`Michael Clayton' premieres at Venice
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First-time director Tony Gilroy was more interested in a story about making peace with how you earn a buck in his legal thriller "Michael Clayton," rather than some tale about corporate evil.
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Venice Film Festival Director Marco Mueller likens the 75-year-old festival to a seismograph that picks up emerging cinematic trends. If his instincts are right, the film world is about to be jolted by a new movement focusing on atonement.
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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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, winner of Golden Lion at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, and Imelda Staunton, winner of the best actress award for her role in the movie, attend the opening ceremony of the 48th London Film Festival in London
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A satirical opera about Italy's controversial prime minister and television magnate, Silvio Berlusconi, has opened in Venice.
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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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Hollywood has packed its bags and headed for the Venice Film Festival, where a whopping 20 American films will be screened and dozens of the hottest stars are set to inject glamour into the arthouse competition.
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One of the year's most anticipated movies, Stephen Frears' &quot;The Queen&quot; starring Helen Mirren, has become an early contender for the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival when it was lauded by critics ahead of its world premiere.
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No doubt there are plenty of on-screen kisses in store for Daniel Craig as the new James Bond. But none will be more talked about than the one that premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
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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 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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Venice's St Mark's Square will be transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of animation Shark Tale.
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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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Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favorites for awards at this year's Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out.
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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.
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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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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.