Madonna bombs, Clooney rules and Fassbender and Mulligan go full frontal at Venice and Telluride

Madonna‘s first feature length film, W.E., made its world debut at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, where it was met with some of the most scathing reviews of the year. The flick stars Andrea Riseborough as King Edward’s wife Wallis Simpson – for whom he abdicated the throne – as well as Abbie Cornish in […]

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Teaser Debut: Alps (from the director of Dogtooth)

The teaser for Alps – Yorgos Lanthimos‘ follow-up to his Oscar nominated nutfest Dogtooth – has arrived online. Wonderfully enigmatic and appropriately bizarre, the trailer offers nothing in the way of plot, but will surely excite those who were transfixed by the horrendous and peculiar events of Lanthimos’ previous flick. According to IndieWire, Alps concerns “a […]

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>Stephen Dorff’s career turned up! Somewhere…

>With a pleasant slice of irony Stephen Dorff’s return from obscurity to eminent fame owes a big thank you to Sofia Coppola, who cast him in her latest picture Somewhere (which is all about the emptiness that often surrounds those of eminent fame). In a recent interview with The Independent Dorff talked openly about his […]

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Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere takes top prize at Venice Film Festival

Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere picked up the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival despite tepid reviews and stiff competition from other features. The film stars Stephen Dorff as a hard-living actor who is reunited with his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). This year’s jury president, Quentin Tarantino, had this to say about the winner: “This was […]

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First look at Aronofsky’s Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky‘s upcoming feature Black Swan has been selected as the opening night film of this year’s Venice International Film Festival. To celebrate, USA Today have the first batch of images from his mysterious project. The USA Today piece also offers us our first glimpse at the film’s plot: The dark tale with psychological twists […]

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Could A Single Man be a surprise Oscar contender?

source: latimesblog.com On the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, no one was expecting the directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford to make much of a splash. However, as the festival drew to a close, his film A Single Man was the picture everyone seemed to be talking about. Let the Oscar race […]

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