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<p>‘Babygirl’ star Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ and Daniel Craig in ‘Queer’ </p>

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What Venice 2024 tells us about next year’s Oscars

Festivalgoers were treated to a first look at the films and actors who’ll be in contention for awards next year, writes Geoffrey Macnab

<p>Silver surfers: Daniel Craig and George Clooney premiering their respective movies at this week’s Venice Film Festival</p>

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George Clooney ought to listen to Daniel Craig about ageing on screen

<p>Francis Ford Coppola</p>

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Francis Ford Coppola is sending us a message with his Megalopolis cast

<p>‘For me, when the noise gets really loud, I like to centre in on this feeling of, like, “You’re not gonna take away my joy”’ </p>

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Elliot Page: ‘My queerness is what made Juno extra special’

Inside Film

<p>Gone to pottery: Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in the 1990 blockbuster ‘Ghost’ </p>

Ghost is getting a remake – what is Hollywood thinking?

Demi Moore isn’t keen on the idea of Channing Tatum rebooting her 1990 ectoplasmic weepie. But another reason a remake is unneeded? ‘Ghost’ is terrible, insists Geoffrey Macnab

<p>Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in the much-anticipated sequel to ‘Joker’</p>

Can Joker: Folie à Deux bring the movie musical back from the dead?

The public may have turned its back on musicals, but Joaquin Phoenix’s new supervillain sequel prepares to do it once more, with feeling, writes Geoffrey Macnab

Reviews

<p>Besties: Harper Steele and Will Ferrell in ‘Will & Harper’</p>

Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s transgender documentary is frank, refreshing and funny

<p>Two stars! Ian McKellen in the dreary slog ‘The Critic'</p>

Ian McKellen is too good for the overstuffed period drama The Critic

Interviews

<p>‘I haven’t played the quote-unquote ‘leading lady’ in a very long time. And I appreciate it more the second time around'</p>

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Carol Kane: ‘In comedy, you have a little more leeway with your looks’

<p>Ilana Glazer: ‘I’ve been told my whole career my work is political’ </p>

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Ilana Glazer: ‘People thought it was effortless – in reality, we were killing ourselves’

<p>‘It’s the whole point of the film, the sharing of who I am. I dug deep!’ </p>

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Faye Dunaway: ‘I have, we might as well say, a bipolar diagnosis’

<p>‘I don’t think anyone else has ever become a doorknob'</p>

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Joan Chen: ‘I asked David Lynch to write me out of Twin Peaks’

<p>‘No studio wanted to pair me up with a female lead after playing a gay role – I did nothing but studio features before that. It took 40 years after that movie to do another one’ </p>

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Harry Hamlin: ‘Clash of the Titans was fraught – the producers didn’t speak to me again for 25 years’

<p>‘No matter your age, there is still life to live’ </p>

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June Squibb, movie star at 94: ‘I’ve fought convention tooth and nail’

<p>Anthony Ramos: ‘At the end of the day, it’s a blockbuster movie. People come to see some s*** get torn up'</p>

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Twisters’ Anthony Ramos: ‘We were in the middle of tornado season’

<p>‘I’m not going to see “Longlegs”. I know that’s not me up there’ </p>

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Alicia Witt: ‘My Longlegs character came into me and used me as a vessel’

Features

<p>Buying what they’re selling: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the New York premiere of ‘It Ends with Us’ this month</p>

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are no longer actors – they’re influencers

<p>Man of the people: Tom Cruise poses for selfies with fans during one of his (many) public appearances this summer, this time at the Paris Olympics</p>

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Tom Cruise’s surreal summer has only added to his oddball mystique

<p>Films to be watched behind a cushion: (clockwise, from top left) ‘The Shining’, ‘The Ring’, ‘Get Out’, ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘The Birds’</p>

I watched my first horror film aged 12 and haven’t been the same since

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Be warned, Marvel fans – Deadpool & Wolverine is using you

Flashbacks

<p>‘Get away from her you b****!’: Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in ‘Aliens’ </p>

Aliens: How James Cameron made the greatest sequel in sci-fi history

<p>Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren in ‘Caligula'</p>

Features

Is the X-rated cult 1970s movie Caligula a lost masterpiece?

<p>Utterly cutlery: Hank Azaria wields forks as crime-fighter the Blue Raja in ‘Mystery Men’ </p>

Mystery Men was the flop superhero comedy that deserved better

<p>Disaster in the making: Ryan Reynolds and Wesley Snipes in ‘Blade: Trinity’ </p>

How Blade: Trinity became Marvel’s biggest disaster

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