Venice International Film Festival director Alberto Barbara has presented the lineup for the seventy-fourth edition (August 30 through September 9) at a press conference in Rome. Notes on all the titles will be added as I find them.
COMPETITION
Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow.
Darren Aronofsky’s mother!
George Clooney’s Suburbicon.
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water.
ZIad Doueiri’s L’insulte.
Robert Guediguian’s La Villa.
Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete.
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder.
Xavier Legrand’s Jusqu’a la Garde.
Manetti Brothers’s Ammore e Malavita.
Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot.
Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Andrea Pallaoro’s Hannah.
Alexander Payne’s Downsizing. Opening night film. From the festival: “Downsizing follows the adventures of Paul Safranek (Matt Damon), an everyman from Omaha who, along with his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig), dreams of a better life. As the world faces an overpopulation crisis, scientists develop a radical solution that can shrink humans to five inches tall. People soon discover how much further money goes in a smaller world, and with the promise of a lavish lifestyle beyond their wildest imaginations, Paul and Audrey decide to risk the controversial procedure and embark upon an adventure that will change their lives forever.”
Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White.
Sebastiano Riso’s Una Famiglia.
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed.
Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country.
Paolo Virzi’s The Leisure Seeker.
Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris - The New York Public Library.
OUT OF COMPETITION
Ritesh Batra’s Our Souls at Night. The world premiere will be the occasion for presenting Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement to Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. From the festival: “Based on the novel written by Kent Haruf and adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars), the Netflix original film, Our Souls at Night is set in Colorado and begins when Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters (Robert Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they’d been neighbors for decades, but had little contact.”
Antonietta de Lillo’s Il Signor Rotpeter.
Stephen Frears’s Victoria & Abdul.
Rachid Hami’s La Melodie.
Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage Coda.
Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Loving Pablo.
VIDEO
Lucrecia Martel’s Zama. Image above. “Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama is set in the seventeenth century, following a Spanish officer (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho) who awaits a transfer from Paraguay to Buenos Aires in Argentina,” writes Screen’s Tom Grater. Jordan Raup has a more detailed synopsis at the Film Stage. Manuel Kalmanovitz talks with Martel about the production for Terremoto.
Errol Morris’s Wormwood.
Franceso Patierno’s Diva!
Michael R. Roskam’s Le Fidele.
Silvio Soldini’s Il Colore Nascosto Delle Cose.
James Toback’s The Private Life of a Modern Woman.
S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99.
OUT OF COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES
Jon Alpert’s Cuba and the Cameraman.
David Batty’s My Generation.
Abel Ferrara’s Piazza Vittorio.
William Friedkin’s The Devil and Father Amorth.
Daniel McCabe’s This is Congo.
Stephen Nomura Schible’s Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda.
Chris Smith’s Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. The Story of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton.
Giovanni Totaro’s Happy Winter.
HORIZONS
Ali Asgari’s Disappearance.
Gilles Bourdos’s Especes Menacees.
Nancy Buirski’s The Rape of Recy Taylor.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s Caniba.
Sofia Djama’s Les Bienheureux.
Anne Fontaine’s Marvin.
Pablo Giorgelli’s Invisible.
Cosimo Gomez’s Brutti e Cattivi.
Tzahi Grad’s The Cousin.
Amichai Greenberg’s The Testament.
Vahid Jalilvand’s No Date, No Signature.
Alireza Khatami’s Los Versos del Olvido.
Damien Manivel and Igarashi Kohei’s The Night I Swam.
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico, 1988. Opening night film. Trine Dyrholm plays Christa Päffgen (Nico). Nicchiarelli, as quoted by the festival: "This is the story of Nico after Nico. People usually talk about her only in relation to the men she was with when she was young: Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Alain Delon, Iggy Pop. I once read in an interview that ‘at age 34 Nico was finished.’ That's not true. After her experience with the Velvet Underground, Nico became a great musician. I wanted to tell the story of her journey from a different point of view and focusing on the loss of consensus and the change in her image that both gave her back her freedom.”
Rick Ostermann’s Krieg.
Jason Raftopoulos’s West of Sunshine.
Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, and Dario Sansone’s Gatta Cenerentola.
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson’s Under the Tree.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Gianni Amelio’s Casa d’Altri.
Jerry Kramer’s Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983).
John Landis’s Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D.
VENICE CLASSICS
The full lineup of restorations is here. These are the newly announced documentaries about cinema:
Manuel Abramovich’s Light Years.
Stefano Consiglio’s Evviva Giuseppe.
Selma Jean Dell’Olio’s La Lucida Follia di Marco Ferreri.
Emmanuel Hamon’s L’Utopie des Images de la Revolution Russe.
Elwira Niewiera’s The Prince and the Dybbuk.
Mario Sesti’s La Voce di Fantozzi.
Boris Hars-Tschachotin’s This is the War Room!
SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS
Alessandro Blasetti’s La Lunga Strada del Ritorno.
Alessandro G. A. D’Alessandro’s Barbiana ’65 La Lezione di Don Milani.
Concita de Gregorio and Esmeralda Calabria’s Lievito Madre, Le Ragazze del Secolo Scorso.
CINEMA NEL GIARDINO
Dario Albertini’s Manuel.
Ra Di Martino’s Controfigura.
Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock.
Bruno Oliviero’s Nato a Casal di Principe.
Michele Placido, Andrea Molaioli, and Guiseppe Capotondi’s Suburra – The Series.
Francois Troukens and Jean-Francois Hensgens’s Tueurs.
BIENNALE COLLEGE
Georgio Ferrero’s Beautiful Things.
Mazen Khaled’s Shadeed Martyr.
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours.
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