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This year’s festival jury was presided over by Sam Mendes, the director of American Beauty and Skyfall, and included the actresses Gemma Arterton and Chiara Mastroianni and the documentary film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer. Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left scooped the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice Film Festival tonight, while Tom Ford’s noir thriller Nocturnal Animals was triumphant in the director’s return to the Lido after 2009’s A Single Man. The best-reviewed film of the two weeks, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, danced its way to a Best Actress Volpi…

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The Birth of a Nation tells the true story of Nat Turner, a slave who led a deadly slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.Fox Searchlight paid a record-breaking $17.5 million for the film just hours after it screened at the Sundance Film Festival. However, enthusiasm for the first-time director dimmed recently after Hollywood trade media began re-examining his alleged involvement in a gang rape when he was a 19-year-old college student. Parker was acquitted of the charges, but it was revealed recently that his rape accuser committed suicide two years…

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Lady Gaga has Released her new single, “Perfect Illusion.” The song hails from her as-yet untitled fifth studio album.Gaga co-produced the tune alongside Mark Ronson, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Bloodpop (formerly known as Blood Diamonds).The singer addresses the pitfalls of mistaking the rush of a crush for something deeper on the driving dance-rock number. “It wasn’t love/ It wasn’t love/ It was a perfect illusion,” she sings. “Mistaken love/ It wasn’t love/ It was a perfect illusion.” LISTEN TO THE SONG HERE – In May, Ronson told Charlie Rose…

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The 73rd Venice Film Festival saw various Celebs at their best at the Red Carpet announcing loudly that the Venice film festival is on its way to become another major Glamour event in the world film calendar. Here are few of the stars at the event – (Left to right): Dayane Mello, Matteo Manzini and Giulia Salemi attend the premiere of “The Young Pope.” Jude Law, who stars in “The Young Pope,” walks the red carpet of the film’s premiere. In iridescent sequins, Dakota Fanning appears at the premiere for “Brimstone”…

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