Current News 2010

September 2010. Chinese actress Li Bingbing, the protagonist in the film directed by Tsui Hark, ''Dee Detective and Mystery of the Phantom Flame'', on the occasion of the 67th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, is photographed on the beach of the Excelsior dam.

Excelsior and Quattro Fontane Beaches, autumn 2010. A new film took life on Venice Lido island. The director Andrea Segre has identified the environment of our beaches more attractive to film part of the exterior of the film "Io sono Li" (Shun Li and the poet), the story of a small and ancient village that become a place of immigration, where a romantic friendship between the native and the ''foreigner'' is still impossible.

September 2010. Excelsior Beach in the background, the director Darren Aronofsky returns to compete at the Venice Film Festival. After winning the ''Leone d’Oro'' in 2008 with the drama ''The Wrestler'', a film that also marked the comeback of an unrecognizable Mickey Rourke, Aronowsky returns to the Lido with his ''Black Swan'' psychological thriller set in New York ballet world. This is the film that officially opened the 67th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, with Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder.

September 2010. Excelsior Beach, in the background. Tsui Hark is one of the great masters of modern Chinese cinema, the author of unforgettable masterpieces as ''The Blade'' and ''Once upon a time in China''. Tsui arrived in competition at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival with a new, adventurous ''wuxiapian'' (film telling of mythical characters and epic heroes of the Chinese tradition), this time surprisingly seasoned with mystery: ''Detective Dee & the Mystery Phantom of Flame''.