51 m. ago Venice Film Festival writer holds up ‘We are all an audience to genocide’ poster on red carpet

A writer at Venice Film Festival held up a sign which read “we are all an audience to genocide" whilst walking down the red carpet.

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67 m. ago Kaia Gerber, 23, looks chic in a plunging crop top as she joins boyfriend Lewis Pullman, 32, at Venice Film Festival after packing on the PDA

The model, 23, who has been seen packing on the PDA with the actor, 32, in the Italian city, wore a plunging crop top.

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4 h. ago The Smashing Machine: Dwayne Johnson tipped for Oscar buzz as film earns standing ovation

The film received a 15-minute standing ovation after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival overnight

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5 h. ago The Rock shows off dramatic new look for The Smashing Machine at Venice Film Festival

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson showed off a dramatic new look at the premiere of his new movie The Smashing Machine at Venice Film Festival on Monday (1 September).

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8 h. ago Kathryn Bigelow unveils political thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’ at Venice Film Festival

Kathryn Bigelow tackles geopolitics in her new film “A House of Dynamite.”

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13 h. ago Amanda Seyfried borrows Julia Roberts's EXACT look at Venice Film Festival after begging her stylist to source the actress's outfit on Instagram

The actress, 39, looked incredible as she arrived at The Testament Of Ann Lee photocall in a two-piece suit.

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16 h. ago Kim Novak, 92, looks almost unrecognisable as she receives the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice International Film Festival

The actress, 92, channeled old Hollywood glamour as she stepped out in an emerald and black gown to accept the award.

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17 h. ago Emily Blunt steals the show in a dazzling strapless gown as she puts on a playful display with The Rock at The Smashing Machine premiere during The Venice Film Festival

Emily Blunt made sure to turn heads in a glamorous strapless gown as she attended The Smashing Machine premiere during the 82nd Venice Film Festival on Monday. 

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17 h. ago Putin biopic with Jude Law as dictator has viewers claim star looks like another actor

The Wizard of the Kremlin, a satire following the rise of Mad Vlad, premiered at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend - but many were in hysterics over Jude Law's appearance

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18 h. ago Emily Blunt steals the show in a dazzling strapless gown as she joins The Rock at The Smashing Machine premiere at 82nd Venice Film Festival

Emily Blunt made sure to turn heads in a glamorous strapless gown as she attended The Smashing Machine premiere during the 82nd Venice Film Festival on Monday. 

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18 h. ago Vertigo star Kim Novak reveals mother tried to kill her as a child in new documentary

‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’ is screening at the Venice Film Festival this week

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18 h. ago Jacob Elordi accused of 'DIVA' behavior as he snaps at Venice Film Festival official in tense exchange

Jacob Elordi was branded 'super rude' as he got into a tense altercation with a Venice Film Festival official at the world premiere of Frankenstein on Saturday.

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19 h. ago Halsey showcases stunning figure in corset gown while joined by hunky fiance Avan Jogia at amfAR Gala in Venice

The 30-year-old singer was joined on the red carpet by Canadian actor hunk Avan Jogia, 33, at the amfAR Gala on Sunday night which was happening amid the Venice Film Festival 2025.

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20 h. ago Dwayne Johnson, 53, stuns fans with 'much slimmer' frame and 'loss of muscle mass' while promoting The Smashing Machine

Dwayne Johnson has stunned fans with his 'much slimmer' frame, after unveiling a new look during the Venice Film Festival. 

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21 h. ago Jude Law as Vladimir Putin and 7 more actors who transformed into politicians

Jude Law looks totally unrecognisable as Russian president Vladimir Putin in the new movie, The Wizard of Kremlin, which recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival

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22 h. ago The Testament of Ann Lee review – strikingly strange portrait of radically ecstatic Shaker leader

Venice film festivalAmanda Seyfried plays the 18th-century missionary who took her message to the New World, in Mona Fastvold’s elusive film‘Our ordeal is worth it!” This is the cry of one of the faithful in Mona Fastvold’s movie, co-written with her partner Brady Corbet, with whom she co-wrote The Brutalist. It is a vehement, fervent, striking but sometimes baffling drama about the historical figure of Ann Lee, who endured religious persecution in 18th-century England as leader of the fundamentalist Shaker movement.As the embodiment of Christ’s second coming, Lee took her radical message to the New World and in pre-revolutionary America founded an enduring community of souls, persecuted all over again by the new patriarchy for being a woman and a pacifist. Her Shakers were known among other things for their skill in stylishly elegant and minimalist furniture – although the connection with Christ’s profession is unstressed. Lee is played by Amanda Seyfried, with Lewis Pullman as her...

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24 h. ago Kim Novak’s Vertigo review – the dizzying demands on Hitchcock’s leading lady

Venice film festivalAn intensely personal interview of the 92-year-old Hollywood star delivers showstopping moments for fans of the golden age of moviesAt 92 years old, Hollywood movie star Kim Novak – legendary of course for her doppelganger starring role in Hitchcock’s Vertigo – is a vivid and, in fact, yearningly romantic and demanding presence in this gallant, cinephile documentary-interview filmed by director and Novak superfan Alexandre O Philippe. She is one of the very few golden age stars still with us, and maybe the title of this film is a playful pun: at the very apex of Hollywood history, perhaps Novak feels dizzy looking down from her mythic height.Philippe himself is more than qualified for this kind of intensely personal exegesis, having in the past made intriguing films about David Lynch’s debt to The Wizard of Oz and about the Psycho shower scene. With a touch of mischief and misdirection, he begins his film by simply playing a voice note that Novak has sent him, in...

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24 h. ago Georgina's VERY bling get up! Ronaldo's fiancée dons £2.4 million worth of custom jewellery

Georgina showed off her 30-carat diamond ring, said to be worth £2.2 million, as she held her hands up while at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

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24 h. ago Georgina's VERY bling get up! Ronaldo's fiancée dons £2.4 million worth of custom jewellery  at Venice Film Festival

Georgina showed off her 30-carat diamond ring, said to be worth £2.2 million, as she held her hands up while at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

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25 h. ago All the best looks from Venice Film Festival 2025: Cate Blanchett, Jacob Elordi and Emma Stone

The stars are pulling out all the stops with their Venice style for 2025

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29 h. ago Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez flashes her giant $3million engagement ring as she sizzles in a lace dress at the Venice Film Festival

Cristiano Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez flashed her giant sparkling engagement ring on Sunday as she hit the red carpet at the Filming Italy Venice Award.

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32 h. ago Dwayne Johnson, Oscar contender? ‘The Smashing Machine’ starts buzz at Venice Film Festival

Dwayne Johnson takes a serious turn as UFC fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine,” premiering Monday at the Venice Film Festival

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32 h. ago Jacob Elordi flirts up a storm with mystery woman after breaking down in tears over 13

The Australian 28-year-old beamed with delight as he chatted up the brunette while touring around Italy in a what appeared to be a van

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39 h. ago Paris Jackson commands attention in a dramatic caped gown as she joins dashing Colman Domingo and Jude Law at star

The 27-year-old daughter of late singer Michael Jackson looked nothing short of sensational as she graced the red carpet in a dramatic caped gown.

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39 h. ago Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez flashes her giant $3million engagement ring as she sizzles in a lace dress at the Filming Italy Venice Award amid the 82nd Film Festival

Cristiano Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez flashed her giant sparkling engagement ring on Sunday as she hit the red carpet at the Filming Italy Venice Award.

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39 h. ago Cate Blanchett turns heads in quirky bird feather gown as she graces the red carpet at premiere of her film Father Mother Sister Brother during Venice International Film Festival

The acclaimed actress, 56, ensured all eyes were on her in a striking black gown with a voluminous skirt made up of layers of dark grey feathers.

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40 h. ago My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming

Venice film festivalPierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hittersWe have had some sparky tennis movies recently, such as Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, and it seemed at first as if this coming-of-age comedy from Italian actor turned director Andrea Di Stefano could be joining them. But despite a very robust lead performance from Pierfrancesco Favino, the enjoyably grizzled alpha male of Italian cinema, this completely runs aground in the third act, quite unable to decide if it should offer the traditional comeback story of an underdog sports movie, or if it should pursue its implied repudiation of the win-at-all-costs ethic. The other issue is whether its young hero should ignore what his dad has to say in favour of an attractive, if flawed, new mentor. The film does in fact appear finally to get off the fence on ...

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40 h. ago Jude Law avoids red carpet snaps with his wife Phillipa Coan as she makes rare public appearance at his premiere during Venice International Film Festival

The actor, 52, who tied the knot with Phillipa, 38, in 2019, appeared on the red carpet for The Wizard Of The Kremlin premiere, however he and his wife avoided being snapped together.

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42 h. ago Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych

Venice film festivalJim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness and closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and ParisJim Jarmusch has made anthology films before: Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In fact, he could claim to be the pre-eminent specialist in this now very unfashionable movie form. But with his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he is giving us something new and personal.It’s the sense of mortality and the gathering cloud of darkness over our heads as we enter middle age, a perpetual nagging worry about the health and happiness of our elderly parents, with the guilt and sadness of not going to see them, or seeing them only rarely, and the related feeling of closeness – or perhaps the opposite – with your siblings for whom these parents are the number one topic of conversation. Then there’s the feeling of relief mixed with...

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43 h. ago The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

Venice film festival The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figureGiuliano da Empoli’s smash-hit satirical novel The Wizard of the Kremlin, about a Putin spin doctor called Vadim Baranov and based on shadowy Russian politician Vladislav Surkov, has now been converted into an exasperatingly laborious and literal-minded movie, burdened with endless dull voiceover. It has been written for the screen by its estimable director Olivier Assayas, working with the formidable author and reportage journalist Emmanuel Carrère; Carrère in fact has a cameo here, playing a supercilious French figure at a raucous Moscow student party in the early 90s, patronisingly informing the young people present that it was the communism they’ve just rejected that really believed in the arts.The action takes us through the 1990s decline of ailing president Boris Yeltsin and the promotion of FSB chief Vlad...

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44 h. ago All the best looks from Venice Film Festival 2025: Alexa Chung, Amal Clooney, Emma Stone, Jacob Elordi

The stars are pulling out all the stops with their Venice style for 2025

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45 h. ago Jude Law reveals ‘positive’ part of portraying Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin

Law’s new film premiered at the Venice Film Festival

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45 h. ago Jude Law doesn’t 'fear repercussions' after playing Putin in divisive new movie

The actor insisted the film is not “looking for controversy for controversy’s sake”, whilst being grilled by journalists at the Venice Film Festival

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49 h. ago Broken English review – Marianne Faithfull’s last glow, as she recounts past lives

Venice film festivalThe charismatic Faithfull is quizzed by a fictional ministry fronted by Tilda Swinton about a confounding career, from 60s It girl to art scene doyenneMarianne Faithfull led different lives and was cast in various roles. Some roles she chose and wrote herself; others were forced upon her, like an ugly hat or an ill-fitting suit. She was the convent girl and the teenage bride, the 60s It girl and the rock star’s girlfriend. She was the pop singer, the folk singer, the tragic addict and the indomitable survivor. Broken English, a flawed but ardent new documentary from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, effectively arranges all of these incarnations like museum exhibits and invites its subject to review each one in turn – and then smash the glass to set them free.Faithfull broke the mould, and so it is fitting that the film of her life should do the same, except that Forsyth and Pollard’s main conceit feels jerry-rigged and overdramatised to the point where it risks obs...

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49 h. ago Laura Harrier packs on the PDA with her new man during Venice Film Festival as she appears to move on after split from ex

The American actress and model, 35, and fashion consultant Sam reportedly separated earlier this year after more than four years together.

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49 h. ago Seeing double! Princess Diana's nieces Amelia and Eliza stun in sheer, pastel looks as Spencer twins mirror each other at Venice Film Festival

Lady Amelia and Lady Eliza Spencer sashayed down the red carpet ethereal ensembles as they returned to Venice to attend the 82nd edition of the Film Festival.

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52 h. ago James Bond favourite looks unrecognisable with bushy beard and long hair

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who is hotly tipped to play the next James Bond, caused quite a stir at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday at the premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

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55 h. ago Jude Law debuts portrayal of Vladimir Putin in 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' at Venice Film Festival

Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin in “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” premiering Sunday at the Venice Film Festival

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63 h. ago Julia Roberts packs on rare PDA with husband Danny Moder in back of taxi after solo red carpet in Venice

Julia Roberts may have been solo on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival , but she definitely had a plus-one for the ride back to her hotel.

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64 h. ago Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster are unrecognizable as they ditch glam for '70s style at Venice Film Festival

Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster took the Venice Film Festival by storm on Saturday when they arrived in matching retro outfits.

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66 h. ago Paris Jackson puts on a daring display in a plunging leather gown as she joins Rosie Huntington

The daughter of Michael Jackson was among the stars who jetted to Venice Film Festival for the premiere of the Guillermo del Toro remake on Saturday.

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67 h. ago Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual styleGuillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical strangeness but that’s enough about his film version of Pinocchio. Now Del Toro has written and directed a bombastic but watchable new version of Mary Shelley’s great novel and makes of it a stately melodrama, starring Oscar Isaac as the anatomist and passionate freethinker Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature: no passé neck-bolts or big fringey forehead, of course, and if you compare him with portrayals by other actors – Boris Karloff, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro – he is, for all the picturesque prosthetic scars, the nearest this iconic figure has come to being a bit of a hottie.It’s an epic bromance between scientist and monster, both of whom speak wit...

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68 h. ago Below the Clouds review – a ghostly yet luminous cinematic mosaic of Naples crowns a superb trio

Venice film festivalThere is a real end-of-days quality to Gianfranco Rosi’s utterly distinctive documentary of war, violence, cynicism and the climate crisis in an uneasy cityGianfranco Rosi has made a movie that could be thought of as the last of a conceptual trilogy about normal life and spiritual life in Italy: the first was his Sacro GRA from 2013 about Rome, for which Rosi won the Venice Golden Lion; the next was Fire at Sea about the migration crisis as experienced in Lampedusa in Sicily. Now there is Below the Clouds, in luminous black-and-white. It’s another of his brilliantly composed docu-mosaic assemblages of scenes and tableaux, shot from fixed camera positions without any camera narration.The title is taken from Jean Cocteau: “Vesuvius makes all the clouds in the world.” Rosi reports from Naples, a city uneasily preoccupied with the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions for which it is famed, and with the great catastrophe of AD79 that buried nearby Pompeii. We see the ar...

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68 h. ago George Clooney health woes revealed: From horror motorcycle crash to hospitalisation for drastic weight loss

The actor, 64, was forced to skip a press conference on Thursday for his brand new movie Jay Kelly after being advised by doctors to rest.

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69 h. ago Julia Roberts embraces husband in rare snap after divisive Venice Film Festival debut

Hollywood royalty, Julia Roberts, has been married to the father of her kids, Danny Moder, since 2002, but usually keeps her private life firmly out the spotlight

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69 h. ago Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice

Venice film festivalA postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the presentEd Saxberger is an amiable, unassuming New Yorker on the cusp of old age who works at the post office and wears a pen behind one ear. In his youth, he published an anthology of poetry called Way Past Go, which caused barely a ripple and quickly slipped out of print. Then one day he is accosted outside his apartment by an NYU student, who explains that he stumbled across Way Past Go at a secondhand bookstore and was transported, blown away and could scarcely believe what he’d found. “You’re a man of letters,” the student tells Saxberger, which is undeniably true given that he spends his days sorting them.Hitchcock once said that nine-tenths of a film’s success is in the casting, by which measure Late Fame already qualifies as a hit. Saxberger is portrayed with a loose, warm-leather ease by Willem Dafoe, who makes the man look bemused but never...

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3 d. ago ‘I held on to what’s important’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award

One of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era, 92-year-old says prize as much about her refusal to be controlled as her on-screen performancesShe was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for decades Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived a life of quiet seclusion. Now, at the age of 92, the last of the great, glamorous movie stars of Hollywood’s golden era is back in the spotlight. She is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice film festival, where a documentary about her life and career, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, is premiering.For Novak, it is a tribute not just to her acting but to her lifelong refusal to be controlled and manipulated by Hollywood, or anyone else. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Megadoc review – absorbing account of an impressive and indomitable Francis Ford Coppola at work

Venice film festivalMike Figgis’s valuable documentary shows how Coppola worked with actors on his $120m passion project MegalopolisWhen Francis Ford Coppola finally started work on his retrofuturist ancient Rome drama-parable Megalopolis (the self-funded passion project he had been nurturing for decades), he invited another director to be a fly on the wall and make a record of his work in progress. This was Mike Figgis, whose limber digital film-making skills were ideal for the task. The result is a thoroughly watchable, respectful, valuable and intimate account of a great film-maker at work – particularly rehearsing actors, a part of directing very rarely shown. (Coppola takes his cast through some wacky exploratory games, like an experimental theatre company.)It’s always impressive to see the indomitable Coppola in full rhetorical flow: holding forth, opining, schooling one and all on what happens when a film is made and how glorious it is to spend and even lose money in the serv...

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3 d. ago Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to premiere at Venice with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi are expected at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”

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3 d. ago Cate Blanchett is all smiles as she makes a chic arrival to her Italian hotel by boat amid Venice Film Festival

Cate Blanchett was the picture of understated glamour this week as she continued to enjoy her stay in Italy amid the Venice Film Festival.

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3 d. ago Paris Jackson stuns in a figure hugging purple dress as she joins chic Noomi Rapace and Tilda Swinton at glamorous Tom Ford dinner in Venice

The great and good of Hollywood have gathered in Venice for the 82nd annual International Film Festival in the Italian City this week.

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3 d. ago Julia Roberts caught in #MeToo storm as new film sparks controversy at Venice Film Festival

The actress denied the films ambiguous handling of a campus sexual assault allegation risked echoing harmful cultural patterns

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3 d. ago George Clooney returns to Venice Film Festival after 'devastating' health blow

George Clooney was forced to pull out of events at the Venice Film Festival due to ill health.

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3 d. ago After the Hunt review – Julia Roberts faces a dilemma in Guadagnino’s muddled campus accusation drama

Venice film festivalLuca Guadagnino’s latest – also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield – is clenched in its own sense of relevance, as a desire to find complexity in a scandal at Yale becomes a noncommittal jumble of ideasLuca Guadagnino misfires with this bafflingly overlong, overwrought #MeToo campus accusation drama from screenwriter Nora Garrett, broadly in the tradition of David Mamet’s Oleanna or Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things. It is worryingly muddled and contrived, perhaps in need of further script drafts to excavate a clearer and more satisfying drama inside.Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri star, with Andrew Garfield and Michael Stuhlbarg in supporting roles; they are all doing their considerable best, each frankly hampered by the unfocused and uncertain characterisation in the material itself, which, by the time it finally reaches its coda-finale of confrontation, is almost bizarrely inert, anticlimactic and incoherent. The movie is clenched with its own sense of con...

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3 d. ago Kevin Spacey attends Venice Film Festival with directorial comeback

You might consider it bad form - even rude - to gatecrash your second film festival in a year.

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3 d. ago Amal Clooney had a 'non surgical facelift' before walking on the red carpet at Venice Film Festival and upstaging husband George

Amal Clooney walked the red carpet at Venice Film festival last night to support her husband George Clooney.

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3 d. ago At Work review – photographer ditches career for gig economy and writing in poverty drama

Venice film festivalThough the film is eventful enough, there is a bland placidity with which Bastien Bouillon plays a man following his dreams in this quaintly naive storyValérie Donzelli has given us a strange mixture of realism and quaint naivety in this film, based on an autobiographical novel by French photographer turned novelist Franck Courtès. There are some interesting insights into the gig economy but some very cliched and implausible representations of what happens when you become a literary author.With a kind of unvarying bland placidity, Bastien Bouillon plays someone who (like Courtès) abandoned a very successful career in photography in pursuit of his financially perilous dream of being a serious writer. We get a single shot early on of all his cameras on a shelf: he presumably does not sell any to alleviate his financial difficulties but we never see or hear about these valuable objects ever again. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Etna lava, an ousted PM and Venice film festival: photos of the day – Friday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Julia Roberts says humanity ‘losing art of conversation’ in defence of new #MeToo

After the Hunt, directed by Luca Guadagnino, centres on an accusation of sexual assault at a universityJulia Roberts has defended her new #MeToo-themed film, After the Hunt, from accusations that it revives anti-feminist arguments, saying humanity was at risk of “losing the art of conversation”.The Oscar-winning actor is making her Venice film festival debut with the psychological thriller from the Italian director Luca Guadagnino. It premieres out of competition on the Lido on Friday evening. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Amal Clooney looks picture perfect as she supports sickly husband George while leaving Venice the morning after he battled serious sinus infection on Jay Kelly red carpet

Amal Clooney looked picture perfect as she supported her sickly husband George while leaving the Venice FIlm Festival on Friday morning. 

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4 d. ago Venice Film Festival's worst dressed stars: Naomi Watts, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern lead fashion flops on the red carpet as their statement and daring gowns fail to impress

This year's Venice Film Festival has attracted its usual array of A-listers, all dressed to the nines for the occasion. However, there were several stars who unfortunately seemed to miss the fashion mark.

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4 d. ago All the best looks from Venice Film Festival 2025: Amal Clooney, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts

Whether on their water taxis or the red carpet, the stars are pulling out all the stops with their Venice style for 2025

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4 d. ago George Clooney tipped for Oscars glory over ‘midlife crisis masterpiece’

Critics are hailing it as the actor’s ‘best performance ever’, while the film also earnt a 10-minute standing ovation at Venice Film festival

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4 d. ago Amal Clooney and Olivia Colman suffer the same fate as their pricey gowns are left soaked after hitting separate rainy red carpets in Venice and London

While Amal, 47 supported husband George, 64, at the Jay Kelly premiere amid the Venice Film Festival , back in the London Olivia, 51, walked the equally wet red carpet.

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4 d. ago George Clooney says he 'can't speak' after health issue forces him to axe work gigs

George Clooney was forced to pull out of press conferences and photo-calls at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week due to a 'bad' health issue

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4 d. ago George Clooney's health battles in full as he pulls out of Venice Film Festival

George Clooney was forced to pull out of the Venice Film Festival earlier this week after falling ill, but the Hollywood icon has faced much more serious health battles in the past

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4 d. ago Amal and George Clooney triumphant return to Venice Film Festival after health blow

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney stunned in a bold fuchsia gown in Italy as she joined husband George on the red carpet for his new film

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4 d. ago Julia Roberts makes her debut at Venice Film Festival with in #MeToo

Julia Roberts is making her Venice Film Festival debut with the psychosexual drama “After the Hunt.”

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4 d. ago George Clooney admits 'he can't speak' after sinus infection as he returns to red carpet

Hollywood legend George Clooney had to pull out of events at the Venice Film Festival due to "a bad sinus infection" but it didn't keep him away from the red carpet last night

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4 d. ago Gaza zealots force Gal Gadot off red carpet: Israeli actress will stay away from Venice Film Festival amid political row

Gadot and her co-star in the film, Gerard Butler , are coming under pressure over their perceived support of the state of Israel during its military campaign in Gaza.

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4 d. ago Bono's actress daughter Eve Hewson wows in a dazzling black sequin gown as she joins glamorous mother Ali Hewson at the star

Eve Hewson looked sensational as she was joined by her glamorous mother, Ali Hewson, on the red carpet at the star-studded Jay Kelly premiere during the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.

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4 d. ago Close encounters of the best kind! Emma Stone gets a red carpet kiss from husband Dave McCary as they join Alicia Silverstone and Noomi Rapace at the Venice premiere of Bugonia

The La La Land actress, 36, is the star of Bugonia, a new movie by director Yorgos Lanthimos.

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4 d. ago By George... he's back! Clooney is upstaged by glamorous wife Amal as he returns to the red carpet clutching his throat at the Venice premiere of Jay Kelly

The Hollywood star was once again supported by his glamorous wife Amal in the city they famously married in, this time to promote latest release Jay Kelly.

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4 d. ago By George... he's back! Under the weather Clooney is upstaged by glamorous wife Amal as he returns to the red carpet clutching his throat at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Jay Kelly

The Hollywood star was once again supported by his glamorous wife Amal in the city they famously married in, this time to promote latest release Jay Kelly.

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4 d. ago George Clooney is supported by his wife Amal as he returns to the red carpet for his Venice Film Festival premiere amid 'serious sinus infection'

The Hollywood star was once again supported by his glamorous wife Amal in the city they famously married in, this time to promote latest release Jay Kelly.

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4 d. ago Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort

Venice film festivalThe affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissismEverybody loves George Clooney, and rightly so. His performances in films such as Michael Clayton, Out of Sight and Ocean’s Eleven have been a joy, and as an elegant public figure he has more or less single-handedly underwritten the continuing currency of Hollywood classiness. But in this dire, sentimental and self-indulgent film, he has the look of a man who has found strychnine in his Nespresso pod and can’t remember which of the cupboards in his luxury hotel suite contains the antidote.It is directed by Noah Baumbach, whose 2022 film White Noise, based on the Don DeLillo novel, was a superb competition entry at Venice. (Baumbach was reportedly disconcerted by a tepid response; I thought it was brilliant.) But this one is a grisly, sucrose, sub-Fellini swoon on the subject of a super-handsome Hollywood...

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4 d. ago Emma Stone gets a red carpet kiss from supportive husband Dave McCary as they join Alicia Silverstone and Noomi Rapace at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Bugonia

The La La Land actress, 36, is the star of Bugonia, a new movie by director Yorgos Lanthimos.

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4 d. ago Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy

Venice film festivalJesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remakeYorgos Lanthimos’s macabre and amusing new film has a predictably strong performance from Emma Stone, an intestine-shreddingly clamorous orchestral score from Jerskin Fendrix and, most importantly, a wonderful montage finale – but frankly it’s a very, very long run-up to that big jump.Added to which, there is the question of whether this bizarre if sometimes heavy-handed black comedy has fully earned its eventual pivot to serious tragic issues in the ending. Does the globally traumatised finale succeed in retrospectively upgrading the significance of what has preceded it? Do these avowedly important images and moods quite match up with the single-joke-single-punchline movie with all its violent slapstick grotesquerie that went before? Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Lady Victoria Hervey oozes glamour in a light grey pleated cape gown and crochet hat at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Hungarian film Orphan

The model and socialite, 48, jetted off to Italy to attend the premiere of Hungarian film Orphan on Thursday.

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4 d. ago Emma Stone says she believes in ALIENS and says only narcissists believe they don't exist as she promotes her extraterrestrial film Bugonia at Venice Film Festival

Emma Stone explained she believes in aliens at a press conference in Venice on Thursday, to promote a film in which she plays a woman who may - or may not - be an alien herself.

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4 d. ago All the best looks from Venice Film Festival 2025: Emma Stone, Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett

From water taxis to the red carpet, the stars are pulling out all the stops with their Venice style for 2025

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4 d. ago George Clooney, 64, skips Venice festival press conference over 'health issue'

George Clooney was absent from a press conference for his new film, Jay Kelly, during the second day of Venice Film Festival on Thursday due to a 'serious' health issue.

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4 d. ago George Clooney cancels Venice Film Festival appearances due to illness

Clooney was in Venice to promote Noah Baumbach’s new film, ‘Jay Kelly’

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4 d. ago George Clooney pulls out of Venice Film Festival event due to sinus infection

He was scheduled to promote his new film Jay Kelly.

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4 d. ago For Yorgos Lanthimos, new Emma Stone film ‘Bugonia’ isn’t a dystopia. It’s real

Yorgos Lanthimos's new film “Bugonia” is premiering Thursday evening at the Venice Film Festival

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5 d. ago George Clooney forced to pull out of Venice Film Festival events after illness

The 64-year-old actor, who stars in Noah Baumbach’s competition entry Jay Kelly, ended his Wednesday press junket early

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5 d. ago George Clooney sparks concern as he skips Venice Film Festival due to mystery illness

George Clooney was reportedly forced to cancel his commitments at the Venice Film Festival after the Hollywood icon fell ill on the first day of the prestigious event

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5 d. ago From Cate Blanchett to Heidi Klum: The best looks from the Venice Film Festival 2025

The Venice Film Festival officially opened on Wednesday (27 August), attracting Hollywood royalty.

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5 d. ago Venice Film Festival heats up with George Clooney, Emma Stone premieres

George Clooney and Emma Stone star in two films premiering at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday evening

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5 d. ago ‘We are seeing a new maturity’: how ‘extended reality’ is coming of age at the Venice film festival

At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative The future came early to this year’s Venice film festival as the event’s pioneering Venice Immersive (VI) section launched a day before the official opening gala. Based on the small island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, a short boat ride from the main festival site, VI points to a possible new direction for cinema with an eclectic programme of extended reality (XR) artworks. The mix of installations, videos and virtual worlds can look outlandish when compared with the other, more traditional pictures at the festival. But VI’s base at Venice reveals the event’s true parentage and core principles.“Our mission, in holding this event at one of the biggest film festivals, has always been to build bridges between the cinema industry and the budding immersive community,” says Michel Reilhac, who established VI alongside co-curator Liz Rosenthal back in 2017. “This ye...

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5 d. ago Mother review – Noomi Rapace is a fanatical Mother Teresa full of fury

Rapace plays the canonised Kolkata nun with hard-bitten intensity in a complex, lurid story that veers between faithful telling and bouts of funThe convent is a pressure cooker in this fevered, energetic account of a pivotal week in the life of the young Mother Teresa, which jump-starts the Orizzonti sidebar at this year’s Venice film festival. Macedonian writer-director Teona Strugar Mitevska ticks down the days from seven to one and wrings a performance of flayed, hard-bitten intensity from Noomi Rapace, who marches down the corridors with a face full of fury. Rapace is a long way from her breakout role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; tonally, though, not so much. If Mother Teresa never goes so far as to set about the sisters with an axe, the sense that she might injects Mitevska’s film with a pleasing dose of danger.It is 1948, we’re in the broiling heart of Kolkata and Sister Teresa has tired of her teaching role at the Loreto Entally convent. “I’m a woman in a system run by...

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6 d. ago Venice Film Festival kicks off with Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘La Grazia’

The Venice Film Festival kicks off with the world premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” on Wednesday evening

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6 d. ago Amal Clooney, 47, looks stylish in butter yellow summer dress as she arrives in Venice hand in hand with her husband George, 64, ahead of the Film Festival

Amal Clooney made an elegant appearance as she arrived into Venice hand in hand with her husband George on Tuesday. 

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6 d. ago Venice Film Festival set to begin as activists hope to shift the spotlight to Gaza

The Venice Film Festival is kicking off amid protests and calls to boycott Israeli actor Gal Gadot

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7 d. ago From Frankenstein to Putin, monsters are stalking the Venice film festival

Artistic director says monsters are ‘fil rouge’ this year, as Guillermo del Toro unveils his vision of Shelley’s classicWhen Guillermo del Toro accepted the Bafta for best director in 2018, he used his speech to pay homage to Mary Shelley, calling her “the most important figure from English legacy”.“She picked up the plight of Caliban and she gave weight to the burden of Prometheus,” del Toro said. “She gave voice to the voiceless and presence to the invisible, and she showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters, we need to fabricate monsters of our own.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago George Clooney’s Italian job: Memorable moments from the Venice Film Festival and beyond

George Clooney has a long history with Venice, from film premieres to his wedding

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1 week ago Going nuclear: Kathryn Bigelow back in geopolitical territory with atomic thriller

A House of Dynamite, told from perspective of White House officials, will premiere at Venice before Netflix rolloutAn unattributed missile is launched at the US, setting off a desperate effort inside the White House to determine who fired it and how to respond: not the latest news headline but the premise of Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller A House of Dynamite, which will premiere at the Venice film festival.The film marks a return to the large-scale, geopolitically attuned storytelling that made Bigelow one of the most decorated directors of her generation. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 12 movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival to get excited about

The Venice Film Festival is showcasing an impressive lineup this year

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3 w. ago ‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festivalIn the long history of Hollywood excess, there is no tale as torrid as that of Queen Kelly. This lavish silent melodrama starring Gloria Swanson and directed by Erich von Stroheim will screen as the pre-opening event at this year’s Venice film festival, with a new score by composer Eli Denson. The film is an outlandish saga of illicit love in sordid surroundings – and so is the story of its production.Queen Kelly is set in Europe before the first world war and tells the story of Patricia Kelly (Swanson), a convent girl who falls in love with a prince (British actor Walter Byron) who is engaged to a deranged queen. Patricia is sent away to Tanzania, where she is forced into marriage with a vile character called Jan, later earning the nickname Queen Kelly. It’s a far-fetched tale, whi...

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