Venice Film Festival Announces Lineup

Earlier today, the 69th annual Venice Film Festival announced its lineup. Perhaps the two biggest (and most anticipated) films are Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder and Brian De Palma’s Passion, which both star Rachel McAdams. Malick is set to direct another film a year after the successful Tree of Life. It’s the first time in the director’s 43-year career that he’s directed films in back-to-back years....  read more

Quentin Tarantino Named Head Of Venice Film Festival Jury

The Venice Film Festival, held every year in September, has selected Quentin Tarantino to head this year’s festival jury. The fest gives out the Golden Lion award among other honors for filmmakers and actors. “He has become a studied and imitated ‘point of reference’, and he is perhaps the only American auteur to be adored worldwide like a rock star,” an announcement on the fest’s website gave as reasoning. “His highly original style draws dynamically from past movies, comics and popular Asian cinema, but does so to revive a taste for narrative plots, skilfully blending genre cinema and ‘pulp fiction’.”...  read more

Sufjan Stevens lends music to Natalie Portman's short film

This morning, The Playlist brought word that Eve, Natalie Portman's directorial debut, premiered at the Venice Film Festival accompanied by Sufjan Stevens tunes....  read more