Venice film festival shows the strain
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The quality of mercy, as Portia observes in the Merchant of Venice, is not strain&#39;d - but much of this year&#39;s Venice film festival has become extremely strain&#39;d.
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The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with "Atonement", an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel about a girl who makes a false accusation with tragic results and tries to atone for her mistake.
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Many film stars embarking on their seventh decade have been known to have a facelift. But the Venice film festival&#39;s make-over attempts are proving more controversial than most.
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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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Amid the glamorous parties and the people watching at the 52nd Venice Biennale are chilling images of an apocalyptic world.
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Italians are bracing themselves for  blood on the red carpet as Rome launches its own film festival  next month in what many see as a challenge to Venice.
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Periodically, St Mark's Square in Venice is flooded by spring tides. On Friday night it was inundated with Hollywood executives and movie stars for the first film premiere to be staged in the historic piazza.
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With a strong American presence at this year's Venice International Film Festival, it didn't take long for U.S. politics to rear its controversial head.
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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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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 world's oldest running film festival, the Venice Biennale, is used to imitators. But this year, the upstarts are just a little too close to home.
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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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Moviegoers expecting another feel-good Hollywood comedy at the Venice Film Festival on Friday were instead thrown into a dark tale about pedophilia and UFO abductions in "Mysterious Skin" by U.S. director Gregg Araki.
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The jury at the Venice Film Festival left critics and journalists perplexed and in some cases vexed when it
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British film Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, raises the curtain on the Venice Film Festival.
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VENICE, Italy  - Venice International  Film Festival organizers declared a collective mea culpa Monday  after the first half of the event was beset with exasperating  delays and logistical problems.
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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.