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This morning, the Venice Film Festival unveiled its lineup of 79 world premieres. Some of the titles named were already slated to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. This includes: Black Swan, Barney’s Version, Miral, Norweigan Wood, The Return of Chen Zhen, Potiche, The Town, That Girl in Yellow Boots and Lope. Films showing at Venice tend to be a good indicator of pics that will appear at TIFF as well, so watch for some of these to be announced in the following weeks:
67TH ANNUAL VENICE FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP
IN COMPETITION
“Black Swan,” Darren Aronofsky, U.S. (Opening Film)
“La Pecora Nera,” Ascanio Celestini, Italy
“Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola, U.S.
“Happy Few,” Antony Cordier, France
“The Solitude of Prime Numbers,” Saverio Costanzo, Italy, Germany, France
“Silent Souls,” Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia
“Promises Written in Water,” Vincent Gallo, U.S.
“Road To Nowhere,” Monte Hellman, U.S.
“Balada Triste de Trompeta,” Alex de la Iglesia, Spain, France
“Venus Noir,” Abdellatif Kechiche, France
“Post Mortem,” Pablo Larrain, Chile, Mexico, Germany
“Barney’s Version,” Richard J. Lewis, Canada, Italy
“We Believed,” Mario Martone, Italy, France
“La Passione,” Carlo Mazzacurati, Italy
“13 Assassins,” Takashi Miike, Japan, U.K.
“Potiche,” Francois Ozon, France
“Meek’s Cutoff,” Kelly Reichardt, U.S.
“Miral,” Julian Schnabel, U.S., France, Italy, Israel
“Norwegian Wood,” Tran Anh Hung, Japan
“Attenberg,” Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece
“Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame,” Tsui Hark, China
“Three,” Tom Tykwer, Germany
OUT OF COMPETITION
Opening Night Tribute to Bruce Lee
“The Return of Chen Zhen,” Andrew Lau (China, Hong Kong)
Opening Night Midnight Movie
”Machete,” Robert Rodriguez (U.S.)
“The Tempest,” Julie Taymor (U.S.)
Homage to Vittorio Gassman
”Vittorio racconta — Una vita da Mattatore,” Giancarlo Scarchilli (Italy)
“The Town,” Ben Affleck (U.S.)
“I’m Still Here: the Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix,” Casey Affleck (U.S.)
“Sorelle Mai,” Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
“Niente Paura — Come siamo come eravamo e le canzoni di Luciano Ligabue,” Piergiorgio Gay (Italy)
“Dante Ferretti — Production Designer,” Gianfranco Giagni (Italy)
“Notizie degli Scavi,” Emidio Greco (Italy)
“The Last Movie” (1971), Dennis Hopper
“Gorbaciof,” Stefano Incerti (Italy)
“That Girl in Yellow Boots,” Anurag Kashyap (India)
“Showtime,” Stanley Kwan (China)
“Sei Venezia,” Carlo Mazzacurati (Italy)
“Zebraman” (2004), Takashi Miike (Japan)
“Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City,” Takashi Miike (Japan)
“The Child’s Eye 3D,” Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (China, Hong Kong)
“Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male,” Michele Placido (Italy)
“All Inclusive 3D,” Nadia Ranocchi and David Zamagni (Italy, Austria)
“Raavan” (Tamil version), Mani Ratnam (India)
“1960,” Gabriele Salvatores (Italy)
“La prima volta a Venezia,” Antonello Sarno (Italy)
“A Letter to Elia,” Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones (U.S.)
“Shock Labyrinth 3D,” Takashi Shimizu (Japan)
“L’ultimo Gattopardo: Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo,” Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy)
“Passione,” John Turturro (Italy)
“Lope,” Andrucha Waddington (Spain, Brazil)
“Space Guy,” Zhang Yuan (China)
