As he was announcing that Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” would be opening the Venice Film Festival, big boss Alberto Barbera, who usually announces the Venice opener sooner, stated “it was worth waiting for the certainty that the film was finished to have the pleasure to make this announcement.”
Seems like they rushed it to make Venice. As I said, Telluride will be watching this bad boy the first week of August. All of this despite being told by Netflix just two weeks ago that it wouldn’t be ready until October.
This is very much good news, we’re going to get to see Baumbach’s sprawling, ambitious opus, an adaptation of Don Delilo’s polarizing novel that is said to be so vast that it easily counts as the writer-director’s biggest movie yet.
The entire Venice lineup will be revealed on Tuesday, some names that will certainly be a part of this 91st edition include Baumbach, Inarritu, Aronofsky, Schrader, Panahi, Guadagnino, McDonagh, Dominik, Field, Hong, and Wiseman.
It definitely gives the 75th edition of Cannes a run for its money with their big names this year having been Gray, Cronenberg, Reichardt, Mungiu, Denis, Dardenne, Park, Kore-eda, Serra, and Ostlund.