by Nathaniel R
Julianne at the Met Gala. Image: AFP/Angela Weiss
Exciting news to report. Julianne Moore, who originally inspired my own career writing about film and thus this website, will lead the jury at the 79th annual Venice International Film Festival. The festival runs August 31st-September 10th so expect lots of Julianne gowns this summer. What a nice full circle monent this will be for the Oscar winning actress. She's a previous winner of the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Far From Heaven (2002) and this year she'll help determine who wins that same prize twenty years later. Penélope Cruz took the prize last season for her work in Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers which helped pave the way to her fourth Oscar nomination...
Joining Julianne on the jury will be French director Audrey Diwan (Happening, which won the Golden Lion last year at Venice - read our interview), Iranian actress Lela Hatami (A Separation), Italian director Leonardio di Costanzo (L'intrusa), Argentinian director Mariana Cohn (Official Competition), Oscar nominated Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Madre), and the British author/screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go, Living).
In other Julianne news
She just did a Q&A with Todd Haynes for Far From Heaven's 20th anniversary with Manuel Betancourt (a Film Experience alum!) moderating.
Bucket list moment moderating @Outfest’s Legacy screening of FAR FROM HEAVEN with these three legends. pic.twitter.com/rGJEPzW7iU
— Manuel Betancourt (@bmanuel) July 18, 2022
...and she'll next appear onscreen in Jesse Eisenberg's dramedy When You Finish Saving the World in which she runs a domestic violence center. She's very good in that film which A24 will distribute at some point. She's also finished filming a con-artist movie called Sharper which stars Sebastian Stan.
What's after that? Who knows! She might make a Lynne Ramsay / Margaret Atwood thriller Stone Mattress (thoughnothing about that project is set in stone yet). She is currently expected to star in the titular role in a film called Mothertrucker about an Instagram celebrity and a female trucker. The most exciting thing on her project list is a reunion with her greatest director Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven) for the true story scandal May December which will co-star Natalie Portman.