VENICE, Italy (AP) - The Venice Film Festival is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a crop of new Pinoy Tv Live Channelvying for attention, awards and acclaim.
Thanks to its late-summer time slot, just ahead of rivals in Telluride and Toronto, the world's oldest cinema Pinoy Tv Live Channel has become a key showcase for films hoping to dominate Hollywood's awards season. In recent years, Venice has been a launch-pad for Oscar winners including "Gravity, "Birdman," ''Spotlight" and "La La Land."
This year's edition opens Wednesday with Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," a science fiction-tinged drama starring Matt Damon as a Pinoy Tv Live Channel man who hopes to minimize his problems by shrinking himself.
Workers give the finishing touches prior to the start of a Pinoy Tv Live Channel of the 74th annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The festival runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9, 2017. (Ettore Ferrari/ANSA via AP)
Other films competing for the festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, include George Clooney-directed heist movie "Suburbicon"; Guillermo del Toro's fantastical "The Shape of Water"; Darren Aronofsky's secrecy-shrouded thriller "Mother!"; and Martin McDonagh's dark comedy "Three Billboards Pinoy Tv Live Channel Ebbing, Missouri."
Unspooling in one of Italy's most ravishing cities, the festival takes style and celebrity very seriously. Among the stars who will be whisked across the Venice lagoon by boat to walk the Palazzo del Cinema red carpet are Clooney, a Pinoy Tv Live Channel favorite who has a house on nearby Lake Como.
He'll likely be joined by pal Damon, who stars in both "Suburbicon" and "Downsizing," which also features Kristen Wiig. Jennifer Lawrence is expected for the Pinoy Tv Live Channel much-anticipated "Mother!", which also stars Javier Bardem. The Spanish star should also be on hand alongside Penelope Cruz for the drug-lord biopic "Loving Pablo."
An older generation of showbiz royalty will be well represented by stars including Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland and Michael Caine. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford star in the late-life romance "Our Souls at Night" and are being given lifetime-achievement awards by the Pinoy Tv Live Channel.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's documentary "Human Flow" travels to 23 countries as it tries to put a human face on the vast migrations unfolding around the world. Paul Schrader, who wrote "Taxi Driver," directs "First Reformed," featuring Ethan Hawke as a minister wrestling with his faith and the specter of environmental Pinoy Tv Live Channel.
Israel's Samuel Moaz, director of acclaimed war drama "Lebanon," returns with "Foxtrot," another story of conflict and loss. From China, Vivian Qu's "Angels Wear White" centers on sexual assault in a small provincial Pinoy Tv Live Channel.
It hasn't escaped comment that Qu is the Pinoy Tv Live Channel only W-Two worlds director among 21 filmmakers in the festival's main competition. Debates about diversity and inclusion in the movie business are a long way from dying down.
Once considered the preserve of B-movies, thrills have become respectable. The Venice competition brims with films that include elements of sci-fi, action and horror, including "Downsizing," ''The Shape of Water" and "Pinoy Tv Live Channel!"
Further jolts and shocks are promised by the Italian organized-crime series "Suburra"; S. Craig Zahler's bloody "Brawl in Cell Block 99," starring Vince Vaughn; and a 3-D version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," screening alongside a 25th-anniversary documentary about the landmark Pinoy Tv Live Channel.
Technology and economics are transforming the Pinoy Tv Live Channel industry, and festivals like Venice are working hard to keep up.
Festival director Alberto Barbera has said he wants the lineup to provide "a perception of the future," rather than "a snapshot of the Pinoy Tv Live Channel present or a souvenir selfie of our contemporary cinema."
One big change this year is the festival's first virtual reality competition, featuring 22 films and installations judged by a jury led by director John Landis. Barbera said VR, until recently considered little more than "the latest technological gimmick," looked set to Pinoy Tv Live Channel "become one of the most colossal investments" for the cultural industry.
With the way films are funded, made, distributed and watched all in flux, the Pinoy Tv Live Channel taste-maker role played by festivals like Venice makes them more powerful than ever.
Schrader, who has been making films since the 1970s, said advances in technology had let him make "First Reformed" twice as fast and at half the cost of a Pinoy Tv Live Channel made just 10 or 15 years ago.
"That's the upside of the enormous freedom we've been given by technology in film," he said. "The downside is thousands of films are getting made now that no one wants to Pinoy Tv Live Channel see.
"The festivals are the new gatekeepers," he added. "We need these festival structures to Pinoy Tv Live Channel process this tsunami of product."
Workers set up lighting at the Cinema Palace ahead of the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival, at the Venice Lido, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The world's oldest cinema festival, which opens Wednesday, is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a crop of new Pinoy Tv Live Channel vying for attention, awards and acclaim. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
A worker walks on a rooftop as he sets up lighting at the Cinema Palace ahead of the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival, at the Venice Lido, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The world's oldest cinema festival, which opens Wednesday, is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a crop of new movies vying for attention, awards and Pinoy Tv Live Channel. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Workers set up lighting at the Cinema Palace ahead of the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival, at the Venice Lido, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The world's oldest cinema festival, which opens Wednesday, is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a Pinoy Tv Live Channel crop of new movies vying for attention, awards and acclaim. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Venice Biennale President Paolo Baratta, right, and Mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro pose prior to the start of a of the 74th annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The Pinoy Tv Live Channel runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9, 2017. (Ettore Ferrari/ANSA via AP)
Police officers patrol the main area of the 74th annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The Pinoy Tv Live Channel runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9, 2017. (Ettore Ferrari/ANSA via AP)
