Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Venice Line-Up Announced

Here is the In and Out of competition Lineup for 65th Venice Film Festival

In Competition

"The Wrestler," directed by Darren Aronofsky

"The Burning Plain," directed by Guillermo Arriaga

"Il papa di Giovanna," directed by Pupi Avati

"BirdWatchers," directed by Marco Bechis

"L'Autre," directed by Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic

"Hurt Locker," directed by Kathryn Bigelow

"Il seme della discordia," directed by Pappi Corsicato

"Rachel Getting Married," directed by Jonathan Demme

"Teza," directed by Haile Gerima

"Paper Soldier," directed by Aleksey German Jr.

"Suet," directed by Semih Kaplanoglu - Turkey / France / Germany

"Achilles and the Tortoise, directed by Takeshi Kitano - Japan

"Ponyo on Cliff by the Sea," directed by Hayao Miyazaki - Japan (animated)

"Vegas: Based on a True Story," directed by Amir Naderi - USA

"The Sky Crawlers," directed by Mamoru Oshii - Japan

"Un giorno perfetto," directed by Ferzan Oezpetek - Italy

"Jerichow," directed by Christian Petzold - Germany

"Inju, la Bete dans l'ombre," directed by Barbet Schroeder - France

"Nuit de chien," directed by Werner Schroeter - France / Germany / Portugal

"Inland" (Inland), directed by Tariq Teguia - Algeria / France

"Plastic City," directed by YU Lik-wai - Brazil / China / Hong Kong/China / Japan


Out of Competition

"Puccini e la fanciulla," directed by Paolo Benvenuti - Italy

"Yuppi Du," directed by Adriano Celentano - Italy

"Burn After Reading," directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - USA

"35 Rhums," directed by Claire Denis - France / Spain

"Cry me a river," directed by JIA Zhangke - China / Spain / France (short film)

"Shirin," directed by Abbas Kiarostami - Iran

"Tutto e musica," directed by Domenico Modugno (1963) - Italy

"Vicino al Colosseo... c'e," directed by MontiMario Monicelli (short film) - Italy (documentary)

"Do Visivel ao Invisivel," directed by Manoel de Oliveira - Brazil / Portugal (short film)

"Orfeo 9," (1973) directed by Tito Schipa Jr. - Italy

"Les Plages d'Agnes," directed by Agnes Varda - France (documentary)

"Vinyan," directed by Fabrice Du Welz - France / UK / Belgium

"Encarnacao do demonio," directed by Jose Mojica Marins - Brazil

"Nel blu dipinto di blu" (Volare), directed by Piero Tellini (1959) - Italy


Out of Competition Events

"Bajo el Signo de las Sombras," directed by Ferran Alberich (1984) - Spain (documentary)

"Gracia Vida en Sombras," directed by Lorenzo Llbobet (1947)- Spain, 90'
Fernando Fernan Gomez, Maria Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomes, Alfonso Estela

"Ketto Takadanobaba," directed by Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Inagaki (1937) - Japan

"La rabbia," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1963) (previously unreleased version) - Italy


The Films that I'm most excited about are The Coen Brother's out of competition "Burn After Reading", Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke and Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut "The Burning Plain" which despite some bad word of mouth looks to at least feature a contender for a Screenplay nod.
More as it comes.
Tyler j. Pratt

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