2010 Venice Film Festival

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Venice lineup:

“Attenberg,” Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
“Barney’s Version,” Richard J. Lewis, Canada/Italy
“Black Swan,” Darren Aronofsky, USA
“Black Venus,” Abdellatif Kechiche, France
“Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame,” Tsui Hark, China
“Happy Few,” Antony Cordier, France
“Meek’s Cutoff,” Kelly Reichardt, USA
“Miral,” Julian Schnabel, USA/France/Italy/Israel
“Noi Credevamo,” Mario Martone, Italy
“Norwegian Wood,” Anh Hung Tran, Japan
“La Passione,” Carlo Mazzacurati, Italy
“La Pecora Nera,” Ascanio Celestini, Italy
“Post Mortem,” Pablo Lerrain, Chile
“Potiche,” Francois Ozon, France
“Promises Written in Water,” Vincent Gallo, USA
“Road to Nowhere,” Monte Hellman, USA
“A Sad Trumpet Ballad,” Ã�lex de la Iglesia, Spain
“Silent Souls,” Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia
“The Solitude of Prime Numbers,” Saverio Costanzo, Italy
“Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola, USA
“13 Assassins,” Takashi Miike, Japan
“Three,” Tom Tykwer, Germany

The King's Speech and The Tempest are apparently out of competition.

[Ezee E]

New Monte Hellman huh? Interesting.

[B-side]

New Monte Hellman huh? Interesting.

:D

I'm excited.

[Ezee E]

Haha. And new Vincent Gallo.

[B-side]

Haha. And new Vincent Gallo.

Part of the reason that, despite the absence of Ruiz in the Venice festival, I'm tempted to say it looks more promising than TIFF.

[Boner M]

Shannyn Sossamon's the lead in the Hellman flick. Hubba hubba.

[MacGuffin]

So... is anybody going?

Boner, are you a fan of The Rules of Attraction?

[Boner M]

Boner, are you a fan of The Rules of Attraction?
No.

[Ezee E]

Better have deep pockets if you plan on attending. Beyond the price of actually getting to Venice, these are the prices of tickets:

• TICKET PRICES
Sala Grande
11 a.m. € 12
3 p.m. € 12
5 p.m € 15
7:30 p.m. € 40
10 p.m. € 30
midnight € 15

Don't even bother with the other options, you can't afford it.


Passes for the Sala Grande
For films screening in the Venezia 67, Out of Competition, Orizzonti and Controcampo Italiano sections:
afternoon € 150
evening 1:
stalls € 450
balcony € 1.400
evening 2: € 280
midnight € 60

I wonder if they screen anything on St. Mark's Square. That would be unbelievable.

[Winston*]

Think if you spend the money to go to Venice there are much better things you could be doing with your time than watching a bunch of movies.

[Ezee E]

Think if you spend the money to go to Venice there are much better things you could be doing with your time than watching a bunch of movies.
Agreed. And I'll bet you'll get lost in your search for the theater anyway.

[baby doll]

New films by Vincent Gallo, Pablo LarraÃ*n, and Tran Anh Hung: Fuck yeah!

New film by Sofia Coppola: Marie Antoinette was on my top ten for the decade, but I'm still not convinced it just wasn't some kind of magnificent fluke.

[soitgoes...]

New films by... Tran Anh Hung: Fuck yeah!Maybe you should see his previous film before getting all pumped for this one. My excitement for a new Tran film has dwindled.

[baby doll]

Maybe you should see his previous film before getting all pumped for this one. My excitement for a new Tran film has dwindled.That's true, I haven't seen I Come With the Rain, but Cyclo and The Vertical Ray of the Sun are both amazing.

[Derek]

but Cyclo and The Vertical Ray of the Sun are both amazing.

Have you not The Scent of Green Papaya? It's equally amazing.

At least Norwegian Wood isn't in English. I wonder if that was part of the problem with I Come With the Rain, along with having Josh Hartnett in the lead.

[baby doll]

Have you not The Scent of Green Papaya? It's equally amazing.

At least Norwegian Wood isn't in English. I wonder if that was part of the problem with I Come With the Rain, along with having Josh Hartnett in the lead.I saw it once on VHS in 2002.

[Sxottlan]

Machete is the opening night Midnight movie.

[dmk]

I love I Come With the Rain. An extremely beautiful mess, I think.

[soitgoes...]

I love I Come With the Rain. An extremely beautiful mess, I think.Ugh. Yes, I suppose it's beautiful, but it's also pretty close to incoherent. And the acting! The fact that Hartnett does perhaps the best work in the film, speaks volumes. Of course I did say this about the film:

As I said in its thread, this is the type of film that some people will love, and this love will leave me wondering "How?"
So I guess I wasn't too far off.

[B-side]

dmk's weird. He's like me, but even weirder.

[soitgoes...]

Cyclo and The Vertical Ray of the Sun are both amazing.Yes they are, as is The Scent of Green Papaya. Honestly, thinking more about it, you probably will be one of the people who will like I Come with the Rain.

[B-side]

I gotta see this movie now.

[soitgoes...]

dmk's weird. He's like me, but even weirder.He doesn't like great movies either? :P

[B-side]

He doesn't like great movies either? :P

Ho, ho, ho. You, sir, are a master purveyor of wit.:D

In all seriousness, he doesn't.

[soitgoes...]

I gotta see this movie now.Yeah, everyone should see it, love it and leave me wondering wha?

You, Derek and baby_doll all need to see it. I predict:

Brightside - **½
Derek - *
baby_doll - ***

[B-side]

Yeah, everyone should see it, love it and leave me wondering wha?

You, Derek and baby_doll all need to see it. I predict:

Brightside - **½
Derek - *
baby_doll - ***

I'm above ratings.

[soitgoes...]

I'm above ratings.Hey Mr. "Above Ratings," perhaps you should give Cyclo a go before I Come with the Rain?

[B-side]

Hey Mr. "Above Ratings," perhaps you should give Cyclo a go before I Come with the Rain?

See, I was gonna do that, but then this... thing happened, and...

*tips over glass of water, runs away*

[soitgoes...]

See, I was gonna do that, but then this... thing happened, and...

*tips over glass of water, runs away*In all seriousness, that is the Tran film you stand the best chance of liking.

[B-side]

In all seriousness, that is the Tran film you stand the best chance of liking.

We'll see.:)

[B-side]

These films are playing as well:

La Belle endormie (Breillat)
Oki's Movie (Sang-soo)
The Town (Affleck)
I'm Still Here (C. Affleck)
Sorelle Mai (Bellocchio)
Showtime (Kwan)
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (Miike)
Machete (Rodriguez)
A Letter to Elia (Scorsese/Jones)
Surviving Life (Svankmajer)
L’ultimo Gattopardo: Ritratto Di Goffredo Lombardo (Tornatore)
Passione (Turturro)
Reign of Assassins (Woo/Chao-pin)
Incendies (Villeneuve)

I didn't bother listing any of the old stuff or anything by directors I've never even heard of. If you want the full list, go here (http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/).

[Boner M]

WTF? Hong Sang-Soo just had a movie premiere at Cannes in May (a good one, btw). Slow down, dude.

[dmk]

Don't forget Skolimowski's Essential Killing, which is in the main competition too.