Venice 2018 Out of Competition
Other Venice categories and lists: Films I'm Excited to See, In Competition, Venice Classics, Orizzonti. - by Keith Simanton, Senior Film Editor
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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsJohn HustonOja KodarPeter BogdanovichAt a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.Special Event
- DirectorMorgan NevilleStarsAlan CummingPeter BogdanovichOja KodarIn the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.Special Event
- CreatorSaverio CostanzoStarsAlba RohrwacherMargherita MazzuccoGaia GiraceA woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.Special Screening
- DirectorRoberto AndòStarsLaura MoranteJerzy SkolimowskiAlessandro GassmannValeria is a ghostwriter for a screenwriter lacking inspiration. When she gets a plot of a new film by a mysterious character, an exciting intrigue starts.Fiction
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiPierre ArditiValeria GolinoA woman has to deal with a recent breakup and the challenge of writing her next film while she's on vacation with her eccentric family in a villa on the French Riviera.Fiction
- DirectorBradley CooperStarsLady GagaBradley CooperSam ElliottA musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.Fiction
- DirectorGastón DupratStarsAndrea AcattoLucas ArandaRaúl ArévaloArturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.Fiction
- DirectorPierre SchoellerStarsGaspard UllielAdèle HaenelOlivier GourmetThe intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblée Nationale.Fiction
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsMartina GusmánGraciela BorgesIsidoro TolcachirWhen Eugenia returns to the country house called La Quietud, after her father has suffered a stroke she's reunited with her sister Mia. Traumas from their past resurface.Fiction
- DirectorS. Craig ZahlerStarsMel GibsonVince VaughnTory KittlesOnce two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation.Fiction
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChao DengLi SunRyan ZhengIn a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.Fiction
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWater and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.Non-Fiction
- DirectorRon MannStarsRick KellyCindy HulejDorothy KellyFive days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars.Non-Fiction
- DirectorFrancesca MannocchiAlessio RomenziAccording to a Biblical saying, the children are punished for their parents' sins. But, is this the case with the orphans that ISIS suicide bombers left behind in Iraq? The directors traverse the devastated city of Mosul, recently liberated, and follow the ISIS orphans and their fate in the aftermath of war, as they examine whether Iraq will be able to accept them in an attempt to reconcile the population or vengeance and retaliation will prevail. Children deprived of their innocence, trained to fight and become suicide bombers, might still have hope for a better future. As long as the rule "an eye for an eye" doesn't apply, leading to a further generation blinded by hatred.Non-Fiction
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsSteve BannonBill ClintonHillary ClintonA portrait of controversial political strategist and former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon.Non-Fiction
- DirectorGastón SolnickiStarsGastón SolnickiA man wanders the streets of Vienna, guided by the memory of a friend who has recently passed away. The vestiges of a once sumptuous empire become the setting for a cinematic elegy and a dark celebration of life.Non-Fiction
- DirectorGiorgio TrevesStarsRoberto HerlitzkaStefania RoccaAlessandro Federico1938 - 2018: Eighty years after the Promulgation of the Fascist Racial Laws: an important and unfortunately very topical anniversary. Eighty years ago, Italian population, who had not a tradition of anti-Semitism, was pushed by the fascist propaganda into accepting the persecution of a minority, which had been living in Italy for centuries.Non-Fiction
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeTsai Ming-liangRadically rethinking the tired talking-heads template, Tsai Ming-liang's latest digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue. Comprised of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals (Tsai devotees will no doubt recognize his long-time muse, Lee Kang-sheng), the film shrewdly deemphasizes language while reducing context to a bare minimum. In their place, the beauty and imperfections of each face take center stage. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack of dynamically modulating drone frequencies, Tsai's subjects variously speak, stare, and, at one point, sleep as the camera quietly registers the weight of personal history and accumulated experience writ beautifully across every last pore and crevasse.Non-Fiction
- DirectorFrederick WisemanFollowing the 2016 presidential election, Frederick Wiseman's documentary dissects small-town America to understand how its values impact and influence the political landscape of the nation.Non-Fiction
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsAchinoam NiniMathieu AmalricLamis AmmarOn a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.
- DirectorYervant GianikianStarsWalter ChiariYervant GianikianAngela Ricci LucchiA director revisits the diaries of Angela, a fellow film-lover and companion, many years later.
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsAmos GitaiClara KhouryMakram KhouryIn his latest film, A Letter to a Friend in Gaza, Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud Darwish, and Amira Hass.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPepe MujicaAn examination of the life, times, and legacy of Uruguay's last president, José "Pepe" Mujica.