'Nomadland': Film Review | Venice 2020

Neon has picked up North American rights to New Order,the new feature from Mexican director Michel Franco that won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month. The feature, which also played at the San Sebastián and Toronto fests, and is screening at the upcomingLondon and Chicago film festivals, is a look at a violent uprising against the wealthy ruling class.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorNeon has taken North American rights to Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco’s latest feature, New Order, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.Conceived six years ago, Michel Franco’s timely class conflict drama sees a high-society wedding interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests as protests rage on the streets.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Michel Franco’s dystopian social thriller “New Order.” The movie was this year’s winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.Set in a near-future Mexico City while protests rage, “New Order” focuses on a high society family preparing for a wedding when a former employee seeking emergency medical funds intrudes on the festivities.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineSince early March, when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, and businesses across the United States started to shutter, live comedy — like all kinds of live performance — has been virtually nonexistent.

American audiences might not be very familiar with Ester Exposito, but she’s a huge international star thanks to her hit Netflix series Elite!

American audiences might not be very familiar with Ester Exposito, but she’s a huge international star thanks to her hit Netflix series Elite!

Throughout his career writing for film, television and the stage, from The West Wing, Charlie Wilson's War and The Newsroom to A Few Good Men and To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin has shown a consuming fascination with the trembling institutions of American politics and justice.

Jessica Alba has become a master of TikTok as she often partners with her eldest child, Honor.

Focusing as much on bystanders to a historical event as on its central character, documentarian Keith Maitland follows up his brilliant (and Emmy-winning) Tower with Dear Mr. Brody, another inventive look at a fifty year-old piece of American history: In January 1970, a 21 year-old "hippie millionaire" announced to the media that he intended to give his money away to anyone who'd ask for it.

David Bowie in Stardust has been released – check it out below.The film, an unauthorised biopic about Bowie in 1971 mapping his infamous US tour and the creation of the Ziggy Stardust persona, has set a UK premiere date at Raindance Film Festival.The first screening will take place at a socially-distanced opening night gala in London on October 28 with the film’s director Gabriel Range in attendance.Check out the new image here:Stardust will not include any of Bowie’s songs, as the musician’s

Endless drunken sex in exotic locales is no kind of fun for the star of William Olsson's Lost Girls & Love Hotels, a sober adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan's novel of the same name. Running away from herself —assuming she has a coherent self to run from —a young American woman remains just employed enough to pay rent in Tokyo while spending the rest of her time drunk and/or in bed with strangers at the quirky pay-by-the-hour destinations that hold such appeal for tourists.

Also Read: Noomi Rapace's 'The Secrets We Keep' Acquired by Bleecker StreetNoomi Rapace stars as Maja, trying her best to live the American Dream as a mother of a young son and wife to Lewis (Chris Messina), whom she married in Europe when he served with the medical corps in 1946, after the end of fighting.

Chris Rock has defended Jimmy Fallon over a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch in which he imitated the comedian while wearing blackface.

Americans abroad Chloe (Irish actor Denise Gough, better known for her stage work, especially in the National Theatre revival of Angels in America) and Mickey (Sebastian Stan, a.k.a. the Winter Solider in the Marvel franchise) are the central couple in Argyris Papadimitropoulos' latest feature Monday (his previous was Suntan).

VENICE, Italy -- Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at a slimmed-down Venice Film Festival, which was held against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.Zhao and McDormand appeared by video from the United States to accept the award, given virus-related travel restrictions made reaching the Lido in the Italian lagoon city difficult if not impossible for many Hollywood filmmakers and actors.“Thank you

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” is a tiny indie film on a huge scale, an intimate drama set against the vast spaces of the American West.

Todd McCarthy Go-her-own-way director Chloé Zhao closes out her exceptional trilogy about the dispossessed and left-behind in the modern American West with Nomadland, a cool, contemplative look at contemporary American outcasts whose foothold in society grows more precarious with every passing year.

Ben Croll Though ongoing border restrictions kept the Venice Film Festival off-limits to most of Hollywood, the Lido wasn’t entirely devoid of Americans. Casts and crews of selected films and other invitees were able to enter Italy in limited numbers, using festival invitation letters to circumvent the country’s ban on non-essential travel.

It's been 17 years since Gus Van Sant stunned and polarized audiences with Elephant, his transfixing, oddly lyrical response to the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, a national tragedy now almost normalized by the sickening frequency of mass shootings that have continued to stain American soil. A number of films in the years since have reflected on school shootings in provocative ways, among them We Need to Talk About Kevin, And Then I Go and Vox Lux.

Also Read: 'David Byrne's American Utopia' Film Review: Byrne and Spike Lee Burn Down the House With StyleHis parents Paul and Leann — both veterans themselves — rally to their son’s defense, and the next few years involve attempted defections to Russia and Venezuela, an application for asylum in Canada, a car accident on a snowy highway, allegations of government torture and interrogation using the drug Thorazine, and activists and journalists seeking to help out Matt, particularly in the wake