One of the biggest and oldest film festivals in the world is almost set to begin: the 79th annual Venice Film Festival will begin on August 31st and running through September 10th. The 2022 edition will open with the latest from Noah Baumbach with "White Noise". The director's last feature, "Marriage Story" in 2019 made it's world premiere in Venice, going on to receive critical accolades and award recognition including six Academy Award nominations. Adam Driver (who received an Oscar nod for "Marriage Story") and Greta Gerwig (returning to acting after making a big impression as a director) star in this dark horror-comedy based on the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo about a college professor who has made his name with a course on Hitler studies and has to deal with a toxic chemical accident that creates havoc in his small town.
"White Noise" is one title that will be in competition for prizes this year with Julianne Moore presiding as president of the jury. Other films that have been selected to compete will be new works from important figures of international cinema that includes Darren Aronofsky ("The Whale"), Luca Guadagnino ("Bones and All"), Alice Diop ("Saint Omer"), Martin McDonagh ("The Banshees Of Inisherin"), Joanna Hogg ("The Eternal Daughter"), Alejandro G. Inarritu ("Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths"), Laura Poitras ("All The Beauty And The Bloodshed"), Andrew Dominik ("Blonde"), Florian Zeller ("The Son") and Todd Field who returns with his first film in sixteen years (following "In The Bedroom" and "Little Children") with "Tár" starring Cate Blanchett set in world of classical music.
Some highlights of world premieres that will be screened out of competition will be actress, Olivia Wilde's directorial follow-up to "Booksmart" with "Don't Worry Darling"; "Pearl", Ti West's prequel to his slasher hit, "X" from earlier this year will make it's world premiere before hitting US theaters on September 16th; two veteran American directors will be on hand with "Nuclear", a documentary by Oliver Stone and Walter Hill's feature film, "Dead For a Dollar". And two Danish filmmakers will be presenting their television series at Venice; the notorious Lars von Trier with "The Kingdom Exodus" (which is it's third and final season) and Nicolas Winding Refn with "Copenhagen Cowboys".
Special Lifetime Achievement Golden Lions will be presented to French actress, Catherine Deneuve and American writer/director, Paul Schrader. The seventy-eight year old acting icon, who suffered a mild stroke in 2019, has made well over one hundred feature films over her lengthy career which includes "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", "Repulsion", "Belle de Jour", "The Hunger" and "Indochine". After writing the screenplays of "Taxi Driver" for Martin Scorsese and "Obsession" for Brian DePalma, Schrader made his directorial debut with "Blue Collar" in 1978, going on to write ("Raging Bull", "The Mosquito Coast", "The Last Temptation of Christ") and direct ("American Gigolo", "Cat People", "First Reformed") over thirty films. The latest from the seventy-six year old filmmaker, "Master Gardener" will make it's world premiere at the fest.
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