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By Moira Sullivan Kim Novak Lifetime Achievement Award, September 1, 2025 © La Biennale di Venezia The 82nd Venice Film Festival in 2025 ran from 27 August to 6 September 2025. Venice is the oldest film festival of international film festivals, and a distinguishing attribute is that it is an artistic film festival attracting independent filmmakers and scripts that are complex and layered, provoking intelligent introspection. Theatrical productions that are attractive to general audiences are also screened, but most of the films are selected to be appraised by a talented group of film critics and a distinguished jury. Unlike Cannes, any critic who wants to attend the press conferences is allowed entrance. The reviews reveal a multiplicity of viewpoints even if the most commercial of these forums are backed by big business blogs such as Deadline Hollywood, Hollywood Reporter, and IndieWire. Deadline Hollywood is a focused blog on the entertainment industry acquired by Penske Media...

By Moira Sullivan This report was part of the September 6 broadcast of Annakarinaland. Ingrid Bergman's birthday is August 29 and this year she would have been 110.  The year 2015 was the centennial celebration of the birth of Ingrid Bergman in Sweden. The festival poster for the 68th Cannes Film Festival featured a picture of her in part because of the world premiere of Swedish filmmaker Stig Björkman's documentary, Jag är Ingrid" ( Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words, Sweden 2015.) "Ingrid Bergman -In Her Own Words" highlights the work of a woman who dedicated her life to film. Though she was a phenomenal artist, so little is out there about her life on film. Stig Björkman co-wrote the documentary with Dominika Daubenbüchel and producer Stina Gardell. Swedish vocalist Eva Dahlgren, who also sings the final ballad of the film, coordinated the Super 8 footage, and Ingrid's letters to her friends are read by actress Alicia Vikander. The film came about through Björ...