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Tributes paid to actor James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader

The Oscar winning American actor with the unmistakable baritone gave voice to Darth Vader, one of the cinema's most famous villains.

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What were the Tops & Flops of the 81st Venice Film Festival?

Here are the films which premiered on the Lido this year that you need to add to your watchlist... And the ones you'd do best to avoid.

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Venice Film Festival 2024: Pedro Almodóvar triumphs

And the winner is...

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Documentary sympathetic to Russian soldiers sparks anger in Venice

Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova has defended her film 'Russians at War' as an "attempt to see through the fog of war".

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Venice 2024 review: 'Joker: Folie À Deux' - Don't send in the clown

The sequel to 2019’s 'Joker' is the buzziest title of this year’s Venice Film Festival. This time, Lady Gaga joins director Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix for a follow-up that isn’t a straightforward psychological thriller but a semi-jukebox musical. Bold gambit. Shame it doesn't pay off.

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Venice 2024 review: Two takes on Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer'

One of our favourite films of this year's Venice Film Festival is a lot to take in... What else would you expect from a William S. Burroughs adaptation? We focus on how director Luca Guadagnino brings repressed desire to life and his use of music to enhance the themes in 'Queer'.

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Venice 2024: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk 'Joker: Folie à Deux'

Premiering on the Lido this evening, 'Joker: Folie à Deux' is the highly anticipated sequel to 2019's controversial 'Joker'. Stars Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix discuss making it - and why the latter suddenly quit Todd Haynes' gay romance film recently.

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Venice 2024 review: '2073' - An urgent and haunting docu-hybrid

The director of 'Amy' and 'Senna' delivers a genre-bending documentary set in the future which tackles the biggest challenges endangering our present. It's eerily remarkable.

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Venice 2024: 'The Room Next Door' - Almodóvar takes on life and death

Almodóvar's first English-language feature film is a powerful portrait of life, death and the unbreakable bonds that help us to navigate it all. At the same time, there's a sense some emotional authenticity got lost in translation.

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Venice 2024: Pedro Almodóvar's new film 'is in favour of euthanasia’

Returning to the Lido this year after 2021’s 'Parallel Mothers', Pedro Almodóvar's English-language debut stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as two friends who confront life, death, and the controversial topic of euthanasia.

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Venice 2024 review: 'The Brutalist' - A masterful American saga

Six years in the making, this powerful American saga is one Paul Thomas Anderson would be proud of. And it's our pick for the top prize of the 81st Venice Film Festival... So far.

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Venice 2024 review: 'The Order' - Jude Law vs white supremacists

Australian director Justin Kurzel adapts real-life events and delivers a gripping thriller about a notorious hate group in the US, as well as deliver a cautionary tale about the current heirs of white supremacists.

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Venice 2024 review: 'Babygirl' - Nicole Kidman shines in BDSM drama

Already the most talked about film in this year's Competition, Nicole Kidman stars as a woman willing to risk it all for a torrid affair that allows her deepest desires to finally surface.

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Venice 2024: Nicole Kidman on erotic and sex-positive drama ‘Babygirl’

'Babygirl' has already become one of the most talked about movies on the Lido this year. Many are already tipping it for awards glory, especially when it comes to the performers, led by Nicole Kidman, who hopes it will be a “liberating story”.

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National Cinema Day in the UK offers tickets for under €5

Cheap tickets will be available across all of Britain as the scheme encourages people to visit their local cinemas.

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Film of the Week: 'Emilia Pérez' – Audiard’s Cannes-winning triumph

Following 'A Prophet' (2009), ‘Dheepan’ (2015) and 'Paris, 13th District' (2021), French director Jacques Audiard orchestrates a barnstorming comeback. His Mexico-set gangster trans musical featuring gender transitioning, cartels, gorgeous choreographies and songs about vaginoplasty is unmissable.

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Venice 2024 review: ‘Maria’ – Angelina Jolie’s (divine?) Callas

Chilean director Pablo Larraín rounds off his trilogy of tragic women with his Maria Callas biopic, starring Angelina Jolie. Divine diva or does it miss the high notes?

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Venice 2024: Is cinema journalism ‘at risk of extinction’?

It's only Day 2 of the Venice Film Festival, and there's already trouble a-brewing... Why is press access to talent so hard this year?

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Venice 2024 review: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' - Is the juice back?

Tim Burton returns with the second sequel of his career, which follows a string of duds. Does the once master of all things oddball reclaim his quirky throne?

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Venice 2024: Sigourney Weaver talks Kamala Harris and career backups

During a joyful yet emotional press conference, the great Sigourney Weaver teared up when a parallel was drawn between her character of Ripley in the Alien franchise and the rise of Kamala Harris. She also shared she could have been a florist or a baker...