Serving Many Masters at the Venice Film Festival
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For Marco MÃ¼ller, the director of the Venice International Film Festival, star glitter is the surest way of drawing attention to the festival, now in its 61st year.
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An interview with the master filmmaker about his new films.
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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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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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Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year'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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The film in which Dame Helen Mirren portrays the Queen is being premiered at the Venice festival.
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ROME  - The 64th Venice Film Festival will open with Joe Wright's "Atonement," starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave, organizers said Friday.
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Director Tim Burton is honoured with a career award at the Venice Film Festival.
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The Venice Film Festival has got under way with the world premiere of The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson.
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British film Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, raises the curtain on the Venice Film Festival.
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As the Venice Film Festival winds down a  handful of front-runners have emerged in the competition for  the top prizes, with "Vera Drake," British director Mike  Leigh's story about an abortionist, inching ahead.
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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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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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Security for Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival is stepped up after problems at Al Pacino's premiere.
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The guessing game is almost over at the Venice film festival, where few clear frontrunners for the Golden Lion award for best picture have emerged ahead of the prize ceremony on Saturday evening.
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Security has been stepped up for the arrival of Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival after a series of gaffes at Al Pacino&#39;s premiere on Tuesday.
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.