Venice film festival 2023
From Poor Things to American Fiction: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?
With the major fall film festivals out of the way, this year’s unusual strike-affected awards season is starting to shape up
Refugee film Green Border by Agnieszka Holland attacked by Polish government
The drama, which won a Venice film festival prize, was called ‘Nazi propaganda’ by proponents of Poland’s right-wing migrant policy
Feminist drama Poor Things wins Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen
Woody Allen: cheered on stage despite fog of accusation that won’t lift
Given rapturous applause at Venice, Allen has – like it or not – become an icon for post-#MeToo confusion around allegations and burdens of proof
Coup! review – exuberant class-struggle comedy set in Spanish flu lockdown
The life of an idiotic leftist journalist, isolating in his mansion, is upended by the real world in the form of Peter Sarsgaard’s mutinous chef in this broad, fun caper
Rage against the machine? Why AI may not mean the death of film
Generative technology is Hollywood’s current arch nemesis, but as exhibitors on Venice film festival’s ‘immersive island’ will tell you, AI, VR and XR could lead to a brighter future
Director Pablo Larraín: ‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’
Ava DuVernay: Black film-makers are told people don’t care about our stories
Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race
There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary
Protesters clash with security over Woody Allen allegations at Venice film festival – video
The controversial film director Woody Allen attended the Venice film festival to present his 50th film, Coup De Chance
Green Border review – gripping story of refugees’ fight for survival in the forest
Agnieszka Holland’s brutal and timely drama shines a dark spotlight on the horrors faced by refugees in the exclusion zone between Poland and Belarus
Hit Man review – Richard Linklater mixes philosophy and fun in true-crime caper
Auteurs and workers’ rights spotlit at a less starry Venice film festival
Sky Peals review – eerie tale of lost souls at the service station
Coup de Chance review – Woody Allen’s tale of ill-fated lovers is his best film in a decade
Venice film festival: An adulterous affair between bored millionaire’s wife Fanny and struggling writer Alain is surely bound for disaster
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wifeBased on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship
‘Nothing but good fortune’: Woody Allen has warm welcome at Venice film festival
Venice’s brave new world: my cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back
‘Very difficult to watch’: Priscilla Presley on new film about her life with Elvis
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