Venice Announces

VENICE ANNOUNCES

The Venice Film Festival announced its lineup this morning.  As always (and as they did last year) there's always the possibility that they could add to that lineup as time goes on.

At any rate, here's the lineup:

Venice Film Festival Lineup

In Competition:

The Rooftops

L’intrepido

Miss Violence

Tracks

Via Castellana Bandiera

Tom at the Farm

Child of God

Philomena

La Jalousie

The Zero Theorem

Ana Arabia

Under the Skin

Joe

The Police Officer’s Wife

Parkland

Kaze Tachinu

The Unknown Known

Sacro Gra

Stray Dogs

Out of Competition:

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Gravity

Moebius

Locke

Unforgiven

Wolf Creek 2

Home from Home

Gondola

The Canyons

Che Strano Chiamarsi Federico Scola Racconta Fellini

Walesa: Man of Hope

  

And a couple of documentaries to notice from that portion of Venice’s program:

The Armstrong Lie

At Berkeley

Here’s my take.  As noted, Venice and Telluride usually share 3-4 titles.  From this morning’s announcement the most likely this year (at least from my perspective) are:

The Armstrong Lie

Philomena

The Unknown Known

The Zero Theorem

Gravity

Parkland

Still in the wind now after TIFF and Venice announcements: "Captain Phillips", "Saving Mr. Banks", "The Wolf of Wall Street", , "The Monuments Men", "The Counselor", "Grace of Monaco", "Diana", "Out of the Furnace"and "Foxcatcher".

Makes you wonder where or if any or all of these will land.  My bet right now is that New York gets "Wolf of Wall Street".  I've also been hearing that "Out of the Furnace" may forgo the festival scene entirely.  The "no fest" strategy could also be true for any of the films listed above, though there does seem to be some belief that "Captain Phillips" might well play in the San Juans.

Should be interesting over the next 5 weeks as we try to figure this out.

Here are some links to this morning's Venice coverage:

http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/venice-international-film-festival-line-up/

http://networkedblogs.com/Nvj08

https://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/venice-film-festival-lineup-includes-terry-gilliam-james-franco-lindsay-lohan-offerings-

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-film-festival-lineup-announced-592893

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/new-films-from-terry-gilliam-hayao-miyazaki-david-gordon-green-jonathan-glazer-top-70th-venice-film-festival-line-up-20130725

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/venice-film-festival-lineup-unveiled

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/venice-lineup-features-new-films-from-gilliam-franco-morris-miyazaki-and-many-more

More tomorrow...