wednesday 4 september 2024
Here comes the day of the Joker. Todd Phillips is looking for strike two with Joker: Folie à deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and a spectacular Lady Gaga. Will the sequel earn Phillips his second Golden Lion? Coming up against it in the main Competition is Diva Futura by Italian-Texan actress and filmmaker Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: the story of the famous porn talent scout Riccardo Schicchi, played by Pietro Castellitto. There’s one actor that we can tell wouldn’t mind bringing home a Lion, we are talking of Vincent Lindon, who plays the part of a widowed father in The Quiet Son by sister-and-sister filmmaking duo Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin...
- Soundtrack
Daily #8
The 81st edition through un/forgettable moments of music for cinema: Leurs enfants après eux & The Room Next Door
- Director's Cut
One might have simply expected a continuation of the first chapter, picking up with Arthur Fleck/Phoenix confined in Arkham psychiatric prison, waiting for trial for the murders he confessed to on live TV. But the film is much, much more than this, completely unexpected and surprising. It could be described as a musical that takes unpredictable turns, a film that is both extremely brave and tough, dark and radically pessimistic, with a very compelling Lady Gaga. I remember watching it in February at the Warner screening rooms in...
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- Concorso Venezia 81
- Concorso Venezia 81
- Out of Competition
- Orizzonti
- Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Extra
- Venice Classics
- Venice Classics
- Venice Classics Doc
- Highlights
by Giorgio Placereani
In Venice Classics the restoration of Bend of the River
- Focus
by Cesare Stradaioli
Focus on the actor in the cast of Todd Phillips' new Joker
- The version of...
by Loris Casadei
From Laurent Petitmangin's novel to the Coulin sisters' film
- Interviews
by Delphine Trouillard
The Coulin sisters in Competition at Venice 81 with The Quiet Son
- Interviews
by Anne Gauthier
Andrei Ujicăin's documentary on the historic Shea Stadium concert
press conference
palazzo del casinò
11.30 PISNI ZEMLI, SHCHO POVILNO HORYT' (SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH) (Out of Competition)
12.10 JOUER AVEC LE FEU (THE QUIET SON) (Venezia 81)
12.50 TWST / THINGS WE SAID TODAY (Out of Competition)
13.30 JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (Venezia 81)
14.10 DIVA FUTURA (Venezia 81)
12.10 JOUER AVEC LE FEU (THE QUIET SON) (Venezia 81)
12.50 TWST / THINGS WE SAID TODAY (Out of Competition)
13.30 JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (Venezia 81)
14.10 DIVA FUTURA (Venezia 81)
Solo accreditati / Press holders
15:00
Sala Casinò
- Out of Competition