If it’s the last week in July it’s time for the Venice International Film Festival to announce its selections. This morning, La Biennale di Venezia did just that officially revealing the already known inclusion of two Warner Bros. releases, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux.” But there are other major titles now hitting the Lido including Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie; Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” with Daniel Craig; and Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature length English language film, “The Room Next Door” starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.
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Other world premieres include Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl” with Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson; Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” with Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton; Justin Kurzel’s “The Order” with Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult; Michael Gracey’s long-awaited Robbie Williams musical, “Better Man”; Jon Watts’ “Wolfs” with Brad Pitt and George Clooney; Embeth Davidtz’s directorial debut, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”; Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s “The Friend” starring Naomi Watts and Carla Gugino; Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” with Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce; and Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl with the Needle.” Also premiering is the now seemingly prolific Harmony Korine with “Baby Invasion,” Walter Salles’ “I’m Not Here“; and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest” with Caleb Landry Jones.
The president of the in competition jury is Isabelle Huppert. She will be joined by James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz, and Zhang Ziyi. Unlike Cannes whose jury was dominated by Academy members, only five of the nine Venice jurors are believed to be members.
On the television side, a number of accomplished filmmakers will debut their new series at Venice. The selections include Alfonso Cuaron’s “Disclaimer” with Nicole Kidman; Thomas Vinterberg’s “Families Like Hours”; and Joe Wright’s “M. The Son of the Century.”
Earlier this week, the Toronto International Film Festival unveiled a majority of its programming slate including world premieres of Angelina Jolie’s “Without Blood,” Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch,” John Crowley’s “We Live In Time,” Rachel Morrison’s “The Fire Inside,” and Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” Thanks to how TIFF designates its premieres, many of the films that will debut or screen at the Telluride Film Festival, which occurs during Venice and right before Toronto, have already been determined. The New York Film Festival, which is less focused on world premieres and, instead,selecting the best of new cinema, announced that RaMell Ross’ “The Nickel Boys” will open their showcase on September 27.
The 81st Venice International Film Festival will run between August 28 and Sept. 7. Look for complete coverage on The Playlist.
A complete list of this year’s Venice titles revealed by President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Director Alberto Barbera are as follows:
COMPETITION
The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar
Campo di Battaglia
Gianni Amelio
Leurs Enfants Apres Eux
Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet
Jouer Avec Le Feu (The Quiet Son)
Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio
Maura Delpero
Iddu (Sicilian Letters)
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Queer
Luca Guadagnino
Kjaerlighet (Love)
Dag Johan Haugerud
April
Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Order
Justin Kurzel
Maria
Pablo Larraín
Trois Amies
Emmanuel Mouret
Kill The Jockey
Luis Ortega
Joker: Folie à Deux
Todd Phillips
Babygirl
Halina Reijn
I’m Still Here
Walter Salles
Diva Futura
Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Harvest
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Qing Chun Gui (Youth – Homecoming)
Wang Bing
Stranger Eyes
Yeo Siew Hua
ORIZZONTI – COMPETITION
Nonostante
Valerio Mastandrea
Quiet Life
Alexandros Avranas
Mon Inseparable
Anne-Sophie Bailly
Aicha
Mehdi Barsaoui
Yin’Ad ‘Aliku (Happy Holidays)
Sandar Copti
Familia
Francesco Costabile
Hemme Nin Oldugu Gunlerden Biri
(One of Those Days When Hemme Dies)
Murat Firatoglu
Familiar Touch
Sarah Friedland
Marco
Jon Garano, Aitor Arregi
Carissa
Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar
Wishing On A Star
Peter Kerekes
Mistress Dispeller
Elizabeth Lo
Anul Nou Care N-A Fost (The New Year That Never Came)
Bogdan Muresanu
Pooja, Sir
Deepak Rauniyar
Al Klavim Veanashim (Of Dogs And Men)
Dani Rosenberg
Pavements
Alex Ross Perry
Happyend
Neo Sora
L’Attachment
Carine Tardieu
Diciannove
Giovanni Tortorici
ORIZZONTI – EXTRA
September 5
Tim Fehlbaum
Vittoria
Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Le Mohican
Frederic Farrucci
Al Bahs An Manfaz I Khoroug Al Sayed Rambo
(Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo)
Khaled Mansour
La Storia Del Franke E Della Nina
Paola Randi
Shahed (The Witness)
Nader Saeivar
After Party
Vojtech Strakaty
Edge of Night
Turker Suer
King Ivory
John Swab
FUORI CONORSO – OUT OF COMPETITION
FUORI CONORSO – FICTION
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton
L’Orto Americano
Pupi Avati
Il Tempo Chi Ci Vuole (The Time It Takes)
Francesca Comencini
Phantosmia
Lav Diaz
Maldoror
Fabrice du Welz
Broken Rage
Takeshi Kitano
Baby Invasion
Harmony Korine
Cloud
Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Finalment
Claude Lelouch
Wolfs
Jon Watts
Se Posso Permettermi Capitolo II*
Marco Bellocchio
*Short film, 20 min
Allegorie Citadine*
Alice Rohrwacher, JR
*Short film, 21 min
FUORI CONORSO – SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Leopardi. Il Poeta Dell’Infinito (parte 1 e 2)
Sergio Rubini
Master and Commander The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir
Beauty is Not a Sin*
Nicholas Winding Refn
*Short film, 7 minutes
FUORI CONORSO – SERIES
Disclaimer (episodes 1-7)
Alfonso Cuaron
Los Anos Nuevos (The New Years) (ep. 1-10)
Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo, Sandra Romero, David Martin de los Santos
Familiar Som Vores (Families Like Ours) (ep. 1-7)
Thomas Vinterberg
M-Il Figo de Secolo (M. The Son of the Century) (ep. 1-8)
Joe Wright
OUT OF COMPETITION – NON FICTION
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Petra Costatina
Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari
Massmo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Why War
Amos Gitai
2073
Asif Kapadia
One to One: John & Yoko
Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
Separated
Errol Morris
Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958-1989
Goran Hugo Olsson
Russians at War
Anastasia Trofimova
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Olha Zurba
TWST/Things We Said Today
Andrei Ujica
Riefenstahl
Andres Veiel