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 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 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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Media hordes descend on the Venice Vegas of the Orient
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The Italian press complains after one of the country's films fails to take any awards at  Venice.
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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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Two films at the Cannes film  festival portray how the lack of jobs, money and social  recognition in Europe can drive men to desperation.
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Al Pacino, who has already made purists  squirm with his American accent in one Shakespearean role, has  taken another risk, playing Jewish moneylender Shylock in the  new film version of "The Merchant of Venice."
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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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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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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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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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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 tale of how the swimming hall of fame nearly lost the most valuable part of its memorabilia collection began with a scene straight out of a prime-time police drama.
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VENICE, Italy- Anyone who thought the Venice Film Festival existed on some kind of artistic plateau doesn&#39;t know Quentin Tarantino.
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"Lost in Translation" star Scarlett Johansson came to the Venice Film Festival to promote her latest picture, but found herself fending off romantic advances.
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The 11-day Venice Film Festival winds up   on Saturday after a red carpet award ceremony on the glamorous   Lido beach front, with British entry "The Queen" and   Hollywood's "Bobby" favorites to take away the main prize.