Pacino's Lost Seat Tops Venice Festival Shambles
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A string of embarrassing blunders, including one which left Al Pacino with no seat at the premiere of his latest movie, have plagued this year's Venice Film Festival.
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The Chinese movie "Sanxia Haoren," or "Still Life," on Saturday took this year's Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
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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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Music fans injured as a storm hits a Venice musical festival, bringing down heavy stage equipment.
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The Venice Film Festival dazzled like never before this year with its string of Hollywood stars and hot arthouse directors, but the festival's new chief may find delays and embarrassing blunders are what people remember.
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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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Venice may not be sinking yet, but it is   certainly emptying -- that is, if you don't count the 18   million tourists who flock to the canal city every year.
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British film Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, raises the curtain on the Venice Film Festival.
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VENICE, Italy  - Anti-globalization protesters on  Thursday vowed more disturbances at Venice's most ambitious  film festival in years to protest against Hollywood's wealth  and reach after featuring as uninvited guests at its gala  opening.
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Around 2,000 fans showed to the Fiorentina and Udinese game on Sunday. But the stadium gates were as far as they got because of newly enforced security measures in Italy.
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When American film maker Quentin  Tarantino called today&#39;s Italian cinema &quot;depressing,&quot; many in  the industry hoped the Venice film festival would prove him  wrong.
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After years of gangsters, villains and  hard men with a heart, Al Pacino has come back to Shakespeare  and after playing Jewish moneylender Shylock he has his sights  set on King Lear and Macbeth.
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After years of gangsters, villains and hard men with a heart, Al Pacino has come back to Shakespeare and after playing Jewish moneylender Shylock he has his sights set on King Lear and Macbeth.
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Films competing for the top prize at Venice Film Festival will receive their world premiere at the event.
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Ang Lee has walked off with another top award at the Venice film festival, and surprised critics are wondering how he did it.
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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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VENICE, Italy - Al Pacino growls, grimaces and demands a "pound of flesh" as Jewish moneylender Shylock in a new version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." But the actor argued Saturday that the film successfully addresses long-standing controversy over the work's anti-Semitism.    Director Michael Radford - speaking to reporters after the film's screening at the Venice Film Festival - added that his picture shouldn't be seen as a tale just about tensions between Christians and Jews, but as a comment on the very modern problem of two cultures at odds...