Film sets Mozart's "Magic Flute" in trenches of WWI
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Mozart's "The Magic Flute" plays out   amid the horrors of World War One in Kenneth Branagh's striking   new film, which premieres later on Thursday in the canal city's   famed Teatro La Fenice opera house.
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Julie Taymorâs quirky, puppet-filled production of Mozartâs âZauberflÃ¶teâ was one of the Metâs hottest properties when it was first staged and since then it has done extra duty winning over children in a cut-down version.
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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It took a whistle-stop tour Saturday by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to add some fizz to the Deauville Festival of American Cinema's 30th birthday party, a day after its low-key bow with a French film, Claude Lelouch's "Les Parisiens."
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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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A culture-clash drama, a quirky portrait of strong women, a harrowing imprisonment story, an unnerving fairy tale and a saga of unheralded World War II heroes are contending for top honors at the Cannes Film Festival.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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The old and the new go head to head in the music of Charles Ives, but conflict may not be the right word to describe it.
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Giuseppe Verdi's Aida fits the cliched concept of grand opera: a visual feast with big emotions, majestic scenes and an exotic touch like this love story set in ancient Egypt.
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The scars from the Iraq war do not heal when U.S. soldiers return home, says a powerful new film starring Tommy Lee Jones that keeps the conflict at the heart of the Venice film festival this year.
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Imagine the director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) and star (Audrey Tautou) of "Amelie" reuniting and applying the same quick pacing and quirky humor of that 2001 French comedy to a World War I film that's equal parts love story and lavish historical epic.
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German contralto Wiebke Hoogklimmer announces an unusual programme - 'Der Krieg ist gestorben' ('The War has died') deals with the dream of peace in the imaginations of composers from Argentina, Mexico, ...
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The best film so far about the cost of war in Iraq
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Erik Greenberg AnjouÂs charming documentary about the cantor Jacob Mendelson is more concerned with singing praises than arguing over orthodoxies.
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A German film about a Nazi plot to disrupt Britain's wartime economy by flooding it with counterfeit banknotes made by Jewish craftsmen in a concentration camp is based on a bizarre but true story.
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A  TV documentary claims Mozart may have suffered from the compulsive obsessive disorder Tourette's Syndrome.
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Forty years after their  "Closely Watched Trains" won the Oscar for best  foreign-language film, director Jiri Menzel has adapted another  novel by the late Bohumil Hrabal, and history could well repeat  itself when Academy members get to see "I Served the King of  England," which screened here in competition.