Jimmy Page makes surprise red carpet visit at Zeppelin Venice film premiere

VENICE, Italy – This weekend a quartet of world premieres glittered at Venice’s film festival.
“Becoming Led Zeppelin,” a comprehensive biography of the legendary rock quartet, boasted the surprise appearance of Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page on the red carpet.
“Last Night in Soho” is a psychological thriller-turned-horror story set in writer-director Edgar White’s London neighborhood.
HBO’s “Scenes from a Marriage” stars Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in a revised look at Ingmar Bergman’s legendary Swedish television series, while “Official Competition,” the Penelope Cruz-Antonio Banderas Spanish comedy about a director and her temperamental star, proved to be a fan favorite.
Page, 77, had blocked earlier documentary efforts. “They were pretty miserable and also to the point they’d want to be concentrating on anything but the music,” he said. “I’d recoil from that sort of thing.
“This one is everything about the music and what made the music tick and offers complete versions of the songs. It’s not a talking head. This is completely different genre.”
Meticulously researched, “Becoming” profiles each of Zeppelin’s foursome from birth to the group’s founding in 1969.
“It’s a film about how you learn your craft if you wanted to do something,” said director Bernard MacMahon. “It’s half a musical and half a ‘How to’ guide.”
If there was a King of this year’s Venice, it would be Oscar Isaac who is the King in the mighty “Dune Part 1,” Chastain’s husband in “Scenes” and the tortured titular gambler of “The Card Counter.”
“It’s been fun,” Isaac said, praising the festival’s scheduling so that he could do the three consecutively and get back “to shooting in Budapest [Marvel’s 6-part ‘Moon Knight’ series].”
With “Soho” Edgar Wright wrote his wildly inventive thriller by listening to specific ‘60s rock n roll records.
“I grew up with my parents’ record collection. It was all ‘60s and I was obsessed.  The music is a time machine to go back, especially the ones that are quite melancholic and emotional,” he said.
“Soho” stands as Diana Rigg’s final performance. “She died just under a year ago. It’s difficult for me to extricate the movie from working with her. It was a very emotional experience to conceive and make and now it’s tied up with Diana’s not being with us anymore.
“The only thing I can take away is how lucky I was to work with her. Right up to the end she had to finish her work on the movie; she prided herself on that.”