Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to open Venice film festival
The much-anticipated sequel to the director’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice will get its world premiere at the festival in August
May 2024
Peter Weir to receive Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice film festival
Australian director of Gallipoli and Dead Poets Society praised by festival for his impact in Hollywood ‘while keeping his distance from the American movie industry’
February 2024
Observer New Review Q&A
Peter Sarsgaard: ‘My generation was fixated on legends like Pacino and De Niro, so we were imitating others’
The actor on his new film about dementia, likable politicians, and being directed in a sex scene by his wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal
September 2023
From Poor Things to American Fiction: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?
The Guardian view on Hollywood studios against the workers: a dangerous game
Refugee film Green Border by Agnieszka Holland attacked by Polish government
Feminist drama Poor Things wins Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen
Woody Allen: cheered on stage despite fog of accusation that won’t lift
Coup! review – exuberant class-struggle comedy set in Spanish flu lockdown
Ava DuVernay: Black film-makers are told people don’t care about our stories
Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race
How one laughing VHS technician saved 95-year-old Michael Roemer’s career
Green Border review – gripping story of refugees’ fight for survival in the forest
Auteurs and workers’ rights spotlit at a less starry Venice film festival
Sky Peals review – eerie tale of lost souls at the service station
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife
Venice’s brave new world: my cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back
‘Very difficult to watch’: Priscilla Presley on new film about her life with Elvis
Evil Does Not Exist review – Ryu Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable eschews easy explanation
