Venice 2008 lines up.

2008-07-29 20:00:01

The 65th Venice Film Festival announced its line-up today -- among the juicy offerings are the new Darren Aronofsky film "The Wrestler," with Mickey Rourke playing Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a retired pro wrestler struggling to get back into the ring; Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama "The Hurt Locker"; Takeshi Kitano's comedy "Achilles and the Tortoise"; the new Miyazaki movie "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea," which is already in theaters in Japan; Jia Zhang-ke cinematographer Nelson Yu Lik-wai's São Paulo-set multi-ethnic thriller "Plastic City"; and Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married," in which Anne Hathaway plays a girl fresh out of rehab. Premiering out of competition, as already announced, will be the Coen brothers "Burn After Reading," along with Claire Denis' "35 Rhums," Abbas Kiarostami's "Shirin" and Agnés Varda's documentary "Les Plages d'Agnès." "Chop Shop" director Ramin Bahrani's "Goodbye Solo" and Ross McElwee's "In Paraguay" will play in the sidebar....

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