Machete Opens as Midnight Film, and Selections for the Venice Film Fest

Robert Rodriguez’ Machete will open the 67th Annual Biennale as the midnight showing. ¬†Apparently, Black Swan is the official opening film.¬†¬†That should make for some pretty eye candy on the Lido. Here are the other selections. From an Oscar eye’s view, Black Swan and Somewhere appear to be the big gets.

Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder

La Pecora Nera
Ascanio Celetini
Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Maya Sansa

Somewhere
Sofia Coppola
Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura

Happy Few
Antony Cordier
Marina Fois, Elodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle

La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi
Saverio Costanzo
Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Marinelli, Filippo Timi, Isabella Rossellini, Maurizio Donadoni

Silent Souls (Ovsyanki)
Aleksei Fedorchenko
Igor Sergeyev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug, Victor Sukhorukov

Promises Written in Water
Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo, Delfine Bafort, Sage Stallone, Lisa Love

Road to Nowhere
Monte Hellman
Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain, John Diehl, Fabio Testi

Balada Triste De Trompeta
Alex De La Iglesia
Carmen Maura, Carolina Bang, Santiago Segura, Antonio de la Torre Fernando, Guillen-Cuervo

Venus Noire
Abdellatif Kechiche
Yahima Torres, Olivier Gourmet, André Jacobs

Barney’s Version
Richard J. Lewis
Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver

The Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Hark Tui
China, 122′
Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bingbing, Tony Leung Ka Fai

Drei
Tom Twyker
Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow