Venice Film Festival 2. La La Land to Jackie. Venice Film Festival opener La La Land will go head to head with new films from Tom Ford, Denis Villeneuve and Derek Cianfrance as part of a 2. Oscar nominee Amy Adams. Fifty- six movies have been selected to premiere at the festival, including 2. Golden Lion. Many of these, particularly those screening at the start of the prestigious event before heading to the Toronto and Telluride festivals happening at the same time, will go on to enjoy awards season success.
The last two Best Picture Oscar winners, Spotlight and Birdman, both held their world premieres at Venice, as did special effects extravaganza Gravity in 2. Lili Elbe biopic The Danish Girl. La La Land, the original musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling from Whiplash’s Damien Chazelle kickstarts proceedings while the much- hyped remake of John Sturges classic The Magnificent Seven, starring Chris Pratt and Denzel Washington, will bring the festival to a close. Mel Gibson makes his Venice debut out of competition with World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge. Bond director Sam Mendes is president of this year’s jury, with the festival dedicated to late directors Michael Cimino and Abbas Kiarostami. The Light Between Oceans. Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz lead this big screen adaptation of ML Stedman’s romantic novel, helmed by The Place Beyond the Pines director Derek Cianfrance.
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La La Land. Whiplash director Damien Chapelle opens this year’s festival with this original musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as a couple of dreamers trying to make it big in Hollywood: she, a lonely aspiring actress; he, a cocky jazz pianist. Set in the days immediately after John F Kennedy’s 1. Cannes. Arrival. Oscars voters’ ears will have pricked up after hearing that Academy favourite Amy Adams takes the lead in this sci- fi flick from Sicario director Denis Villeneuve about mysterious aliens that arrive on Earth. Nocturnal Animals. Designer Tom Ford has cinematic strings to his bow, as proved with 2.
Venice premiere The Single Man. He’s back in the chair for this drama- thriller also starring Adams, this time as a divorcee whose troubled past returns to haunt her in the form of her ex’s unpublished book. Voyage of Time. This mind- frazzling documentary about the universe, time and our existence has taken director Terrence Malick 3. It comes in two versions: one lasting 4. Brad Pitt on Imax, and the other a full- length film voiced by Cate Blanchett on 3. Venice Film Festival runs from 3.
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