With its 2025 line-up, announced Tuesday, July 22, Venice Film Fest has again taken central position of the Oscar award season with a program packed with large number of must-see movies.
Alpha: Gallic Writer-Director Julia Ducournau’s Body Horror Tale, Allegory of HIV/AIDS Plague (Cannes Film Fest 2025)
July 21, 2025 by
Almost inevitably, the fictitious disease in the film has been analyzed by most critics as an allegory for HIV/AIDS, with the plot reflecting the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s.
Film Theory: Context and Output of Work (Everett Hughes)
July 21, 2025 by
A given piece of a man’s work has to be judged not merely by itself but as one item in his complete or growing production–Sociologist Everett Hughes
Dead Man’s Wire: Van Sant’s New Thriller, Starring Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino (Venice, Toronto Fest)
July 21, 2025 by
Van Sant’s true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, starring
Margaret (2011): Kenneth Lonergan’s Provocative Exploration of Painful Adolescence, Starring Anna Paquin
July 20, 2025 by
Blast from the Past: “Margaret” Starring Anna Paquin Searchlight Pictures Kenneth Lonergan shot this drama about an Upper West Side teenager in 2005, as a follow-up to his superb indie, You Can Always Count on Me, the Sundance Fest winner, which was later nominated for several Oscars. The film’s title derives from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s […]
