Posts Tagged ‘Venice Film Festival’
YouTube to search for new talent with online film festival
Have you always wanted to go to the Venice Film Festival? Do you have what it takes to make a $500,000 film? The YouTube Film Festival could give you this exact opportunity, as the site prepares to launch the competition that could change the face of film-making in the online world. After the success of Life In A Day which was created...
Gwyneth Paltrow’s sex addiction
It has been revealed that actress Gwyneth Paltrow is on board to play a sex addict in Stuart Blumberg's directorial début, Thanks for Sharing. Blumberg was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the script for The Kids Are All Right, which starred Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska. Thanks for Sharing will see...
55th BFI London Film Festival Line-Up Announced
The line-up for the 55th BFI London Film Festival has finally been announced! There have been a number of exciting films in production recently, and now it has finally been revealed which of them will feature in the programme for this year's BFI London Film Festival. It was previously announced that Fernando Meirelles' 360 would be...
Final preparations for the Venice Film Festival
Excitement is rising in the lead-up to the opening of the world's oldest film festival. The Venice Film Festival will be awash with stars, the opening night including George Clooney and his co-stars of The Ides of March, Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And this is just the start, with a total of 22 films entered into the...
Somewhere wins The Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival
Sofia Coppola scooped the top prize, The Golden Lion, at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. However, as she celebrated the success of her latest film Somewhere, the rumour mill was already going into overdrive criticising Quentin Tarantino, who headed the jury, for favouritism in his judging. Sofia, who's most famous film is Lost in...
I’m Still Here at Venice Film Festival: is it all a hoax?
Those hoping all would be revealed regarding Joaquin Phoenix's latest film, I'm Still Here, during the Venice Film Festival will have found themselves thoroughly disappointed. We gave you the Lowdown on this film back in August and, along with everybody else, we're still none the wiser as to the authenticity of this film. During a press...
Somewhere débuts at Venice Film Festival
Sofia Coppola's latest film Somewhere wowed the audience at the Venice Film Festival last night. This is the first time the Lost in Translation director has chosen Italy as the place the film will open. The film staring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning tells the story of Johnny Marco (Dorff) who is a Hollywood bad boy, living it up at the...
