Rome film festival unveils full lineup

September 25, 2009 George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Monica Bellucci, and Colin Farrell are all among the A-list actors expected to stroll across Rome's red carpet, along with directors including Joel and Ethan Coen and nonfilm personalities including opera singer Andrea Bocelli and author Paulo Coehlo, who will bring his first directorial effort -- "Paulo Coehlo's Experimental Witch" -- to Rome. Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," which stars Clooney, is the lone U.S. film in the main competition and, if it wins, it would make Reitman the first two-time winner in the festival's short history. But there is no shortage of Hollywood fare elsewhere in the official selection: the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man," Nora Ephron's "Julie & Julia," which stars Streep as Julia Child, and "The City of Your Final Destination" from James Ivory will all unspool out of competition.

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