I’ve updated with more pictures from the days events as well as new Candids with Mariella Frostrup and some with Manuele Malenotti. Also video from the red carpet and Brad’s acceptance speech where he was asked to give George a flower.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt have brought a touch of Hollywood glamour to Venice on the first day of its 65th film festival
The pair are in town to promote Burn After Reading, the latest black comedy from film-making siblings Joel and Ethan Coen, which opens the festival later.
But they also found time on Tuesday [...]

Brad Pitt’s shining moment at Venice is interrupted when he’s asked to present a gift to George Clooney.
The Venice Film Festival is a big deal for Brad Pitt this year. As well being the location for the world premiere of his new film Burn After Reading, the Hollywood star was finally achieving recognition from his [...]

George Clooney and Brad Pitt: Bachelor and family man.Inevitably, a news conference Wednesday promoting their new Coen brothers film, “Burn After Reading,” turned to the birth of Pitt’s twins with partner Angelina Jolie, and whether his good friend would ever settle down.
Clooney, 47, put on a look of mock bemusement.
“I am so surprised to hear [...]

The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, “Burn After Reading,” with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment.
The movie, which premieres Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is a tale about idiots — and what happens when their worlds collide.
Pitt and McDormand are a pair of hapless gym [...]

Times Online gives Burn After Reading 4 stars.

Bottom Line: The Coen brothers are in a goofy mood as pure lunacy engulfs a spy thriller
In “Burn After Reading,” the Coen brothers have taken some of cinema’s top and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes roles in a thriller set in and about Washington.
It takes a while to adjust to the rhythms [...]

:: Updated :: George was in fine form today at the Venice Film Festival. I’ve added several pics and a video to the gallery.

George Clooney hosted a charity event Tuesday night to raise money for victims in Darfur. Clooney, who’s in Venice for the premiere Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival of the Coen brothers’ film “Burn After Reading,” swept past reporters as he arrived for the fundraiser for his Not On Our Watch charity.

Updated HQ: George arrives in Venice, Italy on a taxi boat for the 65th Venice Film Festival, Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008.