Upstart New York distributor 1-2 Special has added another indie gem to its fast-growing slate, picking up all rights in North America to Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada,…
Read more 1-2 Special Takes ‘Rose of Nevada’ for North America (Exclusive)Following an awkward interview moment at this month’s 82nd Venice International Film Festival that has gone viral on social media, Ayo Edebiri has apparently avoided the online discourse…
Read more Ayo Edebiri Talks “Uncomfortable” Venice Interview: “A Very Human Moment”A rushed follow-through leaves the film’s mere 105 minutes feeling somewhat purposeless in the grand scheme of things. Courtesy Venice Film Festival There’s something to be said about…
Read more Screening at Venice: Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire’In films like Grizzly Man, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog has been drawn to obsessive men whose hubris tricks them into believing they can…
Read more ‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Werner Herzog Remains Our Most Intrepid Interdimensional Explorer in Beguilingly Spiritual Nature DocThe director’s portrait of Francis Ford Coppola’s creative process is never allowed to probe deeply enough. Courtesy Venice Film Festival From Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis, Megadoc…
Read more Screening at Venice: Mike Figgis’ ‘Megadoc’The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable…
Read more Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas Talk Beatles, Abba and Brotherhood in Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘The Last Viking’The Gaza humanitarian crisis loomed large at the Venice Film Festival closing ceremony as multiple winners called for an end to the Israeli military campaign in the Palestinian…
Read more Gaza Crisis Dominates Venice Awards Ceremony As Winners Call For An End To Israeli Military ActionThe undeniably robust 82nd edition of the Venice International Film Festival has come to a triumphant finish. Heading into Saturday night’s awards ceremony, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s…
Read more Venice Film Festival Awards: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Wins Golden Lion“What is genius? It is imagination, intuition, decision, and speed of execution,” according to a line from Mario Monicelli’s film Amici Miei – Atto IIº. And it is…
Read more No Gown? For This Artist Attending Venice Film Festival 2025, That’s No Problem—a Bedsheet Will DoThe co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Moda Operandi, contributing editor at Vogue, and artistic director of Tiffany & Co.’s home collection shares her picks with Vanity Fair.…
Read more Venice Film Festival Red Carpet 2025: Lauren Santo Domingo Picks Her Best-Dressed ListCiao! The 82nd annual Venice Film Festival is underway and the stars have hit the canals, with this year’s world premieres including Yorgos Lanthimos kidnap thriller “Bugonia,” Noah…
Read more Venice Film Festival Reviews: ‘The Smashing Machine,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘After the Hunt,’ ‘Bugonia,’ ‘A House of Dynamite’ and MoreFashion trends may come and go, but, as the 16th annual DVF Awards proved at the Venice Film Festival 2025 last week, making a positive change in the…
Read more Inside the 16th Annual DVF AwardsThe magic of the Venice Film Festival is real, as I discovered—on the screen and the red carpets, the vaporettos and the streets of Lido. Venice is now…
Read more Carousing for a Good Cause: Inside the 2025 amFAR Venice Gala“I had met many great designers before, but he was different: he wore worn Stan Smiths, spoke naturally, loved the same bands and artists I did, and shared…
Read more Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs Celebrate Their Very Stylish Friendship at the Venice Film Festival 2025If you can’t be in Venice this year, Variety is bringing Venice to you. We’re publishing daily digital editions, running Aug. 29 – Sept. 2, including all the…
Read more Variety’s Venice Digital Daily, Day 4: Cinema Italiano Rides Fall Fest WaveEmma Stone. Getty Images The Venice Film Festival is always a glamorous affair, but this year’s prestigious competition just might be the most star-studded yet. The 11-day extravaganza,…
Read more The Best Red Carpet Fashion from the 2025 Venice Film FestivalMexico in the late 1980s. The eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt. It is a struggle that will…
Read more Mayra Hermosillo’s ‘Vanilla’ Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer)Two longtime friends will make for among Venice’s most-discussed red-carpet pairings. Sofia Coppola is the director of “Marc by Sofia,” a new A24 documentary premiering at Venice Sept.…
Read more Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs on Venice Festival Doc ‘Marc by Sofia’: ‘I Felt Very Comfortable Exposing Everything to Sofia‘An eternal “it girl” — charismatic, original and ahead of every curve right up until she died this year aged 78 — British singer-songwriter-actor Marianne Faithfull receives a…
Read more ‘Broken English’ Review: An Imaginative, Fittingly Eccentric Documentary Pays Starry Tribute to Marianne FaithfullDoha Film Institute CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi was fêted Saturday on the rooftop terrace of Venice’s The Gritti Palace hotel where she received Variety’s 2025 Achievement in International…
Read more Doha Film Institute CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi Receives Variety’s 2025 Achievement in International Film Award: ‘It’s Not Just About What We Have Achieved, It’s About What We Aspire To’