Vox Lux Directed by Brady Corbet Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin and Jennifer Ehle Screening at LFF October 15th and 16th 2018 by Joanna Orland In 1999, teenaged Celeste (Cassidy) survives a high school shooting massacre. At the memorial, she performs a song she composed with her sister Eleanor (Martin), capturing […]

by Katharine Fry The 72nd Venice Film Festival returned to Lido for two weeks of sunshine, celebrities, glamour and film , film, film. Directed once again by Alberto Barbera, the festival opened with Everest. In 3D. This style of blockbuster epic did not set the trend for what was to follow with the rest of […]

The Childhood of a Leader Directed by Brady Corbet Starring Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham and Bérénice Bejo by Katharine Fry The Childhood of a Leader was the film I chose to open my time at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. This is director Brady Corbet’s debut that borrows its title and some […]