Dark American tales light up Venice film festival
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Dark tales of real-life crime dominate  Hollywood's star-studded assault on the Venice Film Festival  this year, with U.S. directors drawing inspiration from murder  mysteries of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
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David Cronenberg and Guy Maddin bring local pride to an international film festival
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A new film about the real-life rape and  killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also  murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking  images that left some viewers in tears.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.
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Tim Burton, master of macabre movies  like &quot;Corpse Bride&quot; and &quot;Edward Scissorhands,&quot; was honored with  a career award at the Venice film festival on Wednesday.
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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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Director Brian De Palma has impressed critics at the Venice Film Festival with his graphic new film on the Iraq war called Redacted.
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The Venice Film Festival has got under way with the world premiere of The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson.
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Stars turn out as St Mark's Square in Venice is transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of the animated film Shark Tale.
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The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with "Atonement", an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel about a girl who makes a false accusation with tragic results and tries to atone for her mistake.
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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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When American film maker Quentin Tarantino called today's Italian cinema "depressing", many in the industry hoped the Venice film festival would prove him wrong.
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Celebrating the gory glory of the Toronto International Film Festvial's marvelous Midnight Madness series
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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 The disorder that characterized this year&#39;s Venice Film Festival at times took on comic proportions and was crowned by two episodes.
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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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Guillermo del Toro is  only 42, but judging from the list of nominees vying for  attention at Saturday's Spirit Awards -- the arthouse world's  version of the Oscars -- he's the old man of American indie  cinema.