Report From Venice
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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Film Review: Like the Band, the Movie Is Potent and Excessive
Venice Film Festival 2021: Bernard MacMahon’s documentary includes rare interviews with the surviving members of the band
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‘The Lost Daughter’ Film Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Captures the Secret Life of Mothers
Venice 2021: Her debut as a writer-director (adapting Elena Ferrante’s novel) is a masterpiece of mood and subtlety
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‘Mosquito State’ Film Review: Wall Street Needs Some Insecticide in Creepy Drama
Filip Jan Rymsza’s film about a stock analyst who has an unhealthy fascination with mosquitoes will get under your skin, that’s for sure
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‘Ema’ Film Review: Pablo Larraín’s Latest Dances to Its Own Rhythms
The “Jackie” director boldly uses music video aesthetics in setting a character study to a reggaeton beat
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‘The Perfect Candidate’ Film Review: A Saudi Woman Finds Her Voice in Piercing Political Tale
Venice 2019: A run for local office empowers a young doctor in Haifaa Al Mansour’s feminist tale
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‘La Llorona’ Film Review: Jayro Bustamante Examines Real-Life Historical Horror in Impressive Third Feature
The title may conjure up the supernatural, but this shrewd film contemplates the actual genocide perpetrated against Guatemala’s indigenous population
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‘Sundown’ Film Review: Tim Roth Is an Enigma in Riveting and Banal Mexican Drama
Director Michel Franco lets his story unfold incrementally and mysteriously
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‘One Night in Miami’ Film Review: Regina King Goes the Distance in Impressive Feature Directorial Debut
Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke spend a memorable evening together in Kemp Powers’ adaptation of his stage play
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival
Acting awards went to Vanessa Kirby and Pierfrancesco Favino at the scaled-down festival
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‘Hopper/Welles’ Film Review: Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles Put on Quite a Talk Show
Venice Film Festival 2020: Another posthumous film credited to Welles, this filmed conversation is alternately fascinating and frustrating, as Welles prods and needles Hopper for more than two hours
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‘Pieces of a Woman’ Film Review: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf Explore Shades of Grief
Venice Film Festival: The film from Cannes-winning director Kornel Mundruczó is an extended meditation on coping with unimaginable loss
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‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity
Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul’s three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
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‘Seberg’ Film Review: Kristen Stewart Captures the Spirit of a Martyred Icon
The film recounts the FBI’s targeting of the New Wave film star for her support of the Black Panthers
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Cate Blanchett Named President of Venice International Film Festival Competition Jury
The 77th annual festival will be held in September
