Hollywood Elsewhere

First, I’m instinctually hating any film called Hope.

Few common experiences on planet earth are quite as horrible and spirit-suffocating as walking behind a pack of older, pudgebod, slightly-bent-over Venice tourists, a dog pack of 15 or 20 and all wearing expressions of dull, open-mouthed, dead-eyed passiv…

Directed by Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam), The Trial of Alex Baldwin premiered at DOC NYC ten months ago (11.13.25) Abramorama will open the doc on 10.1.26.

A new trailer for Ryusuke Hamaguchi‘s All of a Sudden (Neon, 11.25) popped an hour ago… In this serene, deeply spiritual chick flick that isn’t, surprisingly, a lesbo thing, a harried, in some ways embattled director of a nursing home in the Parisian subu…

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor‘s NAZA had been hyped over the last several days as an allegedly devastating documentary about Israel’s Gaza genocide.

Posted on 5.14.26: As expected, Pawel Pawlikowski‘s Fatherland is an austere masterwork.

Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti created the animated intro that Venice Film Festival regulars have been absorbing for the last seven or eight years.

HE will catch Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor‘s NAZA tomorrow morning at 11:30 am (Sala Darsena).

There’s obviously something less than enticing about hanging with 60ish Tom Cruise under a half-ton of makeup….a graying, balding, bellow-voiced, cowboy-boot-wearing, Les Grossman-resembling blowhard who kinda looks like Bob Odenkirk in dessicated mode.

Luca Guadagnino‘s two-part, 435-minute Joie de Vivre is an upper — a devotional, deep-dive embrace of the life and lore of the great Bernardo Bertolucci as interpreted by the feelings and insights of fans, friends and former coilleagues.

In the third paragraph of his 9.8.26 review of Luca Guadagnino‘s two-part, 435-minute Joie de Vivre, an affectionate, deep-dive embrace of the life and lore of Bernardo Bertolucci, IndieWire‘s Ryan Lattanzio steps in it.

During several on-camera exchanges with comedian, documentarian and You Can See Everything co-director Nathan Fielder, convicted and now-imprisoned Theranos conwoman Elizabeth Holmes never even slightly modified her spiel — not a fraction of an inch, not a

Scattered boos greeted Florian Zeller’s Bunker as an 8:30 am Tuesday screening ended inside the Sala Darsena.

The first peek at Luca Guadagnino‘s Artificial (Neon) happens during the 2026 New York Film Festival (Alice Tully Hall) on 10.5.26.

The other night I was recalling HE’s 8.18.24 review of Doug Liman and Matt Damon‘s The Instigators — easily one of the best and nost uproariously original genre films ever made, as well as one of the most unustly dismissed flicks of the 2020s.

Alex Gibney‘s Musk, which I saw last night, includes a ten-minute intermission.

The damp, drizzly (heavier?)

An hour ago (Monday midnight) I emerged from Alex Gibney‘s 3-hour, 55-minute Musk…”a definitive and unvarnished examination”, as the copy says.

Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s Flesh Impact, which I saw last evening, is a high-style, ultra-confident 25-minute short about a century-old, vitally alive Marilyn Monroe (Ellen Burstyn).

In a chat last weekend with The Playlist‘s Rodrigo Perez in Venice, The Basics of Philosophy director-writer Paul Schrader explained the genesis of Three Guns At Dawn, his forthcoming drama that will forego the use of flesh-and-blood actors in favor of AI…