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Friday, January 17, 2020 at 2:12PM by Murtada Elfadl
Garcia, Rees and Hawke
It seems like there's a festival jury annoucement everyday!
The Sundance Film Festival has chosen 25 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture and science to review the films among their different programs. The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Jury members are...
Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 10:03AM by Nathaniel R
Tod & Joaquin celebrated for JOKER
Film festivals are like cocoons in there way and sometimes news happening outside of that bubble takes a moment to pierce through. This was not true about the Venice awards (though our delayed share suggests it was so) which seemed tailor-made as a provocation. The Golden Lion went to the Batman spinoff by way of Scorsese 70s, Joker and if that weren't controversial enough Roman Polanski was the runner up...
Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 7:30AM 
Meryl Streep days ago across the Atlantic in Venice joyfully demonstrating exactly how we feel whenever we arrive at film festivals. Chris Feil and Nathaniel R (that's me) are both officially on the ground in Toronto, ready for The Film Experience's favourite fest each year, TIFF! Screenings start in just an hour or so. And we're off...
Meryl Streep, TIFF, Venice Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 12:07AM by Nathaniel R
Timothée Chalamet talking to well-wishers in Venice
Scarlett Johansson at the premiere of "Marriage Story"
Sadly Team Experience is not a big enough team to be everywhere at once and we rarely have someone in Venice. But we can ogle the stars collectively with the rest of the world as they werq the red carpets to make those premieres work for their movies (or their own celebrity if they aren't actually pushing a film).
Any favourite looks? The photos are after the jump...
Monday, September 2, 2019 at 2:00PM by Nathaniel R
She's practically perfect in every way. And to her Oscar, BAFTA, two Emmys, two Grammys, and three Golden Globes, you can now add the career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival. It's not her first lifetime achievement style prize of course. The 83 year-old living legend started receiving lifetime style prizes about 18 years ago, kicked off by the double whammy of The Kennedy Center Honors and the San Sebastian Film Festival. Since then it's been pretty regular fêting but whose complaining? Not us!
What's your favourite Julie Andrews performance outside of the big Oscar three (Victoria Grant, Mary Poppins, and Maria Von Trapp)?
Julie Andrews, Venice 