Venice Film Festival: triumphs after the chaos
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VENICE The disorder that characterized this year&#39;s Venice Film Festival at times took on comic proportions and was crowned by two episodes.
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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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Ang Lee&#39;s movie &quot;Lust, Caution&quot; won the  Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on  Saturday.
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Taiwan was flushed with pride on Sunday  as favorite son and world famous director Ang Lee took Venice  film festival&#39;s top award for his steamy thriller &quot;Lust,  Caution,&quot; just two years after winning with &quot;Brokeback  Mountain.&quot;
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One of Britain&#39;s most respected filmmakers was basking in Italian glory this weekend, after Mike Leigh scooped the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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A mix of big Hollywood productions and  arty European movies will mark Rome's first international film  festival next month, organizers said on Tuesday as they played  down rivalry with Venice's venerable film contest.
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The Venice Film Festival gets serious this year with competition films about the Iraq war and its impact on U.S. society, police brutality in Egypt, big corporation corruption and the mafia in Italy.
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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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Mike Leigh's controversial film Vera Drake scoops the Golden Lion prize for best film at the Venice Film Festival.
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Fans of Japan's distinctive style of full-length animated films gave a standing ovation at this year's Venice Film Festival to the latest movie from Japan's famed Studio Ghibli.
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"Vera Drake," Mike Leigh's tough tale of a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal abortions in 1950s England, scooped up the prizes at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, including the coveted Golden Lion.
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"The Queen," a superbly acted   reconstruction of the crisis within the British monarchy caused   by Princess Diana's death in 1997, is the early favorite to   land the big prizes at the Venice Film Festival this year.
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ROME  - The fur was flying Tuesday   between the organizers of the venerable Venice Film Festival   and its fledgling counterpart in Rome.
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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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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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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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Ang Lee's movie "Lust, Caution" won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday.