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From left, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ben Kingsley and Wes Anderson in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar."

Wearing a seersucker suit and looking a tad terrified, Wes Anderson took the stage not long ago at the Venice Film Festival to accept the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, a prize, he said, that has a "biblical" ring to it. Anderson noted that a cursory glance at the award's Wikipedia page revealed that many of the previous winners had received the honor at the premieres of some of their very worst movies.

"And I hope I'm not here to repeat that phenomenon," Anderson said, noting that his Venice movie, an adaptation of the Roald Dahl story "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," was only 40 minutes long. "So as soon as it gets rolling, it's

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