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The winners from this year’s Venice International Film Festival have been announced, closing out the 82nd event. The big winner was Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, which took home the coveted Golden Lion, the top prize of the fest. Meanwhile, Benny Safdie was awarded the Silver Lion, the Best Director prize.

Check out the list of winners below:

Golden Lion: Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch

Grand Jury Prize: The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben Hania

Silver Lion for Best Director: Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine

Special Jury Prize: Below the Clouds, Gianfranco Rosi

Best Screenplay: Valérie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand, À pied d’œuvre (At...

Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” won the Golden Lion at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday, capping an 11-day edition that balanced prestige launches with pointed, real-world concerns. The jury led by Alexander Payne selected Jarmusch’s triptych about adult children and their aging parents from 21 Competition titles; organizers confirmed the decision during the closing ceremony on September 6 in Venice.

The top prize had been widely contested in a lineup that included politically charged standouts. The Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” a docudrama built around a real emergency call from Gaza that drew one of...

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2025 Venice Film Festival on a night when politics took centre stage.

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The anthology of family stories stars Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling and Vicky Krieps. The Match Factory is handling sales, with Mubi distributing in select territories.

In his winner’s speech, Jarmusch referenced the many political speeches of the night, saying: “I appreciate what [fellow winner] Benny Safdie said about empathy – art does not have to address politics directly to be political, it can engender empathy and...

Venice Film Festival closes its 82nd edition this evening with its awards ceremony, held in the Sala Grande at the Mostra del Cinema venue.

Starting at 7pm Cest (6Pm BST), viewers can watch the ceremony live in the video above; with an hour of red carpet coverage beforehand. Screen will be updating this page with the winners as they are announced.

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The ceremony will be hosted by Italian actress Emanuela Fanelli, who also hosted the opening ceremony. A Competition jury led by US filmmaker Alexander Payne will award eight prizes, including the Golden Lion for best film.

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for the entirety of Wednesday Season 2 Part 2.

Wednesday Season 2 pulled out all of the stops when it came to backstories, surprises, plot twists, and the return of previously thought dead characters.

The return of Gwendoline Christie’s Principal Larissa Weems was teased in the trailer for Part 2 of the show’s sophomore season. To be clear, Weems did die in Season 1, but creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar found a wrinkle to bring her back in a different capacity.

“We definitely wanted to bring her back,” Gough said of Christie, while chatting with Deadline this week. “Miles tells the story when we were on set the night that she got killed in Season 1, and we were like, ‘Oh, did we make a huge mistake?’ Gwendoline and Jenna had great chemistry, and those characters really popped. We thought the spirit guide felt like the right approach.

Gwendoline Christie is no stranger to appearing in franchises with huge fan bases and high expectations. The actress has been in everything from Game of Thrones to the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and has managed to make each of her roles even within those larger tentpole projects feel distinctly her own.

Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to her role as the didactic and misunderstood Principle Weems in Netflix's Wednesday. However, what fans might not realize is that Christie actually turned to some very classical influences for her appearances in the first and second seasons of the series: the Hollywood starlets of Alfred Hitchcock’s films.

Sydney Sweeney's new biopic about boxing legend Christy Martin has officially secured its release date. Fans won't have to wait long to see Sweeney in the new movie, which will come out just in time for awards season.

Deadline reveals that Christy will hit theaters on Nov. 7, following its premiere at TIFF on Sept. 5. The biographical sports drama is directed by David Michôd and tells the story of the titular boxing star's rise, as she becomes America's most well-known female boxer in the 1990s. It also explores her attempted murder by her husband in 2010. Sweeney stars as Christy Martin, with Ben Foster playing James V. Martin, Christy's husband. Other cast members include Merrit Wever,...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Season 2 of “Wednesday,” now streaming on Netflix.

Netflix released Part 2 of “Wednesday” Season 2 on Sept. 4, and fans were pleasantly surprised to see Gwendoline Christie appear in the first episode of the new batch, reprising her role of former Nevermore principal Larissa Weems. Though the character died in the Season 1 finale, she returns as a specter in Season 2’s latter half, serving as a reluctant spirit guide for an even more reluctant Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega).

This new incarnation of Weems has the same wit, wisdom and fashion sense as her living predecessor, and yet, she is exclusively visible to Wednesday. The rest of the characters are unaware of Weems’ presence, which seems both liberating and frustrating for the character. Free of life’s burdens, Weems seems at ease with her postmortem state. However, she’s doomed to witness the events of the world without the ability to intervene.

It’s official: 2025 is the year of the double. This year, cinemas have been flooded with movies in which actors play, quite literally, against themselves, taking on the roles of twins, clones, and strangers who look uncannily like each other.

In February, Theo James played two diametrically opposed brothers in Osgood Perkins’ horror film “The Monkey” this February. In March, Robert Pattinson played a series of clones in Bong Joon Ho’s aptly-named “Mickey 17.” By April, Michael B. Jordan had joined the fray, playing a pair of twin brothers in Ryan Coogler’s smash hit “Sinners.” And that was just the first half of the year.

There’s just something about a doppelganger that feels uniquely cinematic. A person who looks like you, thinks like you, and maybe even lives like you has always been a subject of fascination and dread in literature and philosophy, a concept that raises...

There’s something magical about Venice every September. Yes, the gondolas are cute, but I’m talking about the red carpets, the standing ovations, and the films everyone won’t stop buzzing about for the rest of the year.

The 82nd Venice Film Festival wasn’t just another glamorous stop on the awards season calendar, already sparking Oscar whispers. But while the stars have left the red carpet and the curtains have closed in Venice, the real question for most movie lovers is simple: where can you actually watch these films now?

From theaters to streaming, here’s your guide to catching the Hollywood movies that wowed Venice 2025.

The 82nd...

This is the story of a beloved Hollywood actress and her life off screen outside of her movies. Kim Novak is the award-winning star of Hitchcock's all-timer mystery thriller classic Vertigo, and tons of other classic movies like Pushover, Picnic, The Man with the Golden Arm, Pal Joey, Jeanne Eagels, Strangers When We Meet, Kiss Me Stupid, and many others. She's now 92 years old and still going strong. Kim Novak's Vertigo is a brand new documentary featuring Kim Novak reflecting back on her life in Hollywood before she left the film business for good in the 1970s. She got tired of being treated as simply a pretty woman. It's...

Kim Novak exists today as a living connection to a Hollywood that has otherwise receded into myth. Director Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, understands this, presenting not a conventional biography but an intimate audience with the star at her Oregon home.

The film’s tone is immediately reflective, a conversation that drifts through memory, art, and the enduring influence of her most iconic role. At 92, Novak is a sharp and thoughtful presence, looking back on a life defined by a fame she seemed to hold at arm’s length.

Philippe wisely frames the film as a personal meditation on the construction of identity within the rigid culture of the studio system,...

Much has been made over the years about why Vertigo icon Kim Novak did what many seemed unthinkable when she fled Hollywood and said goodbye to an enviable and still thriving acting career that saw her collaborate with everyone from Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart to Billy Wilder and Frank Sinatra.

But her longtime manager and confidante, Sue Cameron, revealed a surprising new reason for Novak’s departure while participating in a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, which hosted the world premiere Alexandre O. Philippe’s new documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo. Cameron claimed it all came down to … sour pickles?

By the time she started shooting Richard Quine’s 1965 film The Notorious Landlady opposite Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire, Novak had made up her mind that she hated Hollywood and was ready to leave, Cameron said. So when she and her sister went for a drive near picturesque Carmel,...

Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt and Benny Safdie unveiled the latter’s first solo directorial feature, The Smashing Machine, on Monday at the Venice Film Festival. The story of legendary Mma fighter Mark Kerr (also in attendance) received a 15 1/12-minute ovation after its world premiere screening.

Johnson, in Venice for the first time, plays Kerr in the A24 wrestling drama that centers on an icon from the no-holds-barred era of the UFC as he struggles with addiction, winning, love and friendship at the peak of his career. Blunt plays Kerr’s girlfriend, Dawn Staples, with Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten and Oleksandr Usyk rounding out the cast.

There was emotion all around when the lights came up tonight, as Johnson, Blunt, Safdie and Kerr shared warm embraces.

The audience was effusive in its applause and woot woots — and so were some famous guests, including Seth Rogen who has been snapping photos of the team all day,...

After years of retirement and general seclusion, Kim Novak returned to the public eye as a presenter at the Oscars in 2014 — a welcome surprise for classic film buffs and a vicious snarking opportunity for tabloid media and social media’s worst, including one Donald Trump, who seized on the 81-year-old star’s physical appearance and vocal delivery with crushing cruelty.

For Novak, who hit back with a comparatively gracious statement against bullying and ageism, it was proof that Hollywood misogyny endures decades after her 1950s heyday — and perhaps a reminder of why she took early leave of the industry in the first place. She doesn’t bring up the matter in “Kim Novak’s Vertigo,” and one hopes she doesn’t think of it much. But her legacy, and sentiments binding past and present, are much on her mind in Alexandre O. Philippe’s warmly conversational documentary portrait.

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Kim Novak received an honorary Golden Lion career achievement award at the 82nd Venice Film Festival on Monday, and the actress, best known for her work in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece “Vertigo,” used the platform to express her concern over what is happening in the world right now.

“I feel like one of the reasons I’m here is to help inspire as many people as possible that think their freedom matters, and that their lives matter, and their rights matter and truth matters,” Novak said. “I’ve got to say that for all the democracies in our world, that we need to come in together and work together and...

Shown out of competition in Venice in conjunction with the festival giving a lifetime achievement award to its 92-years-young titular subject, documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo is essentially a cinematic fan letter, written with love but chock full of gushing, purple prose, some of it by the subject herself.

Swiss filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe is already known for his essayistic celebrations of auteurs and their masterworks, including Lynch/Oz, Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist and The People Vs. George Lucas. He may take writing, directing and co-producing credits here, and appears onscreen as Novak’s interviewer, but it’s Novak who feels like the one who’s largely in charge.

That commitment to seeing the world through Novak’s eyes comes with a certain price in credibility. However much you might admire her as an actor, especially for her most famous and justly celebrated performance in Vertigo...

“Vertigo” star Kim Novak was honored with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where the reclusive Hollywood diva made her first public appearance in decades since leaving the limelight in the mid 1960s.

She was welcomed with a warm protracted ovation before Guillermo del Toro took the stage to deliver a glowing tribute.

Novak, 92, became the world’s top box office draw during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s thanks to films now considered classics such as Joshua Logan’s “Picnic” (1955), Otto Preminger’s “The Man with the Golden Arm” (1955), George Sidney’s Pal Joey (1957) and, of course, Alfred Hitchock’s “Vertigo” (1958), in which she plays dual characters in the role of her lifetime.

After listing the top directors Novak worked with, del Toro singled out the single aspects of her career that struck him the most: “Most impressive is the fact that...

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An intensely personal interview of the 92-year-old Hollywood star delivers showstopping moments for fans of the golden age of movies

At 92 years old, Hollywood movie star Kim Novak – legendary of course for her doppelganger starring role in Hitchcock’s Vertigo – is a vivid and, in fact, yearningly romantic and demanding presence in this gallant, cinephile documentary-interview filmed by director and Novak superfan Alexandre O Philippe. She is one of the very few golden age stars still with us, and maybe the title of this film is a playful pun: at the very apex of Hollywood history, perhaps Novak feels dizzy looking down from her mythic height.

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“The ghost of Alfred Hitchcock was undeniably present during the making of this film,” says a note in the closing credits of Alexandre O. Philippe’s latest artisanal documentary, Kim Novak’s Vertigo. For once, though, the film’s subject has nothing but affection for the late master of suspense, clearly having fared better than Tippi Hedren did in the pantheon of Hitchcock blondes. Indeed, the 92-year-old sees their one and only collaboration — on 1958’s celebrated thriller Vertigo — as the highlight of her movie career, which opened with a bang and ended with a slow fade after she willfully absented herself from Hollywood (she now lives in Oregon).

Philippe tells that story in a roundabout way; like some of his previous films, Kim Novak’s Vertigo is all about subtext and nuance as opposed to any kind of objective truth.

“Kim Novak’s Vertigo” has one of the more heartwarming and, frankly, historically significant, codas to a film-focused documentary in recent memory. It’s such a special moment that it mostly justifies the way the film has been assembled before it.

Until then, it’s quite an uneven and unstructured cinematic portrait, and one of the weaker efforts from its director Alexandre O. Philippe. The Swiss-born cinephile has become a kind of cross between Laurent Bouzereau and Mark Cousins with his succession of documentaries about iconic films and film subjects.

Novak is certainly a worthy subject for a documentary. She’s not only the last survivor of the film that many consider the greatest ever made, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” but she is the nexus of obsession in a film about obsession that has inspired so much obsession in the 67 years since its release itself. At 92, her star power is as grand and magnificent as ever.

Vertigo star Kim Novak is voicing her concerns about Sydney Sweeney's upcoming biopic about her life. The Old Hollywood actress has one major gripe with the film.

Novak, known for her dual roles in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from 1958, revealed that her main issue with the upcoming film is its title. Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Novak shared her complaint about the film, which will be titled Scandalous! "I don’t think the relationship [with Sammy Davis Jr.] was scandalous," Novak said. "He’s somebody I really cared about. We had so much in common, including that need to be accepted for who we are and what we do,...

Kim Novak decided to walk away from Hollywood in 1966, at the height of her fame, because it felt like the right thing to do. The screen legend, now 92, also trusted her instincts last year when director Alexandre O. Philippe asked her to be the subject of a documentary.

“I felt somehow that it was meant to be,” says Novak.

Philippe’s doc “Kim Novak’s Vertigo” blends rare archival footage with personal reflections from Novak to trace her path from mid-century cinema icon to a fiercely private artist.

“I thought it was a good idea to make [this film] in a way because it was a chance to wrap up my life,” says Novak. “Like you would in a confessional, I expressed the things that mattered and meant something to my life.”

The film debuted Sept. 1 at the Venice Film Festival, where Novak will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

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Kim Novak, the cinematic queen from the 1950s and ’60s, is getting an upcoming biopic, which will dramatise her interracial affair with Sammy Davis Jr., with Sydney Sweeney playing her role. But Novak has recently voiced her concerns about how the movie will handle that particular relationship that has been deemed ‘scandalous’ in many aspects.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, she expressed her worries and take on the matter, sharing,

I don’t think the relationship was scandalous. He’s somebody I really cared about. We had so much in common, including that need to be accepted for who we are and what we do, rather than how we look.

Exclusive: Decades after her work in Vertigo, Picnic and Bell Book and Candle made her Hollywood’s biggest and most glamorous star, Kim Novak today came back for another closeup as the Venice Film Festival honored her with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The festival is also screening Kim Novak’s Vertigo, a documentary by Alexandre Philippe about a career that ended when she made the decision she’d had enough of the movie game. It is amusing how smitten that director clearly is with Novak, but after an hour on the phone with her, I too fell under her spell. After I told her to bring mosquito spray to Venice, she asked me about myself, and was soon counseling me on life in general and how best to help my 90-year old mother transition from a lonely apartment to an assisted living facility that might make her feel part of a community.

Sydney Sweeney's upcoming biopic Scandalous! will depict the life of screen legend Kim Novak, and Novak herself is now raising concerns about how the movie will handle her scandalous relationship with a fellow Hollywood star.

Novak became an icon thanks to her performances in movies like Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. She also became an object of fascination for gossip rags, thanks to her off-screen relationships with the likes of Frank Sinatra.

Then there was Novak’s affair with Black entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., which the pair managed to keep secret from the press. Unfortunately, they couldn’t keep their secret from Columbia chief Harry Cohn, who threatened violence against...

Kim Novak, one of the most iconic actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, is speaking out about the upcoming biopic that dramatizes her brief but deeply personal relationship with Rat Pack legend Sammy Davis Jr. In a new interview, the Vertigo star revealed she is uneasy with the direction of the film, particularly its provocative title: Scandalous! It's the latest issue for Sydney Sweeney, who seems to attract attention wherever she goes. “I don’t think the relationship was scandalous,” Novak said. “He’s somebody I really cared about. We had so much in common, including that need to be accepted for who we are and what we do, rather than how we look.

Kim Novak, the actress synonymous with the Golden Age of Hollywood, particularly for her dual roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s formative Vertigo, said she is “concerned” about the forthcoming biopic dramatizing her relationship with multi-hyphenate Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr.

In a new interview with The Guardian, the Pal Joey star said she takes issue with the film’s title: Scandalous!

“I don’t think the relationship was scandalous,” she told the publication. “He’s somebody I really cared about. We had so much in common, including that need to be accepted for who we are and what we do, rather than how we look. But I’m concerned they’re going to make it all sexual reasons.”

Novak and Davis Jr. first met in 1956, when they both appeared as guests on The Steve Allen Show. Afterward, the two began a secret relationship, given the time period’s constraints:...

Kim Novak is worried about how her life will be portrayed in her upcoming biopic.

The 92-year-old actress recently spoke to The Guardian about Scandalous, the upcoming biopic starring Sydney Sweeney.

According to Kim, she’s concerned that the title might give people the wrong idea about Kim‘s life and romance with Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1950s.

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Kim told the publication that she takes issue with the title of the moving, saying she doesn’t feel it’s entirely accurate to that time of her life.

“I don’t think the relationship was scandalous. He’s somebody I really cared about. We had so much in common,...

One of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era, 92-year-old says prize as much about her refusal to be controlled as her on-screen performances

She was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for decades Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived a life of quiet seclusion. Now, at the age of 92, one of the last of the great, glamorous movie stars of Hollywood’s golden era is back in the spotlight. She is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice film festival, where a documentary about her life and career, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, is premiering.

For Novak,...

Among historic piazzas and winding canals, the 82nd Venice Film Festival kicks off tonight on the Lido di Venezia with the Opening Ceremony and the world premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia.

The film’s red carpet event was a star-studded affair, with attendees including the film’s stars Anna Ferzetti and Toni Servillo, director Paolo Sorrentino, and guests such as Francis Ford Coppola, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton.

Plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, but it has been described as a love story set in Italy. The film stars Sorrentino’s frequent collaborator Toni Servillo, and the cast also includes Anna Ferzetti and Massimo Venturiello. La Grazia marks Sorrentino’s return to the Venice Film Festival after his film, The Hand of God, won the Grand Jury Prize in 2021.

This year, the festival will bestow its prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement upon two...

Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t have a film premiering in Venice this year, but the 86-year-old Oscar winner is duly present for the 82nd edition. His pal Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes portrait “Megadoc,” about the production of Coppola’s 2024 cinematic cause célèbre “Megalopolis,” debuts out of competition this week. And at the festival’s opening ceremony Wednesday night, Coppola took to the dais to champion his longtime friend, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog, recipient of the festival’s honorary Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. (“Vertigo” icon Kim Novak will also receive one later this week.)

Herzog’s new film “Ghost Elephants,” about an elusive herd of the Angolan creatures, debuts in Venice this week as part of the festival’s robust documentary slate, which also includes new films from Laura Poitras and Sofia Coppola.

“One must celebrate that someone like him can exist,” said Coppola of Herzog, the 82-year-old documentary and...

Back when "Twin Peaks" season 1 was first airing, the biggest surprise for everyone was how much material the show was giving Sheryl Lee. Her character was Laura Palmer, introduced as a corpse in the pilot. Outside of a few minor flashbacks, the real Laura remains up to the viewer's imagination throughout the season, with us assuming her personality through the way her friends and family remember her. 

It was a pretty standard, thankless "dead mystery girl" role for Lee, which is why she wasn't expecting to be called back after the first episode. In a 2016 interview Lee recalled: 

"After we shot the pilot, I stayed in Seattle and kept doing theater.

Pamela Anderson will be honored with a career achievement tribute at the 51st Deauville American Film Festival.

The actor, whose latest film, Paramount’s “Naked Gun” reboot (in which she stars opposite Liam Neeson) is currently in theaters, will receive the Deauville Talent Award on opening night of the festival, on Sept. 5. She will succeed to previous Deauville honorees including Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams, as well as Michael Douglas.

Since her critically acclaimed acting comeback in “The Last Showgirl” last year, Anderson has been lining up buzzy projects with renowned international auteurs. She’ll next be seen in “Rosebush Pruning” by Karim Aïnouz, “Place to Be” by Kornél Mundruczó, “Alma” by Sally Potter, and “Love Is Not the Answer,” Michael Cera’s feature debut.

Anderson will be celebrated for combining “her work as an actress with a passionate commitment to philanthropy and advocacy, leaving a lasting mark on the cultural imagination,...

There is no doubt that the original 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre haunted people’s minds ever since its premiere. Along with The Exorcist, it’s regarded as one of the most disturbing horror movies in history. It’s so impactful that people have been under the impression that the film is more gory than it actually is. Tobe Hooper’s direction makes you feel the southern heat and famous fans of the film illustrate just how much it changed cinema in the new documentary Chain Reactions. Dark Sky Films has just passed along the trailer, which features interviews from Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller- Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama.

Documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe (Memory: The Origins of Alien) takes a unique approach with his upcoming documentary Chain Reactions, exploring the lasting impact of a horror classic.

Chain Reactions opens in NYC & LA on September 19 before expanding nationwide on September 26.

In the documentary, “Fifty years after Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre shocked the world and forever changed the face of global cinema and popular culture, Chain Reactions charts the film’s profound impact and lasting influence on five great artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller- Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama – through early memories, sensory experiences, and childhood trauma. By crafting a dynamic dialogue between contemporary...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Collection gathers 15 films by Alfred Hitchcock (1942–1976) in a 15-disc 4K Blu-ray set from Universal, arriving Oct 14. Titles include Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds and Family Plot. Featuring principal performers such as James Stewart, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery and Kim Novak. The films are presented on 4K Blu-ray with High Dynamic Range (HDR10) and for The Man Who Knew Too Much, the original Perspecta audio track is used. Inside there will be a beautifully produced 64-page collectible booklet with storyboards, photographs and archival materials. The set is packed with...

The Venice Film Festival has announced a series of masterclasses and onstage conversations featuring Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón and Werner Herzog, among other prominent auteurs.

There will be five masterclasses on the Lido including German filmmaker Herzog, who will receive one of this year’s Golden Lions for lifetime achievement and will present his latest work “Ghost Elephants”; legendary U.S. actress Kim Novak (“Vertigo”) who is also being feted with a lifetime achievement Golden Lion this year and will be featured in the documentary “Kim Novak’s Vertigo”; Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, who won the Golden Lion for best film in 2006 for “Still Life”; Romanian director Cristian Mungiu; and Taiwanese helmer Tsai Ming-liang.

Additionally, the festival is hosting four conversations as part of an event organized by Cartier called “The Art and Craft of Cinema,” which is in collaboration with the fest’s parent organization La Biennale. These...

Dan Tana, the erstwhile actor-turned-restaurateur whose eponymous West Hollywood eatery was a hotspot for celebrities for the past half century, has died at the age of 90, the restaurant’s staff announced on Facebook.

“The great Dan Tana has passed on,” the post read. “We all know that he created a very magical place. Our beloved little yellow house will forever feel his presence.”

“Dan started out working for La Scala and The Villa Capri in the 1950s. It was working for those classic eateries that encouraged him to open his own! And he did just that. He was always proud of where he came from and what he accomplished, a former soccer star from Yugoslavia,” the statement continued.

“Dan had wonderful stories about Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio, James Dean, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis. In fact Robert Urich’s character was named after Dan Tana on the classic TV show,...

There is a specific smile that David Jonsson has in his repertoire: head slightly bowed, eyes looking upwards, mouth lopsided at the corners. It is shy but suave; friendly but full of secrets. He is an actor who can be relied upon to bring a strange other-worldliness to every role he plays.

At 31, Jonsson is best known as old-Etonian investment banker Gus in the zeitgeist-y HBO series Industry, south London “sad-boi” Dom in 2023’s much-beloved romcom Rye Lane, and Andy, an AI ‘stimulant’ with more heart than most humans, in Alien: Romulus. Such character types might have felt over-familiar in another actor’s hands, but through Jonsson’s rare qualities, they are reinvigorated almost beyond recognition.

This February, audiences declared themselves smitten, honouring him with the BAFTA Rising Star Award. His acceptance speech displayed that combination of sparkling social intelligence and inner calm which, in conversation, grants Jonsson an uncanny...

Wednesday fans: Do you miss Principal Weems? Well, you just might be in luck.

Nevermore Academy’s former principal — a shapeshifter, who was once roommates with Wednesday’s mom (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and died at the end of Season One — returns in the new trailer for Wednesday Season Two, Part Two.

Weems, played by Gwendoline Christie, appears in the clip as Wednesday’s new “spirit guide.” She greets Jenna Ortega’s character in a hospital bed as she says, “Rise and shine, sleepy head! Ready for your sponge bath?” No one...

Sydney Sweeney is one of the most popular actors right now. Whether it's the anticipation for Euphoria Season 3, the newly released Echo Valley with Ridley Scott as a producer, or her viral American Eagle ad campaign, she is constantly in the headlines.

Sweeney's latest project, Americana, is set to premiere in theaters on Aug. 15. The movie's release had been long awaited, as the crime thriller had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Festival in 2023. Ahead of its official release,Americana has debuted with an encouraging 82% approval score from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Image Credit: LionsGate.

The modern-day Western follows a series of people from a town in South Dakota fighting over an expensive artifact. The official synopsis for Americana details, "After the artifact falls onto the black market, a shy waitress with big dreams teams up with a lovelorn military veteran to gain possession of it,...

Dos presencias españolas, ‘Extraño Río’ y ‘Calle Málaga’, en la programación de la Biennale.

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Ayer se desveló la impresionante programación de la 82 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, que se celebra del 27 de agosto al 6 de septiembre. Una selección potente, con claro protagonismo del cine en lengua inglesa, que busca posicionar a Venecia como la antesala decisiva de la temporada de premios. No es un gesto gratuito: Anora, ganadora en Cannes el año pasado, acabó llevándose el Óscar a la Mejor Película. Y ahora, todos miran a la Mostra como el próximo trampolín. Así, en la competición por el León de Oro hay nombres de peso como Guillermo del Toro, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, Park Chan-wook, o Benny Safdie. La riqueza de la programación se extiende también a las secciones paralelas y fuera de competición. En ellas se presentarán, entre otros, los nuevos trabajos de...

The lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, with the likes of Giullermo del Toro, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and Yorgos Lanthimos all competing for the coveted Golden Lion.

Here is the full lineup of 20 films in competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival:

Ballad of a Small Player, Edward Berger

Below the Clouds, Gianfranco Rosi

Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos

Duse, Pietro Marcello

Elisa Leonardo Di Costanzo

Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro

The Grace, Paolo Sorrentino

A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow

Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach

Mother Bhum, Chong Keat Aun

No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook

A Pied D’Oeuvre, Valerie Donzelli

Silent Friend, Ildiko Enyedi

The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie

The Stranger, François Ozon

The Sin Rises on Us All, Cai Shangjun

The Testament of Ann Lee, Mona Fastvoid

The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben...

The Venice Film Festival is back on the Lido for its 82nd edition, kicking off August 27-September 6. The packed lineup of auteur premieres heading to Italy include new films from Olivier Assayas, Guillermo del Toro, Mona Fastvold, Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Baumbach, Yorgos Lanthimos, Benny Safdie, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, László Nemes, François Ozon, Pietro Marcello, and many more in competition.

Out of competition, we’ll see new films from Luca Guadagnino (“After the Hunt”), Werner Herzog (“Ghost Elephants”), Sofia Coppola (Marc Jacobs documentary “Marc by Sofia”), Charlie Kaufman (the short “How to Shoot a Ghost”), Julian Schnabel (“In the Hand of Dante”), Gus Van Sant (“Dead Man’s Wire”), Laura Poitras (“Cover-Up”), Lucrecia Martel (“Nuestra Tierra”), and Tsai Ming-liang (“Back Home”)

Artistic director Alberto Barbera’s programmers had already unveiled a wave of announcements before Tuesday’s lineup: Alexander Payne heads up the jury, Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” opens the festival Italian-style,...

Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Tuesday morning, when he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs August 27-September 6.

The lineup is expansive, with big names and arthouse darlings sprinkled across the festival’s strands, even including the shorts program.

High-profile titles include Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny. Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. The film will screen Out of Competition on Guadagnino and Amazon MGM Studios’ request, Barbera explained during the presser.

Elsewhere, in Competition we have Jay Kelly, the latest film Noah Baumbach has made for Netflix. The...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” are heading to the Lido for their world premieres at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

At a press conference in Venice on Tuesday morning, the announcement of those and other titles was made by Alberto Barbera, Director of the Cinema Department and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, president of La Biennale di Venezia.

Other films in the Venice main competition include new work from Paolo Sorrentino (“La Grazia”), Jim Jarmusch (“Father Mother Sister Brother”), Laszlo Nemes (“Orphan”), Park Chan-wook

“Sermon to the Void,” Hilal Baydarov

“L’Isola di Andrea,” Antonio Capuano

“Il Maestro,” Andrea Di Stefano

“After the Hunt,” Luca Guadagnino

“Hateshinaki Scarlet,” Mamoru Hosoda

“The Last Viking,” Anders Thomas Jensen

“In the Hand of Dante,” Julian Schnabel

“Dead Man’s Wire,” Gus Van Sant

“Orfeo,” Virgilio Villoresi

Out of Competition – Non Fiction

“Kabul,...

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, and Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt are among the films selected for the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27 - September 6).

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The first two are among 21 Competition titles, with further Competition entries including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney, Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard Of The Kremlin starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, Mona Fastvold’s The Testament Of Ann Lee, and Guillermo del Toro’sFrankenstein starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.

The selection was announced by artistic director Alberto Barbera,...

The line-up for the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27-September 9) is being unveiled today at 11:00 Cest (10:00 BST) by festival president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and artistic director Alberto Barbera.

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The press conference is live-streamed above, and this page will be updated with the films as they are announced.Refresh page for latest updates.

Alexander Payne will preside over the jury, which also includes Mohammad Rasoulof, Fernanda Torres, Stephane Brize, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu and Zhao Tao. Julia Ducournau will chair the Horizons jury.

The Venice Critics’ Week line-up was announced yesterday.

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