Venice Film Festival Opens With Clooney’s Lifetime Award and ‘Ink’ Premiere

Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy

Venice film festival Jack O’Connell is terrific as editor Larry Lamb in James Graham’s tale of Rupert Murdoch, Page 3 and the newspaper that transformed Fleet Street Danny Boyle presents us with a lurid, violent and thumpingly unsubtle movie full of Dutch angles, cartoony shocks and gargoyle closeups. It’s a chapter in the prehistory of modern media, adapted by James Graham from his 2017 stage play, filled with shame and fear and self-hate. It is in fact the story of the Sun newspaper, and ho...

By Peter Bradshaw

George Clooney: US government run by ‘least qualified people’

US actor George Clooney has described US President Donald Trump’s administration as a ‘kakistocracy’.

Venice Film Festival opens with George Clooney, Murdoch film and geopolitics

George Clooney used a Venice Film Festival appearance on Wednesday to weigh in on artificial intelligence, media ownership and US politics while receiving a lifetime achievement award. Clooney warned Hollywood must adapt to AI and criticised growing billionaire control of major media platforms.

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Jack O’Connell’s Ruthless Tabloid Editor in ‘Ink’ Fires Up Venice as Danny Boyle Drama Earns Warm 4-Minute Ovation

Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night with the splashy premiere of “Ink,” an explosive drama about the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid empire. The film, which stars Jack O’Connell as The Sun editor Larry Lamb and Guy Pearce as media mogul Rupert Murdoch, was met with a nearly four-and-a-half minute ovation after the […]

By Rebecca Rubin

Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch Drama ‘Ink’ Gives Venice a Rollicking Start on Opening Night

Guy Pearce stars as Rupert Murdoch opposite Jack O’Connell’s Larry Lamb in Danny Boyle's Venice opener, which chronicles the transformation of ‘The Sun’ into Britain’s dominant tabloid.

By Patrick Brzeski

‘Ink’: What The Critics Are Saying About Danny Boyle’s Origin Story Of Brit Tabloid ‘The Sun’

Danny Boyle’s tabloid drama Ink, the origin story of Rupert Murdochs’ British tabloid The Sun, has opened the Venice Film Festival. James Graham’s script, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce (as Murdoch) and Claire Foy, is set in 1969 as the rising media tycoon acquires the daily newspaper. His partnership with editor Larry Lamb (O’Connell) turns […]

By Andreas Wiseman

Clooney kicks off Venice as festival wades into war, Gaza and AI

Venice rolls out the red carpet Wednesday, with George Clooney set to collect a lifetime achievement award as the film festival opens a starry two-week run heavy on biopics, war-zone dramas from Gaza and Iran, and a fresh reckoning with artificial intelligence.

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Gyllenhaal: Women directors face 'systemic' barriers

Maggie Gyllenhaal has said women continue to face "systemic" barriers in the film industry, as she questioned why so few female directors feature in the main competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.

Scarcity of women directors at Venice due to 'systemic issue' says Gyllenhaal

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 2 - The under-representation of female directors in Venice and at other international film festivals is due to a "systemic issue", jury chair Maggie Gyllenhaal told a press conference before the 83rd edition of the world's oldest film fest Wednesday, noting that only two women are up for the Golden Lion this year compared to six last year. "I think it's finally become clear that men make better films than women," Gyllenhaal initially responded with a quip that got the audie...

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George Clooney says US run by 'least qualified people'

Actor says the country will pull through this 'unfortunate' chapter of American history

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Ink Trailer

The first trailer for Ink has been released, revealing what to expect from Danny Boyle's upcoming biopic drama about newspaper editor Larry Lamb.

By Nick Bythrow

Venice to roll out red carpet for lucky Clooney on opening night - Kuwait Times

Venice to roll out red carpet for lucky Clooney on opening night  Kuwait Times