Casey Affleck Directs 'Company' and Restored Classic Screened at Venice

Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales

Venice film festival: Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men Gather ye ’round the glowing screen for a Casey Affleck campfire tale. It contains superstitions and murder and human oddities of all stripes. An old hermit in his shack. Something nasty in the woodshed. If you like the first tale, fill your boots, settle back, because here comes another and another; each sparked by the embers of its neighbo...

By Xan Brooks in Venice

‘Company’ Review: Casey Affleck Directs a Surprising, Decade-Hopping but Dull Existential Drama

Scoot McNairy, Adelaide Clemens, Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn and Affleck’s son Atticus star in the Venice competition entry, a triptych of interconnected stories fueled by a mystery.

By Richard Lawson

‘Company’ Review: Nick Nolte And Other Notables Are In It, But Director Casey Affleck’s Son Atticus Makes Biggest Impression – Venice Film Festival

I totally get why Company, Casey Affleck’s first directorial effort since his sophomore film behind the lens, 2019’s Light of My Life, is titled the way it is. This movie spanning a trio of generations in the 20th century is essentially divided into three parts, each one specifically is about human connection and how we […]

By Pete Hammond

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders: Restored Czech classic screened in Venice

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš’s famous 1970 film based on Vítězslav Nezval’s novel, premiered in a newly restored version at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. The poetic, dreamlike film, blending Gothic horror, surrealism and coming-of-age story, is also competing in the Venice Classics section.  We spoke about the film, its making and its reception with Michal Bregant, Director of the National Film Archive.