Branagh's Flute to play in Venice
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Kenneth Branagh, who directs a film version of Mozart's The Magic Flute, admits he knew little about opera.
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The Venice Film Festival opens on  Wednesday with the world premiere of "The Black Dahlia," a  sepia-tinted throwback to 1940s Hollywood based on a grisly  real-life murder that remains unsolved to this day.
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Tom Hanks opens the Venice Film Festival with a screening of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
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Hollywood's premier cash-and-award magnet Steven Spielberg was kicking off the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday &#151; just the man to inspire money-scooping moguls and prize-hungry artists alike during 11 days of glitz and film magic.
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Oggi &egrave; la volta de Il diavolo veste Prada con la Streep e una piccola partecipazione di Valentino. Kenneth Branagh porta in scena Il flauto magico di Mozart. Il programma
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Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" opened the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, the first of 21 films vying for the coveted Golden Lion award that will also be making their world debuts here.
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Acclaimed British conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, a longtime champion of early music, will play one of his favourite 18th-century French composers Jean-Philippe Rameau during a homage to his work organised by the French capital.
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For those who like to plan ahead, and we're not talking about putting snow tires on the car in August, the 2020 Ryder Cup will be played at Whistling Straits in the new golfing mecca of Wisconsin.
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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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Bernardo Bertolucci will receive an honorary Golden Lion award at this year's Venice Film Festival.
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Robert De Niro splashed up in Venice as  a tough-talking gangster with fins for the spectacular world  premiere of "Shark Tale" on Friday, which will be screened for  thousands in the city's famous St. Mark's square.
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Venice Film Festival  organizers suspended a war of words with their upcoming Rome  rival as this year's event kicked off in low-key fashion  Wednesday with the world premiere of Brian De Palma's murder  mystery "The Black Dalhia."
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Director Brian De Palma has impressed critics at the Venice Film Festival with his graphic new film on the Iraq war called Redacted.
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The Argentine-born Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has accepted Palestinian citizenship and an honorary Palestinian passport, Agence France-Presse reported. âI hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence,â he said after a concert in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Saturday. Among other posts, including Maestro Scaligero, a sort of principal guest conductor, at La Scala Opera in Milan, Mr. Barenboim is the founding director of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, based in Seville, Spain, which mingles Israeli (Jewish and Palestinian) and Arab youths.
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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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The Venice Film Festival is past the  halfway point and the buzz ahead of the prize ceremony on  Saturday is building.
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The Prince of Wales will be among guests at the London premiere of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino.