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Contenders for the top prize at Venice Film Festival Liz Hurley upstages Eva Herzigova on the red carpet as stars come out for couture king Valentino Daddy duty: Brad Pitt arrives in Venice with sons Maddox and Pax in tow

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London Film Festival: The Ultimate Guide

14.10.09
The London Film Festival will bring some of Hollywood's biggest names to the capital. Here are our tips for the highlights of the two week event.... more

Contenders for the top prize at Venice Film Festival

11.09.09
A-list stars and A-grade films have distinguished this year’s Venice festival. Lee Marshall looks at who is in the running for the big prize tomorrow... more

Beauty spot: nude lips

09.09.09
Pale lipstick has been a favourite of Chelsea teens for a while now but all of a sudden grown-up girls are wearing it too ... more

George Clooney in the wars at Venice Film Festival

08.09.09
A bandaged George Clooney arrived by speedboat at the Venice Film Festival with girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, 30... more

Venice Film Festival: Nicolas Cage is just very naughty in Bad Lieutenant

04.09.09
This remake of Bad Lieutenant proves an interesting point - that the same story nugget can give rise to two utterly different films.... more

First review: Apocalyptic horror for arthouse in The Road

03.09.09
Venice Film Festival: The Road is harrowing and beautifully composed but the film leaves nothing to the imagination.... more

Baaria is a voyage around the director's hero father

02.09.09
Venice Film Festival: Baaria, Venice Festival's opening film, is a rambling, overlong but reasonably effective three-generational Sicilian epic.... more

Pictured: Mickey Rourke's horrifying face after years of plastic surgery

05.09.08
The once-rugged Hollywood star, pictured arriving at the Venice film festival, was almost unrecognisable as he attempted to conceal the damage caused to his face.... more

Ouch! Tilda Swinton reveals a painful-looking bunion

04.09.08
Tilda Swinton revealed a painful-looking bunion on her swollen left foot.... more

Trout pout alert: French actress Emmanuelle Beart's over-the-top lip

30.08.08
They say with age comes wisdom. But that appears not to be the case with Mission Impossible actress Emmanuelle Beart as she stepped onto the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival with a trout pout. ... more

Liz Hurley upstages Eva Herzigova on the red carpet as stars come out for couture king Valentino

28.08.08
Supermodel Eva Herzigova was upstaged by Elizabeth Hurley at the world premiere of Valentino: The Last Emperor at the Venice Film Festival last night.... more

Reunited: George Clooney shows he still has soft spot for old friend Mariella Frostrup

28.08.08
Proving that some celebrity friendships can go the distance, George Clooney warmly greeted Mariella Frostrup at the Venice Film Festival.... more

Daddy duty: Brad Pitt arrives in Venice with sons Maddox and Pax in tow

26.08.08
Hollywood star Brad Pitt jetted into Italy today ahead of the opening of the Venice film festival. The star made it a family affair, bringing along his two eldest sons seven-year-old Maddox and Pax, four.... more

007 girl Rosamund Pike cancels her wedding

01.06.08
Bond actress Rosamund Pike has suddenly cancelled her wedding to movie director Joe Wright. ... more

George Clooney's girlfriend hits the gym to keep her man

03.05.08
It's tough dating George Clooney, as his girlfriend Sarah Larson will testify. The 28-year-old cocktail waitress has revealed she is always dieting and has taken up Pilates to compete with the female attention he receives... more

DVDs of the week

02.10.07
Bloodthirsty action in 300, an insight into the life of Notorious BIG and Dom Joly enjoys Happy Hour in the DVDs of the week.... more

Crowe in cowboy country

13.09.07
James Mangold's new version of 1957 Western 3.10 to Yuma has much to commend it, says Derek Malcolm, including good performances from Christian Bale and Russell Crowe.... more

Lee, Pitt and Blanchett win awards in Venice

10.09.07
Ang Lee's steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.... more

Golden Lion goes for a Burton

06.09.07
Film director Tim Burton was honoured with the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.... more

Knightley wows fans at Atonement premiere

05.09.07
Keira Knightley delighted fans at the London premiere of her new film Atonement in Leicester Square. ... more

Bitter truths about Iraq

04.09.07
Both Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and Brian De Palma's Redacted are hard-hitting American films at Venice tackling the debacle of the Iraq war.... more

Brad does handsomely but Affleck steals show

04.09.07
Casey Affleck's is the best performance in a movie that's frequently impressive, sometimes dull, but about as far from the other Jessie James films as it is possible to get.... more

Bending the rules in a cruel world

03.09.07
The Ken Loach film It's a Free World, places the leading character as exploiter rather than exploited.... more

Dame Helen's fears before Oscar night

23.02.07
Bookmakers William Hill have already started paying out on Dame Helen Mirren winning best actress - but the star is getting more than a little nervous.... more

Lifetime gong for Lynch at Venice Film Festival

07.09.06
Director David Lynch was given a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival - as his latest movie premiered to baffled audiences.... more

Banker cashes in on film fame

06.09.06
Six years ago Martin Stitt was a high-flying banker, but he gave it all up to become an impoverished movie-maker and is about to see his efforts achieve international recognition.... more

Lohan swaps parties for politics

05.09.06
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan attempted to shake off her bad girl image by insisting that she is a serious actress with a keen interest in politics.... more

A portrait of desolation

04.09.06
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of P D James's apocalyptic vision of the future - Children Of Men - is convincingly shot but not as effectively written says Derek Malcolm.... more

I'd rather study law says rising film star

04.09.06
Clare-Hope Ashitey is young, beautiful and on the brink of movie stardom. But no sooner has she made a splash at the Venice Film Festival than she is about to turn her back on it all to go to university.... more

Scarlett women's dark secrets

30.08.06
The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson, is Brian De Palma's adaptation of James Ellroy's bestseller and shows that the director is back to something like his best.... more

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