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Björn Andrésen, the actor and musician who appeared in the 1971 movie Death in Venice as a teenager, has died He was 70. His death on Saturday was confirmed in Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter by Kristian ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Today’s kids, they probably just learn to discreetly click their laptop shut and have their browser history set to expunge regularly as needed. Do they even know the old ...

A couple from the United Kingdom had to cut their vacation in Venice short after being caught swimming in the Grand Canal. The 35-year-old British man and his 25-year-old Romanian girlfriend were ...

The 82nd Venice Film Festival came to a close on Saturday, with Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” taking the top award, the Golden Lion for Best Film. The drama starring Cate Blanchett, ...

The critical consensus on this year’s Venice Film Festival has been that it’s one of the weaker line-ups in recent memory. I would wait to pass judgment on that; cinema history is full of dismissive ...

Has all the applause gotten out of hand? At this year’s Venice Film Festival, which ends Saturday, three movies so far have received standing ovations reported to last 15 minutes or more. The wildest ...

In the Hand of Dante, writer-director Julian Schnabel‘s ambitious adaptation of the Nick Tosches novel that moves between the 14th and 21st centuries, received a 9 1/2-minute ovation after its world ...

VENICE — When Dwayne Johnson first walked onto the set of “The Smashing Machine,” director Benny Safdie’s gritty, visceral ’90s-set tale of the rise of mixed martial arts, even Johnson’s dear friend ...

The Kathryn Bigelow thriller looks at what might happen if a ballistic missile were headed to the U.S. The director hopes the movie will start a conversation. By Kyle Buchanan Reporting from Venice ...

Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin for Olivier Assayas’ “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” which had its world premiere Sunday at the Venice Film Festival. Law said earlier he didn’t enter the project ...

VENICE − Jude Law said he did not fear reprisals for playing Russian President Vladimir Putin in "The Wizard of the Kremlin," a new film premiering at Venice Film Festival that offers a chilling, ...