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Article: Venice Film Festival Struggles
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- August 28, 2002
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ROME (AP) _ The Venice Film Festival's prestige has been sinking in
recent years, with a Golden Lion award that doesn't roar nowadays
so much as squeak.
That's according to the festival's new director, Moritz de Hadeln,
as he prepared for Thursday's gala opening _ and what he hopes will
be a march back to glory. De Hadeln said poor award choices and haphazard
organization had damaged the world's oldest film festival.
"American distributors have told me recently that they consider that
the Lion of Venice doesn't have the commercial value it should have
because in the last years it's been given erratically," he said.
"One has the impression that every ...