Full Lineup for 2016 Venice Film Festival Announced
Hot on the heals of the Toronto International Film Festival announcing its lineup, today we now have the complete lineup of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. For their opening night film, Damien Chazelle's highly-anticipated "La La Land," starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, has been selected, while Antoine Fuqua's "The Magnificent Seven," with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, will close the festival.
The films to be featured in and out of competition are as follows:
COMPETITION
Ana Lily Amirpour, The Bad Batch
Stephane Brize, Une Vie
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Derek Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans
Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat, El Ciudadono Ilustre
Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti, Spira Mirabilis
Lav Diaz, The Women Who Left
Amat Escalante, La Region Salvaje
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Roan Johnson, Piuma
Andrei Konchalovsky, Paradise
Martin Koolhoven, Brimstone
Emir Kusturica, On the Milky Road
Pablo Larrain, Jackie
Terrence Malick, Voyage of Time
Christopher Murray, El Cristo Ciego
Francois Ozon, Frantz
Giuseppe Piccioni, Questi Giorni
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Wim Wenders, Les Beaux Jours
OUT OF COMPETITION
Paulo Sorrentino, The Young Pope Episodes 1 & 2
Philippe Falardeau, The Bleeder
Antoine Fuqua, The Magnificent Seven
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Nick Hamm, The Journey
Benoit Jacquot, A Jamais
Yasushi Kawamuya, Gantz:O
Jee Woon Kim, The Age of Shadows
Amir Naderi, Monte
Kim Rossi Stuart, Tommaso
Bruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedette Argentieri, Our War
Kasper Collin, I Called Him Morgan
Andrew Dominik, One More Time With Feeling (3D)
Sergei Loznitsa, Austerlitz
Francesco Munzi, Assalto al Cielo
Ulrich Seidl, Safari
Charlie Siskel, American Anarchist
Just like with TIFF, it certainly looks like there are plenty of interesting flicks to choose from here, including Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," as well as new work from Tom Ford, Wim Wenders, Derek Cianfrance, Denis Villeneuve, and Terrence Malick. What film will walk away with the Golden Lion this year? With so much talent crammed into the competition, it's rather hard to tell, but it'll certainly make for an interesting contest.
The Venice Film Festival will run from August 31st-September 10th.
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