Opera lover Brian De Palma has chosen to close his new film Redacted (it has been wildly acclaimed, with a long standing ovation, at the Venice Festival yesterday) with a montage of many of the horrific photographs taken in Iraq that are too graphic to be published in the papers or shown on television (the faces of the dead and wounded have been blacked out); and the music he has chosen to accompany the montage is Puccini -- E Lucevan Le Stelle.