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And the Venice Film Festival was

 Covered on my tablet's Flipboard too.

27 August
7:00 pm  SALA GRANDE
OPENING CEREMONY– BY INVITATION

    Followed by
VENEZIA 71 – OPENING FILM

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My  take on the review was:  Have the Super Heroes Killed Cinema?  Wingman.

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BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) by Alejandro González Iñárritu (USA, 119’, language: English, s/t Italian) cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts

 

30 August
10:15 pm  SALA GRANDE
OUT OF COMPETITION 

THE HUMBLING by Barry Levinson (USA, 112’, language: English, s/t Italian) 

cast: Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Nina Arianda, Barry Levinson, Dianne Wiest, Charles Grodin

From:   http://www.labiennale.org

Link:   http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/71st-festival/

 

TinyURL:   http://tinyurl.com/kw3fzzw

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On Netflix:  The Boys of Sci-Fi

Legendary all-stars of cinema bring to life the evolution of science-fiction and special effects films from the wild and funny days of B-movies to blockbusters that have captured the world's imagination. This is the story of the Sci-Fi Boys, who started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Forrest J Ackerman's FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine and grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream

- Written by Universal Studios Home Entertainment LLC

Link:   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800191/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

 

TinyURL:   http://tinyurl.com/kk4bzna

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Zero Hour, The 1957 Film That Airplane! 

Was Based On



Link:   http://laughingsquid.com/zero-hour-the-1957-film-that-airplane-was-based-on/



TinyURL:   http://tinyurl.com/8fgo7s7



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