Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s ‘Joker’ Sequel and ‘Wolfs’ to Screen at Venice Film Festival
Todd Phillips’ sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Pedro Almodovar’s English-language debut “The Room Next Door” and Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William Burroughs’ novel “Queer” will have their world premieres in competition at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, organizers of the Venice Film Festival announced at a press conference Tuesday.
Other films on the slate include Jon Watts’ “Wolfs,” starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney; Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce; Justin Kurzel’s political thriller “The Order,” starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult; Pablo Larrain’s film about opera singer Maria Callas, “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie; Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman;
The festival had previously announced that Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” would serve as the opening film.
While 21 films have been announced for the main competition, “Beetlejuice” and “Wolfs” will be screened out of competition, alongside Harmony Korine’s “Baby Invasion,” Claude Lelouch’s “Finally” and short films by Marco Bellocchio and the team of Alice Rohrwacher and JR.
Out-of-competition documentaries include Asif Kapadia’s “2073,” Errol Morris’s “Separated” and two Beatles-related films, Kevin Macdonald and John Rice-Edwards’ “One to One: John & Yoko” and Andrei Ujica’s “Twst/Things We Said Today.”
A section devoted to television series will include new multi-part works by Alfonso Cuaron, Joe Wright and Thomas Vinterberg.
Venice is the premier festival of the awards season, along with the Telluride and Toronto festivals. While in previous years, the films at the festival have tended to be more artistic and less mainstream than those that have wowed Oscar voters, five of the last seven winners of the Venice Golden Lion have received Oscar nominations for best picture. Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” was honored by the Venice jury and Oscar voters last year, and before that Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water.”
Last year, “Poor Things” and “Maestro” were the two Venice films nominated for best picture, while four others – “El Conde,” “Priscilla,” “Society of the Snow” and the short film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” – were nominated for Oscars in other categories.
The Venice jury will be chaired this year by actress Isabelle Huppert and will also include directors James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore and Julia von Heinz, as well as actress Zhang Ziyi.
The Venice Film Festival will open on August 28 and end on September 7.
Programming :
Main competition
“The Room Next Door”, Pedro Almodovar
“Campo di Battaglia”, Gianni Amelio
“Their Children After Them”, Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma
“The Brutalist”, Brady Corbet
“The Quiet Son”, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
“Vermiglio”, Maura Delpero
“Iddu (Sicilian letters)”, Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
“Queer”, Luca Guadagnino
“Love”, by Johan Haugerud
“April”, Dea Kulumbegashvili
“The Order”, Justin Kurzel
“Maria”, Pablo Larrain
“Three Friends”, Emmanuel Mouret
“Kill the Jockey”, Luis Ortega
“Joker: Madness for Two”, Todd Phillips
“Babygirl”, Halina Reijn
“I’m still here”, Walter Salles
“Diva Futura”, Giulia Louse Steigerwalt
“Harvest”, Athina Rachel Tsangari
“Youth – Return Home”, Wang Bing
“From the eyes of strangers”, Yeo Siew Hua
Out of Competition – Fiction
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, Tim Burton (opening film)
“L’Orto Americano”, Pupi Avati (closing film)
“Il Tempo che ci Vuole”, Francesca Comencini
“Phantosmia”, Lav Diaz
“Maldoror”, Fabrice du Welz
“Broken Anger”, Takeshi Kitano
“Baby Invasion”, Harmony Korine
“Cloud”, Kurosawa Kiyoshi
“Finally”, Claude Lelouch
“The Wolves”, Jon Watts
“Se Posso Permettermi Capitolo II”, Marco Bellocchio (short film)
“City Allegory”, Alice Rohrwacher, JR (short film)
Out of competition – Non-fiction
“Apocalypse in the Tropics”, Petra Costa
“Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari”, Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
“Why War”, Amos Gitai
“2073”, Asif Kapadia
“One on One: John and Yoko”, Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
“Separated”, Errol Morris
“Israel Palestine on Swedish Television 1958-1989”, Goran Hugo Olsson
“Russians at War”, Anastasia Trofimova
“Twst/The Things We Said Today”, Andrei Ujica
“Songs of the Slowly Burning Earth,” Olha Zhurba
“Riefenstahl”, Andrés Veiel
Out of Competition – Series
“Warning”, Alfonso Cuaron
“The New Year”, Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo, Sandra Romer, David Martin de los Santos
“Families like ours”, Thomas Vinterberg
“M – Il Figlio Del Secolo”, Joe Wright
Out of Competition – Replays
“Leopard. Il Poeta Dell’Infinito (Parts 1 and 2)”, Sergio Rubini “Master and Commander: On the Other Side of the World”, Peter Weir
“Beauty is not a sin”, Nicolas Winding Refn (short film)
Horizons
“Nonostante”, Valerio Mastandrea (opening film)
“A Quiet Life”, Alexandros Avranas
“My inseparable”, Anne-Sophie Bailly
“Aïcha”, Mehdi Barsaoui
“Happy Holidays”, Scandar Copti
“Family”, Francesco Costabile
“One of those days when Hemme dies”, Murat Firatoglu
“Familiar Touch,” Sarah Friedland
“Marco”, Jon Garano, Aitor Arregi
“Carissa”, Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar
“A Wish Upon a Star,” Peter Kerekes
“Dissipating Mistress,” Elizabeth Lo
“The New Year That Never Came,” Bogdan Muresanu
“Pooja, sir”, Deepak Rauniyar
“Of Dogs and Men,” Dani Rosenberg
“The Sidewalks,” Alex Ross Perry
“Happyend”, Neo Sora
“Attachment”, Carine Tardieu
“Diciannove”, Giovanni Tortorici
Orizzonti Extra
“September 5th”, Tim Fehlbaum (opening film)
“Vittoria”, Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
“The Mohican”, Frédéric Farrucci
“In search of a refuge for Mr. Rambo”, Khaled Mansour
“The story of Franke and Della Nina”, Paola Randi
“Shahed (The Witness)”, Nader Saeivar
“After Party”, Vojtech Strakaty
“At the Edge of Night”, Turker Suer
“Ivory King”, John Swab
Venice Classics – Documentaries on Cinema
“Miyazaki, The Spirit of Nature”, Léo Favier
“I will avenge this world with love S. Paradjanov”, Zara Jian
“The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Léaud”, Cyril Leuthy
“From Darkness to Light,” Michael Lurie, Eric Friedler
“Carlo Mazzacurati – A certain idea of cinema”, Enzo Monteleone, Mario Canale
“Chain reactions”, Alexandre Philippe
“Maroun returns to Beirut”, Feyrouz Serhal
“Will – L’Uomo dal Mille Volti”, Francesco Zippel
“Constelacion Portabella”, Claudio Zulian
Venice Classics – Documentaries on Cinema
“Miyazaki, The Spirit of Nature”, Léo Favier
“I will avenge this world with love S. Paradjanov”, Zara Jian
“The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Léaud”, Cyril Leuthy
“From Darkness to Light,” Michael Lurie, Eric Friedler
“Carlo Mazzacurati – A certain idea of cinema”, Enzo Monteleone, Mario Canale
Biennale College Cinema
“I; Mio Compleanno”, Christian Filippi and Leonardo Baraldi
“Honeymoon”, Zhanna Ozirna and Dmytro Sukhanov
“January 2”, Zsofia Szilagyi, Dora Csernatony and Lili Horvat
“The Fisherman”, Zoey Martinson, Kofi Owusu Afriyie, Korey Jackson
