Spielberg, Hanks arrive in Venice for fest
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The 61st Venice International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday night with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg arriving -- albeit a little late -- to launch the distinctly Hollywood-friendly 11-day event.
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Spielberg is in Paris to promote his new film The Terminal and to receive the award from the French president Jacques Chirac, who praised him as a &quot;great director&quot;.
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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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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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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.
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Robert De Niro splashed up in Venice as  a tough-talking gangster with fins for the spectacular world  premiere of "Shark Tale" on Friday, which will be screened for  thousands in the city's famous St. Mark's square.
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Two very different movies about the Iraq  war are among the favorites for awards at this year&#39;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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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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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the Arab world.
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Tom Hanks opens the Venice Film Festival with a screening of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
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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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Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient
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A gaffe at the Venice Film Festival leaves Al Pacino without a seat at the premiere of his new film.
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DEAUVILLE, France  - It took a  whistle-stop tour Saturday by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to  add some fizz to the Deauville Festival of American Cinema's  30th birthday party, a day after its low-key bow with a French  film, Claude Lelouch's "Les Parisiens."
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AT THE opening day of the 61st Venice Film Festival yesterday, director Steven Spielberg offered a tribute to escapism, saying times of turmoil call for relief within darkened cinemas.
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Actor Tom Hanks comes to a snowy  West End for the premiere of his movie Polar Express.
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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.