Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).
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It’s been a long year for the film, “The Personal History of David Copperfield.” After a warm reception at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the comedic re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ classic story seemed poised to have a great run in theaters earlier in 2020. Then the pandemic hit and Searchlight had to quickly change plans for the release.
Now, almost a full year after its world premiere, ‘David Copperfield’ is finally arriving in theaters. Continue reading ‘The Personal
.Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).
Manori Ravindran International EditorTo say that every sweaty, masked moment at the Venice Film Festival was nothing short of miraculous would be an understatement.Even now, having returned home to London after eight days in Venice, it’s incredible to me that it even happened. That, for instance, Tilda Swinton declared “Wakanda Forever!” on an actual stage in front of our eyes, and not through Zoom.
star as the beloved royal in Season 4 of the acclaimed Netflix show.“It felt weird,” McKnight, a legendary stylist famous for doing the ‘dos of Tilda Swinton, Kate Moss and Lady Gaga, told British Vogue. Despite it being one of his “first jobs after lockdown,” he said he initially questioned taking on the role to recreate his former client’s hair at first.“To be honest, Emma is playing Diana before I even met her, so it felt fine,” he said.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana is the latest celebrity to call for film festivals to adopt gender-neutral acting awards categories.Following in the footsteps of Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett and director Kornél Mundruczó, who have voiced their support for the change while at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Khurrana told us: “Gender-neutral awards should become the norm.
Pedro Almodovar wants to get people back into movie theaters.
Guy Lodge Film Critic“These are the rules of the game, the law of desire,” Tilda Swinton sighs, playing an unnamed woman — who, let it be said, looks and speaks and dresses an awful lot like Tilda Swinton — whose lover has left her, and can only be bothered to say goodbye over the phone.
Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton are both backing the Berlin Film Festival’s decision to do away with gendered acting awards and give only a Best Actor honour.
The Guardian), discussing the matter at this year’s Venice film festival, “you know life is too short for this.“And so I’m really happy to hear that about Berlin and I think it’s pretty much inevitable that everybody will follow. It’s just obvious to me.”Cate Blanchett, president of the festival’s jury this year, echoed Swinton’s thoughts, saying “I have always referred to myself as an actor.“I am of the generation where the word actress was used almost always in a pejorative sense.
Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorPedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton heated things up at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon, speaking to the press after the screening of the Spanish maestro’s first English-langauge project, The Human Voice. “Freely” based on the 1930 Jean Cocteau play, the 30-minute movie was shot after the coronavirus lockdown was lifted.
2020 Venice Film Festival officially kicked off last night – and saw some of cinema's biggest names grace the red carpet for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began earlier this year.
Manori Ravindran International EditorDirector Pedro Almodóvar has warned that remaining “imprisoned” at home after lockdown is a “dangerous habit,” for which the only antidote is cinema.The iconic “Pain and Glory” and “Volver” director is in Venice for his short film and first English-language effort “The Human Voice,” starring Golden Lion recipient Tilda Swinton.
coronavirus pandemic, many people have turned to films as a source of solace, an escape when they have felt isolated from the rest of the world.While several films have had to have their release dates delayed, Venice Film Festival is going ahead this year as planned, albeit with several changes put in place.Taking place from Wednesday 2 September until Saturday 12 September, the 77th edition of the film festival will see stars take to the socially-distanced red carpet, face coverings in hand as
Tilda Swinton is honouring Chadwick Boseman once again at the Venice Film Festival.
Chadwick Boseman continue to pour in from friends, fans and former co-stars. Tilda Swinton honored her fellow Marvel actor while attending the 77th Venice Film Festival, which kicked off in Italy on Wednesday.
Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorAfter a day of early press screenings and conferences, the Venice Film Festival officially was declared open this evening by the directors of several major European fests including Venice’s own Alberto Barbera and Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux.But before they got to the stage of the Sala Grande, there was plenty to remark upon during the first evening of the first major film industry gathering of the COVID pandemic era.
Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on the red carpet in Venice. That’s not to say, though, that the fashion is anything less than what we’ve come to expect from the Venice Film Festival.
Cate Blanchett is looking sophisticated and stylish.
Tilda Swinton is paying tribute to her fellow member of the Marvel universe, the late Chadwick Boseman.