Casey Affleck’s ‘Company’ Premieres at Venice Film Festival to Mixed Reviews

Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales

Venice film festival: Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men Gather ye ’round the glowing screen for a Casey Affleck campfire tale. It contains superstitions and murder and human oddities of all stripes. An old hermit in his shack. Something nasty in the woodshed. If you like the first tale, fill your boots, settle back, because here comes another and another; each sparked by the embers of its neighbo...

By Xan Brooks in Venice

‘Company’ Stars Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens on the Film’s Power of Stillness

The vital act of storytelling drives Casey Affleck’s “Company.” Knowing those stories and the people in them also passes on lessons learned involving grief, regret and forgiveness. The film premieres in competition at Venice. “Company” stars Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens, Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy, Emily Alyn Lind, Caylee Cowan and Atticus Affleck. The film jumps […]

By Carolehorst

‘Company’ Review: Casey Affleck Directs a Surprising, Decade-Hopping but Dull Existential Drama

Scoot McNairy, Adelaide Clemens, Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn and Affleck’s son Atticus star in the Venice competition entry, a triptych of interconnected stories fueled by a mystery.

By Richard Lawson

Casey Affleck’s ‘Company’ Earns 4.5-Minute Ovation At Venice World Premiere

Casey Affleck returned to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday with his latest directorial effort, Company, which earned a 4½-minute ovation following its debut screening inside the Sala Grande.  There was an enthusiastic response, but Affleck and the cast left as applause was ongoing, and it died off. Star Nick Nolte got an extra-rousing cheer […]

By Zac Ntim

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders: Restored Czech classic screened in Venice

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš’s famous 1970 film based on Vítězslav Nezval’s novel, premiered in a newly restored version at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. The poetic, dreamlike film, blending Gothic horror, surrealism and coming-of-age story, is also competing in the Venice Classics section.  We spoke about the film, its making and its reception with Michal Bregant, Director of the National Film Archive.