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Robert Bernocchi takes an early look at the famed Venice Film Festival for us

Published at:  Jul 27, 2001 11:22:37 AM CDT


Father Geek here with our ace reporter in Italy, Robert Bernocchi, and he takes an advance peak at the fantastic Venice Film Festival for all of us. As usual there is an outstanding lineup of great films awaiting the attendees of this wonderful fest...




Hi Harry and FG...

Today I've been at a press conference of the Venice Film Festival (29 of july - 08 of september). This year there will be two different competitive sections, Venezia 58 and Cinema del presente.

These are the movies currently booked by the Festival:

*Venezia 58

In competition...

  • The Others by Alejandro Amenábar
  • Quem és tu? by João Botelho
  • Luna Rossa by Antonio Capuano
  • Hollywood Hong Kong by Fruit Chan
  • Bully by Larry Clark
  • Y tu Mamá También by Alfonso Cuarón
  • Sauvage Innocence by Philippe Garrel
  • Eden by Amos Gitai
  • Address Unknown by Kim Ki-Duk
  • Waking Life by Richard Linklater
  • Navigators by Ken Loach
  • Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair
  • How Harry Became a Tree by Goran Paskaljevic
  • Raye Makhfi by Babak Payami
  • The Triumph of Love by Claire Peploe
  • Luce dei miei occhi by Giuseppe Piccioni
  • L'Après-midi d'un tortionnaire by Lucian Pintilie
  • Beyond the Sun by Walter Salles
  • Hundstage by Urlick Seidll
  • Loin by André Téchiné


*Cinema del Presente

In competition...

  • L'amore probabilmente by Giuseppe Bertolucci
  • Hijos by Marco Bechis
  • Sisters by Sergej Bodrov Jr.
  • L'Emploi du Temps by Laurent Cantet
  • Me Without You by Sandra Goldbacher
  • Invincible by Werner Herzog
  • Larger Than by Jeffrey Jeturian
  • Tirana Year Zero by Fatmir Koçi
  • L'amore imperfetto by Giovanni Davide Maderna
  • Le souffle by Damien Odoul
  • Fifi Martingale by Jacques Rozier
  • Harmful Insect by Shiota Akihiko
  • Flower Island by Song Il-gon
  • L'uomo in più by Paolo Sorrentino
  • 13 Conversations About One Thing by Jill Sprecher
  • Reines d'un jour by Marion Vernoux
  • Água e Sal by Teresa Villaverde
  • Sábado by Juan Villegas
  • La fiebre del loco by Andrés Wood
  • Quitting by Zhang Yang


Out of Competition

  • The Curse of Jade Scorpion by Woody Allen
  • Birthday Girl by Jez Butterworth
  • John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars by John Carpenter
  • Lucky Break by Peter Cattaneo
  • Training Day by Antoine Fuqua
  • From Hell by Albert and Allen Hughes
  • Tosca by Benoît Jacquot
  • Heist by David Mamet
  • Fausto 5.0 by Isidro Ortiz and La Fura Dels Baus (Alex Ollé, Carlos Padrisa)
  • A.I. Artificiale Intelligence by Steven Spielberg





Dust by Milcho Manchevski (out of competition) will be the movie which will open the Festival.

Eric Rohmer will receive a Golden Lion for his career and will present his latest pic L'Anglaìse et le Duc.

That's all for now... I'll be back with more throughout the Festival.


Robert Bernocchi



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  • Jul 27, 2001 11:52:54 AM CDT

    I hope Warner Herzog gets the honor he deserves. He has given u

    by spike lee

    Werner's acting performance in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey Boy was fantastic as the bizarre father. "It is the end of wrestling".

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  • Jul 27, 2001 1:41:30 PM CDT

    Bully

    by scudd

    If Bully is anything like Kids, I am embarassed that the European film community will see this is a representation of American independent filmmaking. Kids was a ludicrous excuse to get underage actors and actresses to be lewd, perverted and moronic. How people consider Kids a classic is beyond me. Yeah, a black kid gets out of a pool and slaps his penis against his legs! What a masterpiece! Please. Kids was shameful and good for a few uneasy laughs. Thats about the extent of it.

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  • Jul 29, 2001 12:44:53 AM CDT

    BULLY is a masterpiece indeed--for one reason:

    by heywood jablomie

    Larry's relentless closeups of the Bijou Phillips cooter. Ah-ooga, ah-ooga!

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  • Jul 29, 2001 10:48:06 AM CDT

    Mamet, Allen, Spielberg, Carpenter out of competition? Whazzupwi

    by petros000

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