“The Danish Girl,” Tom Hooper (U.K., U.S.) “The Endless River,” Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France) “A Bigger Splash,” Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France) “Rabin, the Last Day,” Amos Gitai (Isreal, France) “Marguerite,” Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium) “Beasts of No Nation,” Cary Fukunaga (U.S.) “Remember,” Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany) “Looking for Grace,” Sue Brooks (Australia) “Blood of My Blood,” Marco Bellocchio (Italy) “Frenzy,” Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar) Amy Berg is working on a two films per year pace and offers a docu-pic on Janis Joplin while we finally find out what Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s had in the works all this time: a docu on 70’s American auteur Brian De Palma.Īnd with today’s Lido announcements, we can offcially circle 2016 as the year of release and roll-out dates for the latest from the likes of Kelly Reichardt, Maren Ade, Gerardo Naranjo, Werner Herzog, Abdellatif Kechiche, Christophe Honore, Paul Verhoeven and Terrence Malick and his “other” film. While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to back years for docu offerings with The Eventjoining Maidan. Not unlike previous years, the 2015 edition has a good numbers of films from Italy and the U.S., with several France co-productions littered throughout and the addition of fresh faces with first time works from composer Piero Messina and artist/musician Laurie Anderson. With the exception of Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival’s contention for the Golden Lion won’t be mentioned during awards season, but who cares when you have the likes of Aleksander Sokurov, Luca Guadagnino and Marco Bellocchio in the line-up.
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