Spanish town beats Venice to Woody Allen premiere
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OVIEDO, Spain  - Director Woody Allen held a secret premiere of his new film "Cassandra's Dream" in the northern Spanish city of Aviles on Monday, ahead of its official unveiling at the Venice film festival later this year.
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In this storyteller&#39;s town, known for heroes, villains and dramatic endings, Barry Bonds watched the climactic scene unfold in vivid sound and color Saturday.
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It is hard to picture Hollywood's favorite Latin hunk as the director behind "El Camino de los Ingleses" ("The English Path"), which opens in Spain this week.
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A couple of odd shows are planned for the Los Angeles Opera's '08- 09 season.  First there's consummate New Yorker Woody Allen, who has agreed to fly to L.A.
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An Iranian-Iraqi film set in the run-up  to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and starring an amateur cast  of war-scarred children won the top "Golden Shell" award at  Spain's prestigious San Sebastian film festival Saturday.
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NEW YORK  - Woody Allen has found a partner in Spain. Producer-distributor Mediapro has signed a pact to finance and co-produce three Allen films during a three-year period beginning in 2009. His sister Letty Aronson's Gravier Prods. also will produce.
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Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year's Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out.
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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will open Jan. 28 with a preview of Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda," while the world premiere of porn comedy "The Moguls" will close the event Feb. 6.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain  - In its own discreet way,  the San Sebastian Film Festival has built itself into an  essential stop on the annual film circuit, rivaling the status  of Venice and Cannes.
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Brooklyn has Walt Whitman to sing praises of its âample hills.â Manhattan has Woody Allen to capture its outsize style and neuroses. And Staten Island? Well, Staten Island has Thomas W. Matteo.
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Kenneth Branagh's movie of the Mozart opera The Magic Flute is to be launched later at the Venice Film Festival.
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A mix of big Hollywood productions and   arty European movies will mark Rome's first international film   festival next month, organizers said on Tuesday as they played   down rivalry with Venice's venerable film contest.
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The Venice Film Festival opened its 75th anniversary edition Wednesday with an all-world premiere competition for the coveted Golden Lion and a cascade of stars including George Clooney, Keira Knightley and Woody Allen.
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Oscar-nominated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is to star in the new Woody Allen film, to be shot this summer in Barcelona, newspaper El Pais reported on Friday.
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Woody Allen will be debuting his first directed opera in September 6, 2008.  Taking on Puccini's comedy "Gianni Schicchi," Allen stated, "I have no idea what I am doing, but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm." ...
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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Film director Woody Allen, it seems, has joined the George Bush-bashing brigade.