Tag: Amanda Seyfried
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The Fate of Searchlight in the Hands of “Ann Lee”
We hinted on the Academy Anonymous podcast that with The Testament of Ann Lee still on the bidding table one of the art-house (and Oscar friendly) specialty labels would pounce – but only after their homegrown stock either failed to launch or fizzled! There were rumblings at TIFF about Netflix jumping on board, which we…
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Netflix poised to make a move on “The Testament of Ann Lee”?
By all accounts, it appeared that Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet wanted to apply the same savvy release strategy that they unfurled last year with “The Brutalist,” the runaway talk of Venice, with this year’s “The Testament of Ann Lee.” After its Venice debut, Corbet’s “The Brutalist” would go on to be acquired by A24…
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Venice Film Festival 2025: Contested Winners and a Divided Jury
The winners of the 82nd Venice Film Festival were announced on Saturday, September 6th. As expected, critics and attendees were underwhelmed by some of the jury’s choices in the main competition, while others were outraged that some of the brightest films at the Lido were completely shut out—particularly Park Chan-wook’s widely acclaimed No Other Choice.…
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Venice Day Six HOT TAKES: Acting Contenders Emerge in Dwayne Johnson, Amanda Seyfried, and Emily Blunt
The two biggest premieres on Day 6 of the 82nd Venice Film Festival were without question Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine—his first feature without his brother Josh—and Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, which arrives on the heels of her Oscar nomination last year for co-writing The Brutalist. Both films landed strongly with critics,…
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Venice Day Five HOT TAKES: Jim Jarmusch’s latest adored by critics; WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN and Ann Lee receive polarizing reactions
The biggest premieres of day 5 of the Venice Film Festival were the Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin, and first peek at Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Anne Lee. Jim Jarmusch’s minimalist style, wry humor, and poetic portraits of outsiders have made him a pioneer of independent…
