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Venice reveals 2024 competition jury

2024-07-10T10:19:00Z

The festival runs August 28-September 7.

Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria

2008-05-10T11:24:00Z

Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...

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Baaria

2009-09-02T16:34:00Z

Dir/scr. Giuseppe Tornatore. Italy. 2009. 163 mins.

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Sigourney Weaver to join Martin Scorsese at the Rome Film Festival

2018-06-25T16:22:00Z

Weaver, Giuseppe Tornatore and Pierre Bismuth to particpate in ‘Close Encounters’ event in October

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Baaria to represent Italy at the Oscars

2009-09-29T16:17:00Z

Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria, a complex family saga that spans the lives of three generations of a Sicilian family, will represent Italy in its bid for the Foreign Oscar.

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Tornatore's Barria to open 66th Venice Film Festival

2009-06-10T15:10:00Z

The 66th Venice Film Festival will open with Baaria, the new film from Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore, it will also be in competition.

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Venice set for Sicilian tales

2009-08-21T11:46:00Z

Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria is his ‘most personal’ film to date, a Sicilian epic spanning a century with a cast numbering 200. Sheri Jennings spoke to the Oscar-winning director as he prepares his film to open the Venice film festival (Sept 2-12)

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Warner Bros Italia takes territories on The Best Offer

2012-04-05T20:46:00Z

Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess have joined Oscar winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s $21m English and Italian-language film, purportedly a love story set in the luxurious world of Viennese art auctions.