Italy Complains About Venice Film Snub
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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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VENICE, Italy  - 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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&#39;&#39;Non abbiate paura dell&#39;apertura dei mercati e della concorrenza&#39;&#39;. Da Shanghai, seconda tappa della sua missione in Cina, il presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi incoraggia gli imprenditori italiani a non aver paura del gigante asiatico.
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ROME  - The Italian cinema industry is up in arms after recent comments from director Quentin Tarantino, who called the current state of the film industry "depressing."
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The leading showbiz lights of the anti-globalisation movement descended on Venice this weekend, amid complaints that the world's oldest film festival has sold out to the Hollywood glamour industry.
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Depp. Clooney. I fratelli Coen. I grandi assenti Ang Lee e Julian Schnabel. PiÃ¹ polemiche e proteste. Si avvicina la notte piÃ¹ attesa di Hollywood. Mai cosÃ¬ tanto criticata
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Germany has criticised Italy for opposing its campaign for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Europe would lose out if it was the only region not to have a new representative on an enlarged council.
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Italians should remember that until not   too long ago theirs was a land of migrants desperate for a   better future abroad, director Emanuele Crialese said on Friday   as he presented his new film at the Venice festival.
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La stagione dei B-movies italiani sembra non avere fine. Dopo il successo riscosso alla mostra del cinema di Venezia, da poco conclusasi, tornano a far parlare di loro i film e gli interpreti di quel filone anni &#39;80 che qualcuno osa definire &quot;trash&quot;.
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With an acceptance speech that included a dig at the Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake&quot; won the Leone d&#39;Oro for best film, closing out a controversial edition of the Venice Film Festival marked with some organizational snafus.
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VENICE (Italy) Sept 12 - A foreign clean sweep of the top awards at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, including the Golden Lion for British film ``Vera Drake&#39;&#39;, disappointed Italian critics who had campaigned for the first ``home&#39;&#39; Golden Lion
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ELEANOR HALL: The United Nations Refugee agency has criticised the Italian government for the change in its treatment of asylum seekers.
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When the Rome film festival forgot to invite Sophia Loren for its first edition last year, she was said to be furious at the snub.
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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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A film about forbidden love in Cyprus   has stirred passions on the ethnically partitioned island, with   its showing at the Venice Film Festival this week embroiled in   a row over funding.
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ROME : Italy&#39;s disputed nominee for the EU justice and security commissioner&#39;s post denied having made new comments denigrating the role of women and said he was being victimized by the media.