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Venice: ‘Maria,’ ‘Queer,’ and ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Will Premiere in Competition (Full Lineup)
By Ryan Lattanzio,
12 hours ago
The lineup for the 81st Venice International Film Festival is here. Artistic director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco revealed the complete list of titles across sections early on Tuesday, July 23. Watch the live stream here or on YouTube .
Competition highlights included, as expected, Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie, Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” with Daniel Craig, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” Other gems in the lineup include “April,” from Georgian “Beginning” director Dea Kulumbegashvili; Brady Corbet’s “Fountainhead”-inspired epic “The Brutalist,” which runs a whopping 215 minutes and will present in 70mm; Aussie auteur Justin Kurzel’s thriller “The Order”; “Chevalier” director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest” with Caleb Landry Jones; and Halina Reijn’s psychosexual thriller for A24, “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
Out of competition across series and features, there’s new work from Harmony Korine, Alfonso Cuarón, Thomas Vinterberg, Errol Morris, Lav Diaz, Takeshi Kitano, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Claude Lelouch, and more. Jon Watts’ “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, will also premiere out of competition. Notable in the Horizons sections, Alex Ross Perry arrives with his first feature since 2018’s “Her Smell” with “Pavements,” a documentary about the iconic indie rock band Pavement.
In the Venice Classics section, which is dedicated to nonfiction films about cinema, Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler premiere “From Darkness to Light,” a documentary about Jerry Lewis’ unreleased Holocaust film “The Day the Clown Cried.” The doc is expected to include previously unseen footage from the comedian’s 1972 film maudit about a circus clown imprisoned at a concentration camp.
This year’s festival runs August 28 to September 7, with a filmmaker-heavy competition jury chaired by Isabelle Huppert alongside directors James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, and Julia von Heinz, and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. Sections announced out of the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday included the competition, out-of-competition titles in film and TV, documentaries, and the Orizzonti (Horizons) section. Venice has already announced the Immersive lineup for 2024.
Venice news arrives on top of a busy week for festival announcements, as Toronto unveiled its galas and special presentations on Monday. As Venice prioritizes world premieres, the TIFF announcement eliminated some films that could have potentially premiered in Italy, including Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” Angelina Jolie’s “Without Blood,” and Edward Berger’s Vatican City-set “Conclave” (this will go to Telluride also).
The Golden Lion for Best Film and other awards will be presented during the closing ceremony of the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Saturday, September 7 onstage at the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Lido. Actor Sigourney Weaver and filmmaker Peter Weir are set to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. On opening night, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” will make its world premiere.
To recap, last year’s Golden Lion went to “Poor Things,” which went on to win four Oscars including Best Actress for Emma Stone. Last year’s edition also marked a Venice (and fall festival season generally speaking) absent of many movie stars and writing talent due to the ongoing strikes. This year should expect to see a surge of Hollywood talent from both sides of the camera back on the Lido, waving to fans from water taxis and introducing their films at screenings and press conferences.
See the full 2024 Venice International Film Festival lineup below.
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