"La Mostra" 67 – 2010 celebrates John Woo
Written by Al Borde News Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:14
Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky is the opening film, in competition. Jingwufengyun – Chen Zhen (Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen) by Andrew Lau is the second film on the opening night (Out of Competition). Machete by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis is the midnight film on Sept. 1 (Out of Competition).
La Belle endormie by Catherine Breillat and Oki’s Movie (Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa) by Hong Sang-soo will be the opening and closing films of the Orizzonti section.
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. The Festival includes retrospectives and homages to major figures as a contribution towards raising awareness of the history of cinema.
The official line-up of the 67th Festival includes the official selections at Venezia 67, Out of Competition, Orizzonti, Controcampo Italiano, Italian Comedy, and The State of Things (retrospective section).
John Woo, Golden Lion for Lifetime AchievementAsian and Hollywood director and producer John Woo, an innovator of the contemporary language of cinema, has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
The acknowledgment recognizes a filmmaker who in recent decades, with his revolutionary conception of staging and editing, has renewed action movies to the core, introducing an extreme stylization (close to visual art), both in Asia (in films such as A Better Tomorrow, 1987; The Killer, 1989; Bullet in the Head (1990); Hard Boiled, 1991; the recent colossal film The Battle of Red Cliff), and in Hollywood (Broken Arrow, 1996; Face/Off 1997; Mission Impossible 2, 2000).
In his war and gangster film masterpieces, Woo has been capable of transfiguring hyperbolic motion (defying gravity) and exasperated violence with a highly original poetic and romantic infusion, sustained by an extremely personal and energetic figurative tension, similar to a surreal hallucination.
The International Jury for Venezia 67 is composed by:
• Quentin Tarantino (USA, director, President)
• Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico, writer, screenwriter, director)
• Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Lithuania, actress)
• Arnaud Desplechin (France, director, screenwriter)
• Danny Elfman (USA, composer)
• Luca Guadagnino (Italy, director, screenwriter)
• Gabriele Salvatores (Italy, director, screenwriter)
Venezia 67
International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres
DARREN ARONOFSKY - BLACK SWAN [OPENING FILM] USA, 103'
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
ASCANIO CELESTINI - LA PECORA NERA Italy, 93'
Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Maya Sansa
SOFIA COPPOLA - SOMEWHERE USA, 98'
Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura
ANTONY CORDIER - HAPPY FEW France, 103'
Marina Fois, Elodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle
SAVERIO COSTANZO - LA SOLITUDINE DEI NUMERI PRIMI Italy, Germany, France, 118'
Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Marinelli, Filippo Timi, Isabella Rossellini, Maurizio Donadoni
ALEKSEI FEDORCHENKO - OVSYANKI (SILENT SOULS) Russia, 75'
Igor Sergeyev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug, Victor Sukhorukov
VINCENT GALLO - PROMISES WRITTEN IN WATER USA, 75'
Vincent Gallo, Delfine Bafort, Sage Stallone, Lisa Love
MONTE HELLMAN - ROAD TO NOWHERE USA, 121'
Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain, John Diehl, Fabio Testi
ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA - BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA Spain, France, 107'
Carolina Bang, Santiago Segura, Antonio de la Torre, Fernando Guillen-Cuervo
ABDELLATIF KECHICHE - VENUS NOIRE France, 166'
Yahima Torres, Olivier Gourmet, André Jacobs
Out of Competition
Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the Festival
BEN AFFLECK - THE TOWN USA, 120'
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively
CASEY AFFLECK - I'M STILL HERE USA, 108'
(documentary) Joaquin Phoenix
MARCO BELLOCCHIO - SORELLE MAI Italy, 110'
Alba Rohrwacher, Donatella Finocchiaro, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Elena Bellocchio, Gianni Schicchi Gabrieli, Letizia Bellocchio, Maria Luisa Bellocchio, Alberto Bellocchio, Irene Baratta, Valentina Bardi, Silvia Ferretti, Giovanna Berretta, Anna Bianchi
PIERGIORGIO GAY - NIENTE PAURA – COME SIAMO COME ERAVAMO E LE
CANZONI DI LUCIANO LIGABUE Italy, 85'
(documentary) Luciano Ligabue, Carlo Verdone, Fabio Volo, Paolo Rossi, Javier Zanetti
GIANFRANCO GIAGNI - DANTE FERRETTI - PRODUCTION DESIGNER Italy, 52'
(documentary) Dante Ferretti
GIUSEPPE GIANNOTTI, ENRICO SALVATORI - DAI NOSTRI INVIATI - LA RAI RACCONTA LA MOSTRA DEL CINEMA 1954-1967 Italy, 62'
(documentary)
EMIDIO GRECO - NOTIZIE DEGLI SCAVI Italy, 89'
Giuseppe Battiston, Ambra Angiolini, Iaia Forte, Giorgia Salari
DENNIS HOPPER - THE LAST MOVIE (1971) USA, 108'
Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Tomas Milian
STEFANO INCERTI - GORBACIOF Italy, 85'
Toni Servillo, Mi Yang, Geppi Glejeses, Nello Mascia
ANURAG KASHYAP - THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS India, 103'
Kalki Koechlin, Naseeruddin Shah, Prashant Prakash
Orizzonti
The new trends in world cinema:
This is the Venice International Film Festival's most innovative section, a veritable documentary array of contemporary cinema in all it's forms of expression.
The Orizzonti section is competitive. The international Orizzonti Jury will be chaired by Shirin Neshat (Iran, director, president). The other jury members are Raja Amari (Tunisia, director), Lav Diaz (Philippines, director), Alexander Horwath (Austria, critic), Pietro Marcello (Italy, director).
The Jury will attribute the Orizzonti Award (reserved for feature-length films); the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize (reserved for feature-length films); the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film; the Orizzonti Award for Best Medium-Length Film.
DOUG AITKEN - HOUSE USA, 9'
(experimental film) Marilyn Aitken, Robert Aitken
JOHN AKOMFRAH - THE NINE MUSES UK, Ghana, 93'
(documentary)
VICTOR ALIMPIEV - SLABYJ ROT FRONT (WEAK ROT FRONT) Russia, 12'
(experimental film)
YURI ANCARANI - IL CAPO Italy, 15'
(documentary)
MAURO ANDRIZZI - EN EL FUTURO Argentina, 52'
MARTIN ARNOLD - SHADOW CUTS Austria, 5'
(experimental film)
GUILLERMO ARRIAGA - EL POZO Mexico, 8'
Humberto Berlanga, Francisca Urquieta
DANILO BAROZZI, SEBASTIANO CANTALUPO, MARCO CASTELLANI, FABIO CIOTTI, ANTONIO IACOBONE, STEFANO IANNI, CARLO LIBERATORE, COSIMO GABRIELE SCARANO, ANTONIO MOSCAGGIURA, ALESSANDRO VENUTO, ANTONELLA DEPLANO - UN ANNO DOPO –
PROGETTO MEMORY HUNTERS [OUT OF COMPETITION] Italy, 22'
(documentary)
CATHERINE BREILLAT - LA BELLE ENDORMIE [OPENING FILM] France, 82'
Carla Besnaïnou, Julia Artamonov, Kérian Mayan, David Chausse
NOËL BURCH, ALLAN SEKULA - THE FORGOTTEN SPACE Netherlands, Austria, 110'
(documentary)
The independent and parallel sections include:
- International Critics' Week (A series of 7 films - debut works - independently selected by a commission nominated by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics)
- Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days (A series of 12 films independently organized by a commission nominated by the Italian Association of Film-makers (ANAC - Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici) and by the Association of Independent Directors and Producers (API - Associazione Autori e Produttori Indipendenti).
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