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The bellinis were flowing on the Lido as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hosted its annual Biennale reception for filmmakers, dignitaries, and other special guests at the 79th Venice Film Festival. Held poolside at the historic Excelsior Hotel, the gathering has become a tradition by the HFPA to not only pay tribute to the creative talent attending but to announce the new recipients of the Association’s co-sponsorship of the Venice Film Residency Program.

China Daily reported on August 29 that director James Cameron showed an exclusive clip of Avatar: The Way of Water in Beijing on August 19, along with a video greeting attendees from the China Film Group who were present. The clip was in the CINITY format of 3D, 4K, and high-frame-rate, and was screened at the CINITY Lab of China Film.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Venice reception this year was a familiarly laid-back affair. Guests networked poolside at the Lido’s Moorish-styled Excelsior hotel overlooking the azure Adriatic.

There’s no denying that glamour and tragedy make for an irresistible combination. Add in a beloved royal icon and it’s no surprise that the world’s fascination and obsession with Princess Diana hasn’t waned.

Nonfiction cinema does many things well. It can generate empathy by dropping audiences into circumstances vastly different from their own.

The fact that this is the first post-Better Call Saul project for Bob Odenkirk makes Cecilia Miniucchi's Worlds Apart a must-see. The film premiered on September 1 at the Venice Film Festival in the “Giornate degli Autori” section.

This year the variety of national holidays is enriched with one more date to celebrate. The first ever National Cinema Day was launched by NATO’s new non-profit Cinema Foundation (an arm of the National Association of Theater Owners) to welcome moviegoers to celebrate a day at the movies with discounted admissions, and from now on might become an annual event held on September 3.

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It is the end of summer in a quiet resort town on the Normandy coast. Fifteen-year-old Pauline (tomboyish brunette Amanda Langlet) and her elder cousin Marion (chic blonde Arielle Dombasle) are spending a few days in the family villa.

The 79th Venice Film Festival opened with a screening of Noah Baumbach’s newest film, White Noise, on August 31. It’s the first time the American writer-director has written an adapted screenplay, the source material being a novel of the same name by American author Don DeLillo.