Venice film awards leave critics perplexed, vexed
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The jury at the Venice Film Festival  left critics and journalists perplexed and in some cases vexed  when it awarded top prize to China's "Still Life."
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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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Viewers may think some of the nominees for best picture at next week's Academy Awards are dark, but they pale in comparison with the movies competing for the coveted Oscar for best documentary.
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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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Security measures at  the Venice International Film Festival are tighter than ever,  though some officials said the greatest threat this year may  come from protesters rather than any kind of terrorist plot.
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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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VENICE, Italy  - Security measures at   the Venice International Film Festival are tighter than ever,   though some officials said the greatest threat this year may   come from protesters rather than any kind of terrorist plot.
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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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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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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The struggles of past nominees demonstrate the elusive nature of motion picture's most prestigious prize.
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Cate Blanchett is named best actress at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt wins best actor.
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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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Many questions came to mind when the Oscar nominations were announced: Who's going to win best picture? Why wasn't "Once" nominated more than once?
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You know it has not been a vintage  Berlin film festival when the leading contender for top prizes  falls somewhere between "average" and "good" in the critics'  ratings
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Director Mira Nair&#39;s highly anticipated movie Vanity Fair has been slammed by critics as being &#39;too Indian&#39; and &#39;jarring,&#39; after it was screened at the Venice Film Festival recently.
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The guessing game is almost over at the Venice film festival, where few clear frontrunners for the Golden Lion award for best picture have emerged ahead of the prize ceremony on Saturday evening. By the end of the annual 11-day marathon of movies, press conferences, interviews and parties, critics and journalists normally agree on a handful of films they think could win the top honor, although their predictions are not always correct.