Venice ends on sour note with shock film choices
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Ang Lee has walked off with another top award at the Venice film festival, and surprised critics are wondering how he did it.
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Top directors used the Venice Film   Festival on Friday to excoriate the Bush administration, the   war in Iraq and Hollywood itself, and presented three starkly   different movies to express their views.
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VENICE, Italy  - Venice International  Film Festival organizers declared a collective mea culpa Monday  after the first half of the event was beset with exasperating  delays and logistical problems.
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A British film tackling the controversial subject of abortion has scooped two prestigious awards at the Venice Film Festival. Vera Drake, which was backed with Â£1m (â¬1.
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The Venice Film Festival has got under way with the world premiere of The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson.
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Director Mike Leigh premieres a controversial film about abortion at Venice Film Festival.
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The quality of mercy, as Portia observes in the Merchant of Venice, is not strain&#39;d - but much of this year&#39;s Venice film festival has become extremely strain&#39;d.
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Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake,&quot; a film about a housewife in 1950s England who secretly performs abortions, won the Golden Lion for best picture at the end of the Venice Film Festival.
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Controversial Mike Leigh movie Vera Drake has won the Golden Lion prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. Vera Drake, which focuses on a fictional back street abortionist in 1950s London, also
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âBreaking and Enteringâ climaxes in a welter of apologies. Everyone in London, it seems, has cause for remorse and for my part I regret that I lost count of the number of times the words âIâm sorryâ were uttered on screen.
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The Academy Awards typically are a gloomy Sunday, ending with a heavy drama crowned as best picture.
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg brought ``The Terminal&#39;&#39; to pop the cork on the 61st Venice Film Festival yesterday, where almost two dozen American films are set to screen during the festival&#39;s 11-day run.
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Deepa Mehta's Water loses out to The Lives of Others in the best foreign film category at the Oscars.
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"Vera Drake," Mike Leigh's tough tale of  a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal  abortions in 1950s England, scooped up the prizes at the Venice  Film Festival on Saturday, including the coveted Golden Lion.
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Deepa Mehta's film loses out to Germany.
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Hollywood has turned serious with one eye on the Oscars in February, but it is elsewhere the jury may look when choosing which of 23 competition entries at the Venice film festival wins the Golden Lion on Saturday.
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A string of embarrassing blunders, including one which left Al Pacino with no seat at the premiere of his latest movie, have plagued this year's Venice Film Festival.