Venice Film Festival

The 82nd Venice Film Festival may be over, but the conversations on the films that premiered, the things people said, the clothes they wore, and how it affects the Oscar race are still going.

Jim Jarmusch, acclaimed filmmaker of “Stranger than Paradise” and “Broken Flowers,” expressed disappointment in the independent distribution company Mubi for its ties to the Israeli military.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — As the Venice Film Festival kicks off this week, activists hope to redirect the spotlight from the Hollywood stars arriving on the Lido to Gaza, with an anti-war demonstration planned for one of the festival’s biggest nights.

VENICE, Italy — “The Room Next Door,” Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, topped the Venice Film Festival and was awarded its Golden Lion award Saturday.

Actress Cate Blanchett says she believes “There’s a distinct lack of shame in society” today, suggesting that shame can be useful, as “the lessons one can learn from that are very powerful.”

“Alien” star Sigourney Weaver started crying during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Wednesday when a reporter asked about her character Ripley being a possible inspiration for Kamala Harris — who has yet to hold a press conference since being installed as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay is claiming that black filmmakers get discouraged from entering international film festivals because people outside the United States don’t care about their stories.

Director Wes Anderson came out strongly against moves to alter Roald Dahl books to conform with modern woke sensibilities.

Hollywood star Adam Driver has publicly slammed streaming video giants Netflix and Amazon for refusing to meet the demands of striking actors — while praising the independent backers of his new movie Ferrari, acclaimed director Michael Mann’s first film in nearly a decade.

The 80th annual Venice Film Festival in Italy is refusing to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan for the third year in a row.

Nolte: The prestigious Venice Film Festival will welcome new features from Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Luc Besson.

Director Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Whale is being accused of “fatphobia” for casting actor Brendan Fraser as an overweight gay man.

Oscar-winning Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras has slammed the Toronto and Venice film festivals for hosting Hillary Clinton on their red carpets, saying festival organizers are complicit in whitewashing Hillary’s political record of war mongering.

The new film Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet as a bone-crunching, bi-sexual cannibal was greeted with an 8.5-minute standing ovation on debut Friday night at the Venice Film Festival.

Former First Lady and twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was roasted on social media over the attire she was seen wearing on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival. “Lock her up for this outfit alone,” one Twitter user proclaimed.

This year’s Venice Film Festival in Italy, which kicks off Wednesday, features two movies in the official competition that have transgender protagonists — including a 12-year-old girl who believes she is a boy.

For the second year in a row, the Venice Film Festival in Italy is siding with China by erasing the existence of Taiwan, with the festival’s official programming referring to the independent country as “Taipei,” the capital city.

The 78th Venice Film Festival in Italy awarded its top prize to the pro-abortion French film Happening ( L’Événement), with the creative team proclaiming the movie to be “a tribute to those women who fought for the right to abortion.”

Dune director Denis Villeneuve launched a climate change rant at the Venice Film Festival following the Warner Bros. film’s premiere, saying, “future generations will judge us.” The director’s comments come after he and a throng of Hollywood celebrities landed in Venice, Italy for the glitzy event. The carbon footprint to shoot the $160 million feature film in a half dozen countries over the course of several months, however, went unmentioned. 

The 78th Venice Film Festival in Italy is refusing to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan, referring to the country as “Chinese Taipei” or simply “Taipei” — which is Taiwan’s capital city — on its official site.

Venice (AFP) – Several hundred protesters demanding the authorities ban huge cruise ships they say threaten one of the world’s most historic cities targeted the Venice film festival Saturday to make their point.

Shawshank Redemption director Tim Robbins spoke about his campaign for prison reform at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, arguing that new measures will help foster both a “safer and more humane society.”

Spike Lee did the right thing standing up Nate Parker, standing up to these hideous wokesters, and I salute him for that.