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Critical Mess
Critical Mess

A last blog post in honour of Venice 2010 and I'm going to use it to tackle a topic that niggles close to my heart, like a partially-clogged pulmonary vein. It is not something specific to the Venice Film Festival by any means, but a couple of incidents at this year's event saw it brusquely stamp its way to the forefront of my thoughts, appropriately enough, given that a basic rudeness is key to this subject.

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Stanley Kubrick.
The Kubrick Kollection
The Kubrick Kollection

Ah, a morning off! Much as I delight in the opportunity to watch the excellent movies at this year's Venice Film Festival (oh, and The Town), it is still a novelty to spend a few hours outside the darkened theatres of the Lido. But while you can take the film nerd out of the cinema, you cannot take the cinema out of the film nerd. Hence my decision to spend my nugget of free time taking in a Stanley Kubrick exhibition.

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Bird mask.
Menace in Venice
Menace in Venice

This is Emma, guesting on Paul's blog, (so Paul's mum – you can skip this one). I thought I'd steal a bit of space to deliver some first impressions of Venice as a newbie to the city. It's not all lagoons and gondolas, you know.

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The Venice Film Festival 2010 logo, as seen at the entrance of the Palazzo del Cinema.
Lido life
Lido life

It had all been a huge mistake. Despite the email trail seemingly providing evidence to the contrary, my press accreditation for the 2010 incarnation of the Venice Film Festival had in fact not been approved, meaning I would have no greater right or opportunity to watch any of the myriad films playing over the course of the next 11 days than that bloke who lives in the skip at the end of my street back in London.

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Don't Look Now, directed by Nicholas Roeg
It's not your dead daughter, it's a killer dwarf!
It's not your dead daughter, it's a killer dwarf!

Just under a fortnight to go till Venice 2010 opens with a screening of Darren Aronofsky's twinkle-toed thriller, Black Swan, and in addition to the mounds of reviews the Indie Movies Online team are intending to send back from the watery metropolis, my blog strand hath returnedth also, to offer a more personalised perspective on shenanigans at the 67th edition of the world's oldest film festival.

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