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Leaving Venice, the morning after the Awards Ceremony, I could see from the international headlines that the awards given out by the diverse Jury of this 78th Venice Film festival, made cinema lovers, happy and content. If the selection of the films and documentaries, assembled by artistic director Alberto Barbera was excellent, the awards did not disappoint.

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Granaz Moussavi made a guerrilla film in Afghanistan called When Pomegranates Howl. Not a job for the faint-hearted, it was a challenge from the start: from sourcing funding in Australia, getting to Afghanistan, putting a crew together, to the actual shooting of the movie.

After an impressive debut in which its initial box office figures turned out to be even higher, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stayed on top on its second weekend. Grabbing $35.

Clint Eastwood spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1973 about playing San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan in Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry and Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post. “One critic made some remark about the first Dirty Harry being a Fascist masterpiece or something like that, but it wasn't that at all.

Despite, or perhaps also because of the restrictions of Fidel Castro’s regime, in the 1980s Cuban heavy metal band Zeus became quite popular – and a target. “They hated us because we were different.

The title of the new Netflix original documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed, produced by Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone, seems to augur the heady examination of a blend of jostling, at-odds impulses. And it’s true that there is a good bit of lurid legal wrangling in the movie, which details the battle over the estate of the genteel-voiced host of the instructional show The Joy of Painting, an Emmy Award-winning television series that ran for 31 seasons across 11 years before Ross died at age 52 in 1995 from Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Jamie Lee Curtis brought a dash of horror and Hollywood history to the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Not only did the two-time Golden Globe winner bring the latest installment of the Halloween film franchise to the Lido – with the David Gordon Green-directed Halloween Kills – but the actress, writer, producer and director was also in town to receive the Film’s Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Francesca Brill is the creator behind the psychological thriller The Drowning, which has a strong female lead who deals with the grief of losing her son. The mini-series starts out with a chance sighting of a young teenager, which convinces the mother that her four-year-old son she lost in a tragic accident is not dead after all.

Kristen Stewart had a lesson in royalty in order to tackle the iconic role of Princess Diana in the movie Spencer, which received its world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival. “We had royal advisors,” explained the Seberg actress at the movie’s official press conference on the Lido.