Giuseppe Tornatore

Officials at the country's National Association for Animal Protection (ENPA) are calling for censors to pull Giuseppe Tornatore's film Baaria from cinemas over a gruesome bull slaughter scene. ... Full Article

ROME (Reuters Life!) - Italy's main animal rights group has asked prosecutors to stop further screenings of Giuseppe Tornatore's new film "Baaria" because it features the gruesome slaughtering of a bull. ... Full Article

VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - Giuseppe Tornatore has always been a sentimental director with a love for over-the-top emotions. In "Baaria," screening in competition at the Venice International Festival, the sentimentality is reined in enough to create a moving tribute to... ... Full Article

VENICE - The last thing Giuseppe Tornatore, whose "Baar?a" was the opening, in-competition movie of this year's Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night, could have expected was to be upstaged by a film that had won a Golden Lion half... ... Full Article

By Mike Collett-White VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival opened on Wednesday with big-budget Italian movie "Baaria," a sentimental sweep through 20th century Sicily taking in Fascism, war, Communism and the mafia. ... Full Article

Baaria star Margareth Made, left, director Giuseppe Tornatore, centre, and actor Francesco Scianna pose during a photo call at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. ... Full Article