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Summer film festivals 2012 A look at this year’s summer film festivals in Colorado, Venice and Toronto.
Telluride Film Festival
Celebratory cake from the opening night dinner on Main Street for the 39th annual Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colo. The festival ran from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3.
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Telluride Film Festival
Actor and director Ben Affleck at the Patron Brunch, an annual event for the media, actors and benefactors of the festival.
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Telluride Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival
Director Pablo Larrain, left, and actor Gael Garcia Bernal.
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Telluride Film Festival
Actress Marillon Cotillard, one of this year's silver medallion honorees.
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Telluride Film Festival
Producer Amy Hobby and director Liz Garbus's film “Love, Marilyn” had its world premiere at Telluride.
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Telluride Film Festival
Laura Dern, actress and star of HBO's “Enlightened.”
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Telluride Film Festival
From left, director Roger Michell, actress Laura Linney and documentarian Ken Burns. Michell's drama about FDR's affair with his distant cousin, “Hyde Park on Hudson.” premiered at Telluride and stars Linney. Burns's "The Central Park Five" was also screened.
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Telluride Film Festival
Actor Bill Murray plays FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson.”
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Telluride Film Festival
Film critic Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter claps for the Academy Award-winning filmmaker and honoree Roger Corman at the Silver Medallion tribute.
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Telluride Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Actresses Soraia Chaves, Victoria Guerra, Marisa Paredes, Elsa Zylberstein, film director Valeria Sarmiento and actress Joana de Verona pose during the photo call for “Linhas de Wellington”during the 69th Venice Film Festival. “Linhas de Wellington” is competing for the Golden Lion in the Venezia 69 section of the festival. The festival runs through Sept. 8.
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Venice Film Festival
Director Kim Ki-Duk.
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Actress Olga Kurylenko arrives for the premiere of the movie “To the Wonder.”
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Venice Film Festival
Actress Trine Dyrholm, actor Pierce Brosnan and director Susan Bier attend the “Love Is All You Need” premiere.
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Venice Film Festival
Japanese actor Sosuke Takaoka poses during the photo call for “Sennen no Yuraku (The Millenial Rapture).”
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Venice Film Festival
Jury member and French DJ Bob Sinclar.
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Actress and singer Selena Gomez signs autographs after disembarking from a boat upon arrival in Venice.
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Venice Film Festival
From left, Max Richter, director Henry Alex Rubin and actress Lily Cole attend the premiere of "Disconnect."
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Venice Film Festival
From left, actors Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman and producer Harvey Weinstein attend "The Master" after party.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Vanessa Redgrave, center right, plays a terminally ill choir singer in a scene from "Song for Marion." The film will close the Toronto festival, which runs Sept. 6 to 16 and is one of the key cinema gatherings that kick off Hollywood’s fall movie lineup and Academy Awards season.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, foreground, and Paul Dano in a scene from the action thriller “Looper.” For its 37th year, the Toronto International Film Festival opened with this big Hollywood action film, a sci-fi tale about time travel and hit men. The film also stars Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Jack Nicholson’s delivers his famous “Here’s Johnny!” line as Jack Torrance in the 1980 horror classic “The Shining.” Some think the Stanley Kubrick film is a horror masterpiece; others find it a mix between overblown fright flick and art film. “Room 237,” a documentary playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, attempts to decrypt the adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Producer Jennifer Holness, left, and actress Tonya Lee Williams pose at the Rising Stars: 2012 Producers Ball.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Actor Charlie Carrick chats with the media at the Rising Stars: 2012 Producers Ball.
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Ben Affleck, center, plays Tony Mendez in “Argo,” a rescue thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. The film will be screened at the festival.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival signage lines the city streets.
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Toronto International Film Festival
From left, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund in a scene from “On the Road,” which will screen at the festival.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Kanye West appears in the Spike Lee documentary “Bad 25,” which marks the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s 1987 album “Bad.” The film features footage shot by Jackson himself along with interviews with such stars and music producers as Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow and L.A. Reid.
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Toronto International Film Festival
From left, writer-director Harmony Korine and actresses Selena Gomez and actress Ashley Benson speak at the press conference of their new film, “Spring Breakers.”
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Toronto International Film Festival
Singer Thelma Houston poses for a photo as she promotes the movie “The Secret Disco Revolution.”
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Toronto International Film Festival
Actor James Franco speaks onstage at the “Spring Breakers” press conference.
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Toronto International Film Festival
Actress Kristen Stewart poses at the gala presentation for the film “On the Road.”
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Actress Emily Blunt arrives at the gala presentation for “Looper.”
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Actor Bruce Willis at the press conference for “Looper.”
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Toronto International Film Festival
Actor Bryan Cranston attends Jason Reitman’s live read of “American Beauty.”
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Toronto International Film Festival
Actress Christina Hendricks also attends Reitman’s live read.
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Actress Kirsten Dunst attends a screening for “On The Road.”
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