Will Venice Be Remembered for Films or Follies?
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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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VENICE (Italy) Sept 12 - A foreign clean sweep of the top awards at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, including the Golden Lion for British film ``Vera Drake&#39;&#39;, disappointed Italian critics who had campaigned for the first ``home&#39;&#39; Golden Lion
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Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg brought ``The Terminal&#39;&#39; to pop the cork on the 61st Venice Film Festival yesterday, where almost two dozen American films are set to screen during the festival&#39;s 11-day run.
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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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VENICE, Italy  - 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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"The Queen," a superbly acted  reconstruction of the crisis within the British monarchy caused  by Princess Diana's death in 1997, is the early favorite to  land the big prizes at the Venice Film Festival this year.
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Two movies about the Iraq war and its  impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries  at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight  to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.
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The Chinese movie "Sanxia Haoren," or "Still Life," on Saturday took this year's Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
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The Venice Film Festival opens its 75th anniversary edition Wednesday with an all-world premiere competition for the coveted Golden Lion, a cascade of stars such as George Clooney and Keira Knightley, and its share of international controversy.
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VENICE, Italy  - Moviegoers expecting another  feel-good Hollywood comedy at the Venice Film Festival on  Friday were instead thrown into a dark tale about pedophilia  and UFO abductions in "Mysterious Skin" by U.S. director Gregg  Araki.
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Are audiences ready for the steady stream of movies and documentaries that bring a faraway war very close?
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VENICE, Italy  - African cinema is back at the   Venice film festival after nearly 20 years with Chad's   "Daratt," a story about coming to terms with the horrors of   civil war inspired by director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's own   experience.
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ROME  - The fur was flying Tuesday   between the organizers of the venerable Venice Film Festival   and its fledgling counterpart in Rome.
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British film Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, is to raise the curtain on the Venice Film Festival.
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Mike Leigh's controversial film Vera Drake scoops the Golden Lion prize for best film at the Venice Film Festival.
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New York has been destroyed by asteroids, floods and human venality countless times in the movies. Are fantasies about the city's destruction signs of greatness, or do they verge on being tasteless?.
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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.