Anti-Hollywood Activists Try to Upstage Venice Fest
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While stars sip martinis poolside at the  Venice Film Festival, down the beach hundreds of activists are  staging a "camp-in" to protest against Hollywood blockbusters  and high ticket prices at the competition.
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Hollywood high flyers Tom Hanks and  Steven Spielberg launched Wednesday what is being hailed as  Venice's most ambitious film festival in years, but their  romantic comedy "The Terminal" failed to take it to new  heights.
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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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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Thousands of activists from across Europe are arriving in London for a weekend of anti-globalisation events and protests.
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Activists in Arnold Schwarzenegger's country of birth demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Vienna on Wednesday to protest the California governor's decision to allow the state's first execution in three years.
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With an acceptance speech that included a dig at the Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake&quot; won the Leone d&#39;Oro for best film, closing out a controversial edition of the Venice Film Festival marked with some organizational snafus.
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VENICE, Italy  - 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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US groups pledge to protest at screenings of a film about sexual researcher Alfred Kinsey.
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Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson are among the stars expected at the 61st Venice Film Festival this week.
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As Hollywood closes in on Oscar night with its attendant round of awards galas, politicians are popping up everywhere but the podium.
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Anti-globalization and far-left activists from across Italy were converging on the capital Saturday to protest against President Bush during his visit to Rome and the Vatican.
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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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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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Protesters urged ticket-holders outside a Toronto cinema on Tuesday to boycott a documentary about a vicious animal cruelty case in which three friends filmed the skinning of a live cat as an alleged art project.
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Red carpets, Oscar hopefuls and a grim  bite of political reality make up the agenda of this year&#39;s  Toronto film festival, where producers strut their stuff and  Hollywood stars party into the night.
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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.