World premieres at Venice for Gosling, Cooper movies
ROME — The Venice Film Festival will feature plenty of Hollywood star power, including premieres for a biopic of astronaut Neil Armstrong starring Ryan Gosling, a period western by the Coen brothers with Liam Neeson, and Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut starring Lady Gaga.
The 75th edition of the world’s oldest film festival opens on Aug. 29 with the world premiere of “First Man” by Damien Chazelle. Like his previous film “La La Land,” which also opened the festival and earned six Oscars, it stars Gosling, who plays Armstrong.
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” is the new offering from the Coen brothers. It started out as a television series before being turned into a movie featuring Tom Waits.
Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz star in an irreverent royal comedy set in the early 18th century called “The Favourite,” by Yorgos Lanthimos, which also makes its debut on the Lido.