“The films competing for the Golden Lion award for best film include Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Wrestler’, Mexican writer-director Guillermo Arriaga’s ‘The Burning Plain’, starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, Jonathan Demme’s ‘Rachel Getting Married’, and ‘Ponyo on the Cliff’, the latest feature-length animation from Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese director of ‘Spirited Away’.” The latest film from the Coen brothers will open the festival.