From Emma Stone’s bafflingly brilliant embodiment of a Victorian woman with the brain of an infant, to the mind-boggling costumes, Tony McNamara’s hilarious script, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s virtuosic direction, everything about this madcap picaresque is dazzling. We follow our heroine, the precocious Bella Baxter, as she escapes the home of her guardian and creator (a …
Like it or not, Woody Allen is back at Venice. The controversial filmmaker received a mixed welcome at the Venice International Film Festival on Monday: Attendees at a press conference reportedly spontaneously applauded for him, and his film, Coup de Chance, received a five-minute standing ovation. At the same time, protesters reportedly gathered outside the …
As Woody Allen attended the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of his new film Coup de Chance on Monday night, protesters alongside the red carpet loudly chanted “No rape culture!” In video from the demonstration, protesters are seen being pulled away from the event honouring Allen, who was decades ago accused of molesting Dylan …
Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite was an unequivocal success—an utterly bonkers 18th-century romp which thrilled audiences, dazzled critics, received 10 Oscar nominations, and secured Olivia Colman a well-deserved best-actress statuette. So, naturally, anticipation has been high for the Greek auteur’s feature-length follow-up, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival: Poor Things, an equally wacky period …