Cinefile

Vincent Gallo, the director of Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny, has managed to finish his latest film--Promises Written In Water--in time for it play in the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Gallo's film, which is "about a terminally ill girl," joins a promising lineup of movies at this year's fest. Screen Daily dishes out the details on the other entries:

"The selections include Sofia Coppola’s father-daughter story Somewhere featuring Elle Fanning; Saverio Costanzo’s The Solitude of Primary Numbers; Tom Tywker’s Berlin-set love triangle Three [...] Abdellatif Kechiche’s Venus Noire based on the true story of a South African woman used as a circus exhibition; Julian Schnabel’s Miral about Hind Husseini, a Palestinian woman’s effort to open an orphanage in Israel staring Frieda Pinto; Mario Martone’s three-and-a-half hour Italian unification costume drama We Believed; and Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff set on the 1845 Oregon trail starring Michelle Williams."