variety.comadded August 2026
Varietyby Ellise Shafer5 Sept 2026
In news that might not surprise anyone, Liam and Noel Gallagher skipped the Venice Film Festival press conference for their upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” on...
Varietyby Brian Steinberg5 Sept 2026
It seems as simple as moving a few letters around, but a new collaboration between Aflac, the provider of supplemental insurance and Ben Affleck, the actor and director, has been years in the...
Varietyby Siddhant Adlakha5 Sept 2026
A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity.
Varietyby Guy Lodge5 Sept 2026
That title gives a first clue towards how misbegotten and compromised this new Tom and Jerry joint is.
Varietyby Elskes5 Sept 2026
Robert Pattinson wants Chris Hansen to like “Primetime,” a tense thriller about the television journalist and “To Catch a Predator” host, which premieres on Saturday afternoon at the Venice Film...
Varietyby Nvivarelli5 Sept 2026
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”) is at the Venice Film Festival in a new guise, as tutor of Biennale College Cinema, the workshop allowing emerging filmmakers to develop and produce...
Varietyby Jessica Kiang5 Sept 2026
If Shinya Tsukamoto‘s “Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?” were the first, or even the 51st, movie to litigate the atrocities committed by U.S.
Varietyby Guy Lodge5 Sept 2026
“Because it’s there” is the famous, possibly apocryphal, reply attributed to British mountaineer George Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.
Varietyby Tomilaffly5 Sept 2026
“You carry a lot of weight around, don’t you?” In Guy Nattiv’s observant, harrowing and unmistakably feminine “The Liberation,” this line marks the first time someone truly sees through...
Varietyby Emeza8055 Sept 2026
Both well-established and up-and-coming Swiss filmmakers are taking part in the Venice Film Festival’s Production Bridge industry strand, where Switzerland will be one of the country’s in focus at...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran5 Sept 2026
The idea for “The Difficult Bride” traces back to a story Rubaiyat Hossain heard as a 7 year old, visiting a Dhaka beauty parlor with her mother. “There was a bride who died there,” Hossain says.
Varietyby Nvivarelli5 Sept 2026
Pan-Arab distributor Mad Solutions and Egyptian multihyphenate Haitham Dabbour’s Irth platform dedicated to supporting standout writers across the Arab world announced a strategic partnership on...
Varietyby Naman Ramachandran5 Sept 2026
Lav Diaz is developing a film about false prophets and a screen adaptation of José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” the Filipino auteur reveals, alongside details on “Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors”...
Varietyby Emeza8055 Sept 2026
Swiss cinema is resonating domestically and abroad as homegrown films and international co-productions continue to entice local audiences and festival goers around the globe.
Varietyby Owen Gleiberman5 Sept 2026
“Elsinore,” named for Hamlet’s castle, opens on a production of that Shakespeare play at the National Theatre in London — but we see it from the bored, amused vantage of the backstage technicians...
Varietyby Elskes5 Sept 2026
“The Echo Chamber,” Andrea Pallaoro’s drama starring Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon, has already landed distribution across a raft of key international territories ahead of its...
Varietyby Nvivarelli5 Sept 2026
Spanish indie studio Impulse Cinema and Italy’s Fandango have forged a strategic partnership to boost Spanish and Italian productions through co-production, financing, distribution and global...
Varietyby Nvivarelli5 Sept 2026
With war still ravaging Iran — six months after the country was attacked by U.S. and Israeli forces — the Venice Film Festival is set to launch two Iranian films that will provide viewers vivid...
Varietyby Carlos Aguilar5 Sept 2026
As biographical films on major historical figures go, “The Idiot(s)” starts off with an advantage over most, since it covers only a finite, conflict-laden passage of its subject’s storied life.
Varietyby Carolehorst5 Sept 2026
Ten editions in, Venice Immersive has plenty to celebrate — just don’t expect the new-media showcase to spend much time looking back.
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