While we prepare for Toronto, the Valentino: The Last Emperor team  has taken a small side trip to Venice, where we are honored to be  showing the movie in the festival here, with a special event  planned for a red carpet at La Fenice, the grand, historic Venice  opera house. The Italian press is very curious about the movie,  wondering what angle the film takes on the ultimate Italian fashion  icon. (The movie's title in Italian is l'Ultimo Imperatore. We are  up the second day and night of the festival, with a gala afterward  hosted by Italian Vogue and Italian Vanity Fair. The movie shows a  side of Valentino that has never been seen before, and early  viewers have compared it to a non-fiction Devil Wears Prada. We certainly fall into the category of non-fiction feature, as the  filmmakers were pleased to discover that Valentino and his partner  Giancarlo Giammetti are great screen actors with big screen  presence. For this reason, it will be a great thing to show the  film at the venerable Wintergarden--a true movie house. And it is certainly a great honor to be included in the program at Toronto.