WorldPingMay el-Toukhy is in competition at the Venice Film Festival with post-World War Two psychological thriller Woman Unknown as one of just two female directors in the running for the Golden Lion this year.
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WorldPingBuongiorno, my good reader. It’s a Venice-heavy Insider this week, as the A-lister festival got underway amid the cameras and gondolas of the canal-strewn city. Back here in the UK it’s Jesse Whittock taking you through the biggest stories of the week.
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From red carpets for her award-winning directorial debut 'The Lost Daughter' to a current run as jury president, take a look at the actress and filmmaker's fashion choices in Venice over the years.
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Matilda De Angelis ('The Undoing') and Babak Karimi ('A Separation') star in Nicola Sorcinelli's directorial feature debut, premiering at Venice Days, which is "rooted in a lifelong anger at the ways freedom can be withheld, controlled or silenced."…
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WorldPingJames Gunn and Peter Safran’s regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathom There was never going to be a completely painless way to break up the old DC gang.
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WorldPingBendita Film Sales has acquired international rights to Norma Vila’s psychological horror thriller “Salitre” (“Carapace”) ahead of its premiere at the Sitges Film Festival’s Fantàstic In-Competition Selection.
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WorldPingPaul Schrader writes great parts for great actors, and has been doing so for 50 years, since Robert De Niro played Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.
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