Italy Complains About Venice Film Snub
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ROME Sept. 12, 2004 - Italian media grumbled Sunday over the failure of a hometown film to win big prizes at the Venice Film Festival, where the British movie &quot;Vera Drake&quot; by director Mike Leigh grabbed the best-picture award.
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Robert De Niro fails to show up at an awards ceremony in Milan and a press conference in Rome.
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The producers of "The Sopranos" were denied a permit to film in this North Jersey town because the mayor and some City Council members say the acclaimed HBO series negatively depicts Italian-Americans. The owners of an old-fashioned ice cream parlor selected for the series' final scene, however, said such "personal feelings" shouldn't stand in the way.
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&#39;&#39;Siamo con la cassa ai limiti. A fine settembre sara&#39; prossima allo zero&#39;&#39;. Il numero uno di Alitalia Giancarlo Cimoli denuncia cosi&#39;, davanti alle commissioni riunite di Camera e Senato, le difficolta&#39; in
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Hollywood heavyweight Robert De Niro  snubbed the country of his forebears twice in as many days,  refusing a top honor from fashion capital Milan on Thursday and  then standing up dignitaries in Rome on Friday.
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"These are the problems that require a national operator to confront"  Officials in northern Italy are uniting in opposition to Air France-KLM's bid for ailing Alitalia SpA, which would make Rome the nation's only hub at the expense of Milan.The Air France plan _ which the Alitalia board tipped Friday as its preferred bidder over Italian airline Air One SpA _ would do away with Alitalia's two-hub system, one at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport and the other at Milan's Malpensa.Having a hub in Milan has been fiercely defended by northern politicians, but has been criticized as too expensive and impractical. Alitalia's board, under chairman Maurizio Prato, has already signaled its intention to cut traffic to Malpensa. Read more
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Robert De Niro was a no-show at his scheduled appearance to promote a film festival he founded. The American actor failed to appear with Rome authorities Friday, hours after he refused to accept an honor from the city of Milan, angering the mayor.
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[Hollywood News]: Washington, Oct 16: Italians might think otherwise, but Robert De Niro definitely has no bad intentions towards Italy even though his recent actions seem to suggest otherwise.
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&#39;&#39;Mi pare una trovata pubblicitaria straordinaria. Secondo me dovrebbero sfruttarlo per lanciare il film. Anzi dovrebbero farci la locandina&#39;&#39;. Tinto Brass, appena arrivato a Venezia, commenta cosi&#39; l&#39;accoglienza
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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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Italy's culture minister on Thursday denounced the J. Paul Getty Museum's move to return 26 allegedly looted antiquities as a unilateral act that did not meet Rome's demand for a comprehensive agreement &#151; but he left the door open for further negotiations.
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US actor Robert De Niro failed to turn up at two film events in Italy, despite flying to the country to attend.
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With an acceptance speech that included a dig at the Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh&#39;s &quot;Vera Drake&quot; won the Leone d&#39;Oro for best film, closing out a controversial edition of the Venice Film Festival marked with some organizational snafus.
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Italy has come under fire for sending would-be asylum seekers back to Libya without granting them time to apply for refugee status.
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The United Nations refugee agency chastised Italy on Friday for denying a group of Turkish Kurds the right to an asylum hearing and forcing them back onto a Mediterranean freighter, where they've been stuck for two weeks.
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Film italiano a basso costo ammesso alla sezione Panorama
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&#39;&#39;In fondo questo film vuole dire solo una cosa: non piangiamoci addosso e riconosciamo tutti le nostre diversita&#39;, che non sono solo quelle visibili all&#39;esterno&#39;&#39;. E&#39; questo per il regista Gianni Amelio il