• Tilda Swinton gets creative with 2020 Venice Film Festival’s mask mandate

    Tilda Swinton gets creative with 2020 Venice Film Festival’s mask mandate

    Call it coronavirus couture. Tilda Swinton is taking the humble face mask to high-fashion heights at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, where nose and mouth coverings are required as part of the event’s pandemic-era precautions — as are temperature checks and social distancing. At the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday, the 59-year-old Oscar winner hit …
  • Why Cate Blanchett is re-wearing her old gowns for the 2020 Venice Film Festival

    Why Cate Blanchett is re-wearing her old gowns for the 2020 Venice Film Festival

    Cate Blanchett is breaking fashion’s cardinal rule at the 2020 Venice Film Festival this week. The actor, who is the festival’s jury president, is re-wearing old gowns, and for good reason. On Wednesday, she hit the red carpet for the event’s opening ceremony in Venice, Italy, in an Esteban Cortazar “Stingray” midnight blue shimmer jersey …
  • Cate Blanchett to remain at helm of the Venice Film Festival

    Cate Blanchett to remain at helm of the Venice Film Festival

    Cate Blanchett, who was named jury president of the 77th Venice Film Festival in January, will remain at the helm. The fest — the first major global film event to go ahead in person since the coronavirus pandemic hit — is now meant to take place Sept. 2 to 12. Jurors include French actress Ludivine …
  • Venice Film Festival still on for September, Venice governor confirms

    Venice Film Festival still on for September, Venice governor confirms

    The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as planned this fall, the region’s governor confirmed on Sunday. Luca Zaia, governor of Veneto, said the world’s longest-running film festival, which was due to take place Sept. 2-12, is still on. The official’s confirmation comes days after the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival among a …