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Film Festival Travel: Hathaway Soldiers On

September 4, 2008 at 8:45 AM | 0 Comments

Anne Hathaway poses for photos before the opening of her new movie, "Rachel Getting Married," at the Venice Film Festival. She stars in the Jonathan Demme-directed indie as a wild child reunited with her family for the wedding of her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt).

Hathaway has been stowed out of sight as more information comes out about her ex-boyfriend Rafael Follieri's cons. The latest revelation is that she, not knowing how much trouble he was in, paid his $37,000 rent for four months. Next time, use HotelChatter to find a hotel!

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Coen Brothers Travel: The Venice Film Fest Is Almost Here

August 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM | 0 Comments

Get gorgeous and get ready for the red carpet this fall and head to the 65th Venice International Film Festival, which kicks off August 27 at the Venice Lido with Joel and Ethan Coen's "Burn After Reading."

Other festival highlights include Corto Cortissimo (an international competition of short films) and "These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered," as well as screenings of films from India ("Zero Bridge") to Russia ("Paper Soldier"). Oh, and there will be stars--lots of stars--like George Clooney, Anne Hathaway and Frances McDormand.

Tickets for the public must be purchased in person at the Casinò, the PalaBiennale on the Venice Lido or the Palazzo Querini Dubois; they range in price from $16 to well over $400 for day passes and preferred seating. Follow the photogs!

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In the Dark Travel: Five Must-Sees at the 2008 Venice Film Festival

July 30, 2008 at 12:20 PM | 0 Comments

The Venice Film Festival, held August 27 through September 4, just announced its slate of films, and we're so excited. It may not have the cachet of Cannes, but at least there aren't any jellyfish on its shores. Here's what's on our ticket list:

  • 5. "The Wrestler" One of only five American films in competition this year, this is Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to the controversial "The Fountain" starring Mickey Rourke and Evan Rachel Wood.

  • 4. "The Burning Plain" Now that Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga, the director and screenwriter of "21 Grams" and "Babel," have ended their partnership, we're looking forward to seeing what Arriaga might have up his sleeve with this drama about a woman (Charlize Theron) trying to reunite with her estranged mother (Kim Basinger), a casting that could either go really right or super wrong.

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Plan Ahead: Lights, Camera, Venice

March 26, 2008 at 12:17 PM | 1 Comment

If a Labor Day barbeque isn't your ideal end-of-summer bash, jaunt over to Venice where, from August 27-September 6, you can experience how Italians celebrate cinema at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.

Sure the city will be swarming with fanny-packin' tourists and parasitical pigeons and you may catch an unpleasant whiff of Venice at low tide but if George, Johnny and Charlize can stand it, I'm sure you can too.

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Super World Travelers Still At It, Eh?

September 10, 2007 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments


While the rest of celebridom convened in Las Vegas last night for the MTV Video Music Awards to watch Britney Spears' "comeback" and other nasty spectacles, our Super World Travelers kept it highbrow at the Toronto Film Festival. Having just picked up a best actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance as a famous outlaw in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," Brad Pitt made like a Maple Leaf and headed to Toronto with Angelina Jolie in tow. (She has no films on the festival circuit right now--she's just around for moral support!)

Maybe they'll take in a concert while they're there?

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Keira's Labor Day: A Working Weekend at the Movies

August 30, 2007 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments


When most of us think of Labor Day weekend, we make tracks toward the beach, the woods or--if you're not going anywhere--the sales at the mall. But why not the balmy shores of Venice? If the Cannes Film Festival is the movie world's Memorial Day, then the Venice International Film Festival, home of the Golden Lion award, is summer's last hurrah. You won't get a tan in all those screenings, but at least you get to see the stars!

Cannes' festival may be better known for its prestige and glamour, but Venice's is actually the oldest in the world, founded way back in 1932. Because they're closer to our traditional Oscar season, they often pick up prestige films that aren't ready in time for Cannes--like Keira Knightley's latest, "Atonement," a tragic romance set between the World Wars in England.

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