‘Apples’ Venice Trailer: A Surreal Meditation On Memory & Loss From Director Christos Nikou

Vanessa Kirby wears her face mask while walking around the city after lunch on Sunday (September 13) in Venice, Italy.

“Dick Johnson is Dead” is not the typical documentary. In fact, one could argue that it’s more of a therapeutic exercise than a film.

Christos Nikou was there at the start of the Greek Weird Wave as the assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy Dogtooth (2009), the movie that launched the absurdist cinema movement partly inspired by the chaos in Greece triggered by the global financial crisis. More than a decade later, Nikou is adding his own twist to the movement with his assured directorial debut.

Alissa Simon Film CriticThe winner of Karlovy Vary’s East of the West prize for her debut, “The Wednesday Child” (2015), Hungarian multihyphenate Lili Horvát screens “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival after its world premiere in Venice Days.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorBlue Fox Entertainment has acquired She Is the Ocean, the new documentary from Inna Blokhina (On the Wave) that follows nine women from across the globe who share a deep and profound love of the ocean.

It’s here! The newest Real Housewives franchise for you to obsess over, the first in FOUR YEARS!

Bravo announced The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City — and the wait is (almost) over.The network revealed the cast — Lisa Barlow, Mary Cosby, Heather Gay, Meredith Marks, Whitney Rose and  Jen Shah — and trailer for the upcoming series on Wednesday, September 9.“Perfection is attainable,” Heather says at the top of the teaser before revealing she’s a “purebred pioneer Mormon.”The trailer wastes no time tackling all of the women’s religion, with Lisa also revealing she’s Mormon — “by choice.”

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is finally here.The season 1 trailer for the highly anticipated series dropped Wednesday, introducing Housewives fans to the lux lives of the women of RHOSLC: Lisa Barlow, Mary Cosby, Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, Meredith Marks and Jen Shah. The beautiful bunch are letting viewers into the wintery playground that is Salt Lake City, where bank accounts are rich, and religion is richer.

Bravo is taking us to Utah!

A director whose film is premiering at the Venice Film Festival has said the decision to wear see-through masks on the red carpet in support of deaf and hard of hearing communities is an “inclusive message”.

Lise Pedersen “Harvest” (“Jana”) by Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ely Dagher is one of six films from Africa and the Middle East selected for the Final Cut section in Venice Film Festival industry event, Venice Production Bridge.The film’s producers at France’s indie outfit Andolfi are hoping to pick up prizes in Venice, in kind or in cash, that will allow them to fill their funding gap and wrap up post-production by the end of the year, with the goal of returning to Cannes in 2021.Dagher won

 Nick Cordero , the Broadway star who died from COVID-19 on July 5, is set to air on broadwayondemand.com on Sunday starting at 7 p.m. EST.

Lise Pedersen Feltrinelli Editore, which is behind Roberto Saviano’s bestselling novel “ZeroZeroZero,” which was adapted into a TV series for Sky Atlantic, Canal Plus and Amazon Prime, is one of 18 prestigious publishers from across Europe attending Venice Film Festival’s Book Adaptation Rights Market (BARM).The first two episodes of the “ZeroZeroZero” series, which offers a gritty account of the global cocaine trade and stars Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan and Gabriel Byrne, had their world

Filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is no stranger to the film festival circuit, with his 2005 film “Johanna” screening at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, before “White God” took home the Prize Un Certain Regard later in 2014. “White God” was even selected to be Hungary’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSusanna Nicchiarelli’s “Nico, 1988,” about the German singer who performed with the Velvet Underground, made a splash in Venice in 2017 when it took top honors in the cutting-edge Horizons section.

In a welcome sign for a struggling independent film market, the Venice Film Festival kicked off this week with a series of international deals. Sony Pictures Classics picked up worldwide rights, outside of Italy, for Luca Guadagnino’s documentary Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, which covers the life of fashion icon Salvatore Ferragamo.

Taylor Hill and Frida Aasen both look amazing while making a red carpet appearance at the 2020 Venice Film Festival on Thursday night (September 3) in Venice, Italy.

In a post-COVID-19 world, ruminating upon memories seems like an everyday occasion—reflecting on the ways that that civilization functioned before the impact of an unforeseen global pandemic that robbed the globe of its perceived normality.

“Tehran” is coming to North American audiences.