Pacino at Venice Festival with Fiery 'Merchant'
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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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The Venice Film Festival is grappling with its perennial tag as the No. 2 movie extravaganza in Europe &#151; still a little brother to Cannes in terms of stars, marketing and buzz, even though it's older.
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Stephen Frears' "The Queen" is the   critics' favourite to take the best picture award at the Venice   Film Festival this year, with Emilio Estevez's star-packed   "Bobby" leading a strong chasing pack.
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The Venice Film Festival opened its 75th-anniversary edition on Wednesday with a cascade of stars.
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British film Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, raises the curtain on the Venice Film Festival.
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Fans of Japan's distinctive style of  full-length animated films gave a standing ovation at this  year's Venice Film Festival to the latest movie from Japan's  famed Studio Ghibli.
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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 opened on Wednesday with "Atonement", an adaptation of Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel about a girl whose fertile imagination leads her to make a false accusation that has tragic consequences.
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Actors Al Pacino, Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp have attended the Venice Film Festival amid complaints that Hollywood films dominate the event.
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Films competing for the top prize at Venice Film Festival will receive their world premiere at the event.
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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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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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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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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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This year&#39;s Venice Film Festival has been hailed as Hollywood on the Lido, but American stars have had to share the stage with US politics as movies like Tim Robbins&#39; &quot;Embedded-Live&quot; hit the screen.
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Prince Charles hosted a charity premiere of "The Merchant of Venice," and praised Al Pacino, the film's star and the prince's friend.
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Al Pacino made grand speeches on screen as Michael Corleone and Tony Montana. But when the actor was honored with the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, he was practically speechless.