Venice International Film Festival

Nicole Kidman on sex, death and her risky new film, Babygirl

The nature of being an actor is the need to be able to stay free and open and vulnerable, says the 57-year-old

Mon Dec 16 2024 - 05:55

Daniel Craig: ‘Sex is surrender. That’s where real connection is made’

The former James Bond star’s vulnerable performance in Queer may surprise fans, but it’s a return to the sexually daring films he used to make

Mon Dec 02 2024 - 05:50

Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’

Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940

Sat Nov 16 2024 - 05:15

‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet

Actor (61) plays a has-been celebrity who is tempted by a youth serum in hyperreal film The Substance

Tue Sept 17 2024 - 05:48

The Goldman Case: A French intellectual’s double murder trial is sensationally re-created in a thrilling courtroom drama

‘Grey areas make for great cinema,’ director Cédric Kahn says about the Pierre Goldman case

Mon Sept 16 2024 - 05:00

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion at Venice International Film Festival

Spanish director wins one of ‘big three’ European film festivals for first time

Sat Sept 07 2024 - 20:53

Clooney, Kidman, Pitt and Jolie lit up the Venice Lido. Which of their films will scoop the Golden Lion?

Venice International Film Festival 2024: One film immediately became deserved favourite for the top prize – which means it will almost certainly lose

Thu Sept 05 2024 - 16:14

First Look at Joker: Folie à Deux – Part musical, part prison movie, mostly plodding courtroom drama

Venice International Film Festival 2024: Any more songs and Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga would be starring in an operetta

Wed Sept 04 2024 - 18:00

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Fun? I nearly laughed myself awake

Real hint of desperation to Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 film. It’s scarcely possible to summarise the jumble of plots

Wed Sept 04 2024 - 05:00

First Look: George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Wolfs – Too sleek, too chiselled, too Nespresso ad

Venice International Film Festival 2024: Tolerable buddy comedy might better suit actors who shoulder their age less lightly

Sun Sept 01 2024 - 21:45

Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett are all at the Venice film festival. What’s odd is why some of them are here

They’re not in the main competition. None is opening the Italian festival. Why? Because they’re all here with television series

Sun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00

The Movie Quiz: Who was the last Irish actor to take home a prize from the Venice Film Festival?

A special head-scratcher on all things to do with the world’s oldest film festival, now in its 81st year

Fri Aug 30 2024 - 05:00

First Look: As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie finally has the starring role she deserves

Venice International Film Festival 2024: Angelina Jolie gives a heart-clutchingly sad performance in a hypnotic film from Pablo Larraín

Thu Aug 29 2024 - 18:45

Paradise Is Burning: Bianca Delbravo is a revelation in Mika Gustafson’s fine debut drama

Immaculately made film keeps viewers uneasily gripped throughout

Thu Aug 29 2024 - 05:00

Why George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be at Venice film festival

Among the highlights at this year’s beano are the Joker sequel, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film

Tue Aug 27 2024 - 05:00

Mika Gustafson: ‘I’m a huge fan of actors. When something comes alive it is almost like magic’

Paradise Is Burning director and Alexander Öhrstrand, its writer, on their award-winning new film

Sat Aug 17 2024 - 05:15

Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-up

Todd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competition

Tue Jul 23 2024 - 18:38

Oscars 2025: Donald Clarke predicts these 10 films will get best-picture nominations

He missed out on a Poor Things prediction this year – how successful will he be for next year?

Tue Mar 12 2024 - 11:00

‘F**k you. Next question’: The day Adam Driver ran out of patience

Donald Clarke: There’s something refreshing about watching a star nudge away the PR training during a Q&A session

Sat Nov 18 2023 - 05:00

Poor Things: Greece yet to develop mindset to deal as equals with EU decision-makers

Greece Letter: Athens has too often adopted a subservient attitude to Europe and the US

Thu Oct 26 2023 - 05:57

Is the age of distraction killing indie cinema, or is that just old person talk?

Hugh Linehan: Richard Linklater thinks filmmaking and fiction are losing their central place in the culture. He has a point

Sun Sept 17 2023 - 05:15

El Conde: The ghosts of fascism past are back in their very own Gothic horror

A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

Tue Sept 12 2023 - 21:03

Venice film festival: Irish-produced Poor Things wins top Golden Lion award

Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Irish company Element Pictures, wins Golden Lion

Sat Sept 09 2023 - 20:54

Pablo Larraín on his Pinochet film: ‘It’s a vampire movie. It’s also a farce. It deals with horrific, horrific people’

The Chilean director whose previous films include Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer, about Princess Diana, turns his attention to the dictator who ruled his country for 17 years

Sat Sept 09 2023 - 05:15

Venice International Film Festival: An Irish film becomes favourite to win the Golden Lion

An opening week of controversy, baking heat and the welcome return of Irish actor Michael Fassbender

Wed Sept 06 2023 - 10:51

The Killer first-look review: An icy Michael Fassbender stars in David Fincher’s excellent new thriller

Venice International Film Festival 2023: This may be David Fincher’s sleekest and most uncomplicatedly entertaining film in years

Mon Sept 04 2023 - 10:14

Why red carpets still matter even to striking Hollywood stars

There is no more convincing way of assuring your sponsors and patrons what you signify than getting photographs on the front page

Sun Sept 03 2023 - 05:15

Poor Things first-look review: Emma Stone has never been better, and a moustache-twirling Mark Ruffalo has a ball

Venice International Film Festival 2023: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film won’t be in Irish cinemas until January. It’ll be well worth the wait

Fri Sept 01 2023 - 17:45

The Movie Quiz: How many Irish films have won the Golden Lion?

Plus: Who won best actor last year at the Venice Film Festival?

Fri Sept 01 2023 - 05:00

The Killer: First trailer released for new Netflix thriller starring Michael Fassbender

David Fincher’s highly-anticipated neo-noir film will premiere at the Venice film festival

Wed Aug 30 2023 - 08:34

Venice film festival 2023: Few Hollywood stars but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion

Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion

Mon Aug 28 2023 - 05:00

Venice film festival 2023: Liam Neeson and Emma Stone movies lead Irish interest as line-up unveiled

A sparkling line-up of titles for the upcoming 80th edition of the festival has been announced

Tue Jul 25 2023 - 16:46

As Barbenheimer scores at the box office, Hollywood is in turmoil

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Mon Jul 24 2023 - 05:00

The 10 best films of 2023 so far – in reverse order

Box office is booming, powered by a handful of smash hits. But look around, especially in art houses and on streamers, and you’ll find plenty of great movies

Mon Jul 03 2023 - 05:15