Report From Venice
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Catherine Deneuve Drama ‘The Truth’ to Kick Off Venice Film Festival
Film is first that Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu has made outside his home country
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‘Non-Fiction’ Film Review: Olivier Assayas Comically Mourns the Death of Literature
Venice 2018: Juliette Binoche co-stars in this witty drama that does for print what “Summer Hours” did for art
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‘Roma’ Film Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Intimate Epic Proves Less Is More
This intimate tale of a housekeeper in early-70s Mexico proves the “Gravity” director doesn’t need a sprawling canvas to tell a powerful story
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‘The Favourite’ Film Review: Emma Stone Plays an 18th Century Eve Harrington in a Twisted Historical Farce
Venice 2018: Olivia Colman’s needy, vulnerable Queen Anne steals the show in the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”)
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‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Film Review: Willem Dafoe Brushes With Brilliance in Van Gogh Biopic
Dafoe gives a towering performance in Julian Schnabel’s sensitive but unconventional film
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‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Film Review: Coen Brothers Western Anthology Makes for an Uneven Binge
This omnibus film is an entertaining fribble that peaks early
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‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Film Review: Orson Welles’ Final Film Is Worth the Wait
Lovingly assembled after 40 years, the master’s swan song is a winking satire drawing on his own love-hate relationship with Hollywood
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‘Suspiria’ Film Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Misguided Horror Remake Falls Flat
Despite Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton’s best efforts, this remake is crammed with too many aimless ideas and not enough scares
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‘A Star Is Born’ Film Review: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Reinvigorate a Classic
Venice 2018: First-time director and first-time leading lady breathe new life into a Hollywood mainstay
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‘The Sisters Brothers’ Film Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix Saddle Up for an Extraordinary Western
Venice 2018: Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed co-star in this funny, tragic, intimate epic from Jacques Audiard (“A Prophet”)
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Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Roma’ Wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival
The film is releasing on Netflix
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‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Film Review: A Troubled, Barely-Seen Comedy and Its Erratic Star
Venice 2018: Peter Medak I”The Ruling Class”) seems to have made this doc to let himself off the hook for past failure
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Venice Film Festival Signs Pledge to Address Gender Disparity
La Biennale follows the Cannes, Locarno and Sarajevo film festivals in signing pledge
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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s ‘Never Look Away’ Ahead of Venice
SPC also released German filmmaker’s Oscar-winning debut, “The Lives of Others”
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‘First Reformed’ Film Review: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke Channel Robert Bresson
Hawke’s tormented cleric is part Bresson’s anti-hero, part Travis Bickle