Francis Ford Coppola Don’t have one film premiere Venice This year, but the 86-year-old Oscar winner is duly present for the 82nd edition. His friend Mike Figgis’ behind the scenes portrait “Megadoc“About the production of Coppola’s 2024 Cinematic Cause Cause Célèbre” Megalopolis “, debuts out of the competition this week. And at the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday evening, Coppola took to Dais to seek his long -standing friend, German filmmaker Werner Herzog, receiving the festival, receiving the festival, receiving the festivalen’s reception of the festivalen.
Herzog’s new film “Ghost Elephants”, about a difficult crew of the Angolan creatures, debuts in Venice this week as part of The festival’s robust documentary slatewhich also contains new films from Laura Poitras and Sofia Coppola.
“One must celebrate that some like heaven can exist,” Said Coppola of Herzog, The 82-Years-Wold Documentary and FICTION AUTEUR WHO FILMS have spanned everywhere from the Caves of Lascaux in “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” to pushad “Fitzcarraldo,” or Alongside Conservationist Timothy Treadwell in his Last Days for “Grizzly Man.”
“His work burst into my life with ‘The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser’ (from 1974), ‘Aguirre, God’s Wrath’ and ‘Fitzcarraldo.’ I have never seen films like these, all unique and very different from each other and all magnificent, ”said Coppola, who put up a penniless herzog in his San Francisco house to end the script for” Fitzcarraldo. ”
“He’s Written operas, he’s directed roles, he’s acted. He not only can fill the pages of an encyclopedia – werner is one so, so filled with exubert creativity.… We all joined Together at my home in san francisa, where there Enthusiastic Discoveries. In Was Working On A Play at That Time, and Remember Introducing One of the Cast Members, Lena, WHO Eventually Became His Wife. So when it comes to this: If Werner has boundaries, I don’t know what they are.
A tearful Herzog went to the stage at Sala Grande at Lido Di Venezia. “Francis has been extremely kind and generous to me,” Herzog said. “We know each other for half a century now. He has been generous and invited me at a time when I had no money to pay for a hotel room. I stayed in his house in San Francisco and wrote my script by ‘Fitzcarraldo.’ Both of us came very close to making a very large film about the conquest of Mexico together, seen from the perspective of the Aztecs, a film project that was not materialized, but it is a wonderful time when we plotted about it.
Herzog – whose “bad lieutenant: call of call new orleans” and “my son, my son, what have you done?” Both played Venice in the competition in 2009 – concluded, “I have always tried to strive for something that goes deeper beyond what you normally see in cinemas. Go into a deep form of poetry that is possible in the cinema, search for truth in unusual way. Truth is always in some way in cinema.
Later during the opening ceremony, the competition jury’s President Alexander Payne took to the stage hours after Navigate questions about Gaza during the jury’s press conference. Protests about the ongoing genocide in Gaza are expected to round the event space and news throughout the party.
The Jury Also Includes Filmmakers Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delperro, Cristian Mungiu, and Mohammad Rasoulof, and Actors Zhao Tao and 2025 Best Actress Oscar Nominee Fernanda Torres, Who Together Will Look at 21 Films from the like of Paolo Sor.Grace“Opened the festival), Yorgos Lanthimos, Noah Baumbach, Park Chan-Wook, Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo del Toro, Olivier Assayas, Mona Fastvold, Benny Safdie, Jim Jarmusch and more.
“My colleagues and I express our great honor to be asked to earn in the jury for the year Venice Film FestivalAnd we offer our greatest respect and warmest congratulations to all the fantastic filmmakers whose work we have the privilege of seeing with virgin eyes, “Payne said after a tribute roll Monetting moments from his career, from” sideways “to” the descendants. “” I encourage my colleagues and myself to think that we know something about cinema, but not at all, to watch each movie at the same time with the eyes of a professional but also with the eyes of a child who may see a movie for the first time. We know that each of the films will be a kind of miracle, because the existence of cinema itself is a miracle, and we are approaching our work with the spirit of great joy. “
