Giuseppe Tornatore

...Paradiso DIRECTOR Giuseppe Tornatore s new Sicilian epic Baaria opened the Venice Film Festival earlier this week but Cinema Paradiso remains his masterpiece and one of the best-loved foreign language films of the past 20 years. It is a...

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...film fest Italian actress Margareth Made' and Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore pose during the photo call for the film 'Baaria' at the 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Venice film...

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Tornatore to open Venice film festival Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore will open this year's Venice film festival with "Baaria," an epic drama set in the Sicilian village where he was born. Tornatore's is the first Italian film to...

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Venice, Italy - Twenty years after his Cinema Paradiso won a surprise Oscar, director Giuseppe Tornatore has again sought inspiration from his native Sicily for his latest film, Baaria, which Wednesday opened the Venice Film Festival.

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...to Venice VENICE: Italy celebrated its first opening film in 20 years at the Venice film festival as Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore took to the red carpet with the leading lights of his epic Sicilian drama Baaria. Fellow...

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...leave Sicily before they turned 17 to avoid absorbing the typical Sicilian flaws. "As I went away at 27, I absorbed all the flaws," Tornatore said. The Venice Film Festival this year runs from Sept. 2-12 and will show some 80 films...

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Venice film festival opens Sept. 2 - Oscar-winning Sicilian director Giuseppe Tornatore's "Baaria" became the first Italian film to open the festival in nearly a quarter of a century. Jon Decker, Reuters. SOUNDBITE: Venice Film Festival...

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...ANICA, said Tuesday. Featuring dozens of characters and spanning three generations, Baaria tells the story of a family living in Tornatore's birthplace, Bagheria, a town near the Sicilian capital Palermo. The film, in which the...

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