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Reporting on the most famous and fashionable, and the films, at the annual Venice Film Festival
- Emma Stone’s turn in Golden Lion winner Poor Things might win her an Oscar, and Glen Powell impressed as a fake gun for hire opposite Adria Arjona in Hit Man
- Our other picks include migrant drama Io Capitano by best director winner Matteo Garrone and a comedy about Salvador Dali scored by a former member of Daft Punk
Older actresses shone at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, from Carla Bruni and Emma Thompson to Isabelle Huppert and Charlotte Rampling
As Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, the late Japanese composer’s son, who directed the feature, spoke to the Post about the challenges ofilming his cancer-stricken father.
The Post sits down with Ryusuke Hamaguchi, whose new movie Evil Does Not Exist – showing at the 2023 Venice Film Festival – was a totally new way of working for the Japanese director.
Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden’s posthumous film about a herder and a captive snow leopard explores the good and bad in people. Visually impressive, it is a reminder of a filmmaking talent lost too young.
Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died of cancer this year, filmed his final performance in 2022, playing 20 tracks from his long career. Elegantly shot in black and white by his son, its one fans shouldn’t miss.
Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola brings her inimitable style to Priscilla – a bittersweet biopic that follows the life of Elvis Presley’s ex-wife from when she met the singer to when she left him.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, an Oscar winner in 2022, is back with Evil Does Not Exist, an elusive film about Japanese villagers confronting a slick developer.
After Mank, Fincher is back on familiar territory with The Killer, a stylish crime thriller adapted from a French graphic novel and starring Michael Fassbender as a misfiring assassin with a target on his back.
Never mind the prosthetic nose, Cooper excels as the American conductor and composer, and Carey Mulligan is impressive as his wife, Felicia, in a film the actor also directed and which shows his growth as a filmmaker.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Greek director’s twisted period piece about a suicide case (Stone) reanimated, Frankenstein-like, by Willem Dafoe’s scientist is visually ravishing.
Enzo Ferrari the man and businessman is the focus of Mann’s film as we see him and wife Laura (Penélope Cruz) try to save their company. There’s glamour too, and car-racing thrills, but they are not its focus.
In 1971, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Beijing sent a film of Chinese ballet The Red Detachment of Women to the Venice International Film Festival, from where it became a hit with Western movie-goers.
Kavich Neang, the Cambodian filmmaker behind White Building, which won several international awards, talks about why audiences at home shun his movies as too realistic, and why he’ll stick to his guns.
In The Mood For Love, Hard Boiled, Marvel’s Shang-Chi – Tony Leung has shown his versatility in a career spanning nearly 100 movies. He’s about to receive a Venice Film Festival lifetime achievement award.
Film star Tony Leung becomes first Chinese actor to be awarded a prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the world’s oldest film festival
Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles hit the headlines, but we remember Brendan Fraser for his amazing comeback role, and Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell for their award-winning performances.
Laura Poitras, an Oscar winner for her Edward Snowden documentary CitizenFour, wins the Golden Lion in Venice for All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, about photographer Nan Goldin’s fight against the Sackler family.
The Mummy’s Brendan Fraser went off the grid for a while, but with his recently acclaimed role in The Whale, is he set for a career comeback?
Tilda Swinton’s neon-bomb hair may have stolen the show, but there was also plenty of spark in the accessories rocked by Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh and Penélope Cruz on the red carpet
Ana de Armas plays Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s unconventional film biography of the actress, and sounds uncannily like her.
Gemma Chan’s Louis Vuitton gown allowed the Crazy Rich Asians star to literally shine, while Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink looked pleased as punch to be in Alexander McQueen
Harry Styles and Florence Pugh play a couple madly in love in 1950s America, where an idyllic suburb is not all it seems as strange things begin to happen. Will anyone risk spoiling paradise for answers?
Starring Harry Styles, Florence Pugh and Gemma Chan and directed by Olivia Wilde, Don’t Worry Darling generated red carpet buzz at its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival
Japanese director Koji Fukada’s gentle drama about a tragedy-stricken family benefits from strong acting, but a string of strange stylistic and screenwriting choices make it unsatisfying and downright puzzling at times.
Brendan Fraser shines as a morbidly obese man desperately trying to reconnect with his angry, estranged daughter, wonderfully played by Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink. The Oscar race has begun.
Call Me by Your Name star Chalamet plays a cannibal drifter who meets a soulmate in Maren (Taylor Russell). Think Badlands meets Bonnie and Clyde with a mean Eighties soundtrack.
Like Federico Fellini’s 8½, Iñárritu’s Bardo takes on life, the universe and everything in a head-spinning three hours. The film is centred on a Mexican journalist who says ‘Success has been my biggest failure’.
Another take on the nuclear family by the Marriage Story director, and a swipe at the American dream, White Noise features Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig as doomy parents fleeing environmental disaster.
