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New works by the Coen brothers, Paul Greengrass and Alfonso Cuaron, will be world premiered at the Venice Film Festival, part of an impressive list of promising candidates, embracing Netflix wholeheartedly and promising power star Lido
Artistic director of Venice, Alberto Barbera, has unveiled at least four Netflix originals on the festival's list at a press conference Wednesday in Rome: Joel's New Western and Ethan Coen , "The Scruggs Buster Ballad"; Greengrass "July 22" (formerly titled "Norway"), about the horrific terrorist attack of 2011 in and around Oslo that killed 77 people; "Roma" by Cuaron, the return of Oscar-winning director to Spanish cinema; In addition to Netflix's films, the program of the 75th edition of Venice features prestigious titles from traditional studios and independent Hollywood players, and confirms the success of the festival. solid reputation as an important springboard for rewards. Several award-winning films "Gravity", "Spotlight" and "The Shape of Water" have all been released from Lido in recent years.
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As revealed by Variety Universal "First Man", directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong, will open the festival on August 29th. Chazelle will return to Lido after opening the festival in 2016 with "La La Land", which has won six Oscars.
Warner Bros. remake of "A Star Is Born" (photo), directed by and with Bradley Cooper alongside Lady Gaga, will be "First Man" and "A Star is Born" lead a robust US contingent that also includes Mel Gibson-Vince Vaughn's crime drama "Dragged Across Concrete" (out of competition), directed by Lionsgate's S. Craig Zahler, and the "Vox Lux" competition title, in which Natalie Portman plays a pop star at the turn of the century, directed by Brady Corbet, from the Independent Bold Films.
Julian Schnabel's "At Eternity's Gate," Willem Dafoe interprets Vincent van Go gh, and represents an attempt to break into Inside the head of the tortured painter, says Barbera.
Other titles of the United States include Jacques Audiard's first English film, "The Sister Brothers", a comic western with Jake Gyllenhaal and Joaquin, Phenix, and Yorgos Lanthimos' play "The Favorite", with Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. "The Favorite", staged in 18th century England and embellished with the black humor of the Greek filmmaker "The Lobster" and "The Killing of a Sacred Deer", is from Fox Searchlight .
Amazon Studios launches Luca The appalling suspense remake of Guadagnino's "Suspiria", starring Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson. Barbera called it the most ambitious film of Guadagnino at the moment
British director Mike Leigh bows in front of political costume designer "Peterloo", in competition. Oscar-winning German filmmaker Florian Von Donnermarck ("The lives of others") competes with the psychological thriller "Work Without Author" in the context of Germany's recent history. The "Sunset" of the Hungarian driver Laszlo Nemes, followed by his dazzling "Son of Saul", which won the 2016 Oscar in foreign language, is also in the running for a Golden Lion. "Sunset" takes place in Budapest in 1913 while the city was considered the cultural capital of Europe.
The Coen Brothers' "Buster Scruggs" was originally conceived as a television series. Performed by Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco and Liam Neeson, the episodic film was produced for Netflix by Annapurna Pictures, the growing independent production company of Megan Ellison
"Roma", a black and white film of the director "Gravity "Cuaron, is an autobiographical drama about a middle-class family in Mexico City in 1970.
John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich, the unfinished project of a director on the way back, went into production there is nearly half a century. Its completion is overseen by producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza.
Variety previously reported, HBO will unveil "My Brilliant Friend", his television series based on the first of four authors of Elena Ferrante "The Neapolitan novels". The show, produced by Wildside and Fandango for HBO, Rai Fiction, and TimVision, marks HBO's first foray into foreign-language production, as well as the debut of Italian director Saverio Costanzo's television series
Malick travels to Venice for a special screening of an extended version of his film "The Tree of Life," said Barbera. At a little over three hours, movie stars Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn in 2011.
The festival also features a competitive virtual reality section.
Helmer Guillermo Del Toro will chair "The Shape of Water" jury of this year
FESTIVAL OF THE VENICE FILM IN COMPETITION
"First Man", Damien Chazelle (United States)
"The Mountain", Rick Alverson (United States)
"Doubles Lives," Olivier Assayas (France)
"The Brothers Sisters", Jacques Audiard (France, Belgium, Romania, Spain)
"Scruggs Buster Ballad", Ethan and Joel Coen (United States)
"Vox Lux," Brady Corbet (United States)
"Roma", Alfonso Cuaron (Mexico)
"July 22 ", Paul Greengrass (Norway, Island)
" Suspiria ", Luca Guadagnino (Italy)
" Work Ohne Autor ", Florian Henkel Von Donnersmark (Germany)
" The Nightingale, "Jennifer Kent (Australia)
"Favorit e," Yorgos Lanthimos (United States)
"Peterloo", Mike Leigh (United Kingdom, United States)
"Capri-Revolution", Mario Martone (Italy, France)
"What are you going to do Fire? ", Roberto Minervini (Italy, United States, France)
" Sunset ", Laszlo Nemes (Hungary, France)
" Enemy Brothers ", David Oelhoffen (France, Belgium)
" Neustro Tiempo "Carlos Reygadas (Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden)
" At the Gate of Eternity ", Julian Schnabel (United States, France)
" Killing ", Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan) [19659011] OUT OF COMPETITION
SPECIAL EVENT
"The Other Side of the Wind", Orson Welles (United States)
"They m & # 39; will love when I am dead ", Morgan Neville (United States)
SPECIAL EDITION
" My brilliant friend ", Saverio Costanzo (Italy, Belgium)
" Il Diario Di Angela -Ni Due Cineasti "Yervant Gianikian (Italy) [19659002] FICTION
" Una Storia Senza Nome ", Roberto Andò (Italy)
" The Estivants ", Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (France, Italy)
"A star is born" Bradley Cooper (United States)
"Mi Obra Maestra", Gaston Duprat (Argentina, Spain)
"A tramway in Jerusalem", Amos Gitai
"A People and His King ", Pierre Schoeller (France, Belgium)
" La Quietud ", Pablo Trapero (Argentina)
" Dragged on concrete ", S. Craig Zahler (United States)
" Shadow ", Zhang Yimou (China)
NON-FICTION
"A Letter to a Friend in Gaza", Amos Gitai (Israel)
"Aquarela", Victor Kossakovsky (United Kingdom, Germany )
"El Pepe, Una Vida Suprema," Emir Kusturica (Argentina, Uruguay, Serbia)
"Process", Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands)
"Carmine Street Guitars", Ron Mann (Canada)
"Isis, Tomorrow. The lost souls of Mosul, "Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi (Italy, Germany)
" American Dharma ", Errol Morris (United States, United Kingdom)
" Introduzione All "Oscuro", Gaston Solnicki (Argentina, Austria)
"1938 Diversi", Giorgio Treves (Italy)
"Your Face", Tsai Ming-Liang (Chinese Taipei)
"Monrovia, Indiana," Frederick Wieseman
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