Venice
Films featuring in Venice: Death in Venice (1971) - Don't Look Now (1973) - The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Piazza San Marco - Looking Southeast (1735-40) - Canaletto
The Venice Film Festival [...]
The Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica) takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy.Its main award is the "Leone d'Oro" (Golden Lion). Recently, a new award has been added, the San Marco Award for the best film in the "controcorrente" section.
The Venice Film Festival is part of the Venice Biennale, a major biennial exhibition and festival for contemporary art.
The festival in 2004 held from 1 September to 11 September was the 61th. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Film_Festival [Sept 2004]
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia) is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes places once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Biennale [Oct 2004]Golden Lion winners
Year Film Director2004 Vera Drake Mike Leigh 2003 Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) Andrey Zvyaguintsev 2002 The Magdalene Sisters Peter Mullan 2001 Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair 2000 The Circle (Dayereh) Jafar Panahi 1999 Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao) Zhang Yimou 1998 The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano) Gianni Amelio 1997 Hana-bi (Fireworks) Takeshi Kitano 1996 Michael Collins Neil Jordan 1995 Xich lo (Cyclo Anh Hung Tran 1994 Aiqing wansui (Vive L'Amour) Tsai Ming-Liang 1994 Pred dozhdot (Before The Rain) Milcho Manchevski 1993 Short Cuts (USA) Robert Altman 1993 Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Blue) Krzysztof Kieslowski 1992 Qui Ju da guan si (The Story Of Qui Ju) Zhang Yimou 1991 Urga (Close To Eden) Nikita Mikhalhov 1990 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1989 Beiqing chengshi (A City of Sadness) Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1988 La Leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend Of The Holy Drinker) Ermano Olmi 1987 Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle 1986 Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) Eric Rohmer 1985 Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) Agnès Varda --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Film_Festival [Sept 2004]
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