Michael Moore's new film to compete in Venice
Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 6:57PM | By
Franck Tabouring 
The Venice Film Festival today announced its complete lineup, and Michael Moore's upcoming documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story" will be one of the films competing for the festival's top prize.
In the film, Moore focuses on the impact corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the the world. It also centers on the global financial meltdown and the Senate's decision to approve a gigantic bailout.
Twenty-three films will screen in competition, including Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans," Todd Solondz's "Life During Wartime," John Hillcoat's "The Road" and Fatih Akin's "Sould Kitchen."
The out-of-competition category also includes some interesting picks, including Joe Dante's "The Hole," Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant!," Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and Abel Ferrara's "Napoli Napoli Napoli."
Here's the full lineup:
Competition
"36 vues du Pic Saint Loup," Jacques Rivette, France
"Accident," Cheang Pou-Soi, China-Hong Kong
"Baaria," Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy
"Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans," Werner Herzog, U.S.
"Between Two Worlds," Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka
"Capitalism: A Love Story," Michael Moore, U.S.
"La Doppia Ora," Giuseppe Capotondi, Italy
"Il Grande Sogno," Michele Placido, Italy
"Lebanon," Samuel Maoz, Israel
"Life During Wartime," Todd Solondz, U.S.
"Lo Spazio Bianco," Francesca Comencini, Italy
"Lourdes," Jessica Hausner, Austria
"Mr. Nobody," Jaco van Dormael, France
"Persecution," Patrice Chereau, France
"Prince of Tears," Yonfan, Hong Kong
"The Road," John Hillcoat, U.S.
"A Single Man," Tom Ford, U.S.
"Soul Kitchen," Fatih Akin, Germany
"Survival of the Dead," George Romero, U.S.
"Tetsuo The Bullet Man," Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan
"The Traveller," Ahmed Maher, Egypt
"White Material," Claire Denis, France
"Women Without Men," Shirin Neshat, Germany
Out of Competition
"Anni Luce," Francesco Maselli, Italy
"Chengdu, I Love You," Fruit Chan, Cui Jian, China
"The Hole," Joe Dante, U.S.
"The Informant!," Steven Soderbergh, U.S.
"Men Who Stare at Goats," Grant Heslov, U.S.
"Napoli Napoli Napoli," Abel Ferrara, Italy
"L'oro di Cuba," Giuliano Montaldo, Italy
"Prove per una tragedia Siciliana," John Turturro, Roman Paska, Italy
"REC 2," Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza, Spain
"Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story," Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt
"South of the Border," Oliver Stone, U.S.
"Yona Yona Penguin," Rintaro, Japan
Midnight Movies
"Gulaal," Anurag Kashyap, India
"Dev D," Anurag Kashyap, India
"Brooklyn's Finest," Antoine Fuqua, U.S.
"Delhi-6," Rakeysh Omprakash, India
"Valhalla Rising," Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark
Horizons
"Francesca," Bobby Paunescu, Romania
"One-Zero," Kamla Abou Zekri, Egypt
"Buried Secrets," Raja Amari, Tunisia
"Tender Parasites," Christian Becker and Oliver Schwabe, Germany
"Adrift," Bui Thac Chuyen, Vietnam
"Crush," Petr Buslov, Aleksei German Jr., Borisd Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vrypayev, Russia
"Repo Chick," Alex Cox, U.S.
"Engkwentro," Pepe Diokno, Philippines
"The Man's Woman and Other Stories," Amit Dutta, India
"Paraiso," Hector Galvez, Peru
"Io sono l'amore," Luca Guadagnino, Italy
"Cow," Guan Hu, China
"Judge," Liu Jie, China
"Pepperminta," Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland
"Tris di donne e abiti nunziali," Martina Gedeck, Italy
"Insolacao," Daniela Thomas and Felipe Hirsch, Brazil
"1428," Du Haibin, China
"I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You," Marcelo Gomes and Karim Ainouz, Brazil
"Once Upon a Time Proletarian: 12 Tales of a Country," Guo Xiaolu, China
"Villalobos," Romuald Karmakar, Germany
"Il Colore delle parole," Marco Simon Puccioni, Italy
"The One All Alone," Frank Scheffer, The Netherlands
"Toto," Peter Schreiner, Austria
Horizons Events Program 1
"The Death of Pentheus," Philip Haas, U.S.
"Faces of Soul," Gina Kim, U.S.
"La Boheme," Werner Herzog, U.K.
"Mudanza," Pere Portabella, Spain
Horizons Events Program 2
"Deserto Rosa -- Luigi Ghirri," Elisabetta Sgarbi, Italy
"Reading Book of Blockade," Aleksander Sokurov, Russia
"Armando Testa -- Povero ma moderno," Pappi Corsicato"La Danse -- Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris," Fredrick Wiseman, U.S., In collaboration with Dance Biennale
"Hugo en Afrique," Stefano Knuchel, Switzerland
"Via della Croce," Serena Nono, Italy
Controcampo Italiano
"Poeti," Toni D'Angelo
"Negli occhi," Francesco del Grosso
"Il Compleanno," Daniele Anzellotti, Marco Filiberti
"Dieci Inverni," Valerio Mieli
"Cosmonauta," Susanna Nicchiarelli
"Hollywood sul Tevere," Marco Spagnoli
"Il Piccolo," Maurizio Zaccaro












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