MILAN - The Venice Film Festival says U.S. director Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" will be the 18th film competing for the Golden Lion award. Festival director Alberto Barbera said Tuesday that the film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams, will premiere Sept. 1. Anderson, the director of "Magnolia" and "There will be Blood," is the 12th director in competition screening a film for the first time in Venice.
