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With news of The CW's season finale dates dropping earlier today, we now have news on when the remainder of the network's shows will launch this season.

The summer premieres get underway with the return of Coroner, which launches its fourth season Thursday, June 2, out of an original episode of Walker, reports The Futon Critic.

The CW will then pair up Roswell, New Mexico Season 4 and In the Dark Season 4 on Monday, June 6.

Both shows ended their previous seasons in shocking fashion, so there will be a lot of fans waiting to find out what comes next.

Wellington Paranormal kicks off with two episodes on Wednesday, June 22, in the 9 pm slot.

Devils Season 2 takes over from Walker on June 30, airing with Coroner.

Mysteries Decoded makes its highly-anticipated return to the schedule on Wednesday, July 6.

Check out the full list below.

Thursday, June 2

8:00–9:00 pm Walker (Original Episode)

9:00–10:00 pm Coroner (Season Premiere)

Monday,...

Roger Michell’s final feature film brings good-natured, Ealing-style brio to the 1961 theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington

As with so many of cinema’s most successful practitioners, the South Africa-born British film-maker Roger Michell, who died last September aged 65, was not an “auteur” with a singular distinctive style. On the contrary, he was a versatile craftsman who could turn his hand to a range of genres with ease. From the classic Richard Curtis romcom Notting Hill to the American thriller Changing Lanes and the deliciously twisty Daphne du Maurier dark romance My Cousin Rachel, Michell instinctively understood the differing demands of each story he was telling. He adapted Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for TV with great success, gave Anne Reid her finest role in the taboo-breaking, Kureishi-scripted drama The Mother, and directed a sorely underrated screen adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love,...

Roger Michell’s final feature retells story of the cussed Newcastle pensioner who stole a Goya portrait in protest at government spending priorities

For what has become his final feature film, director Roger Michell made this sweet-natured and genial comedy in the spirit of Ealing, which bobs up like a ping pong ball on a water-fountain. It is based on the true story of Kempton Bunton, the Newcastle cab driver who in 1965 appeared at the Old Bailey for stealing Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery. The mystery of its disappearance had so electrified the media that there was even a gag about it in the James Bond film Dr No, using a copy personally painted by the legendary production designer Ken Adam, which was itself stolen. Maybe there should be a film about that as well.

The court heard this was Bunton’s...

Exclusive: Lifetime continues to expand its unscripted programming slate for 2022 with series greenlights to Million Dollar Hustle, a docuseries set in the world of transformational marketing starring Stormy Wellington, as well as Married At First Sight: Afterparty, an after-show hosted by Keshia Knight Pulliam. Additionally, the network has set premiere dates for previously announced docuseries Leave It To Geege and transformation series My Killer Body with K. Michelle.

Leave It To Geege will premiere January 12 at 10 pm/9c. My Killer Body with K. Michelle will debut January 28 at 10pm/9c, then move to its regular timeslot February 3, at 9pm/8c As previously announced, Season 14 of Married At First Sight premieres January 5 at 8pm/7c and it will be followed by new after-show Married at First Sight: Afterparty at 11pm/10c. New docuseries Million Dollar Hustle will premiere January 29 at 10pm/9c, then move to its regular timeslot, February 3, 10pm/9c.

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.

With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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There are plenty of other reasons to watch, but the opening credits for “Wellington Paranormal” distill the show’s appeal down to its essence. The credits introduce the three central figures in this survey of mysterious happenings in and around New Zealand’s capital. There’s a pair of police officers — O’Leary (Karen O’Leary) and her partner Minogue (Mike Minogue) — and the officer they both report to, Sergeant Maaka (Maaka Pohatu).

Behind these character introductions is a synthy, self-aware theme tune that wouldn’t be out of place in a “news of the weird” local cable access roundup, or even a basic cable reality show about cryptids disguised as an investigative documentary. Fake news clippings flash across the screen, one of them with a headline including the word “Vampirey.” It’s unrepentantly goofy, with just enough of that mockumentary veneer to keep the show nominally hemmed in to a recognizable format.

For an upcoming feature story tied to September’s third season premiere of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, I spoke with the cast and creative team of the vampire comedy about what’s made it the funniest show on TV. In one of those conversations, star Matt Berry noted that the show is a convergence of three different comic sensibilities: New Zealand, courtesy of creator Jemaine Clement; the U.K., courtesy of him and co-stars Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak; and the United States, courtesy of the show’s other writers,...

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Pathé has sold Roger Michell’s Venice title “The Duke,” starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent to Sony Pictures Classics for the U.S., Latin America and Scandinavia.

Written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the comedy drama follows a 60-year-old taxi driver who, in 1961, stole Francisco Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first, and remains the only, theft in the Gallery’s history. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly.

Pathé International had pre-sold the rest of the world rights prior to the Venice Film Festival. The distributor will release the film in the U.K,, France and Switzerland. Other sales include: Australia (Transmission), Benelux (Paradiso), Canada/Germany/Spain (eOne), China (Huanxi), Czech Republic (Aqs), Former Yugoslavia (McF), Israel (Forum...

Director Roger Michell’s comedic heist movie “The Duke,” starring Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, the distributor announced Tuesday.

Sony Classics acquired all rights in the U.S., Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia/Cis, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, South Africa, South East Asia (except Japan and China) and India.

The film, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, is based on the true story of Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old British taxi driver who in 1961 managed to steal Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London — the first and (so far) only theft in the museum’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide TV for free to the elderly.

“Notting Hill” director Michell worked from a script by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman,...

You better shape up or ship out. For an exclusive chat with E! News, Below Deck Mediterranean's Captain Sandy Yawn opened up about this season's turnover rate, including the firing of Hannah Ferrier. As Below Deck Med fans may recall, season five has featured second stewardess Lara Flumiani quitting The Wellington and the firings of chef Kiko Lorran and the show's longtime Chief Stewardess. However, as Captain Sandy noted to E!, that's completely normal for the yachting industry. "Imagine walking in my shoes, it was challenging," the Bravo personality said of the staffing drama this season. "The Maritime industry has a certain standard…My number one priority is the...

The late Chilean but Europe-based filmmaker Raul Ruiz died in 2011, after he had fully completed one of his best works, The Mysteries of Lisbon, and initiated another ambitious project, The Lines of Wellington, which his wife, filmmaker and editor Valeria Sarmiento, finished in his stead in 2012. Not a lot of people were aware that there was another unfinished Ruiz project hiding in a drawer somewhere: A Wandering Soap Opera (Una telenovela errante), the result of six days of acting workshops and shooting in Ruiz’s native Chile in 1990 that was shot but never edited together and scored. After...

★★★★☆ A fitting ode to the late, great Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz (directed by his former editing partner and widow Valeria Sarmiento), it would perhaps be unfavourable to compare the Golden Lion-nominated Lines of Wellington (2012) with Ruiz's final finished work, the sublime Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). An understandably disruptive production history undoubtedly helps the latter overcome the former in terms of out-and-out quality, yet Sarmiento's final gift to her mercurial husband remains an enrapturing rough diamond, a sprawling Napoleonic epic with the type of scale and ambition rarely seen in modern western cinema.

Amok is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Valeria Sarmiento:

Valeria Sarmiento

Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?

In 1961 Goa, amidst strife between Goans striving for independence and the supporters of the Portuguese rule, beautiful Lady Appleby, trapped in an unhappy and childless marriage with a Portuguese diplomat, begins a passionate affair with Sanjib, a young Goan active in the independence movement. They are followed by a Portuguese doctor who becomes obsessed with Lady Appleby, spying on the couple and feeding voyeuristically off their passion. When Lady Appleby discovers she’s pregnant she faces an agonising choice: she’s always wanted a child but keeping the baby would destroy her marriage. She asks the doctor for an illegal abortion, but he refuses, revealing his obsession with her. Terrified, she returns to Panjim.

Sometimes I think Raúl Ruiz purposefully makes in-between-masterpieces, inconsistent but immensely interesting films engrossed in both the details and the big picture of elaborating with variations and digressions books, histories, myths and the director's own films; that masterpieces are a calculated anomaly, unusually vivid and vivacious crescendos of the on-going dream that is the master's body of work.

La Noche de enfrente (Night Across the Street), presented in last year's Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, is said to be Ruiz's last film, but I have a suspicion that more dreams will show up unexpectedly, like Bolaño novels. Coming after Ruiz's popular triumph Mysteries of Lisbon this new work may be bound for disappointment, as it resembles so many of the director's films of the 2000s that seem to exist as part of an elongated continuum of recollections, farces, reveries and skewed realities instead of works of punctuation, unexpectedly shouting out. (Mysteries inadvertently seems to be punctuated,...

★★☆☆☆ In competition for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice Film Festival, Valeria Sarmiento's 150 minute-long Portuguese historical drama Lines of Wellington (Linhas de Wellington, 2012) is a large plodding Euro-pudding of a movie. The film opens with the battle between the British and Portuguese forces against the French at the battle of Bussaco. Although winning the battle, the allied forces have to retreat in the face of Marshal Masséna's superior numbers towards the secret fortifications of the Torres line.

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This epic historical pageant 'conceived by' the late director Raoul Ruiz won't win the top prize in Venice, but it's full of life

When the Chilean director Raoul Ruiz died in August last year, he left behind a heaving back catalogue of more than 100 features plus one final, unfinished flourish: an epic historical pageant about the 1810 battle of Bussaco. Now Linhas de Wellington – "conceived by" Ruiz and completed by his wife, the film-maker Valeria Sarmiento – has finally been completed, marching into the Venice competition with muskets blazing and colours flying. For all its faults, it's full of life.

Ruiz and Sarmiento's film recounts the tale of the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal and the withdrawal of Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese forces to the southern hill country. The general's devastating tactic was to compensate for his army's comparative lack of numbers by luring the French into hostile terrain, fortifying the lines of Bussaco and...

Raul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento are behind Lines of Wellington, an epic set in and around the Battle of Bussaco. Which means – this time in Venice we have a movie which will take us back in 1810, and compete for the festival’s Golden Lion statue.

Not bad, right? Definitely not, and if you check out the rest of this report you’ll actually see that this looks quite interesting, and that some seriously good cast is on board for the whole thing as well!

But, first of all, let me just remind you that director Ruiz died in August 2011, and that his widow Valeria Sarmiento decided to take over directing duties as a homage to him. One thing is for sure – we’re dealing with a powerful and original story, which comes from “Mysteries of Lisbon’s” writer, Carlos Saboga. Here’s a synopsis part:

On September 27, 1810, the French troops under Marshal Massena,...

Of 22 films in competition at Cannes last year, none had been directed by a woman, but there are signs the tide is turning

La Mostra del Cinema, the most venerable of international film festivals which opens today in Venice, and its new head, Alberto Barbera, seem to have got the message. What message? The one sent by dismayed festival-goers to Cannes last May upon discovering that out of 22 films in competition, none had been directed by a woman.

There was no need to be a hardcore feminist to feel a little troubled, especially when the newly elected French president François Hollande announced a perfectly gender balanced government on the very day the Cannes film festival opened: 17 female ministers and 17 male ministers.

One doesn't necessarily have to agree with French feminist groupuscules such as La Barbe (I often don't), but had it not been for their public brouhaha about Cannes' lack...

The great Chilean director Raul Ruiz died before filming began on his latest epic. Now it's about to get its Venice premiere, with his widow in the director's chair

You wouldn't have put it past Raul Ruiz to direct a film from beyond the grave. The Chilean master was hard at work on a new feature, The Lines of Wellington, at the time of his death last August, aged 70. This was a Napoleonic-era epic, a "Portuguese War and Peace", set in 1810 as the French troops battled with a British and Portuguese army commanded by General Wellington. At Wellington's bidding, a daunting system of fortifications – the so-called Lines of Torres Vedras – was secretly built to repel the French invaders. Wellington pursued a scorched earth policy, which displaced huge numbers of Portuguese and British; it's their story the film tells.

The cast for Lines of Wellington, led by John Malkovich, Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve,...

The New York Film Festival announced its full slate of films on Thursday, a line up of 32 titles that largely serves as a catch-all compendium of standouts from other international festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Toronto.

Along with the previously announced opening night film (Ang Lee’s Life of Pi), centerpiece gala (David Chase’s Not Fade Away), and closing night film (Robert Zemeckis’ Flight) — all world premieres — the highlights of the festival include: Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Ginger and Rosa, starring Elle Fanning as a girl growing up in 1962 London...

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the main slate of selections for the 50th New York Film Festival (September 28-October 14) including such notable directors as Olivier Assayas, Noah Baumbach, Leos Carax, Brian De Palma, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Ang Lee, Cristian Mungiu, Sally Potter, Alain Resnais, Raul Ruiz and Robert Zemeckis.

Regarding the line up of 32 films comprising the main slate for the 50th anniversary of Nyff Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, said, .The films making up the main slate of this year’s Nyff, have in common a general quality of fearlessness” that unites otherwise very disparate works. These are films that go all the way, works willing to take the risk or chance that by doing so they may be bringing audiences to places they might rather not go..

Award winners that will be presented for...

The 2012 New York Film Festival announced its main slate of movies Thursday. The 32 movies draw from a healthy mix of big named directors and indie favorites.

Films From Noah Baumbach ("Frances Ha"), Roger Michell ("Hyde Park on Hudson"), Michael Haneke ("Amour," which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year) and Abbas Kiarostami ("Like Someone in Love") were selected.

As previously announced, Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" will open the festival, David Chase's "Not Fade Away" is the Centerpiece Gala Selection and Robert Zemeckis' "Flight," starring Denzel Washington, will close the fortnight.

"Passion," Brian De Palma's widely anticipated film, will also screen at the Venice Film Festival, which runs from Aug. 29 to Sept. 8. A number of Nyff's selections actual make their bow at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins Sept. 6.

Nyff runs Sept. 28 to Oct. 14. The full main-slate list of films is available below, direct from...

After Venice and Toronto unveiled their strong assembly of titles, the 50th annual New York Film Festival have released this year’s primary lineup. Short answer: We won’t be left out in the cold this fall.

Though not necessarily on the same massive scale as last year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center look to be offering some of world cinema’s finest options for 2012. The biggest title would, unquestionably, have to be Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or winner, Amour, while “the rest,” if you’re so callous as to call it that, include some of our favorite Cannes selections — including Abbas Kiarostami‘s Like Someone in Love, or Leos Carax‘s Holy Motors. Sure, maybe Beyond the Hills was a flat bore that didn’t live up to its director’s last effort, but at least I get to find out for myself.

Past those obvious picks,...

This morning, the lineup for the 2012 Venice Film Festival arrived with a selection worthy of a once over. The non-Toronto titles of note include Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air, Ramin Bahrani's At Any Price starring Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron, Amos Gitai's Carmel, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers and the two I'm most upset won't be playing Toronto, Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need and Brian De Palma's Passion. Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and jury president Michael Mann all arrive with documentaries; Mann with Witness: Libya, Demme with Enzo Avitabile Music Life and Lee with his Michael Jackson documentary, Bad 25, taking a look at the making of Jackson's 1987 album "Bad" 25 years later, which includes appearances by Martin Scorsese, Usher Raymond, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Quincy Jones, Cee-Lo and Sheryl Crow. Name titles that will also play Toronto include Terrence Malick's To The Wonder,...

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HollywoodNews.com: Hot on the heels of the Toronto International Film Festival announcing their titles comes word from Venice about the films to be featured at the 69th Venice Film Festival.

With 60 films, the selection includes a wide range of anticipated titles such as Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, Passion from Brian De Palma and The Company You Keep directed by Robert Redford, as well as 20 films from female directors. Surprisingly, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is not included in the lineup, might this mean it will be skipping the festivals? Check out the full list after the jump!

Competition Films

Something in the Air, Olivier Assayas (France)

Outrage: Beyond, Takeshi Kitano (Japan)

Fill The Void, Rama Burshtein (Israel)

To the Wonder, Terrence Malick (U.S.)

Pieta, Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)

Dormant Beauty, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)

E’ stato il figlio, Daniele Cipri (Italy)

At Any Price,...

With the line-up for the Toronto International Film Festival dropping a few days ago and the list for Venice out today, the festival circuit has arrived!

The lead stories for the Venice line-up aren't nearly as exciting as those coming out of Toronto. Harmony Korrine's "Spring Breakers" with James Franco and Selena Gomez will make its debut, as will Brian De Palma's "Passion" with Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams.

Perhaps the biggest headline here is the absence of Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," a film that was expected to appear here. Skipping Venice is just more proof that the rumors of a Fantastic Fest debut may be true.

Check out the full line-up (via The Playlist) after the jump!

Opening Film (Out Of Competition)

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist," Mira Nair (U.S.,Qatar)

Competition

"To The Wonder," Terrence Malick (U.S.)

"Something in the Air," Olivier Assayas (France)

"Outrage:Beyond,...

The complete lineup for the 69th Venice Film Festival has been announced! Despite rumors, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master will not be playing at the festival, but the slate remains just as exciting, with new entries from Assayas, Kitano, de Palma, Korine, Ramin Bahrani, and Kim Ki-Duk—plus Raúl Ruiz's second "last film" of the season (Lines of Wellington, completed by his widow and longtime editor Valeria Sarmiento) and the infamously meditative Terrence Malick's second feature in two years.

In Competition

Something in the Air, Olivier Assayas (France)

At Any Price, Ramin Bahrani (Us, UK)

Dormant Beauty, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)

La Cinquieme Saison, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Belgium-Netherlands-France)

Fill The Void, Rama Bursztyn and Yigal Bursztyn (Israel)

E' stato il figlio, Daniele Cipri (Italy)

Un Giorno Speciale, Francesca Comencini (Italy)

Passion, Brian De Palma (France-Germany)

Superstar, Xavier Giannoli (France-Belgium)

Pieta, Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)

Outrage: Beyond,...

The line-up for the 2012 Venice Film Festival has been announced and it's a surprisingly lean year. Usually, there's a lot of overlap between the Toronto International Film Festival and Venice, but the only major crossovers are Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, Robert Redford's The Company You Keep, Ramin Bahrani's At Any Price, Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Ariel Vromen's The Iceman. Venice does have a few standout exclusives this year, most notably Brian De Palma's new film, Passion, starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace. Other notable exclusives include Michael Mann's Witness: Libya and Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers. Hit the jump for the full line-up. The 2012 Venice Film Festival runs August 29 – September 8th. Via Twitch: Competition Something In The Air (Apres Mai), dir Olivier Assayas (France) At Any Price, dir Ramin Bahrani (Us-uk) Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata), dir Marco Bellocchio (Italy-France) La Cinquieme Saison,...

The Venice Film Festival announced its lineup today, and it has something for everyone: Hollywood A-listers, Disney Channel darlings, a host of foreign films, a Dragon Tattoo alumna — and that’s just what’s in competition for the Golden Lion trophy.

Notable premieres include Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, which stars Redford as a Weather Underground member exposed by a young reporter (Shia Labeouf), and Spring Breakers, a film about restaurant-robbing college girls that stars Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and James Franco. Rachel McAdams shows up twice, first alongside Noomi Rapace in Brian De Palma’s thriller Passion,...

Following the Toronto International Film Festival line-up earlier this week, the 69th Venice Film Festival has weighed in with their choices this morning. Outside of films also premiering at Tiff — including most notably Ramin Bahrani‘s At Any Price and Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder – they have a strong batch of films not at that fest. We have the highly anticipated next feature from Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Carlos), titled Something In The Air, as well as Brian De Palma‘s sensual thriller Passion with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace.

Then things get a little silly with Harmony Korine‘s James Franco and Selena Gomez gangster/party film Spring Breakers. Rounding out the other major titles are Susanne Bier following up her Oscar win with Love Is All You Need and Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25. The lack of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s heavily rumored The Master...

The films screened at this year's Venice film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more information comes in

Opening night film

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Dir: Mira Nair

Competition

To The Wonder, Dir: Terrence Malick

Something in the Air, Dir: Olivier Assayas

Outrage: Beyond, Dir: Takeshi Kitano

Fill The Void, Dir: Rama Bursztyn and Yigal Bursztyn

Pieta, Dir: Kim Ki-duk

Dormant Beauty, Dir: Marco Bellocchio

E' stato il figlio, Dir: Daniele Cipri

La Cinquieme Saison, Dir: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth

Un Giorno Speciale, Dir: Francesca Comencini

Passion, Dir: Brian De Palma

Superstar, Dir: Xavier Giannoli

Spring Breakers, Dir: Harmony Korine

Thy Womb, Dir: Brillante Mendoza

Linhas de Wellington, Dir: Valeria Sarmiento

Paradise: Faith, Dir: Ulrich Seidl

Betrayal, Dir: Kirill Serebrennikov

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This morning, the festival organisers at the Venice Film Festival announced their line up for the in-competition films. Despite initial reports by Variety, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master will not be making its bow at the Lido, but new films from Terrence Malick, Harmony Korine and Brian De Palma will all be making a showing.

Whether or not The Master will now hit the festival circuit is unknown. Many have said that it will screen at Fantastic Fest and others point towards the New York Film Festival as a likely place for the film’s premiere. I have to say that it wouldn’t surprise me if Anderson skips the festival circuit entirely, The Master strikes me as a film he wouldn’t really want to discuss in front of journalists given how controversial the subject matter is. As with There Will Be Blood, I imagine he wants the film to speak for itself.

This week sees the line-up announcement of not one but two of the year’s biggest events in the film industry. Toronto International Film Festival’s line-up was officially announced earlier this week, and was absolutely fantastic, and now the Venice International Film Festival have officially announced their line-up, featuring some incredibly anticipated films as well.

The festival will run from 29th August to 8th September, and will be opened by Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, making its world debut and premiering out of competition. Heading up the most notable films among the announcement are Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, with James Franco, Selena Gomez, and Vanessa Hudgens; Brian De Palma’s Passion, with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace; Ramin Bahrani’s At Any Price, with Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, and Heather Graham; Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage: Beyond, with Tomokazu Miura, Ryo Kase, and Fumiyo Kohinata; Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep,...

Last summer, the cinema world lost the great, prolific and distinctive filmmaker Raul Ruiz. Probably best known to contemporary audiences for "The Mysteries Of Lisbon," the Cannes winner has in the middle of preparations for his next film, "The Lines Of Wellington," which was set to center around the Battle Of Bussaco in 1810 and the French invasion of Portugal. Well, fans will be relieved to know the movie is still happening. Screen Daily reveals that during a tribute to the filmmaker at the Rotterdam Film Festival, his widow and editor Valeria Sarmiento was unable to attend as she was taking over the director's chair on the film. The production is already underway in front of cameras, with some first images provided by Split Screen, with the film featuring an extensive, star-studded cast including John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastrioanni and more. The plan is for the...

Raúl Ruiz The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) will be paying tribute to Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, who died in August at age 70, with a screening of his first film, La Maleta (1963) and one of his last, Ballet Aquatique (2011), at 8 p.m. tomorrow, Jan. 31. Among those expected to reminisce about Ruiz are actor Melvil Poupaud, producer François Margolin, Australian journalist and "Ruiz expert" Adrian Martin, and former Iffr director Simon Field. Ruiz's widow, film editor Valeria Sarmiento, was invited to the Rotterdam film festival, but she had to decline because she is currently directing Lines of Wellington, which was to have been her deceased husband's next project. Much like Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon, the historical drama is to be released both as a feature and as a television miniseries. Set at the time of one of the various Napoleonic Wars, when French forces tried to invade Portugal, Lines of Wellington...