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Amal and George Clooney shared some PDA on the Venice Film Festival red carpet. They attended the premiere of George’s new movie Jay Kelly. Amal opted for a magenta high-low gown with a voluminous train. Amal Clooney is swapping her signature neutrals for bold jewel tones. On Thursday, the human rights lawyer enjoyed a date night with her husband, actor …

Following 2019’s Marriage Story and 2022’s White Noise, Noah Baumbach is back in competition at the Venice Film Festival, unveiling the world premiere of his Jay Kelly on Thursday. The comedy-drama received a 10-minute ovation as the lights came up near midnight in the Sala Grande. George Clooney, who earlier today missed the film’s press conference owing to a bad …

Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter at the Venice Film Festival Getty Images George Clooney was joined by wife Amal on the red carpet at the film’s premiere in Venice There’s a line in George Clooney’s new film where one character tells him: “You’re the American dream, the last of the great movie stars.” It’s a comment which could easily apply to Clooney …

George Clooney braved a sinus infection and a rainstorm on Thursday night for the Venice premiere of Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” which soaked in an 8.5-minute standing ovation. Clooney walked the red carpet on the Lido with his co-star Adam Sandler, who made a rare appearance in a tux. The two leading men play a Hollywood power couple of sorts …

Venice welcomed back festival frequent flyers George Clooney and Noah Baumbach on Thursday night, giving Baumbach’s Jay Kelly a joyous, 10-minute-long standing ovation at its in-competition world premiere. Clooney plays the titular role in Jay Kelly in a performance Baumbach tailor-made for him: Starring as world-famous actor who has a late-career crisis, and sets off on a cross-country European trip, accompanied by …

George Clooney‘s Netflix comedy Jay Kelly launched at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday evening and critics are starting to weigh in. Noah Baumbach‘s new film follows a famous movie actor named Jay Kelly (Clooney) and his devoted manager Ron (Adam Sandler) as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced …

George Clooney had to miss the press conference for his new Netflix movie Jay Kelly, which launches this week at the Venice Film Festival, due to what the festival moderator described as a “bad sinus infection.” The press conference moderator said Clooney “should” be at this evening’s world premiere screening but the conditional tense left the door open to him …

In “Jay Kelly,” George Clooney plays a movie star very much like George Clooney. By that, I don’t simply mean that the outlines of Clooney’s career and that of the character sync up just so (though they do). As the movie is conceived, Jay Kelly, a popular and prestigious Hollywood actor for more than three decades, with an array of …

It is not an original idea to make a movie about a movie star. Think Notting Hill, The Bodyguard, Tropic Thunder, America’s Sweethearts, A Star Is Born, Birdman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Bowfinger. I could go on. The greatest film I ever saw about a star was Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s masterful All About Eve, even if that was …

Noah Baumbach’s best work is invariably personal. Though none could be called strictly autobiographical, films like The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story, Frances Ha and The Meyerowitz Stories all bear the unmistakable signs of lived experience — of family, marriage, parenthood, friendship or milieu. It’s possible that in his latest feature, Jay Kelly, co-written with Emily Mortimer, the pampered …