The movie merchants of Venice face flak from the Tim Robbins tendency
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The leading showbiz lights of the anti-globalisation movement descended on Venice this weekend, amid complaints that the world's oldest film festival has sold out to the Hollywood glamour industry.
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ROME Sept. 12, 2004 - Italian media grumbled Sunday over the failure of a hometown film to win big prizes at the Venice Film Festival, where the British movie &quot;Vera Drake&quot; by director Mike Leigh grabbed the best-picture award.
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Toll Brothers' CEO triggers some contrarian reflection.
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A TIME critic's take on the cantankerous director of MASH and other sprawling social comedies
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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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A day after one of Hollywood's most  powerful men publicly scolded actor Tom Cruise, the film  capital began to think cost-conscious studios may finally be  fed up with giving stars the star treatment.
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Nicole Kidman is under attack from all sides as her controversial movie &quot;BIRTH&quot; opens at the Venice Film Festival. A published report says when Kidman was described by a TV interviewer as &quot;a legend,&quot; her co
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Many film stars embarking on their seventh decade have been known to have a facelift. But the Venice film festival&#39;s make-over attempts are proving more controversial than most.
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Some critics dismissed the Academy Awards'carbon-neutral claim as a publicity stunt. But organizers say thereâs substance behind the label.
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A box-office surprise, the movie jabs hard at Americans' biases.
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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You think the rush to exchange presents Dec. 26 will be furious? It might not compare with the mad dash of folks looking to reassess their 2004 viewpoints of one Tiger Woods.
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The director and stars of the new big screen adaptation of Vanity Fair today defended the film after it received a drubbing from the critics.
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Mel Gibson's film about the Mayan civilisation is criticised by indigenous Mayan activists.
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Arts & entertainment: Director denounces Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson for being uninterested in taking risks.
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In Search of Mozart is a generous, albeit faulty documentary, while William Friedkin's haunting Bug will make your skin crawl
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You have to give Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks movie studio, credit for trying to be original. He had a vision to lend DreamWorks&#39; brilliant animation team (&quot;Shrek,&quot; &quot;Shrek 2