellini!

FINAL CUT
This is a special workshop each year which runs for three days and is dedicated to the cinema industries of Africa and the Middle East. 6 work in progress films are selected to receive assistance in their post-production. The films are introduced to buyers, distributors and post-production companies, and programmers from other festivals. 

• Anothery Day in Baghdad (Maysoon Pachaci, Iraq)
• Captains of Za-atari (Ali El-Arabi, Egypt) -doc
• Makongo (Elvis Sabin Ngaibino, Central African Republic) -doc
• Mica (Ismaël Ferroukhi, Morocco)
• Nardjes, Alger, Mars 2019 (Karim Ainouz, Algeria) -doc
• On the Way to the Billion (Dieudo Hamadi, Democrat Republic of Congo) -doc

Comments

[Jonathan]

I'm guessing the live performance of "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" will be Tsai sitting in a theater seat for 90 minutes eating sunflower seeds.

[Andrew Carden]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK!

[Tyler]

With "The Laundromat", Meryl Streep has the potential now to be a Triple Crown winner of the major European Film Festivals, having already won acting prizes at Berlin and Cannes.

Stay tuned!

[Suzanne]

Get ready for Kristen Stewart to enter the Oscar race.

[Sawyer]

I have been DYING for word on The Truth premiere! And opening night no less! Bless you Venice.

[ken s.]

One correction: James Figueras is the name of the main male character in Burnt Orange Heresy. The actor pictured is Claes Bang.

[César Gaytán]

I'm expecting Ema, Wasp Network and The Painted Bird (The cinematography looks beautiful)

I'll be waiting patientlly they arrive to México.

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[par]

is the kingmaker about david michod?

[NATHANIEL R]

par - LOL

Ken -- Ack. Of course. And i love Claes Bang. I was typing and reading too fast.

[Jesus Alonso]

weird, I thought the new Amenabar was going to be released there... is he waiting for Toronto and Telluride? It really looks Oscarbait.

[hi]

hi filmswear

[Rob]

"Crash (1996, Canada) - the good Crash, the one by David Cronenberg"
Ha ha thank you for that.

(i.e. not the piece of garbage that to-this-day-bewilderingly won several top Oscars.)

[H]

Deneuve is so beautiful she makes Binoche look like Rachel Griffiths in her presence.

Nothing against Rachel Griffiths or her unique beauty!

[Daniella Isaacs]

I can see why you might leave it out (because it sucks, that's why) but isn't Noe's "Irreversible" playing as a restoration?

[forever1267]

"That's HEDLEY!"

[Eli]

Seconding the New York, New York love.