Venice Film Festival, 1 - 11 September 2010

The 67. Venice Film Festival opens tomorrow.

What follows is a listing of the films showing in the International Competition:


DARREN ARONOFSKY - BLACK SWAN [OPENING FILM]
USA, 103'
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder

ASCANIO CELESTINI - LA PECORA NERA
Italy, 93'
Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Maya Sansa

SOFIA COPPOLA - SOMEWHERE
USA, 98'
Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura

ANTONY CORDIER - HAPPY FEW
France, 103'
Marina Fois, Elodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle

SAVERIO COSTANZO - LA SOLITUDINE DEI NUMERI PRIMI
Italy, Germany, France, 118'
Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Marinelli, Filippo Timi, Isabella Rossellini, Maurizio Donadoni

ALEKSEI FEDORCHENKO - OVSYANKI (SILENT SOULS)
Russia, 75'
Igor Sergeyev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug, Victor Sukhorukov

VINCENT GALLO - PROMISES WRITTEN IN WATER
USA, 75'
Vincent Gallo, Delfine Bafort, Sage Stallone, Lisa Love

MONTE HELLMAN - ROAD TO NOWHERE
USA, 121'
Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain, John Diehl, Fabio Testi

ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA - BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA
Spain, France, 107'
Carolina Bang, Santiago Segura, Antonio de la Torre, Fernando Guillen-Cuervo

ABDELLATIF KECHICHE - VENUS NOIRE
France, 166'
Yahima Torres, Olivier Gourmet, André Jacobs

PABLO LARRAÍN - POST MORTEM
Chile, Mexico, Germany, 98'
Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers

RICHARD J. LEWIS - BARNEY'S VERSION
Canada, Italy, 132'
Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver

MARIO MARTONE - NOI CREDEVAMO
Italy, France, 204'
Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco, Toni Servillo, Luca Zingaretti, Michele Riondino, Francesca Inaudi, Anna Bonaiuto

CARLO MAZZACURATI - LA PASSIONE
Italy, 106'
Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Corrado Guzzanti, Cristiana Capotondi, Stefania Sandrelli, Kasia Smutniak

TAKASHI MIIKE - JÛSAN-NIN NO SHIKAKU (13 ASSASSINS)
Japan, 126'
Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki

FRANÇOIS OZON - POTICHE
France, 103'
Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, Jérémie Régnier


KELLY REICHARDT - MEEK'S CUTOFF
USA, 104'
Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson

JULIAN SCHNABEL - MIRAL
Usa, France, Italy, Israel, 112'
Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Yasmine Al Masri, Vanessa Redgrave

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI - ESSENTIAL KILLING
Poland, Norway, Hungary, Ireland, 83'
Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner

ANH HUNG TRAN - NORUWEI NO MORI (NORWEGIAN WOOD)
Japan, 133'
Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kora, Reika Kirishima

ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI - ATTENBERG
Greece, 95'
Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos

HARK TSUI - DI RENJIE ZHI TONGTIAN DIGUO (DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF PHANTOM FLAME)
China, 122'
Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bingbing, Tony Leung Ka Fai

TOM TYKWER - DREI
Germany, 120'
Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow

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Werner Herzog Selected As Jury President Of The Berlin Film Festival 2010

It has just been announced that German director Werner Herzog has been selected as Jury President of next year's Berlin Film Festival, running from 11th - 21st February 2010. It is not yet known who his co-jury members will be, but it is not expected for the Berlinale Jury to be complete much before February.

Herzog has had two films in previous Berlinale Competitions: Signs Of Life in 1968, and Nosferatu in 1979. As a surprise to some and a disappointment to Herzog himself, neither of his two entries that were shown at the Venice Film Festival this autumn - Bad Lieutenant and My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done - won any awards.

Although Herzog has another project that is currently in production - The Piano Tuner - it is not expected that it will be ready in time to be shown at next year's Berlin Film Festival.

So far, no official announcements have been made regarding the selection of films for the 2010 Berlinale - neither for the Competition nor for any of the sidebars - and the programme may not be complete until shortly before the festival kicks off. However, as next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Berlin-Fest, expectations are high for Berlin's main rival, Cannes, showed an extremely strong line-up when it celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007.

Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage, star of Herzog's Abel Ferrara-inspired Bad Lieutenant (USA 2009)

Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin, Germany 2009

Akin's film, already hailed by critics as taking the indigenously German genre of 'Heimat-Film' out of its mothballs and injecting it with new life, has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in autumn. It is scheduled to open across Germany at Christmas, but has already been sold to numerous foreign territories, including Spain, Italy, France, Greece, and the UK, where it is slated to open early next year. Watch the trailer here (in German):

A Single Man, Tom Ford, USA 2009

The trailer for Tom Ford's critically acclaimed, A Single Man, based on Christopher Isherwood's novel, has just been released. The film stars Julianne Moore and Colin Firth, who received the Golden Lion for Best Actor at this year's Venice Film Festival. Watch the trailer here: