Director: Achim von Borries. The accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station shocked the world. However n,obody had dared to make a film talking about it. This film tells the story of a worker at Chernobyl, who is sick and wants to fulfill one wish before he dies....
Not known for giving interviews abundantly, Bertolucci was delightfully open and revealing before the sea of reporters and cameras. Since no recent film was presented, the questions turned towards his past seeking new insight into this master's works featured in a retrospective at San Sebastian....
This Mexican film won the Critics Week Award at Cannes 2000 and the Grand Prize at Edinburgh 2000....
Led at a brisk pace that left no room for ad libbing (but nevertheless held in three languages: Basque, Spanish and English), the ceremony presented the 48th festival in great detail and welcomed several personalities on stage. Klaus Eder, General Secretary of FIPRESCI, presented their Grand Prix to Magnolia from director Paul Thomas Anderson. A big round of applause was given to actress Carmen Maura and director Alex de la Iglesia, who hopped on stage to introduce the opening film of the festiv...
In what has been a year of awards for Michael Caine - including winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The Cider House Rules and being named a Sir by the Queen -- his newest honor was the Donostia Award for Lifetime Achievement Saturday night, September 23. Awarded by Catalan actress Rosa Maria Sarda and festival director Mikel Olaciregui, Caine received a standing ovation. While on stage, he also picked up his Best Actor Award for his role in Blood and Wine, which he had been u...
R2D2 Actor Replaced by Computer
In the latest digital affront to human efforts, Kenny Baker -- the actor who played R2D2 in four Star Wars movies -- will not be able to play his character in Star Wars: Episode 2 because he has been replaced by a computer
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Interview with David Kelly, actor in Greenfingers by Joel Hershman, who also was the naked motorcycle driver in Waking Ned Devine....
Interview with Clive Owen, actor in Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers, an intelligent and heart-warming story about inmates turned gardeners....
Joel Hershman reveals his approach to Greenfingers and the influence of his theatre background on making films....
Trudy Styler (Stings’s wife) produced Greenfingers that she considers a highly character-driven piece....
Warren Clark, another actor playing an inmate in Greenfingers....
Interview with Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Lynch talking about Best in Show by Christopher Guest....
Mark Jonathan Harris relates his choices in the making of Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, a moving documentary about a rescue operation of children escaping captivity by the Nazi regime. In on the interview, Ms Rosenfeld relates the moving experience it was for her to be in this film....
Also speaking about this personal story Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, the producer Debra Oppenheimer and Curt Fuchel from the Kindertransport Association....
The Biennale's Mostra Internazionale D'arte Cinematografica is to open in Venice....
Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford arrived yesterday, September 1, to promote What Lies Beneath, a thriller about a seemingly perfect couple who are haunted by an infidelity. ...
Today, September 4, under a Venetian downpour, the buzz in the Casino is strong for Julian Schnabel\'s Before Night Falls, the second feature in competition starring Johnny Depp (the first was The Man Who Cried). Set in Cuba, the film is the real-life story of Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), a homosexual writer in Cuba who fled to the United States....
The Golden Lion went to the Iranian film The Circle, Jafar Panahi\\'s look at the lives of contemporary Iranian women. ...
This morning, August 31, in the Casino, Eastwood led the much-talked-about conference about his career, led by French and Italian journalists. Afterwards, he took the time to reach out personally to adoring fans and signed the festival booklets and spare papers thrust at him by adoring fans. ...
A vaporetto ride away from the canals of Venice, Sharon Stone warmed the hearts of Italians and festival-goers alike when she sashayed down the white carpet before the screening of Clint Eastwood\\'s Space Cowboys. ...
Clamoring was in full-force last night when about 100 members of the press were turned down to the screening of Robert Altman's Dr. T and the Women, just after the Richard Gere show on the Passarella....
David Cronenberg talked to us about Camera, one of the Prelude short films made by Canada's favorite filmmakers in honor of the 25th edtion of the festival....
The band in
the movie is called Stillwater, a fictional group that is obviously
an amalgam of several groups that Crowe toured with and wrote about
during his many years with Rolling Stone. Asking who the band is
based on is one of those questions that's usually sidestepped. "A
lot of it's the Allman Brothers," Crowe says up-front and without
hesitation, a band that he went on tour with for several we...
Best in Show is an eccentric melange of comedy and obsessive behavior as four couples compete to win the coveted Mayflower Dog Show. Directed by Christopher Guest....
A documentary outlining some of the least-known stories of the Holocaust: the 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechloslovakia who were taken into hostels and private homes in Britain just before the beginning of World War Two.
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