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Article: A Ride in a Gondola : Look out, Cannes. Hollywood execs are holding out for the older and classier Venice Film Festival.(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- September 6, 1999
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Last March, Alberto Barbera, the new director of the Venice Film Festival, went to Hollywood to apologize. His predecessor, Felice Laudadio, had spent two years ostracizing the U.S. film establishment by declaring his preference for young, unknown directors over august auteurs and top box- office names. But now Laudadio was gone, Barbera told American studio executives, and things were going to be different. To prove his point, Barbera expressed strong interest in showcasing the most-talked-about studio film of the year: Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut." He courted executives at Warner Bros. Pictures, which produced the film. But he had competition: organizers of the ...