Refresh for contemporary…: The lineup for the 81st Venice Movie Competition is being unveiled this morning from the Library of the Historic Archive of La Biennale. Making the announcement are La Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Venice Movie Competition Inventive Director Alberto Barbera. Scroll all the way down to see the complete record of titles which will likely be up to date as they’re revealed.
After going down final yr amid the SAG-AFTRA strike, Venice this yr is predicted to be a a lot starrier affair. Serving as a key launchpad for awards season and a first-rate media alternative for expertise, the world’s oldest movie pageant ought to be upping the glamour quotient once more with scuttlebutt pointing to such motion pictures as Todd Phillips’ Joaquin Phoenix/Girl Gaga-starrer Joker: Folie à Deux from Warner Bros making the lower. Phillips’ first Joker wowed on the fest in 2019, happening to scoop the Golden Lion.
Additionally rumored to probably be within the combine are Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas biopic, Maria, starring Angelina Jolie because the legendary chanteuse. Luca Guadagnino might mark a return to the Lido with Queer, based mostly on William S Bourroughs’ novel and starring Daniel Craig. We’re additionally listening to George Clooney/Brad Pitt thriller Wolfs from Apple has a shot at a slot as does Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language characteristic, The Room Subsequent Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. There has additionally been hypothesis concerning the Johnny Depp-directed Modi, with Al Pacino.
Already confirmed is Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which is able to open the proceedings out of competitors on August 28. The Warner Bros title is the sequel to Burton’s traditional 1988 supernatural comedy and stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux and Monica Bellucci, with Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe. Additionally beforehand set are the opening movies of the Horizons and Horizons Further sections, Nonostante from Valerio Mastandrea and September 5 by Tim Fehlbaum, respectively
Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver have been tapped to obtain Lifetime Achievement awards, and Isabelle Huppert is jury president this yr. The pageant runs from August 28-September 7.
Verify again as we replace the record of movies introduced at the moment:
VENEZIA 81 COMPETITION
OUT OF COMPETITION
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, dir: Tim Burton
HORIZONS EXTRA
September 5, dir: Tim Fehlbaum
HORIZONS
Nonostante, dir: Valerio Mastandrea
VENICE CLASSICS
