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Film show: Venice Film Festival opens amid Hollywood strikes

Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the Venice and Deauville film festivals, the box office hits of the summer "Oppenheimer", "Barbie" and "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning", plus a look at the Franco-Senegalese writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy's love story "Banel & Adama", which is…

France 24

Watch: Jury members arrive for 80th Venice International Film Festival

Watch as jury members arrive for the 80th Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday, 30 August.

The Independent UK

Brazil scoops 2023 Golden Lion award for national participation at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The Brazil Pavilion won the prestigious 2023 Golden Lion award for best national participation, as announced at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy this weekend - along with more honours for individual and country-led installations

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Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

The Independent UK

Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”.

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Alberta Whittle exhibition opens in Edinburgh

The artist represented Scotland at last year’s Venice Biennale.

The Independent UK

Legacy of racism explored in ‘hugely important’ Alberta Whittle exhibition

It opens in Edinburgh on Saturday.

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Southeast Asian movies have never been a bigger hit at the local box office – and the boom may dampen streaming growth

After premiering at Venice and picking up a swag of awards on the festival circuit, Indonesian political thriller Autobiography began its theatrical run in its home country this month.

The Conversation

Sonia Boyce’s Venice Biennale winner to be exhibited in UK next year

Feeling Her Way, featuring videos of five black female musicians, to be shown in Margate and Leeds

The Guardian - UK

Alice Diop triumphs at the Venice Film Festival

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Alice Diop. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and plenty of good music. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on the “Audio” arrow…

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And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

Evening Standard

Venice Film Festival comes to a close with awards ceremony

The 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival came to a close Saturday

The Independent UK

Sources deny Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere

The singer turned actor had been the focus of a viral clip that allegedly shows him spitting on his co-star at the Venice film festival

The Guardian - UK

Colin Farrell receives 13-minute standing ovation at Venice premiere of The Banshees of Inisherin

Irish actor stars alongside Brendan Gleeson in forthcoming drama

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Don’t Worry Darling review – panic! Harry Styles drama offers cause for concern

Venice film festival: Styles’s accent is intentionally dodgy, but the rest of Olivia Wilde’s unconvincing tale of dystopian suburbia does not have the same excuse

The Guardian - UK

Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle

Venice film festival: This sweet, sad drama sees a teacher keen to be a mother bonding with her new boyfriend’s daughter, while dealing with the constant presence of his ex

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian director calls for trials of Soviet-era ‘war crimes’

Speaking in Venice, Sergei Loznitsa said situation in Ukraine shows that ‘history repeats itself when we don’t learn from’ it

The Independent UK

Timothée Chalamet cannibal romance movie receives 8-minute standing ovation at Venice Film Festival

Flesh-eating love story received rapturous response following premiere

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The Guardian - UK

Bones and All review – cannibal romance is a heartbreaking banquet of brilliance

Venice film festival: Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell dazzle in Luca Guadagnino’s blood-soaked parable of poverty and rebellion

The Guardian - UK

A Couple review – Tolstoy’s other half in mournful closeup

Venice film festival: Nathalie Boutefou is superb as Sofia, the author’s wife, assistant and rival, in a shrewd character study

Asharq Al-Awsat

Venice Film Fest Launches with Ukraine and 'Toxic Event' Satire

The Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday with a powerful message from Ukraine's president and a topical opening film starring Adam Driver about a deadly health crisis and misinformation. President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a recorded message for the opening ceremony on the Lido island, telling the audience: "not to…

Evening Standard

A 17-year-old is directing A24’s next film: here are the studio’s other films you need to see

In 2022 A24 also showed films at Venice for the first time

Chicago Tribune

‘Hoop Dreams’ filmmaker Steve James to premiere new project at the Venice Film Festival on atomic spy Theodore Hall

CHICAGO — The new Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” about the Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall, has been selected for the documentary slate of the 79th Venice Film Festival.

The Canberra Times

From Canberra to Venice: Debut film to feature at prestigious festival

For the first time, the prestigious Venice International Film Festival will include a Canberra-produced film in its programming.

Evening Standard

Venice film festival 2022: Line-up, attendees and everything else there is to know

This year’s festival promises major star-power, but no blockbusters

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