Moore's other films include Sicko and
Bowling for Columbine
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Capitalism, the latest documentary
from Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore, features in the official
competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.
The film, in which Moore looks at the global economic
meltdown, is one of 23 titles up for the Golden Lion award.
Others
include Werner Herzog's remake of The Bad Lieutenant, starring Nicolas
Cage, and Survival of the Dead, George A Romero's latest zombie
thriller.
The 66th Venice International Film Festival runs from 2 to 12
September.
This year's event will see John Lasseter and his fellow Pixar
directors receive a special award for their animated features.
Toy Story 3D will screen out of competition at the festival,
as will a new 3D version of Toy Story 2.
Iconoclastic
US fashion designer Tom Ford also features in the competition
line-up with his directorial debut, A Single Man.
Colin Firth and Julianne Moore appear in the film, alongside
Nicholas Hoult from TV show Skins.
Also
up for the Golden Lion is The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's
post-apocalyptic bestseller starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize
Theron.
George Clooney is a regular visitor to the
world's oldest film festival
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No British films are in contention this year, though
Liverpool-born
director Alex Cox does feature in the Orrizonti sidebar section.
The iconoclastic filmmaker will be premiering Repo Chick, a
sequel to his 1984 cult classic Repo Man.
George Clooney, star of last year's opening film Burn After
Reading, is back this year in The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Directed by regular collaborator Grant Heslov, the satirical
drama will screen out of competition.
Venice is the world's oldest film festival, having been
founded in 1932 in the Mussolini era.
Oscar-winning
director Ang Lee will chair this year's jury, which will also feature
US filmmaker Joe Dante and French actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
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