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The film festival will open with The Man Who Loves, a film staring Monica Bellucci and Pierfrancesco Favino. The film is directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi. The film will kick of the gala event and seems to be a little low compared to last year.

A collection of 8 short films will be featured at the recent Rome Film Festival. The film which was initially being held as a UN initiative is not really commissioned by them. The film talks about the decision to reduce world poverty to half by 2015.

[Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early 1980s, attending the Australian School of Film and Television.

“Der Baader Meinhof Komplex” is already being called the Downfall of this year with both of the main cast Bruno Ganz and Alexandra Maria Lara part of the cast. The film recounts the violence that was waged by the Red Army Faction in Germany in the late 1960s and 70s.

It was announced yesterday that Ebert and Roeper were both stepping down from their show “At The Movies”, Ebert for heath reasons, Roeper for contractual ones. And it was also announced that Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz would be taking over for them.

Mike Myers' not-so-glorious return to the big screen, The Love Guru -- also known as Austin Powers IV and Verne Troyer's Pleading E-Mails Finally Pay Off -- opens everywhere today, and critics couldn't be more disappointed.

An interview with Michael Nyman who has worked as a composer, pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist, music editor, writer, photographer and videographer. He has provided the scores for most of Peter Greenaway’s movies, as well as Jane Campion’s movie The Piano. Album details… ShareThis

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Necklacing– in which a rubber tire, filled with kerosene, is forced around a victim’s chest and arms and set on fire– was a common form punishment imposed by “people’s courts” Apartheid-era South Africa. The practice was first captured by the late photographer Kevin Carter.

A Reader Request (long time in coming --my apologies Scott!) #9 Personal Canon: The Movies I Think About When I Think About the Movies The menu on the 1999 DVD edition of The Piano is a hideously misleading photoshop tragedy. It’s garish, poorly composed and off putting. I won't even reprint it here to illustrate my point.