With his dark comedy "A Sad Trumpet Ballad," screened Tuesday at the Venice film festival, Alex de la Iglesia said his aim was to "exorcise" the enduring pain of the Spanish Civil War.
The love story in a zany circus setting is "an exorcism of (...)
Casey Affleck on Monday presented an "unflinching" documentary tracing Joaquin Phoenix's lurch from actor to wannabe rapper in "I'm Still Here" at the Venice film festival.
During some 18 months of shooting, Phoenix "never shied away from letting (...)
French cinema icons Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu came together again at the Venice film festival as the oddest of couples in a farce with attitude: "Potiche."
Based on a play of the same name, the comedy relates the unlikely (...)
Steamy sex and blazing action contrasted with the peculiar desolation of the Hollywood lifestyle at the Venice film festival.
French director Antony Cordier's "Happy Few" provided enough sex for the festival's entire 11-day run as a wife-swapping (...)
Natalie Portman and jury head Quentin Tarantino shared the red carpet Wednesday as the prestigious Venice film festival kicked off with the screening of Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan."
Fans screamed for autographs as a minor galaxy of Italian (...)
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic revisited the horrors of war in his gut-wrenching film Triage as the Rome film festival kicked off on Thursday.
After surviving war, I feel touched by every conflict I see, said Tanovic, whose No Man s (...)
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin served up some pure entertainment at the Venice film festival Thursday with Soul Kitchen, a story of changing fortunes in a Hamburg suburb in the throes of gentrification.
The film is the first to offer (...)
Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney and Italian showgirl Elisabetta Canalis made their first public appearance together Tuesday for the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats at the Venice film festival.
The couple, who reportedly met early this (...)
Italian director Michele Placido offered a personal take on the 1968 anti-war movement in Italy in his autobiographical Il Grande Sogno (The Great Dream) at the Venice film festival.
This is a diary, a kind of popular novel, a political novel, (...)
Isabelle Huppert incarnates post-colonial whites terrorized by roving child soldiers in White Material, unveiled Sunday by French director Claire Denis.
In the drama set on a coffee plantation, a white family faces the wrenching decision of (...)
Michael Moore pulls no punches in his hard-hitting new documentary blasting evil capitalism, which premiered on Sunday at the Venice film festival.
But in typical fashion, the Oscar-winning filmmaker delivers the message of Capitalism: A Love (...)
Italy hogged the limelight at the Venice film festival as Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore took to the red carpet Wednesday with the leading lights of his epic Sicilian drama Baaria.
Fellow Sicilians Francesco Scianna and Margareth (...)