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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

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These Encounters of Theirs: deserted by audiences and the filmmakers

An immobile camera, semi-immobile actors, lines performed almost tonelessly: judging by the general flight of journalists from the press screening of their film at the Venice Film Festival, it is...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Amelio’s Chinese syndrome

There is a large river in China called the Yangzi (or Chang Jiang), renamed the Blue River by Westerners, which will become a 600-kilometre lake at the base of an immense dam. Shanghai and other...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

The Untouchable: All about Jeanne's father?

Screening today in competition, The Untouchable sees the return to Venice one of the festival’s regular filmmakers, Benoît Jacquot, in his third collaboration with French actress Isild Le Besco....  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

British press lauds The Queen

The Queen, the new film by Stephen Frears on the dramatic days following the death of Princess Diana, has been received favourably by the British press. According to the BBC, the film has...  

05/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Tsai Ming-Liang and Malaysian love stories

There's no place like home, the saying goes. After a successful list of films set primarily in Taipai, Tsai Ming-Liang decided to chose his birth place Malaysia as the set of his latest film, I...  

04/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Five friends and a funeral

Nine years after Northern Skirts, which won actress Nina Proll the Marcello Mastroianni Award, Viennese filmmaker Barbara Albert returns to the Lido with Falling (Fallen). The Competition entry...  

04/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Clive Owen: Accidental hero

Children of Men - UK/US co-production (Skyline Productions Ltd, Hit & Run Productions and Quietus Productions) directed by a Mexican filmmaker (Alfonso Cuarón) and starring an English actor (Clive...  

03/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Blair saved the Queen

"There’s no need to disturb Freud to say that Queen Elizabeth II is part of my subconscious. In 50 years, she has penetrated the depths of all English people". These were the concise and ironic...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Resnais's distant hearts

Snow falls in Paris, the cold freezes hearts. Some look for a warmer, cosier apartment with their companion, others seek refuge in cafés, waiting to meet their soulmate, or drink in a hotel bar in...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Verhoeven tones down effects, ups questions of morality

Black Book, the new film from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, is the much-anticipated return to his native Netherlands after 20 years in Hollywood, where he was known for his effects-laden...  

02/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

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