Venice -- A face was put on the Venice Film Festival's future Thursday, after the fest unveiled detailed plans for its new Palazzo del Cinema, set to be fully operational for the festival's 68th edition in 2011.
Meanwhile, the main competition for the 65th edition of the fest got under way with three screenings -- Christian Petzoid's "Jerichow," "Akires to kame" (Achilles and the Tortoise) from Takeshi Kitano and "Inju, le bete dans l'ombre" (Inju) from Barbet Schroeder -- and a group of leading Italian industry figures said they would work together to help battle piracy in Italy.
The plans for the Palazzo del Cinema reveal a futuristic gold-leaf shell-like structure designed by Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti that will include 2,700 seats split among three main halls in a structure covering nearly 3,600 square meters (about 39,000 square feet) -- roughly the size of the Roman Colosseum.
The timing of the project's completion...
Meanwhile, the main competition for the 65th edition of the fest got under way with three screenings -- Christian Petzoid's "Jerichow," "Akires to kame" (Achilles and the Tortoise) from Takeshi Kitano and "Inju, le bete dans l'ombre" (Inju) from Barbet Schroeder -- and a group of leading Italian industry figures said they would work together to help battle piracy in Italy.
The plans for the Palazzo del Cinema reveal a futuristic gold-leaf shell-like structure designed by Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti that will include 2,700 seats split among three main halls in a structure covering nearly 3,600 square meters (about 39,000 square feet) -- roughly the size of the Roman Colosseum.
The timing of the project's completion...
- 8/28/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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