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Venice Film Festival
Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice
What did you miss by skipping the September fests? This batch of movies, some worth catching
Spring Breakers: Disney Channel Girls Gone Wild
Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens shake beaucoup booty in outlaw auteur Harmony Korine’s lurid parody-tribute to MTV mindlessness
Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep: Old Radicals Die Hard
That icon of movie liberalism rounds up some fine old stars—Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte—for a thriller about veterans of the Weather Underground
Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies
The Canadian actress-director probes the mysteries of her family history in the most fulfilling, devastating work at this year’s Venice Film Festival
Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder: Rapturous, Forbidding, Wondrous
Earning boos and bravos at Venice, this daunting experiment is also a rapturous photo essay on carnal and spiritual love
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master: There Will Be Boredom
Don’t believe the hype that this is a Scientology exposé. The director of ‘There Will Be Blood’ is just replaying his old father-son fixation, with indifferent results
Bad 25: Spike Lee’s Thrilling Tribute to the Michael Jackson Album
A quarter-century to the day after its release, Lee lays out the soul and the science behind the King of Pop’s followup to ‘Thriller’
The Iceman: A Killer Role for Michael Shannon
Your favorite mild-mannered psychopath scores big at Venice as a real-life contract killer who boasted of more than 100 hits for the Jersey mob
Viva Venezia! Returning to the Venice Film Festival, the World’s Most Simpatico Cinematic Celebration
In its 69th session, Venice presents new films by Terrence Malick, Spike Lee and Paul Thomas Anderson. Read all about them right here over the next week.