The 83rd Venice Film Festival continues through Saturday. [1] Reuters previewed the festival's shape at the start of the month. [2] Tuesday still has no Golden Lion. A festival day is not an awards night. Print later. Do not print a winner.

Bunker premiered tonight in competition. Burstyn's honorary Lion is yesterday's prize on the next page. Saturday owns the table. Leave the Lion to the close. Print later as the named Tuesday awards hold. Honorary prizes already named are not competition prizes. Print later as Tuesday's named Lido hold. A Tuesday Lido is still a festival day. Do not invent a Golden Lion on this clock. The Awards count stands; the update has not come.

Print later. Tuesday is not awards night.

Festival calendars are built backward from Saturday night; every prior day is prelude. Tuesday preludes. The table waits four days out.

Competition prizes belong to the close, and the close is days out. Tuesday's Lido screens films and banks applause. The Lion waits.

Waiting Lions wait; Tuesday screens and banks applause. Prelude, not prizes. Calendars are built backward from Saturday.

Tuesday preludes. The table waits four days out. Competition prizes belong to the close.

Competition titles including Bunker still play toward a Saturday close. Honorary prizes already handed out stay off the ballot. A Lido Tuesday is prelude by design, not awards night. No Golden Lion has been read.
A Lido Tuesday is prelude by design. No Golden Lion has been read. Honoraries already given stay off Saturday's table.

A Lido Tuesday is prelude by design. No Golden Lion has been read. Honoraries already given stay off Saturday's table.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles