Another key piece of the fall film festival picture fell into place on Thursday, as the Venice Film Festival announced a lineup that will include Roman Polanski's "Carnage," Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights" and Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion."
Like the lineup at the Toronto Film Festival, part of which was unveiled on Tuesday, the Venice slate is strong and varied, with a large number of top directors represented with new work.
(Photo, left: "Carnage," with Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz.)
As previously announced, the festival will open on August 31 with "The Ides of March," directed by George Clooney from the stage play "Farragut North" by Beau Willimon, and close on September 10 with Whit Stillman's first film in a dozen years, "Damsels in Distress."