Venice 2011

[B-side]

In Competition:
“Alps,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
“A Burning Hot Summer,” directed by Philippe Garrel
“Carnage,” directed by Roman Polanski
“A Dangerous Method,” directed by David Cronenberg
“Dark Horse,” directed by Todd Solondz
“The Exchange,” directed by Eran Kolirin
“Faust,” directed by Alexander Sokurov
“Himizu,” directed by Sion Sono
“Killer Joe,” directed by William Friedkin
“The Ides of March,” directed by George Clooney (Opening Night)
“Last Day on Earth,” directed by Abel Ferrara
“The Moth Diaries,” directed by Mary Harron
“Poulet aux prunes,” directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
“Quando la notte,” directed by Cristina Comencini
“Seediq Bale,” directed by Wei Te-sheng
“Shame,” directed by Steve McQueen
“Terraferma,” directed by Emanuele Crialese
“Texas Killing Fields” directed by Ami Canaan Mann
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” directed by Tomas Alfredson
“L’ultimo terrestre,” directed by Gipi
“W.E.,” directed by Madonna
“Wuthering Heights,” directed by Andrea Arnold

Out of Competition:
“La folie Almayer,” directed by Chantal Akerman

Horizons section:
“I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful,” directed by Jonathan Demme
“Sal,” directed by James Franco

Insane lineup. Ferrara out of nowhere. What I wouldn't give to be there.

[baby doll]

Insane lineup. Ferrara out of nowhere. What I wouldn't give to be there.

That does seem like a ridiculously good line-up... on paper. I read the comic book that Poulet aux prunes is based on, and while it's really good (no Persepolis of course), I wonder how she's going to make a movie out of it. (For starters, it's only fifty pages long.)

[Raiders]

That does seem like a ridiculously good line-up... on paper. I read the comic book that Poulet aux prunes is based on, and while it's really good (no Persepolis of course), I wonder how she's going to make a movie out of it. (For starters, it's only fifty pages long.)

Are you sure you have the whole thing? Mine is longer than fifty pages.

[Boner M]

Rumor is that Akerman's film dreadful and passed on Director's Fortnight at Cannes.

Still, that comp lineup is to die for. Hope everyone delivers.

[Boner M]

Whoa, grammar fail.

[Raiders]

That is a remarkable line-up. Insane that Franco's film will be festival ready in a month considering he wrapped shooting like, four weeks ago.

But seriously, I kind of want to see almost every film on that list.

[right_for_the_moment]

Add Whit Stillman's first movie in a dozen + years to that list.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...film_festival/

[Pop Trash]

Add Whit Stillman's first movie in a dozen + years to that list.

Ew.

[Raiders]

Ew.

I'll counter this and say it is probably the film I am now anticipating most of pratically all of them.

EDIT: Which reminds me... no Terence Davies? Guess that would have put too much awesome in one place.

[Pop Trash]

Holy smokes, that is a good lineup. Venice is becoming as good as Cannes/Toronto.

[Pop Trash]

I'll counter this and say it is probably the film I am now anticipating most of pratically all of them.

You're a big fan of annoying upper west side bourgeois New Yorkers?

[Raiders]

You're a big fan of annoying upper west side bourgeois New Yorkers?

I'm a huge fan of Stillman's observant, sly depictions of them.

[Irish]

Criticisms of Stillman's work are almost always valid, but I have to agree with Raiders: I'm curious as hell to see anything he releases.

First movie in 12 years, though? What the hell has he been doing all this time?!

[Ezee E]

Love it. 1/2 of these will probably be at Telluride.

[Spinal]

“W.E.,” directed by Madonna

Wait ... what?

[Pop Trash]

I'm a huge fan of Stillman's observant, sly depictions of them.

I dunno. I attempted to watch Metropolitan one time and I pretty much wanted to shoot my TV Elvis style.

[baby doll]

Are you sure you have the whole thing? Mine is longer than fifty pages.

Actually, my copy is back in Canada, so I just pulled that figure from memory. Wikipedia says 96 pages, which sounds about right. In any case, that's still a lot shorter than Persepolis, which is 350 fifty pages.

[TripZone]

EDIT: Which reminds me... no Terence Davies? Guess that would have put too much awesome in one place.

Toronto.

[B-side]

Mostly mixed reviews for A Dangerous Method. Madonna's film is getting destroyed. Alps is being lauded. IndieWire called Garrel's new film a thundering bore verging on self-parody.

[Boner M]

Poor Garrel.

[Yxklyx]

Wait ... what?

HELLO - Where have you been? This is like her SECOND film already. :crazy:

[Boner M]

IndieWire called Garrel's new film a thundering bore verging on self-parody.

I just the first paragraph of their review:

There are certain cliches associated with European cinema—they’re not necessarily always accurate but they do exist. Ask a layman—a well educated, smart, nice person who might not be quite as subtitle-happy as you or I—what they imagine they might see in, say, an average French film, and a number of things might come up. Characters who are constantly having extra-marital affairs, for instance. A vaguely homoerotic relationship between two friends. Unbroken four-to-five minute takes. Dialogue talking about ‘the revolution.’ An actress, perhaps Monica Bellucci, taking her clothes off within the first 45 seconds. If you were to take this layman’s thoughts and turn them into a screenplay, you’d end up with “Un Été Brûlant” (or “A Scorching Summer”) the latest from Venice Film Festival favorite Philippe Garrel

Reviews like this are the reason I hate The Playlist: glib, kneejerk 'above it all' dismissals that look solely at the generic traits of films and nothing else. Worthless.

[B-side]

I glanced at a bit of the review and it sounded kinda silly, but I figured it was worth mentioning anyway, if only because it's the only review I found of it.

[Boner M]

It's getting mostly thrashed elsewhere, granted. That's been the course for Garrel in the last 20-ish years though (Regular Lovers aside); he has an earnestness and humorlessness that doesn't play well in the fickle film-fest climate.

[B-side]

Knew you'd love that Kiarostami. Best of the trilogy, I think.

But yeah, I don't really have a go-to fest blogger or anything, so I just resorted to Google. Anxious to hear responses to Faust and Ferrara's latest.