Venice Film Festival/2010
Saturday, July 31st, 2010From The Hollywood Reporter: “ Sofia Coppola’s comedic drama “Somewhere” and “Road to Nowhere,” a romantic thriller from veteran director Monte Hellman, were among the highlights of the main competition lineup for the 67th Venice Film Festival, which was released Thursday. Other in-competition films include Vincent Gallo’s “Promises Written in Water”; “Meek’s Cutoff,” a western from Kelly Reichardt; and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s drama “Attenberg.” Artistic director Marco Mueller said that — notwithstanding the presence of the 78-year-old Hellman — the competition lineup was the youngest ever in the storied history of the festival, with the average age among the directors of the 22 in-competition films just 47.” 
********As in previous years, Aielli & Benevento will offer its September bound Venice clients a unique set of specialized touring experience in and around the festival’s 10 day program. All told, the festival will include 79 world premieres, including the entire in-competition lineup for the fourth time in five years. The out-of-competition lineup had its share of highlights as well, with brothers Ben and Casey Affleck both appearing with directorial efforts — Ben with “The Town,” a crime thriller, and Casey with “I’m Still Here,” a documentary about actor Joaquin Phoenix, who is Casey Affleck’s brother in law. It will be the directorial debut for the younger Affleck. Venerable Italian directors Marco Bellocchio and Michele Placido return to the Lido with “Sorrelle Mai” and “Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male,” respectively, and Dennis Hopper’s “The Last Movie,” the actor’s 1971 directorial follow-up to “Easy Rider,” will screen as an unofficial homage to the actor, who died in May at the age of 74. As usual, Italian films were the best represented in the overall lineup, with 41 full-length features. But U.S. productions were second, with 19, followed by France with 11 and Japan and China with 7 each. A total of 34 countries are represented with at least one official screening, including the Dominican Republic, which will see a film screen on the Venice Lido for the first time ever in “Jean Gentil,” a film about neighboring Haiti that will screen in the Orizzonti sidebar.
67TH ANNUAL VENICE FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP
- “Black Swan,” Darren Aronofsky, U.S. (Opening Film)
- “La Pecora Nera,” Ascanio Celestini, Italy
- “Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola, U.S.
- “Happy Few,” Antony Cordier, France
- “The Solitude of Prime Numbers,” Saverio Costanzo, Italy, Germany, France
- “Silent Souls,” Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia
- “Promises Written in Water,” Vincent Gallo, U.S.
- “Road To Nowhere,” Monte Hellman, U.S.
- “Balada Triste de Trompeta,” Alex de la Iglesia, Spain, France
- “Venus Noir,” Abdellatif Kechiche, France
- “Post Mortem,” Pablo Larrain, Chile, Mexico, Germany
- “Barney’s Version,” Richard J. Lewis, Canada, Italy
- “We Believed,” Mario Martone, Italy, France
- “La Passione,” Carlo Mazzacurati, Italy
- “13 Assassins,” Takashi Miike, Japan, U.K.
- “Potiche,” Francois Ozon, France
- “Meek’s Cutoff,” Kelly Reichardt, U.S.
- “Miral,” Julian Schnabel, U.S., France, Italy, Israel
- “Norwegian Wood,” Tran Anh Hung, Japan
- “Attenberg,” Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
- “Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame,
- ” Tsui Hark, China “Three,” Tom Tykwer, Germany
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