Tag: New Order
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Michel Franco Embraces His Outsider Status: ‘I Would Never Work in Hollywood’
Three years after polarizing the Venice Film Festival with his controversial class warfare drama “New Order,” Mexican director Michel Franco returned to the Lido this week to debut his latest movie, “Memory.” The film, which stars Jessica Chastain as an adult caretaker who forms a romantic connection with a dementia patient, was hailed by critics…
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‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ wins two awards at Stockholm Film Festival
Swedish Film Institute announces Wild Card funding recipients for debut development funding.Berlin Alexanderplatz by Burhan Qurbani is the big winner at the 2020 Stockholm International Film Festival, taking the Bronze Horse for best film and also the best actor prize for Welket Bungué.Mexican director Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features was also a double winner for best…
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival
“Nomadland” has received the Golden Lion Award as the best film of the 2020 Venice International Film Festival, a jury headed by Cate Blanchett announced on Saturday.The Searchlight drama, a simultaneous premiere by the Venice, Telluride and Toronto festivals, was directed by Chloe Zhao and stars Frances McDormand as a woman who travels through the…
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Venice Film Festival Winners List (Updating Live)
On the final night of the Venice Film Festival, the awards ceremony of the official selection is currently in progress.Prizes will be handed out in the virtual reality and debut feature contests, before winners in the Horizons section, under the jury presidency of French filmmaker Claire Denis, are announced. Finally, Competition jury president Cate Blanchett…