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Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Takes Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

12.09.2020 - 21:49

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Guy Lodge Film CriticOne day after premiering and receiving the most rapturous reviews of any film in competition, U.S.-based Chinese director Chloé Zhao has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for her film “Nomadland,” a documentary-influenced road movie starring Frances McDormand as an itinerant widow traveling across America.

The lineup had seemed unpredictably competitive until yesterday, when roaring applause and acclaim established the Searchlight release as the one to beat.

Blanchett’s jury did not resist.The win makes Zhao the first female filmmaker to take Venice’s top prize since Sofia Coppola triumphed with “Somewhere” in 2010, and the first woman of color to lift the trophy since Mira Nair in 2001.

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17.09.2020 / 18:15

Hamptons Film Festival Finalizes Lineup For Hybrid Virtual & Drive-In Screenings

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsThe Hamptons Film Festival’s 2020 lineup will feature some of the year’s most buzzworthy films, from Franics Lee’s Ammonite to Lee Isaac Chung’s Steven Yeun-starrer Minari.Announced Thursday, the Hamptons’ Spotlight Films section includes Florian Zeller’s The Father, Edson’s Oda’s Nine Days, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal, Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly and Chloe Zhao’s Venice winner Nomadland. The annual festival, which runs October 8-14, will also feature titles in the Views From Long Island, Air, Land & Sea; Documentary Competition and Narrative Competition categories.

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16.09.2020 / 18:14

Oscar Contenders Are Scarce After 2020 Fall Festivals

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16.09.2020 / 03:17

Watch The Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Awards LIVE

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16.09.2020 / 01:25

‘Nomadland’ Director Chloe Zhao’s ‘The Rider’ to Hit Theaters in China

Rebecca Davis editorDirector Chloe Zhao’s 2017 film “The Rider” has been approved to screen in China via a limited theatrical release through the country’s National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas, the org said on Tuesday. A specific release date has not yet been set.Zhao is fresh off her win of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, where her road movie “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, garnered her sweeping acclaim and the top prize.

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13.09.2020 / 21:11

Frances McDormand was “offered a job in Target” while filming ‘Nomadland’

Nomadland.The movie sees the award-winning actor play Fern, who becomes a modern-day nomad after losing everything in the 2008 financial crisis.While working on the film, director Chloé Zhao (The Rider) wanted the star to “blend in” with a real nomadic community. Speaking at a press conference held on Zoom, the filmmaker said: “It was really about setting up an ecosystem, working with the nomads, because they are not always stationary and getting Fran to blend in.”McDormand, who has won two Oscars in her career, said that she knew the strategy was working when she was offered a job in a shop.

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13.09.2020 / 01:21

‘Nomadland’ Star Frances McDormand Reveals Her Dream to Hit the Road at 65

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFrances McDormand says she’s always dreamt of hitting the road.She told her husband when she was 45 that she had plans to change her name to Fern when she turns 65 and “start smoking Lucky Strikes, drinking Wild Turkey and I’d hit the road in my RV.”Her dreams sort of came true with “Nomadland.” The 63-year-old Oscar winner stars in the new Searchlight Pictures as Fern, a woman who lives in her van and joins a community of drifters.

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12.09.2020 / 21:51

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12.09.2020 / 14:43

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12.09.2020 / 03:15

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In her two previous features, Songs My Brother Taught Me and The Rider, Chloé Zhao established a spiritual connection to the American West, with its immense skies and wide-open landscapes that speak equally of desolate solitude and of freedom. Working primarily with nonprofessional actors playing versions of themselves, she specializes in stories carved into the bones of her characters, their communities and the remotes spaces they inhabit.

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12.09.2020 / 00:49

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12.09.2020 / 00:41

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11.09.2020 / 23:01

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11.09.2020 / 23:01

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11.09.2020 / 19:23

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10.09.2020 / 16:47

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Toronto: Olivia Colman, Ava DuVernay, Colin Farrell, Jodie Foster Set to Present TIFF Tribute Awards

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Chloé Zhao's is here, and watching star Frances McDormand simply walk for 58 seconds, there's no doubt she's cemented herself as — if not the frontrunner — a sure contender come awards season.The film centers on McDormand's Fern as she packs up her van and sets out into the American West as a modern-day nomad following an economic crisis in her small town. Real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells fill out the cast.

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08.09.2020 / 19:21

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08.09.2020 / 17:35

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