| George Clooney shoots first at box office
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Reuters - George Clooney outgunned his rivals at the Labor Day holiday weekend box office in North America with a low-caliber opening for his assassin drama "The American," as the lucrative summer movie going season wound down on a traditionally weak note. |
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| 'Post Mortem' exposes autopsy of Salvador Allende
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 AP - "Post Mortem," a film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain, recreates the autopsy of Chilean President Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup.
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| Venice: Deneuve hits the Lido to promote 'Potiche'
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 AP - French director Francois Ozon's says he was inspired to go ahead with his latest film, a battle-of-the-sexes comedy, after the presidential election pitting Nicolas Sarkozy against Segolene Royale.
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| Venice film shows Wild West through women's eyes
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Reuters - There is no sheriff, no shootout at sunrise, no standoff between cowboys and Indians. |
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| Venice film sets love story amid Chile's 1973 coup
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Reuters - "Post Mortem", a Chilean film premiering at the Venice festival on Sunday, sets a doomed love story between a morgue worker and a dancer against the backdrop of the 1973 military coup that toppled Salvador Allende. |
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| 'Meek's Cutoff' shows women's view of West
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 AP - Lost wandering in the Oregon desert for five weeks when the journey should have taken two, low on water, food and patience, a young emigrant played by Michelle Williams says of the group's ego-driven guide: "Is he ignorant, or just plain evil? That's my quandary."
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| Maggie Cheung waits to age before return to films
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AP - Actress Maggie Cheung, in Venice on Saturday to promote a new film, said one reason she has pulled back from acting for now is the industry's focus on youthful beauty. |
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| Irreverent Cuban movie promises zombie revolution
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 AP - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?
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| Deneuve tackles sexual equality in rare comedy
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Reuters - French screen legends Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu team up again in "Potiche," a light-hearted drama set in the 1970s that examines the prejudices women faced then and still do today. |
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| Scorsese film defends anti-communist informer Kazan
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 Reuters - Martin Scorsese's latest film pays a personal tribute to Elia Kazan, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's most influential directors but also a controversial figure who turned anti-communist informant in the McCarthy era.
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| In Venice, Maggie Cheung still playing hard to get
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 AFP - Chinese megastar Maggie Cheung, in Venice for the screening of Isaac Julien's art film "Better Life", has shunned the celluloid since becoming the first Asian actress to win in Cannes in 2004.
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| "Somewhere" paints intimate portrait with charm
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Reuters - After her foray into historical costumers with "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola makes a happy return to "Lost in Translation" territory in the cut-back charmer "Somewhere," which illuminates the emptiness of a movie star's life in Los Angeles through close observation and gentle irony. |
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