Venice honor, premiere for Lynch
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David Lynch, the  writer-director best known for &quot;Blue Velvet,&quot; &quot;The Elephant  Man&quot; and &quot;Mulholland Drive,&quot; will receive a lifetime  achievement award at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, organizers  announced Friday.
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Scandal is sometimes the best catharsis, says Scarlett Johansson, one of the stars of Brian De Palma's film noir "The Black Dahlia," which made its world premiere Wednesday at the 63rd Venice film festival.
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Acclaimed director Gianni Amelio presented his new film "The House Keys" to enthusiastic audiences on Thursday amid hopes one of Italy's own would win the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion this year.
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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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A forest of golden lions line the red carpet leading to the Cinema Palace at the Venice Film Festival. Picture:Reuters. The Venice Film Festival amps up the star power, reports Stephanie Bunbury.
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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 film in which Dame Helen Mirren portrays the Queen is being premiered at the Venice festival.
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Italians are bracing themselves for   blood on the red carpet as Rome launches its own film festival   next month in what many see as a challenge to Venice.
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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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Actress Keira Knightley's forthcoming film Atonement is selected to open this year's Venice Film Festival.
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The Venice film festival opens on  Wednesday with &quot;Atonement,&quot; an adaptation of Ian McEwan&#39;s novel  about a girl who makes a false accusation with tragic results  and tries to atone for her mistake.
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Kenneth Branagh's movie of the Mozart opera The Magic Flute is to be launched later at the Venice Film Festival.
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VENICE, Italy  - With a strong American  presence at this year's Venice International Film Festival, it  didn't take long for U.S. politics to rear its controversial  head.
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The Venice film festival marked its 75th anniversary Wednesday with a sparkling opening gala and world premiere of British psychological drama &quot;Atonement&quot; starring Keira Knightley.
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Actors Al Pacino, Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp attend the Venice Film Festival despite protests.
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A British film tackling the controversial subject of abortion has scooped two prestigious awards at the Venice Film Festival. Vera Drake, which was backed with Â£1m (â¬1.
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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.