Italian soft porn director Tinto Brass, the subject of a documentary screening at Venice film festival on Saturday, told reporters he wants to make a film about ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s escorts.

Stephen Frears’ Philomena took the Venice film festival by storm on Saturday, hailed as a frontrunner for the Golden Lion award with its tragi-comic tale of a mother’s search for her son.

A tortured Nicolas Cage captivated audiences at the Venice film festival on Friday with his performance as a tormented ex-con who seeks redemption in David Gordon Green’s brutal American South drama J

When a famous US architect visited Venice’s celebrated Venini glass works in 1951, he was so entranced by a green and black bowl that turned red in the light he ordered 25 replicas.

The Venice film festival wrapped up in controversy on Sunday after Kim Ki-duk took the Golden Lion with his Korean morality tale Pieta amid reports the jury had wanted a different winner.

Michael Mann, creator of the hit Miami Vice cop show, was selected as jury president for this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Highbrow trumped Hollywood at the Venice film festival this year, with Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s demanding German-language Faust taking top prize and Roman Polanski and George Clooney overl

Jury president Quentin Tarantino faced charges of favouritism on Sunday after he handed out two major awards at Venice film festival to his friends, including best picture to his ex partner Sofia Copp

United States President Barack Obama said he wanted to know “whose ass to kick” over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, adding to the pressure on energy giant BP Plc as it sought to capture more of the lea