Venice Film Festival

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Writing from the Lido, Samir Farid covers some of the Venice Festival's highlights The 68th Venice Film Festival competition began for real with the screening of the French film Carnage, the latest by the world-renowned Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski (winner of the Berlin Golden Bear in 1965 and the Cannes Palm d'Or in 2003): a [...]

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Killer Joe: Venice Film Review

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The William Friedkin of The French Connection and The Exorcist may be but a distant memory, but Killer Joe proves that at 76 the Academy Award-winning director is certainly no back number. A likeably unpleasant slice of adults-only Texas noir, which aims at the funnybone as much as the jugular, this adaptation of Tracy Letts’ [...]

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'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' U.S. Trailer Is Flashier, But Still Effective

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Early word from the 2011 Venice Film Festival is that Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John le Carré's influential espionage novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, lives up to the expectations, based on both the creative talents involved with the project – and the previously-released trailers for the film, all of which have teased it as being a [...]

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An early look at Al Pacino's 'Wilde Salome,' with Jessica Chastain

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In 2006, Al Pacino performed in Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" at the Wadsworth Theatre in L.A. During rehearsals, a camera crew followed the cast around the theater, recording everything it could for a documentary that Pacino was working on about Wilde and his infamous stage drama. Five years later, Pacino's documentary is finally seeing the light [...]

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At Venice, is 'Contagion' following 'The Town's' awards playbook?

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When Warner Bros. Pictures premieres Steven Soderbergh's globe-trotting virus drama "Contagion" Sunday at the Venice Film Festival, it will be launching a campaign for a movie that shares many attributes with the studio's hit from fall 2010: Ben Affleck's "The Town," which also made its debut at the starry European fest. Despite very different subject [...]

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Selma Blair joins the yummy mummy brigade by taking baby Arthur on tour

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06 SEPTEMBER 2011 Selma Blair neatly solves the dilemma of every working mum by taking her new baby with her to press junkets. While the Dark Horse actress talked up her movie and signed autographs, wearing a series of sensational frocks, gorgeous Arthur Saint Bleick, whose father is fashion designer Jason Bleick, was cared for by a [...]

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Brad Pitt knew 'Fight Club' was a great film — despite its tepid reception

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Fight Club may be one of Brad Pitt's most beloved films, but when it debuted in 1999, it flopped at the box office, earning just $37 million against a $63 million budget. In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, Brad Pitt reflects on Fight Club's original reception during a rare in-depth conversation on his life [...]

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Note To Self: Never Give Madonna Hydrangeas

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Madonna is at the Venice Film Festival, promoting her film, W.E., which has, so far, received a pretty dismal reception. So it's no wonder Madge was in a pretty feisty mood when a fan approached her at a press conference with flowers. She politely accepts the gift before placing it under the table and releasing [...]

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The Press Association: Fanning cast as Thompson's Effie?

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Fanning cast as Thompson's Effie? (UKPA)–4 days ago Dakota Fanning has apparently been cast in the title role of Emma Thompson's period biopic Effie. The film, set in 1850s London, tells the story of the doomed marriage between beautiful teenager Euphemia 'Effie' Gray and art critic John Ruskin and will be directed by An Englishman [...]

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Madonna royal drama to screen at Venice Film Festival

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28 July 2011 Last updated at 06:42 ET Share this page Madonna previously directed the 2008 comedy romance Filth and Wisdom Madonna's film about King Edward VIII's romance with American divorcee Wallis Simpson will have its world premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival. W.E, which the singer directed, screens out of competition at the [...]

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Cronenberg's 'A Dangerous Method,' Solondz's 'Dark Horse' & Gilliam's 'Wholly Family' Get Posters

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It's hard to believe but summer is nearly over and not only that, the fall festival swing kicks off in earnest in just a couple short weeks when the movie world will descend up Venice. Every picture will be jostling for attention and in the lead up to the festivities posters for two festival players [...]