Kore-eda Hirokazu on Adapting Fujimoto Tatsuki’s Manga for Venice Competition Film ‘Look Back’
“Look Back” is Kore-eda Hirokazu’s third time working from manga source material, but never before has the arthouse filmmaker drawn…
May El-Toukhy Stops Venice Competition Screening Of ‘Woman Unknown’ Over Subtitle Snafu; Film Goes On To Garner 7-1/2 Minute Ovation
May el-Toukhy, one of only two women in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year, took the unusual step…
Susan Sarandon Says She’s Had “Movies Taken Away” Over Her Support of Palestine
By Kimberly Nordyke September 6, 2026 3:56pm
‘Woman Unknown’ Review: Some More Problematic Sex — and Its Consequences — by Denmark’s May el-Toukhy
Against the rubble gray and stiff mahogany with which director May el-Toukhy washes out her post-Second World War Copenhagen, the…
‘Woman Unknown’ Review: A Sharp, Haunting Portrait of Denmark’s Post-War Reckoning
By Richard Lawson September 6, 2026 1:15pm
‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ Review: A Vietnam Vet Reckons with PTSD in a Heavy-Handed Trauma Drama
By Jordan Mintzer September 6, 2026 12:01pm
‘Agata the Writer’ Review: Mia Wasikowska Plays an Author Adrift and Short of Ideas, in a Sly, Witty Film With Plenty
As anyone who has made a great-author biopic (or even watched one, for that matter) can tell you, writing is…
Lee Chang-Dong’s ‘Possible Love’ Earns 6.5-Minute Standing Ovation At Venice World Premiere
Possible Love, the first film from Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong since 2018’s Burning, earned a 6½-minute Sunday evening following its…
‘Possible Love’ Cast Sobs as Lee Chang-dong’s Epic Embraced at Venice With 6-Minute Standing Ovation
Acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returned after 24 years to the Venice Film Festival, where he was warmly embraced…