Venice Classics News Today

A Lebanese woman living in 1980s London embarks on a visionary journey through female protest and defiance in the newly restored classic Leila and the Wolves. Director Heiny Srour remembers its production.

Cinema Guild has acquired the North American distribution rights for the new 4K restoration of Shinji Somai’s 1993 film Moving from MK2 Films.

Cinema Guild has acquired the North American distribution rights for the new 4K restoration of Shinji Somai’s 1993 film Moving from MK2 Films. The New…

A restored version of 'Moving,' a classic Japanese Film directed by Somai Shinji, sets its North American theatrical release.

U.S.-based distributor Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights to the newly-restored 4K version of Somai Shinji’s 1993 classic “Moving” from French…

Today, when even the smallest towns in India are seeing a proliferation of film festivals, it may seem strange that it took the world 37 years of filmmaking to figure out the need and usefulness...

Nicolas Rapold on the 80th Venice Film Festival

THE EIGHTIETH EDITION of the Venice Film Festival was stacked, strong, and, gratifyingly, a place where ambitious work was rewarded rather than the few white elephants. With awards chatter (somewhat) muted as the SAG-AFTRA strikes kept actors away, there was no choice but to pay attention to the films. The jury, a formidable group led by Damien Chazelle, awarded the Golden Lion to Poor Things—Yorgos Lanthimos’s gloriously ribald, eye-boggling voyage of discovery that, in its first minutes, w...

The film, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, stars Emma Stone as a woman who goes on a sexual and philosophical journey. The announcement of its win was met with a roar of applause.

Hong Kong-based, Mainland China-born auteur Yonfan has scandalized and enthralled Chinese-speaking parts of Asia in a career that has spanned fine-art…