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  Venice Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the World (began in the 1932) and takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy.
The festival in 2004 held from 1 September to 11 September was the 61st.
For the 2005 festival see the 62nd Venice International Film Festival.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venice_Film_Festival   (689 words)

  
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Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world, was first held in 1932.
The first Australian film selected for screening was The Flying Doctor in 1937, which won the Segnalazione, and we have had at least one film at the festival in the past 22 years (with the exception of 2003).
Venezia, the International film competition for full-length feature films is judged by an International Jury composed of 7-9 representatives from the world of cinema and the arts in general, each from a different country.
www.afc.gov.au /filmsandawards/venice.aspx   (355 words)

  
 La Biennale di Venezia
It is now possible to submit films to the selection of the 63rd Venice Film Festival (August 30 - September 9, 2006).
Films must be presented as world premieres or at least never publicly screened outside their country of origin or in Italy.
The films presented at the 62nd Venice Film Festival continue to receive accolades throughout the world.
www.labiennale.org /en/cinema   (246 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Despite glamour and great pix, Venice Film Festival struggles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ROME (AP) — The Venice Film Festival is grappling with its perennial tag as the No. 2 movie extravaganza in Europe — still a little brother to Cannes in terms of stars, marketing and buzz, even though it's older.
One new element this year is the festival's director, Marco Muller, who took over after the ouster of Moritz de Hadeln, an outspoken boss who candidly acknowledged that the Venice Film Festival had slipped in stature.
Venice will have to count on the later flood of stars and its diverse list of films.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2004-08-31-venice-film-fest_x.htm   (699 words)

  
 Toronto Pictures Inc. - Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He started his film career in Italy where he wrote, directed, produced, executive produced and edited feature films and documentaries that were widely screened in cinemas and broadcast throughout Italy and other European countries.
In fact, the involvement of the Government was overwhelming and in the whole country didn’t exist a school for the creative film talent (actors, directors, writers and producers) or a Film Studio modeled on the Hollywood examples.
The film, a modern reconstruction of the middle-age poem by Dante Alighieri, was shot both in Italy and New York.
www.torontopictures.com /who.htm   (2152 words)

  
 Film Festivals Entertainment Festivals
The Florida Film Festival, one of the most respected regional festivals in the US, kicks off this evening, bringing more than 141 films over to the next 10 days to its home city of Orlando, Florida.
The Festival is headquartered at the Enzian Theater, a not-for-profit arthouse cinema that brings adventurous independent and international programming to Orlando audiences throughout the year.
Ranked as one of the most charismatic, alluring and powerful actors in cinema since he made his debut film in 1957, Delon is due to arrive in Istanbul on March 30 and will be presented with an IIFF Lifetime Achievement Award on the evening of Friday 31 March.
www.filmfestivals.com /htm/festivals.shtml   (303 words)

  
 Venice Film Festival
The Filmmaker, who is the head of the film festival's jury, met with press in front of a blue screen which carried simulated background scenes.
The film, which also stars Julia Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, and Alan Rickman, tells the story of Collins who was the IRA's director of intelligence when he helped fight for Ireland's independence from 1919 to 1921.
The film has caused some controversy in England, where some politicians fear that the tension in Northern Ireland might be flared by the film.
www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_96VeniceFF_960903.html   (597 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: venice film festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the last day of the festival, Festival director Marco Mueller eats maccheroni with the photographers who have covered this year’s edition.
Venice Film Festival will open with martial arts The Venice Film Festival will open with the Hong Kong martial arts film Seven Swords.
Film Festival Outdoor Movies is a full-service, event management company specializing in outdoor movie events and screenings - from single-day events to a multi-day film festivals.
technorati.com /tag/venice+film+festival   (506 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Actors hit Venice despite protest
Tim Robbins' film of his satirical play Embedded is being screened at the festival, along with The Take by anti-globalisation campaigner Naomi Klein.
Protesters object to the change in direction taken by the world's oldest film festival, which this year is attracting a Hollywood A-list crowd to rival that of France's Cannes Film Festival.
The event sees 21 films competing for the Golden Lion grand prize, which was won last year by Russian film The Return.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3628872.stm   (460 words)

  
 venice film festival sundance international at fax-films.com
The FilmGate International Student Film Festival is a premier event for student filmmakers worldwide in St. Louis, MO. Students from around the world are invited to submit their films.
The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the...
Organizers of the Venice Film Festival were outraged last week to learn that USA Films was withdrawing...
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 Venice Film Festival Gets Under Way - Softpedia
It is world-beating for the International Film Festival (61 editions), for the International Art Exhibition (51 editions) and for the International Architecture Exhibition (9 editions), and continues the great tradition of the Festival of Contemporary Music (48 editions) and Theatre (36 editions), now flanked by the Festival of Contemporary Dance (3 editions).
Only three out of the 19 films in competition were made in Italy and none is said to stand a chance to win the prestigious Golden Lion award.
Among the films included in competition are Terry Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm," starring Matt Damon; "Proof," directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow; "Mary" by Abel Ferrara, and John Turturro’s musical "Romance and Cigarettes" starring James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken.
news.softpedia.com /news/Venice-Film-Festival-Gets-Under-Way-7381.shtml   (820 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Venice Film Festival opens
The 59th festival, which runs until 8 September, is one of the most important events in the film world's calendar.
Tom Hanks, Julianne Moore and Salma Hayek are all expected to attend the festival - along with Sophia Loren, making her first visit to the Venice Film Festival in 20 years.
About 143 films will be screened at the festival, including the 21 competing for the Golden Lion and a further 17 in contention for the new San Marco award in the festival's Countercurrent section.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/film/2221945.stm   (377 words)

  
 Alex Fung's Page > Film Festivals > 54th Annual Venice International Film Festival Results
The opening film for the festival was Deconstructing Harry, directed by Woody Allen.
The closing film for the festival was Richard III (1912), a.k.a.
The Venice Film Festival also screened the entire lineup of the 1947 festival.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6696/Fest/97venic.htm   (201 words)

  
 62 Venice International Film Festival
The President of the Venice Biennale, Davide Croff, and the Director of the Festival Marco Müller made the announcement today during a press conference in Cannes.
He collaborated with Martin Scorsese on seven films, the last of which after Gangs of New York being The Aviator, which brought him and his wife, Francesca Lo Schiavo, an Academy Award.
He became a friend to the great set designer of the 1960's, Luigi Scaccianoce, then made his debut in 1969 with the Pier Paolo Pasolini film, Medea, recreating the classical world with flavours of the Orient, where the film was shot.
www.veniceroom.com /venicefilmfestival.htm   (1038 words)

  
 62nd Venice Film Festival Diary
Highlights from the Venice Film Festival press conferences for Brokeback Mountain, Casanova, Brothers Grimm, and Elizabethtown.
On the subject of filming in Venice, he said that everyone found it inspirational and that it was shot entirely on location.
When asked about having three films at the festival, he said that he was honoured and it was a coincidence and he wanted to represent all three properly (someone has been coaching him in the art of saying nothing with conviction - only actors and Ronald Reagan can pull it off)
www.iofilm.co.uk /festivals/venice/2005/diary_20050908.php   (1314 words)

  
 Misc: Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival dazzled like never before this year with its string of Hollywood stars and...
As the Venice Film Festival winds down a handful of front-runners have emerged in the competition fo...
For Marco Müller, the director of the Venice Film Festival, star glitter is the surest way of drawin...
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/misc_venice_film_festival   (423 words)

  
 The Film Festivals Server - VENICE
The Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, internationally better known as the Venice Film Festival, is by far the oldest film festival that still takes place today.
The 1934 edition marked the first year that awards were chosen by a jury consisting of professionals.
In 1952, the top prize became known as the Golden Lion of Saint Mark, after Venice's patron saint, while the acting awards are known as the Volpi Cups, while Osella d'Oro's go to directors, scriptwriters and cinematographers.
www.filmfestivals.com /venice   (182 words)

  
 Venice Film Festival
It's been strange to come from Laos, where there are signs of poverty in your face on a daily basis and everything is so underdeveloped, to then be in Italy - and in the north where many people are quite affluent.
Venice is still as spectacular as I remember it.
We went to the film festival last week and saw The Terminal.
www.travelblog.org /Europe/Italy/Venice/blog-1257.html   (216 words)

  
 60th Venice Film Festival
At a press conference in Venice, where the 60th Venice Film Festival is taking place, the European Commissioner for Culture and Audiovisual Media, Viviane Reding, presented today the preliminary programme for the second CINEDAYS festival, which will take place from 10 to 24 October 2003.
In 2002, this European film festival mobilised almost 50 television channels, hundreds of cinemas and film archives and allowed 100 000 young people to attend screenings of both modern and vintage European films or to work at school on the theme of education in the visual image.
The official opening will take place in Brussels on 9 October, and the Italian Presidency will be organising the closing ceremony on 24 October in Rome.
www.cinema.com /festivals/233/60th-venice-film-festival.phtml   (118 words)

  
 Film Directors
Articles on film directors, A site providing collated references to academic journal articles, essays and interviews on a vast range of filmmakers and their work.
A listing designed as a tribute to the 50 greatestdirectors of English-language films, selected according to the 'auteur' theory.
UCLA Film and Television Archive, Cecil B. DeMille.
www.zeroland.co.nz /film_directors.html   (173 words)

  
 Venice film festival, an international film festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, better known internationally as the Venice Film Festival, is by far the oldest film festival still in existence today.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival and it remains as vibrant as ever.
The festival was established in 1932, and even in the prevailing cinematic climate of fascist propaganda films and imitations of Hollywood comedies ("white telephone" comedies, named after that undying symbol of elegance and opulence), it upheld the values of cinema d'auteur, transcending national boundaries.
www.hotelcipriani.com /web/ocip/ocip_c1c4_events.jsp   (344 words)

  
 USA Film Festival :: Dallas, Texas
Festival Members attend FREE screenings each month as well as programs and receptions with our filmmaker guests.
Film and video are our most accessible art forms (and one of our most valuable teaching/learning tools), and KidFilm gives audiences of all ages an important opportunity to see (and discuss) great films together!
Remember to specify the program in which you are interested and include your physical mailing address so we can mail you the flyer.
www.usafilmfestival.com   (719 words)

  
 2005 Venice Film Festival - Movie Mistakes
The film, focusing on the relationship of two young men in the 1960s, stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal who also appeared at the festival.
The second of three Heath Ledger films screened at the Venice Film Festival was “The Brothers Grimm”.
Both stars along with the film’s director, Terry Gilliam, appeared at the festival in support of the movie which is currently in theaters.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art35599.asp   (585 words)

  
 ExtraTV.com: Cruising the Canals of Venice
And Tom's only the latest Super A-Lister to deliver glitz and glam to the 61st Annual Venice Film Festival, at which 250 films will be screened.
Tom was planning to say "ciao" to Italy after tonight, but his next stop, Russia, has become a mission terminated.
But the top gun could probably use a break: earlier this week in London, he mingled with thousands of fans and signed autographs for three hours.
extratv.warnerbros.com /v2/news/0904/03/2/text.html   (202 words)

  
 FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Japan's visionary of innocence and apocalypse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the last afternoon of the Venice Film Festival we in the Sala Grande lost count of the standing ovations.
Nausicaa and the Valley of the Winds (1985) was cheered with nearly demented rapture when revived at Venice, cueing that fourth standing ovation.
For instance, the tenaciously enquiring little girl who is heroine of so many Miyazaki films seems a none-too-distant cousin of Alice in Wonderland.
news.ft.com /cms/s/698539fe-2974-11da-8a5e-00000e2511c8.html   (1516 words)

  
 eBay - venice film festival, Movie Memorabilia, Europe items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Venice Film Festival - Gridskipper
Though the Venice Biennale is already well underway, the related Venice Film Festival starts this Wednesday (August 31) and runs until September 10.
Competition films include work from France, Italy, Canada, and Portugal among others; American flicks include George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (starring himself, David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., and Patricia Clarkson) and John Turtorro’s Romance & Cigarettes (starring James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, and Christopher Walken).
Previously: Last-Minute Digs in Venice, Sexy Robots in Venice, Counterfeit Couture Gets Pricey, Life Is Easy When You Have A Big Boat And No Job, More Biennale Talk
www.gridskipper.com /travel/venice/venice-film-festival-122727.php   (226 words)

  
 VeniceOnLine - Venice film festival
Every year in September there is the international film festival also known as the "Mostra del Cinema".
During this period the Lido di Venezia become the centre of attention.
For more up-to-date information you can go to the official web site:
www.veniceonline.it /Events/FilmFestival.asp   (90 words)

  
 kidman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her new film Birth that opens October caused wave of controversy.
Festival discuss new romance thriller Birthday Girl.cnn SHOWBIZ Movies sun.
Dead Calm Epinions There sex scene Kidman was briefly nude R rated version.
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