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Venice Film Festival · 2023

Venice Film Festival 2023

Venice Classics

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7 films · 4 reviews

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Cannibal Holocaust

Review preview for Cannibal Holocaust

Cannibal Holocaust is perhaps the ultimate example of a film that eats itself; it will be debated and misunderstood for years to come.

David Graham · 4 out of 5
A rescue team recovers found footage shot by a documentary team that set out to investigate lost cannibal tribes.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1980; Director: Ruggero Deodato; Writer: Gianfranco Clerici; Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Salvatore Basile, Carl Gabriel Yorke)

Full review See: Interview with Ruggero Deodato about Cannibal Holocaust and Cut And Run

Days Of Heaven

(Year: 1978; Director: Terrence Malick; Writer: Terrence Malick; Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke)

The Exorcist (Director's Cut) (The Exorcist)

Review preview for The Exorcist (Director's Cut)

At 12, Regan was a helpless child in 1973; in today's world we instinctively grant her more agency so the territory between self and demon becomes more obscure.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A mother fights to save her child, who may be possessed by a demon.

(Country: United States; Year: 1973; Director: William Friedkin; Writer: William Peter Blatty; Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Jason Miller, Lee j Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran)

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Moving (Ohikkoshi)

In one of Somai's most acclaimed films, a young girl must adjust to her new life after the divorce of her parents. Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, the girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity. Print courtesy of Yomiuri-TV Enterprise LTD.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1993; Director: Shinji Somai)

One From The Heart

Review preview for One From The Heart

The performances are generally solid, the soundtrack and visuals wonderful and the ambition is vaulting, but it is ultimately a failed experiment.

James Benefield · 3 out of 5
After a couple split up on their anniversary they find the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side.

(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Writer: Armyan Bernstein, Francis Ford Coppola, Luana Anders; Stars: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton)

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Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv)

A tragic life and love story that defies the boundaries of life and death.

(Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1964; Director: Sergei Parajanov; Writer: Ivan Chendej, Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky, Sergei Parajanov; Stars: Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili, Nikolay Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov, Nina Alisova, Aleksandr Gaj, Neonila Gnepovskaya, Aleksandr Raydanov, Igor Dzyura, Valentina Glinko, O Ryazanov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larisa Kadochnikova)