Al Pacino presented at 68.Venice International Film Festival a very personal project : “Wilde Salomé“, an unconventinal feature documentary that invites audiences into actor’s private world and explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde’ acclaimed play. TD
A video about the press conference in Venice Lido:
John Le Carrè about “Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy“, presented yesterday at 68.Venice International Film Festival, “ Gary Oldman‘s George Smiley, from the moment he appears, is a man waiting patiently to explode. The danger, the pressed-down fury and the humanity that almost doesn‘t manage to keep its head above the parapet of despair, are Oldman‘s own. If I were to meet the Smiley of Alec Guinness on a dark night, my instinct would be to go to his protection. If I met
At Venice International Film Festival George Clooney presented his new film “The Ides of March”.
He sayd “this is not a film about policy but about morality!”
See our video about Conference Call with George Clooney
During the International Film Festival in Venice, the Lancia Café at Westin Excelsior Hotel, in a more extensive and elegant version, will be hosting glamorous and appealing events and meetings, like: on August 31, the after dinner party that will officially open the eleven days of cinema and glamour; on Sunday 4 September, the prestigious ceremony of the Kinéo Prize “Diamanti al Cinema Italiano”; on Monday 5 September, the renowned weekly Vanity Fair will be the star of a night of festivity together with the cast of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, a film directed by Tomas Alfredson starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and John Hurt.
Madonna was in Venice yesterday, 1st September 2011, to present her film W.E. that is a beautifully crafted, passionate tale about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII: the search for true love in the modern world, viewed through the prism of one of history’s most fabled romances.
Writer and director Madonna had been developing the idea for W.E. for many years. She had long held a fascination with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, yet she
On September 3rd 2010 the Great Hall of Palazzo del Cinema host the ceremony to John Woo’s for Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement at the 67th International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art in Venice.
30th August,
Arena Campo San Polo,
screening of ‘Vittorio tells Gassman’
The 67th International Film Festival of Venice will pay homage to Vittorio Gassman, one of the most extraordinary personalities of Italian cinema, on the tenth anniversary of his death, with a special programme consisting in a world premiere screening on the 1st September (Gassman’s birthdate) in the Sala Perla, of ‘Vittorio tells Gassman’, Una Vita Da Mattatore (80’) a ‘confession-film by Vittorio Gassman’ full of unknown sequences, realized by Giancarlo Scarchilli with the collaboration of
The famous American producer and director George Lucas, creator of the revolutionary Star Wars saga and a leader in Hollywood’s digital revolution, will present John Lasseter with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 66th Venice International Film Festival, on the 6th September 2009, together with the directors of Disney-Pixar Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. George Lucas, director and producer, who has transformed the cinema industry with Star
We have just learnt that on 12th September, in the Sala Grande del Palazzo del Cinema al Lido, during the closing ceremony of the 66th International Film Festival, the American film director, scriptwriter and actor Sylvester Stallone will be awarded with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award. Such Award has been ideated recently by the International Film Festival of Venice and organized by the Festival in cooperation with Jaeger-LeCoultre, and it will be dedicated to a personality that has left a mark