COVID-19: Venice film festival gears up to award masked Golden Lion winner

The Venice film festival will present its coveted Golden Lion award Saturday after a competition marked by facemasks and missing stars but billed as a relaunch of global cinema, bruised by the coronavirus crisis. Throughout the 11 days of industry schmoozing and movie watching on the glitzy beachfront Lido, elbow bumps replaced handshakes, theatregoers were masked and the red carpet eerily devoid of screaming fans. ALSO SEE From ‘Chemical Hearts’ to ‘A Walk to Remember,’ 10 sappy teen movies to watch Bollywood and Hollywood: 9 movies to watch on Indian Teacher's Day Bollywood: On filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's birthday, here are 7 movies of his to watch IPL in UAE: Before catching the matches,...