Cryptic film baffles Venice festival
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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Venice Film Festival Director Marco Mueller likens the 75-year-old festival to a seismograph that picks up emerging cinematic trends. If his instincts are right, the film world is about to be jolted by a new movement focusing on atonement.
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The 61st Venice Film Festival opens on Wednesday, with the European premiere of Steven Spielberg&#39;s new film The Terminal kicking off proceedings.
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New films pegged to Iraq and other flash points are awash in ambiguity.
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Dark tales of real-life crime dominate  Hollywood's star-studded assault on the Venice Film Festival  this year, with U.S. directors drawing inspiration from murder  mysteries of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
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"Lost in Translation" star Scarlett Johansson came to the Venice Film Festival to promote her latest picture, but found herself fending off romantic advances.
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A forest of golden lions line the red carpet leading to the Cinema Palace at the Venice Film Festival. Picture:Reuters. The Venice Film Festival amps up the star power, reports Stephanie Bunbury.
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The Venice film festival opens on  Wednesday with &quot;Atonement,&quot; an adaptation of Ian McEwan&#39;s novel  about a girl who makes a false accusation with tragic results  and tries to atone for her mistake.
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The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with "Atonement", an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel about a girl who makes a false accusation with tragic results and tries to atone for her mistake.
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The Venice Film Festival is grappling with its perennial tag as the No. 2 movie extravaganza in Europe &#151; still a little brother to Cannes in terms of stars, marketing and buzz, even though it's older.
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Two movies about the Iraq war and its  impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries  at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight  to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.
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VENICE, Italy- Anyone who thought the Venice Film Festival existed on some kind of artistic plateau doesn&#39;t know Quentin Tarantino.
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VENICE, Italy  - The Venice Film Festival dazzled  like never before this year with its string of Hollywood stars  and hot arthouse directors, but the festival's new chief may  find delays and embarrassing blunders are what people remember.
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The struggles of past nominees demonstrate the elusive nature of motion picture's most prestigious prize.
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A new film about the real-life rape and  killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also  murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking  images that left some viewers in tears.
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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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Hollywood has packed its bags and headed  for the Venice Film Festival, where a whopping 20 American  films will be screened and dozens of the hottest stars are set  to inject glamour into the arthouse competition.