Nick Nolte made a rare public appearance at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, where his new movie 'Company' is competing for the Golden Lion.

A review of 'Company' from director Casey Affleck in a Venice premiere about telling stories and how they can shape the world we live in.

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.

He's a film icon.

Stories are nested within stories to steadily diminishing returns in "Company," a perversely ponderous exercise in hide-the-genre that takes more than an hour to reveal what its game really is. Gathering little tension ahead of a ludicrous twist - one that puts proceedings in a new light while adding no great urgency to them -