Article: Ready or not, curtains open on Venice Film Fest. (52nd Venice Film Festival in Italy)

"Ten per cent of the fest's lineup is missing," Festival Director Gillo Pontecorvo said. "There were four films that I wanted to include in the competition but they missed the deadline by 15 days, which makes me very angry." Stephania Valente, a spokesperson for the festival, said that a lot of important directors, such as Martin Scorsese, hoped to come to Venice, but their films were not yet completed. And Carlo Lizzani is scrambling to make an eleventh-hour deadline with his (non-competing) film, Celluloid, a behind-the-scenes drama about the making of Roberto Rossellini's Roma Citta Aperta.

Nonetheless, the 52nd Venice Film Festival promises to present a ...

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