Venice Film Festival Lineup Announced: ‘Manglehorn’, ‘Good Kill’ In Competition; Bogdanovich, Franco, Levinson, Von Trier Also In Official Selection I’m here at Rome’s St Regis Hotel where Biennale president Paolo Baratta and Venice chief Alberto Barbera are announcing the lineup for the 71st edition of the world’s oldest international film festival. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman world premieres in competition as the opener on August 27 and we’ll see 55 movies across the Official Selection through September 6. Yesterday, I wrote a primer for today’s reveal with such films as David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn and Peter Bogdanovich’s Squirrels To The Nuts expected to be announced today; and they have been. Twenty films will compete in the main competition, 19 of which are world premieres with one international premiere. There are an abundance of titles from Italy, France, the U.S. and the UK. Among the U.S. titles in competition are Manglehorn with Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine and Chris Messina, and Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill with Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, January Jones and Zoe Kravitz. Both of those will move on to Toronto next. Inarritu’s opener Birdman is in competition with a starry cast that includes Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts. The closing night movie, as previously announced is Ann Hui’s The Golden Era. Among the other expected players that are turning up in competition are Fatih Akin with The Cut starring Tahar Rahim (Carlos); Xavier Beauvois’ La Rançon De La Gloire; Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini with Willem Dafoe; Benoït Jacquot’s 3 Hearts and David Olehoffen’s Loin Des Hommes with Viggo Mortensen. Also particularly of note is The Act Of Killing director Joshua Oppenheimer with documentary The Look Of Silence. Ramin Bahrani, Roy Andersson and Andrei Konchalovsky are also in the mix (see full list below). Out of competition, as I suspected is Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way (aka Squirrels To The Nuts) with Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Rhys Ifans and Kathryn Hahn. Pacino will be in town for another film, Barry Levinson’s The Humbling which also stars Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest and Charles Grodin. Joe Dante’s Burying The Ex starring Anton Yelchin and Ashley Green also scored a berth as did Lisa Cholodenko’s Olive Kitteridge with Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins and Bill Murray. The first parts of anthology series Heartbeat Of The World, Words With Gods, is an out of competition title from directors that include Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair and Alex de la Iglesia. And, James Franco’s festival rounds continue with The Sound And The Fury out of competition and starring Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Seth Rogen and Jon Hamm. Animated pic Boxtrolls is in and Lars Von Trier will bring his long version director’s cut of Nymphomaniac Vol II to the Lido following his trip to Berlin earlier this year with Vol I. The Horizons section will be opened by Mohsen Makmalbaf’s The President. It’s also chosen Michael Almereyda’s modern day take on Shakespeare’s Cymbeline starring Milla Jovovich, Ed Harris, Dakota Johnson, Penn Badgley, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman and Hawke, again. Joining president Alexandre Desplat on the competition panel will be Chinese actress and director Joan Chen ; German director Philip Groning; Austrian director Jessica Hausner; Indian writer Jhumpa Lahiri; English costume designer Sandy Powell; British actor Tim Roth; Palestinian director Elia Suleiman; and Italian director and author Carlo Verdone. The Horizons jury includes president Ann Hui, along with Israeli actress Moran Atias; Swedish actress and director Pernilla August; American writer-director David Chase; Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun; Italian director Roberto Minervini and Turkish critic Alin Tasciyan. On the jury for the first film prize are Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso; Canadian director Ron Mann; Chinse producer Vivian Qu; and Romanian writer-director Razvan Radulescu. Full lists of the major sections are below: COMPETITION Birdman, dir: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (opening film) The Cut, dir: Fatih AKIN A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, dir: Roy Andersson 99 Homes, dir: Ramin Bahrani Tales, dir: Rakhshān Bani E’Temad La Rançon De La Gloire, dir: Xavier Beauvois Hungry Hearts, dir: Saverio Costanzo Le Dernier Coup De Marteau, dir: Alix Delaporte Pasolini, dir: Abel Ferrara Manglehorn, David Gordon Green 3 Hearts, dir: Benôit Jacquot The Postman’s White Nights, dir: Andrei Konchalovsky Il Giovane Favoloso, dir: Mario Martone Sivas, dir: Kaan Mujdeci Anime Nere, dir: Francesco Munzi Good Kill, dir: Andrew Niccol Loin Des Hommes, dir: David Oelhoffen The Look Of Silence, dir: Joshua Oppenheimer Fires On The Plain, dir: Shinya Tsukamoto Red Amnesia, Xiaoshuai Wang OUT OF COMPETITION Words With Gods, dirs: Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobai, Hideo Nakata, Alex de la Iglesia She’s Funny That Way, dir: Peter Bogdanovich Dearest, dir: Peter Ho-sun Chan Olive Kitteridge, dir: Lisa Cholodenkp Burying The Ex, dir: Joe Dante Perez., dir: Edoardo De Angelis La Zuppa Del Demonio, dir: Davide Ferrario The Sound And The Fury, dir: James Franco Tsili, dir: Amos Gitai La Trattativa, dir: Sabina Guzzanti The Golden Era, dir: Ann Hui (closing film) Make-Up, dir: Im Kwontaek The Humbling, dir: Barry Levinson THe Old Man Of Belem, dir: Manoel de Oliveira Italy In A Day, dir: Gabriele Salvatores In The Basement, dir: Ulrich Seidl The Boxtrolls, dirs: Anthony Stacchi, Annable Graham Nymphomaniac Volume II (long version) Director’s Cut, dir: Lars Von Trier HORIZONS Theeb, dir: Naji Abu Nowar Line Of Credit, dir: Salome Alexi Senza Nessuna Pieta, dir: Michele Alhaique Cymbeline, dir: Michael Almereyda Near Death Experience, dirs: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern La Vita Oscena, dir: Renato De Maria Réalité, dir: Quentin Dupieux I Spy/ I Spy, dirs: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala Hill Of Freedom, dir: Hong Sangsoo Bypass, dir: Duane Hopkins The President, dir: Mohsen Makhmalbaf (opening film) Your Right Mind, dir: Ami Canaan Mann Belluscone, Una Storia Siciliana, dir: Franco Maresco Nabat, Elchin Musaoglu Heaven Knows What, dirs: Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie These Are The Rules, dir: Ognjen Sviliviv Court, dir: Chaitanya Tamhane
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:40:27 +0000
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