Mock funeral procession marks Venice population decline, but few dare call city history A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday ...
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - A procession of gondolas accompanied a pink coffin along Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral to ...
ROME (Reuters) - Palermo has expressed interest in hosting the 2020 Olympics along with fellow Italian cities Rome and Venice. "We want to bid for the Games. We'll hold a news conference in Rome on Thursday to unveil all the details," a ...
Rome and Venice are to bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, the mayors of both Italian cities told the Ansa news agency on Friday. The bids by both cities were announced at the same time as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...
The Italian spa resort town of Montegrotto Terme is banning the burqa, saying the head-to-toe Islamic outfit makes it impossible to identify the women who wear it. Its far-right mayor Luca Claudio denied the measure was xenophobic, the domestic Ansa news agency ...
'A Single Man' sparks a bidding war in Toronto, gains Oscar buzz It's starting to shape up as a good year for everyone involved in 'A Single Man'. The film picked up two awards when it premiered last week at the Venice ...
ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - The Italian press, which before the Venice Film Festival had celebrated the high number of Italian films in the festival's official selection, has gone into a period of soul searching and finger pointing after Italian films were for ...
Two first movies won top honours at the Venice filmfest Saturday, the autobiographical "Lebanon" by Israeli Samuel Maoz and Tom Ford's "A Single Man", which snagged the best actor award for Colin Firth. "I know it may be naive, but I like ...
VENICE (Reuters) - Hard-hitting Israeli war movie "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday. Director Samuel Maoz shot almost the entire drama, featuring graphic and disturbing scenes of violence, from inside a tank to ...
VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival closes on Saturday with the award of the Golden Lion for best picture, and U.S. director Todd Solondz is a favorite for his comedy "Life During Wartime" as is the harrowing war movie "Lebanon." Michael ...
VENICE (Reuters) - U.S. designer Tom Ford admits he is terrified. The man credited with turning around Gucci before launching his own design line has traded fashion for film with his debut feature "A Single Man," starring Colin Firth as a middle ...
The Venice film festival is providing a timely forum for Iranian works such as Shirin Neshat's "Women Without Men" amid crackdowns on opposition groups disputing the June elections in their country. Thursday saw the screening of "Green Days", the second feature-length film ...
