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...
* 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