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Bernardo Bertolucci Named President of the International Jury of the Venezia 70 Competition
The jury president of the 70th Venice Film Festival international competition jury will be top Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. The Venice Biennale, Europe's oldest film festival, will run from August 28 through September 7. 2013. The jury will award the Golden Lion and other official prizes; S...
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Bernardo Bertolucci To Head 70th Venice Film Festival Jury
The Cannes Film Festival hasn't even kicked off and we're already talking about the major European fest that follows it at the end of August. The Venice Film Festival has announced that Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci has been selected to chair the International Jury for their 70th edition.
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Review: Malick Stumbles with 'To The Wonder'
There are no dinosaurs in Terrence Malick's sixth feature, but there are bison, sea turtles, prairies, toxic sludge, sun-dappled water, more prairies, a conflicted priest (Javier Bardem) and enough pirouetting by Olga Kurylenko to make you imagine that she probably felt dizzy at the end of each day'...
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William Friedkin's Restored 'Sorcerer' Getting A Re-Release, Aiming For The Venice Film Festival
As William Friedkin spent most of last year on the promo circuit for his deliciously raw "Killer Joe," one frequent question he fielded was about the fate of his 1997 flick "Sorcerer." The film has been in mired in some complex legal stuff, but as Friedkin himself told us last year: " I sued Univers...
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New Trailer for Redford's 'The Company You Keep' with LaBeouf, Sarandon, Nolte & More
The trailer has landed for Robert Redford's "The Company You Keep," which was just picked up by Sony Pictures Classics before its Venice and Toronto premieres. The thriller is star-packed with...
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Venice Film Festival Announces Three Advancing Projects from Biennale College-Cinema Program
Three projects have advanced to the second round of the Venice Film Festival's Biennale College-Cinema program. This second phase consists of a workshop in which the participants will actually make a mini-budget film; each will get 150,000 euro in funding.
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Venice Film Festival Announces 15 Shortlisted Projects for Biennale College-Cinema
Fifteen projects representing 12 countries have been selected for the Venice Film Festival's Biennale College-Cinema. Each team is composed of a director and producer, and will take part in a 10-day workshop held in Venice in January 2013.
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Surprise! 'The Master' Tops Our End-of-Venice Poll
Paul Thomas Anderson's film proved to the juggernaught of this year's Venice Film Festival, handily taking both top film and performances in our Criticwire wrap-up poll.
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Venice Winners: Golden Lion to 'Pieta,' Director to Paul Thomas Anderson
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta" won the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, while the Silver Lion went to American director Paul Thomas Anderson for "The Master"; both his stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix shared the best male...
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Kim Ki-Duk's 'Pieta' Wins Golden Lion At Venice, 'The Master' Wins Best Actor & Director Awards
Update: Well, now it's a little clearer what Mann was talking about -- according to The Hollywood Reporter's sources, the jury wanted to give "The Master" the Golden Lion as well, but were told that they couldn't give one film more than two major awards. After some deliberation...
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