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Venice Film Festival jury president Julianne Moore this afternoon extolled the importance of keeping art top of mind when talking about the future of cinema.

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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Julianne Moore, who is presiding over the Venice Film Festival jury, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday morning that kicked off the 79th edition of the movie gathering that kicks off awards season for Hollywood on the Lido. She reminisced about how she first came to Venice as an actress on the American soap opera “As the World Turns” in 1986. “I never, ever in my life though I would be the head of this jury,” Moore said. “And If you had told me that one day I was going to head the jury of the Venice Film Festival I would have fallen into the canal, honestly.” Asked about the importance of film festivals during a time of change in the movie industry, as streaming threatens theatrical distribution, Moore pointed out that “Curation matters so much.”

cruise ship to crash into an iceberg in the middle of the ocean.The Norwegian Cruise Line ship, which was carrying 2,000 passengers, was heading for an Alaskan glacier before making a U-turn after smashing into the iceberg on Saturday (June 25).Many aboard were sleeping at the time and unaware of events outside, the Daily Mirror reports.READ MORE: Boy, 3, dies in hot car at Wendy's drive-thru after gran 'forgot' himBut others videoed the moment with a worrying thud caught on camera. Luckily, nobody was injured and the ship then docked in the Alaskan city of Juneau, where the damage was assessed by specialist divers, who recommended that the vessel returned to Seattle to be repaired.

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JUNEAU, Alaska — Parts of southern Alaska are under a tsunami warning after a reported magnitude 7.4 earthquake off Sand Point, Alaska.