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The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the names that will join Jury President Isabelle Huppert on the main Competition jury of its 81st edition. It’s a director-heavy selection this year, with jury members including James Gray (Armageddon Time, Ad Astra), Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers, 45 Years), Agnieszka Holland (Green Border, Europa Europa), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) and Julia von Heinz (And Tomorrow The Entire World, Treasure). The only performer on the jury this year – aside from Isabelle Huppert - is Zhang Z...
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American actor Willem Dafoe has been appointed the Artistic Director of the Venice Biennale theatre department for 2025 and 2026. The appointment was confirmed by the chairman of the Biennale board of directors, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. “It is an honor to announce the appointment of Willem Dafoe as the Director of Biennale Teatro,” said Buttafuoco, adding: “I can’t wait, like everyone else, to be a spectator at the festival he will build as artistic director and – from his lectern as an absolute maestro – to watch the young men and women of the Theatre College grow in their art.” The Biennale’s...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice, has been announced as the opening film of this year’s Venice Film Festival. The screening will be the world premiere and stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe. The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicks off on 28 August. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be released in theatres and IMAX on 4 September. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice marks the long-awaited return of one of the most iconic characters of Tim Burton’s cinema, but also th...
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Three-time Oscar-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Weaver is best known for the Alien and Avatar franchises and has also received critical acclaim for roles in Gorillas In The Mist, Working Girl and The Ice Storm \- winning a supporting actress BAFTA for the latter. In accepting the honour, she said: “To be gifted this award is a privilege I share with all the filmmakers and collaborators I have worked with throughout the years. I proudly accept this award in celebration of all who have helpe...
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I had the pleasure of meeting Donald Sutherland at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. He was attending the event for the closing film of the 76th edition, Giuseppe Capotondi’s underrated crime thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy. It was one of the last films to screen to the press that year, and the starry cast had made their way to the Lido for one of the final press conferences. Obviously, the focus of attention was Mick Jagger, who starred in the film and put on a bit of a show when he entered the press room. He was followed by the director and co-stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and the gre...
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Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert will head up the 2024 Venice Film Festival jury this year. Serving as jury president of the 81st edition, Huppert will hand out the Golden Lion and other awards when the festival on the Lido concludes. In a statement, Huppert said: “There is a long and beautiful history between the Festival and I. Becoming a privileged spectator is an honor. More than ever, cinema is a promise. The promise to escape, to disrupt, to surprise, to take a good look at the world, united in the differences of our tastes and ideas.” Huppert was previously jury president at Ca...
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