Venice Film Festival

Yellow, color and nudes continue on track at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The trend is to be sedate and shocking simultaneously – oops did I forget my petticoat or did I really want to walk the red carpet in my undies with some very pretty net as a distraction? Yellow continued to be a choice – from muted gold to glimmering mustard and daisy fresh bright yellow, Jennifer Lopez’s Golden Globe statement has stayed.

For the last several years the Venice Film  Festival grounds, anchored by the Casino and the Palazzo del Cinema, also included a not-so-elegant  feature. We are talking about the football-field size hole in the ground that stood as a sad reminder of the thwarted new Cinema Palace.

Director Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven will have its world premiere at the opening of the Toronto Film Festival, on September 8. Fuqua’s take on the 1960 western directed by John Sturges (which in turn was an American version of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, from 1954) stars Cecil B.

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Matt Damon loves Venice - but then, what's not to love?.

Ever wonder what a film festival photo call is really like?.