Iraq war films among favorites at Venice
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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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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 spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
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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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Venice's film festival pays tribute to spaghetti westerns this year by screening more than 30 films celebrating the interpretation of a quintessentially American genre by Italian directors 40 years ago.
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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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Seventeen movies from 15 countries will compete for best short film at the Venice Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday.
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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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Having sought to portray a lighter side to Nazi concentration camps, Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni is now looking for laughs in wartime Iraq.
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Spike Lee was at the Venice Film Festival in Italy watching on television as Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans last August.
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Set in wartime Iraq, âThe Situationâ is exploitation cinema of the most narcoleptic kind.
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Marc Jacobâs holiday excess, this year by way of Venice.
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Movies about the war in Iraq take pride of place in this year's London Film Festival line-up.
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Witches, a magical moving castle and a  devastating war filled the screens in Venice on Sunday in the  animated film "Howl's Moving Castle" by Hayao Miyazaki, known  around the world as Japan's Walt Disney.
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With the economy sinking  into recession, the war in Iraq about to enter its sixth year,  and lingering uncertainty in Hollywood following the writers  strike, it's perhaps fitting that the films competing for the  best documentary Oscar mirror the gloom.
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Two Hollywood films that take up the politics of the Iraq war grew out of the conviction that the American public was not getting the full picture of the violence.
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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.