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\n Venice Film Festival<\/B>

\n31 August – 10 September 2016

\nVenice, Italy

\nVenice website<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

With a star-studded line-up but no opening night gala to present them (the event was cancelled at short notice in solidarity with the victims of the powerful earthquake that hit a stretch of central Italy on 24 August), the Venice Film Festivals puts the focus right on the films of this year\u2019s promising selection.<\/p>\n

The first film on show to ring in the 73rd edition of the festival on 31 August is La La Land<\/i><\/b>, Damien Chazelle\u2019s light-haerted musical follow up to Whiplash <\/i>, while Antoine Fuqua\u2019s remake of The Magnificent Seven<\/i><\/b> will serve as the closing film on 10 September, following its world premiere at TIFF just two days before.<\/p>\n

Among the 20 titles competing for the Golden Lion this year are Denis Villenueve\u2019s Arrival <\/i><\/b>, which stars Amy Adams as a linguistics expert recruited by the United States government after an alien spacecraft lands on Earth, and Tom Ford\u2019s Noctural Animals<\/i><\/b>, a thriller set in the L.A. art scene and the Texas criminal underworld. Ana Lily Amirpour\u2019s highly anticipated second feature, the dystopian love story The Bad Batch<\/i><\/b>, will also screen in competition along with The Light Between Oceans<\/i><\/b>, Derek Cianfrance\u2019s follow up to The Place Beyond the Pines<\/i>, Francois Ozon\u2019s foray into period drama with Frantz<\/i><\/b> and Pablo Larrain\u2019s Jackie<\/I><\/b>, a biopic of sorts of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. <\/p>\n

Also worth of note are Amat Escalante\u2019s The Untamed<\/i><\/b>, the Mexican director\u2019s second feature after the critically acclaimed Heli<\/i> which premiered in Cannes in 2013 and Brimstone<\/i><\/b> by Dutch director Martin Koolhoven, hailed as a female empowerment Western about a woman falsely accused of a crime.<\/p>\n

Wim Wenders is back on the Lido with his latest venture into 3D filmmaking called The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez<\/i><\/b>, based on a play by his Wings of Desire<\/i> co-writer Peter Handke, while Terence Malick presents his IMAX documentary Voyage of Time<\/i><\/b>, which has been described as a \u2018celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse.\u2019<\/p>\n

The more cutting-edge Horizons sidebar, another competitive section that runs parallel to the main selection, features Kei Ishikawa\u2019s Gukoroku<\/i><\/b>, a promising debut feature about a multiple murder in Tokyo, alongside Bill Morrison\u2019s Dawson City: Frozen Time<\/i><\/b>, based on a collection of some 500 films dating from the 1910s and \u201920s found buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s documentary offering is as strong as ever including Andrew Dominik\u2019s Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds documentary One More Time with Feeling<\/i><\/b> and Safari<\/i><\/b> by Austrian maverick Ulrich Seidl, about trophy hunting in Africa. Screening in the Venice Classics strand is David Lynch The Art of Life<\/i><\/b>, the third in a trio of documentaries about Lynch by filmmaker Jon Nguyen who collaborated on the last instalment with Victoria<\/i> co-writer and editor Olivia Neergaard-Holm, while the Italien Horizons entry Liberami<\/i><\/b> looks at the dramatic increase in exorcism in the contemporary Catholic Church. <\/p>\n

The standout Italian offering in the official selection however is Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s TV series The Young Pope<\/i><\/b>, starring Jude Law as conservative, cigarette-smoking American pontiff Pius XIII, of which the first two episodes will be presented as a special event. Plus, we also look forward to Japanese manga movie Gantz:O<\/i><\/b> by Japanese director Yasushi Kawamura which will play out-of-competition as a midnight movie. <\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

For more information about the programme visit the Venice website<\/A>. <\/div>\n
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