The 2013 edition of the Venice Film Festival will kick off with Alfonso Cuaron‘s space thriller “Gravity” before powering through a host of new films from a diverse array of directors like Terry Gilliam, David Gordon Green, James Franco and Stephen Frears.
Gilliam hits the festival with “The Zero Theorem,” a math drama starring Christoph Waltz; Gordon Green will be on hand with the Southern thriller, “Joe,” which stars Nicolas Cage as an ex-con; Franco is offering up his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “Child of God”; and Frears is pooling his talents with Judi Dench on the fact-based drama “Philomena.” Jonathan Glazer’s alien-in-Scotland film, “Under the Skin,” which stars Scarlett Johannson, and Errol Morris’ “The Unknown Known: The Life And Times Of Donald Rumsfeld,” a look at the controversial former Secretary of Defense, joins the competition as well.
With the exception of Cuaron, those directors will be in the hunt for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion. Venice’s out-of-competition offerings include “The Canyons,” director Paul Schrader’s collaboration with tabloid fixture Lindsay Lohan, and “The Armstrong Lie,” Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s examination of Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal.
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The 70th edition of the festival kicks off on August 28.
Venice 70 (Competition)
The Rooftops, dir: Merzak Allouache
L’intrepido, dir: Gianni Amelio
Miss Violence, dir: Alexandros Avranas
Tracks, dir: John Curran
Via Castellana Bandiera, dir: Emma Dante
Tom At The Farm, dir: Xavier Dolan
Child Of God, dir: James Franco
Philomena, dir: Stephen Frears
La Jalousie, dir: Philippe Garrel
The Zero Theorem, dir: Terry Gilliam
Ana Arabia, dir: Amos Gitai
Under The Skin, dir: Jonathan Glazer
Joe, dir: David Gordon Green
The Police Officer’s Wife, dir: Philip Groning
Parkland, dir: Peter Landesman
Kaze Tachinu, dir: Hayao Miyazaki
The Unknown Known: The Life And Times Of Donald Rumsfeld, dir: Errol Morris
Night Moves, dir: Kelly Reichardt
Sacro Gra, dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang
Out Of Competition
Space Pirate Captain Harlock, dir: Aramaki Shinji
Gravity, dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Moebius, dir: Kim Ki-duk
Locke, dir: Steven Knight
Unforgiven, dir: Lee Sang-il
Wolf Creek 2, dir: Greg Mclean
Home From Home – Chronicle Of A Vision, dir: Edgar Reitz
Gondola, dirs: Paul Rudish, Aaron Springer, Clay Morrow
The Canyons, dir: Paul Schrader
Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico Scola Racconta Fellini, dir: Ettore Scola
Walesa. Man Of Hope, dirs: Andrzej Wajda, Ewa Brodzka
Out Of Competition – Documentaries
Summer 82 When Zappa Came To Sicily, dir: Salvo Cuccia
Pine Ridge, dir: Vanessa Piper
The Armstrong Lie, dir: Alex Gibney
Redemption, dir: Miguel Gomes
Ukraina Is Not A Brothel, dir: Kitty Green
Con Il Fiato Sospeso, dir: Costanza Quatriglio
Amazonia, dir: Thierry Ragobert
La Voce Di Berlinguer, dirs: Mario Sesti, Teho Teardo
‘Til Madness Do Us Apart, dir: Wang Bing
At Berkeley, dir: Frederick Wiseman
Horizons
Je M’appelle Hmmm…, dir: Agnès B.
Little Brother, dir: Serik Aprymov
Il Terzo Tempo, dir: Enrico Maria Artale
Eastern Boys, dir: Robin Campillo
Palo Alto, dir: Gia Coppola
Ruin, dirs: Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Michael Cody
Fish & Cat, dir: Shahram Mokri
We Are The Best!, dir: Lukas Moodysson
Wolfschildren, dir: Rick Ostermann
La vida después, dir: David Pablos
Algunas Chicas, dir: Santiago Palavecino
Medeas, dir: Andrea Pallaoro
Still Life, dir: Uberto Pasolini
Piccola Patria, dir: Alessandro Rossetto
La Prima Neve, dir: Andrea Segre
Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, dir: Sono Sion
The Sacrement, dir: Ti West