Venice jury includes Samantha Morton and Marina Abramovic

Posted by · 12:55 pm · July 13th, 2012

The festival has picked eight artists to serve under jury president Michael Mann.

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Michael Mann to chair 69th Venice festival jury

Posted by · 10:36 am · June 1st, 2012

Michael Mann hasn’t been in the director’s seat since 2009’s “Public Enemies,” save for his involvement in HBO’s short-lived series “Luck.” He’s a guy with a stack of potential projects lined up, but it seems he’ll take a little bit of a break from the fray to head up the jury of the 69th annual Venice Film Festival later this year.

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Off the Carpet: The great, appreciated unknown

Posted by · 6:00 am · September 19th, 2011

The Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have commenced. But contrary to recent years, there is no unanimous Oscar heavy coming out of that frame.

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