Frank J. Avella

Venice 2026 Wrap: A Muted Year With One Runaway 'Wild Horse (Nine)' My Top 13 Films Of The Fest Below--John M…

Marco Bechis's deeply moving, emotionally shattering film Return to Buenos Aires (Ritorno a Buenos Aires) is …

Bravo to TIFF for selecting Israeli filmmaker, Avi Nesher's Our Loves to screen. With current western culture…

In Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Dębowski's What Belongs to Others (Cudze Rzeczy) sourpussed Kasia (Monika Kwiatk…

"I'm at a strange juncture," admits the main character, Léo (Melvil Poupaud),-a massive understatement-in Fre…

Among the many other features world premiering at the 83rd Venice Film Festival are these worthy titles. Also…

Celebrated Japanese filmmaker/author Miwa Nishikawa has adapted her own novel, Children Untold, into an extra…

Mykyta Gibalenko's feature debut, Camouflage, begins promisingly enough, in 2021, over a year before Russia's…

Venice 2026: Edoardo De Angelis' 'The Fire Within You,' One Of The Biennale's Best With Audacious Work By Van…

I had high hopes for Florian Zeller's Bunker. Firstly, I loved his two previous films, the Oscar-winning, The…

Venice 2026: Victor Di Marco & Márcio Picoli On Changing The Way We See Queer Disabled People With 'London' […

Riccardo Scamarcio has remained one of my favorite international actors creating terrifically nuanced charact…

Venice 2026: Halkawt Mustafa's Stirring Thriller 'No Paradise If You Are Killed by A Woman' Offers A Bold Tur…

Pillars of the criminal justice system are excoriated in Roberto De Paolis Maino's existential, absurdist com…

Set in Mexico near the U.S. border, Gabriel Gutierrez Morales's debut feature Tijuana, Todavia (Still, Tijuan…

Watching Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca dance with complete abandon to The Rolling Stones classic "She's a R…

Austrian filmmaker Manuel Wetscher's feature debut, Eklipse, is set in August of 1999, right before a solar e…

"Don't you just ever wanna bleed 'em?" -- Man on plane "I think what I do is a little worse."

Venice 2026: Raphaël Balboni & Ann Sirot's Beguiling 'Diane In The Loop,' (Un détour par Diane) Features A Lu…

Set in Mexico near the U.S. border, Gabriel Gutierrez Morales's debut feature Tijuana, Todavia (Still, Tijuan…

Theo Rollason's Timely Doc, 'Queer Edward II,' Rightly Roots Derek Jarman As A Gay Rights Hero, His Film Edwa…

Set in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu's House of the Wind (La Maison Du…

Venice 2026: Edoardo Gabbriellini's Engrossing 'The City of the Living' (La città dei vivi) Is A Disturbing C…

Much like last year's nuclear Venice nail-biter, A House of Dynamite, Alexandre Smia's taut, tense and dynami…