The oldest film festival in the world, the one in venice will meet tomorrow 75 years old.
This year, the Festival will celebrate its 64th edition between August 29 and September 8, and promises to be a very special festival in which new events will be held and with which the new honorary Golden Lion will be born that celebrates this anniversary, which will be taken away by the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci in recognition of his career.
On July 26, the list of films scheduled for this year was made public in Rome. Here's that list:
**** IN CONTEST: ****
*Joe WRIGHT Atonement - Great Britain / USA, 123 '
*Wes Anderson The Darjeeling Limited - Usa, 91 '
*Kenneth BRANAGH The footprint - Great Britain / USA, 86 '
*Youssef CHAHINE Heya fawda (Le Chaos) - Egypt, 122 '
*Brian DE PALMA Redacted - Usa, 90 '
*Andrew DOMINIK The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Usa, 155 '
*Paolo FRANCHI Nessuna quality? agli eroi - Italy / Switzerland / France, 102 '
* Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton - Usa, 119 '
*Peter GREENAWAY night watching - Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Holland / Great Britain, 134 '
* Jose Luis GUERÍN In the town of Sylvia - Spain, 90 '
*Paul HAGGIS In the Valley of Elah - USA / Morocco, 120 '
*Todd HAYNES I'm not There - Usa, 135 '
* JIAN Wen Taiyang zhaochang shenqi (The Sun Also Rises) - China / Hong Kong, 116 '
* READ Kang Sheng (LI Kangsheng) Bangbang wo aishen (Help Me Eros) - Taiwan, 107 '
* Abdellatif KECHICHE The grain and the mule - France, 151 '
*ang lee Se, hee (Lust, Caution) - China / USA, 135 '
*Ken LOACH It's a Free World… - Great Britain / Italy / Germany / Spain, 96 '
*Vincenzo MARRA L'ora di punta - Italy, 96 '
* MIIKE Takashi Sukiyaki Western Django - Japan, 121 '
* Nikita Mikhalkov 12 - Russian Fed. 153 '
* Andrea PORPORATE The sweet and the bitter - Italy, 98 '
*Eric ROHMER Les Amours d'Astrée et Céladon - France / Italy / Spain, 109 '
**** OUT OF COMPETITION: ****
* Woody Allen Cassandra's dream- Great Britain / USA, 108 '
* Jules BRESSANE Cleopatra - Brazil, 116 '
*Claude CHABROL La fille coupe en deux - France, 105 '
*IM Kwon Taek Chun-nyun-hack (Beyond the Years) - South Korea, 106 '
*KITANO Takeshi Kantoku banzai! (Glory to the filmmaker!) - Japan, 104 '
* Manoel from OLIVEIRA Cristovão Colombo - O enigma - Portugal / France, 100 '
* Alexi SO Tiantangkou (Blood Brothers) - Taiwan / China / Hong Kong, 95 '
* Paco PLAZA, Jaume BALAGUERÓ REC - Spain, 85 '
*Asif KAPADIA Far North - Great Britain / France, 89 '
*Richard Shepard The Hunting Party - USA / Croatia / Bosnia-Herrzegovina, 103 '
* Shari SPRINGER BERMAN, Robert PULCINI The Nanny Diaries - Usa, 107 '
* Adrian? GARCIA, Victor MALDONADO Nocturna - Spain / France, 83 '
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