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Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen

Emma Stone goes wild in a zany Victorian fantasy, Woody Allen gets one of the biggest laughs of the week, Carey Mulligan turns in a career-best performance – and the Golden Lion should go to Agnieszka Holland’s searing Green Border

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The Week Unwrapped: National service, Bahrain and Roman Polanski

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Leaf Arbuthnot, Abdulwahab Tahhan and Harriet Marsden.

The Week

Woody Allen: cheered on stage despite fog of accusation that won’t lift

Given rapturous applause at Venice, Allen has – like it or not – become an icon for post-#MeToo confusion around allegations and burdens of proof

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Quiz of The Week: 2 - 8 September

The UK’s prison system is in the spotlight this week after a terror suspect managed a “jaw-dropping” escape from Wandsworth prison in south London.

The Week

Venice Film Festival celebrates 80th year as A-listers hit the red carpet

The 80th Venice Film Festival is under way, celebrating films from around the world.

The Week

Roman Polanski’s ‘dire’ new film The Palace receives rare zero per cent Rotten Tomatoes score

Film has been described as ‘easily the worst film in [Polanski’s] career’

The Independent UK

Roman Polanski’s ‘dire’ new film The Palace receives rare zero per cent Rotten Tomatoes score

Film has been described as ‘easily the worst film in [Polanski’s] career’

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The Palace review – Roman Polanski’s tacky hotel farce is the worst party in town

Set in a hotel on New Year’s eve in 1999, this dismal comedy finds room for John Cleese, Mickey Rourke and Fanny Ardant, but you’ll want to run for the hills

The Guardian - UK

The Palace at Venice Film Festival: Polanski’s name as a filmmaker is in the toilet, along with the humour

That the man who brought us The Pianist and Chinatown could come to this is genuinely upsetting

Evening Standard

Venice film festival: T-shirts replace red carpet glitz as striking stars lie low

Support for the Hollywood strikes is evident as festival hopes its strong line-up makes up for lack of glamour

The Guardian - UK

Venice Film Festival 2023: forget the strikes, this festival thrives on the frisson of controversy

As the festival turns 80, it may be short on American A-listers, but there’s still a buzz

Evening Standard

‘We knew we would face insults’: Venice film festival’s Alberto Barbera on including Polanski and Allen

The artistic director discusses the US actors’ strike, reviving Venice, and this year’s controversial lineup

The Guardian - UK

What next for Kevin Spacey? Will Hollywood welcome him back or give him the cold shoulder?

The rules about who gets back in and who doesn’t aren’t always clear

Evening Standard

Venice to screen Polanski, Woody Allen

The three filmmakers have been accused of sexual abuse and faced several cancellation campaigns

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The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

Hollywood films vying for Golden Lion include Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, with non-competition films by Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater

The Independent UK

Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro,” Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be making their world debuts at the Venice International Film Festival this fall

Daily Mirror

Evil Manson Family's key players and victims during cult's brutal murder spree

The Tate–LaBianca murders came at a time of great turmoil in the US and Charles Manson hoped they would kick off a race war. His apocalyptic vision was named 'Helter Skelter' after the Beatles' song

The Independent UK

The Manson Family: Who were the key players and victims in cult leader Charles Manson’s serial killings?

In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles

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The Independent UK

The Manson 'family': A look at key players and victims in the cult leader's killings

In 1969, Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles

The Independent UK

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is only half the problem

A new book explores why we still consume art created by ‘monsters’. It’s the wrong question, says Eloise Hendy

The Independent UK

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is only half the problem

A new book explores why we still consume art created by ‘monsters’. It’s the wrong question, says Eloise Hendy

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Depp’s return to Cannes exposes French split over #MeToo

While many oppose actor’s appearance after Heard trials, others prefer to separate person from performer

The Guardian - UK

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer review – beauty and the beast

Is it OK to love the art of a morally repugnant artist?

The Guardian - AU

Jane Fonda: French director asked to sleep with me to ‘see what my orgasms were like’ for a role

Actor says director René Clément propositioned her in French during the filming of 1964 film Joy House, but ‘I pretended I didn’t understand’

The Independent UK

Cannes director defends festival after Adèle Haenel slams French film industry's #MeToo response

After one of France’s top actors, Adèle Haenel, announced she was quitting a French film industry that she denounced for “complacency toward sexual aggressors,” Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fremaux rejected her criticisms Monday

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