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2413 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

Podeswa moves between Canada and Europe

Eight years after The Five Senses (presented in the Directors’ Fortnight), and after much television work (from The L World to Six Feet Under), Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa is back on the big...  

20/10/2007 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Opener Second Breath speaks of the gangster underworld and lost honour

It is with a vertiginous leap into the void that the competition of the second international RomeFilmFest opened today: a leap taken by Daniel Auteuil (as Gu, a dangerous gangster with sad eyes)...  

18/10/2007 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Greenaway paints his Rembrandt

Sixteen years after Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway returns to compete at the Lido. Judging by the enthusiasm with which the first screenings were greeted, his latest film seems likely to please...  

07/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Marra’s contemporary gold rush

The last Italian competition title to premiere at the Venice Film Festival is Vincenzo Marra’s L’ora di punta ("Rush Hour"), a corruption drama set in Rome. The film stars newcomers Michele...  

06/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

The Big City Life of Guerín

En la ciudad de Sylvia by director José Luis Guerín (En construcción) is the first of several Spanish titles screening at the Venice Film Festival, with upcoming titles including Die Stille vor...  

05/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Porporati’s bittersweet Mafia

Seven years after his feature film debut as a Mafia victim in Giordana’s I cento passi, Italian actor Luigi Lo Cascio returns to the world of organized crime in his native Sicily with Andrea...  

04/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Kechiche’s Grain of Life

Tunis-born French director Abdellatif Kechiche presented his long-awaited new feature La Graine et le mulet on the Venetian Lido as part of the Official Competition. His previous film, L’esquive...  

03/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Loach’s Land of Freedom

After wining the Palme d’Or in Cannes for his historical war drama The Wind that Shakes the Barley, UK filmmaker Ken Loach returns to the present and his social filmmaking roots for his Venice...  

02/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Fallen Heroes: A noir as black as night

Fallen Heroes: A noir as black as night

The first Italian title screened in Competition at the ongoing Venice Film Festival is Paolo Franchi’s Fallen Heroes, a follow-up to his acclaimed debut La spettatrice from 2004. Whereas the...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

Rohmer's breath of fresh air

"Dear Marco, Venice has already honoured many of my films and I've also been awarded a Golden Lion for Career Achievement. I would not want people to think that my intention was to collect as many...  

01/09/2007 | Venice 2007 | Competition

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