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Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Venice Film Festival
For the first time at the Venice Film Festival, all films vying for the top Golden Lion award will make their world premiere at the event.
Among those in competition, Emilio Estevez's Bobby with Sharon Stone, Anthony Hopkins and Demi Moore - a movie about the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
ROME - source: AFP
Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Cage and Ben Affleck will grace this year's Venice Film Festival, which will feature US director Oliver Stone's film of the 9/11 attacks, the organisers have announced in Rome.
The festival will open on August 9 with the world premiere of Brian de Palma's The Black Dahlia, adapted from James Elroy's detective novel, starring Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank and Josh Hartnett.
Three Asian films are among the 21 pictures in competition for the festival's prestigious Golden Lion, including "Paprika", an animated film by Japanese director Satoshi Kon.
Mushi-shi, by Japan's Katsuhiro Otomo, is also in competition, starring Joe Odagiri and Makiko Esumi.
Hong Kong director Johnnie To's Fangzhu, starring Francis Ng and Nick Cheung, completes the Asian line-up for the major prize.
In all Japan is represented by six films in various sections of the festival, while China has three, and Hong Kong two.
The films in competition feature only two Italian directors, including Gianni Amelio -- the last Italian to win the best film award -- with his film "La Stella che non C'e", starring one of Italy's leading actors Sergio Castellitto.
Italian director Emanuele Crialese's Nuovomondo (The Golden Door) stars French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg alongside Vincenzo Amato.
Sharon Stone stars opposite Anthony Hopkins and Demi Moore in an ensemble cast of Bobby written and directed by former brat-pack actor Emilio Estevez, who also stars.
The film is a fictional account of the lives of several people during the final hours in the life of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the assassinated US president, and a former presidential candidate himself. He was assassinated on June 6, 1968.
Oliver Stone's much anticipated treatment of 9/11, World Trade Center, which goes on release in the United States next month, stars Nicolas Cage and tells the true story of two police officers trapped in the rubble of the Twin Towers.
Cage and Crash star Michael Pena play police officers John McLoughlin and William Jimeno.
Infamous, by US director Douglas McGrath, will open the Horizons (Orrizonti) section of this year's festival. It boasts an all-star cast including Sandra Bullock, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Juliet Stephenson and Sigourney Weaver.
Ostrov by Russian director Pavel Lounguine will close the festival on September 9.
This year's festival plays special tribute to Russian film, with a section entitled "The Secret History of Russian Cinema" featuring 17 Soviet-era films, from 1934 to 1974.
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