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Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise,’ Starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, to Open Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival has selected Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film, “White Noise” as the opener for its 2022 edition. It will mark Baumbach’s return three years after his “Marriage Story” premiered in Venice, garnered six Oscar nominations and one win. White Noise stars Marriage Story lead Adam Driver as a professor in the mid-West going…

Happening : Exclusive Interview with Audrey Diwan, Award-Winning Director of the Venice Film Festival

Synopsis : France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if…

78th Venice Film Festival Awards: Golden Lion Goes to Audrey Diwan’s abortion film, ‘Happening’

The 78th Venice Film Festival wrapped up on September 11, a year after the COVID pandemic took center stage, forcing the 2020 iteration to adopt a “more restrained” format.  This year’s jury was helmed by South Korea’s Bong Joon Ho, whose Parasite took top honors last year. The jurors wrapped up the two-week extravaganza by…

Sundance Film Festival Review – Venice Winner ‘Happening’ Showcases an Arduous Abortion Journey

Getting an abortion at this current moment can be a difficult thing even for those with excellent access to healthcare and abundant resources. Throughout history, it has mostly been an incredibly arduous and potentially life-threatening endeavor, one that held grave penalties for those who both were and were not successfully able to obtain an illegal…

‘Daaaaaalí!’ A Surreal Film About A Surrealist

If Mary Harron’s 2022 Dalíland — starring Ben Kingsley — took a biographical twist, Quentin Dupieux prefers to embark upon an exercise of style, since his latest work is not a biopic about Salvador Dalí. The French filmmaker’s moving picture — that premiered Out of Competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival — is…

Toronto International Film Festival : Exclusive Interview with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

©2024 “CLOUD” FILM PARTNERS Cloud : The story centers on Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), a factory worker in Tokyo who makes extra money reselling goods online under a pseudonym. After a successful stint, he quits his job and relocates to the countryside with his girlfriend, hiring a local young man to help with his reselling…

Danish Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn to Shoot New Film in Tokyo

©Courtesy of Dario Argento:Panico  Provocative Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has revealed that he’s preparing to make his next film in Tokyo, his first since The Neon Demon, which debuted in 2016. Refn told a Variety interviewer that the new movie will be a bilingual one, to be shot in English and Japanese. Refn is…

New York Film Festival 62 : Main Slate Selections

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE SELECTIONS FOR THE 62nd NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 32 features including new films from Pedro Almodóvar, Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, David Cronenberg, Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias, Robinson Devor, Mati Diop, Miguel Gomes, Alain Guiraudie, Hong Sangsoo, Jia Zhangke, Payal Kapadia, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Mike Leigh, Philippe Lesage,…

Tribeca Festival : Exclusive Interview with Palme d’Or Winning Director Qiu Yang on His Feature Debut Film, “Some Rain Must Fall”

Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Some Rain Must Fall : Cai is a mother and housewife who thought having a family was everything. When she inadvertently injures the grandmother of one of her teen daughter’s less privileged teammates, her supposedly perfect life descends into a menacing chaos and she starts to question everything about who she…

The Cannes Film Festival : Interview with a Romanian Actress Alina Serban

Alina Serban is is the winner of Best Actress Award at the German Actors Guild Awards 2020 for her leading role in Gipsy Queen, a nominee for Best Actress of the German Film Awards 2020 and the representative of Romania at The Cannes International Film Festival 2018 for her leading role in Alone at My…