{"id":874,"date":"2023-08-31T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/strike-hit-venice-jury-chief-says-art-must-triumph-over-content-in-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:38:14","slug":"strike-hit-venice-jury-chief-says-art-must-triumph-over-content-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/strike-hit-venice-jury-chief-says-art-must-triumph-over-content-in-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike-hit Venice jury chief says art must triumph over content in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hollywood strikes robbed the Venice Film Festival of some of its usual glitz as it launched its 80th edition on Wednesday, but jury president Damien Chazelle said it was a warning that the industry must prize \u2018art over content\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The festival has a raft of big-name \u2013 and controversial \u2013 directors across its 11-day schedule, including new films from Bradley Cooper, Sofia Coppola and David Fincher. But many stars are missing due to the historic strike in Hollywood, primarily over pay and the potential impact of AI technology.<\/p>\n

Chazelle, director of \u2018La La Land\u2019 <\/em>and \u2018Whiplash\u2019 <\/em>and head of this year\u2019s jury, wore a top showing his support for the strike. \u201cThere\u2019s a basic idea that each work of art has value unto itself, that it\u2019s not just a piece of content \u2013\u00a0Hollywood\u2019s favourite word right now,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cIt really comes down to that idea of people being remunerated for each piece of art that is made and can we find a way to get back that idea of art over content.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s longest-running film festival was due to start with \u2018Challengers\u2019<\/em>, a tennis romance with Zendaya, one of the biggest stars of her generation, but the strike caused it to be replaced by an Italian war drama, \u2018<\/em>Comandante\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Indie stars<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The rest of the line-up was largely unaffected: the festival will see Emma Stone as a Frankenstein-like creature in \u2018Poor Things\u2019<\/em> and Cooper as legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein in \u2018Maestro\u2019<\/em>, among several Oscar contenders. But the strikes mean those stars will not be lighting up the red carpet.<\/p>\n

Adam Driver has an exemption to show up for \u2018Ferrari\u2019 <\/em>on Thursday because the biopic by Michael Mann (Heat<\/em>) was made outside the studio system. The same is expected of Jessica Chastain, whose new film \u2018Memory\u2019<\/em> marks her first outing since her Oscar-winning turn in \u2018The Eyes of Tammy Faye\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Apocalyptic ideas\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Other entries include Coppola\u2019s \u2018Priscilla\u2019<\/em>, about Elvis Presley\u2019s wife, and Fincher\u2019s \u2018The Killer\u2019<\/em>\u00a0starring Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton. They are among 23 films competing for the top prize Golden Lion, to be awarded on September 9 by a jury that also includes directors Jane Campion, Martin McDonagh and last year\u2019s winner Laura Poitras (for Big Pharma documentary\u00a0All the Beauty and the Bloodshed<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Despite supporting the strikes, Chazelle told AFP that the threat from AI \u2013\u00a0which many fear could lead to computer-generated actors and scripts replacing humans \u2013 should not be overblown. \u201cPeople have some apocalyptic ideas about it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will overturn a lot of things, but the art will survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

With less star gossip, a lot of attention risks being absorbed by the inclusion of Woody Allen with \u2018Coup de Chance\u2019<\/em> (his 50th film and first in French) and Roman Polanski with \u2018The Palace\u2019<\/em>, both in the out-of-competition section. Allen, 87, was investigated for an alleged assault on his adopted daughter in the 1990s. Though cleared by police, he has been effectively blackballed by Hollywood, which festival director Alberto Barbera told the outlet was \u2018absolutely incomprehensible\u2019.<\/p>\n

Barbera acknowledged it was more complex with Polanski, 90, who was convicted of raping a minor in the 1970s, although the victim has long since forgiven him. \u201cThe history of art is full of artists who were criminals, and we nonetheless continue to admire their work,\u201d Barbera said.<\/p>\n

Venice film festival attracts top names despite Hollywood strikes<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n