Branagh's Flute to play in Venice
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Kenneth Branagh, who directs a film version of Mozart's The Magic Flute, admits he knew little about opera.
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Venice's St Mark's Square will be transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of animation Shark Tale.
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A new film in which Dame Helen Mirren portrays the British Queen is premiered at the Venice festival.
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The Venice Film Festival gets serious  this year with competition films about the Iraq war and its  impact on U.S. society, police brutality in Egypt, big  corporation corruption and the mafia in Italy.
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman will promote their films, Collateral and Birth, at the 61st Venice International Film Festival. Mira Nair's Vanity Fair will also be screened.
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Loneliness and a desperate quest for  happiness are at the center of veteran French director Alain  Resnais' new film, which has won critical acclaim in Venice  where it is in competition.
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Dame Helen Mirren's latest film The Queen is among the favourites to win at the Venice Film Festival.
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Venice Film Festival  organizers suspended a war of words with their upcoming Rome  rival as this year's event kicked off in low-key fashion  Wednesday with the world premiere of Brian De Palma's murder  mystery "The Black Dalhia."
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Some visitors to the ancient Croatian city of Dubrovnik got an unexpected souvenir: a photo with Tom Cruise, who came for a brief visit after promoting his new movie, "Collateral," at the Venice Film Festival.
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The Venice Film Festival opens on  Wednesday with the world premiere of "The Black Dahlia," a  sepia-tinted throwback to 1940s Hollywood based on a grisly  real-life murder that remains unsolved to this day.
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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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Actress Keira Knightley's forthcoming film Atonement is selected to open this year's Venice Film Festival.
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Two movies that offer searing explorations of the effect of Iraq on the minds of American servicemen shine in Venice
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Tom Hanks opens the Venice Film Festival with a screening of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
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The Prince of Wales will be among guests at the London premiere of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino.
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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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Oggi &egrave; la volta de Il diavolo veste Prada con la Streep e una piccola partecipazione di Valentino. Kenneth Branagh porta in scena Il flauto magico di Mozart. Il programma