Tag: Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo In THE LEGEND OF KASPAR HAUSER Teaser
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser is an upcoming David Manuli‘s project with Vincent Gallo in the leading role.
Or, should we say – roles, because, in case you’re not so familiar with it, Gallo stars both as the Pusher (who speaks Italian) and the Sheriff (who speaks English language). Confused yet? Wait ’till you see the teaser for the whole thing!
Tribeca Film to Commercially Release 26 Movies
A new player has entered on the indie film distribution — the two year old initiative Tribeca Film officially revealed yesterday an intriguing schedule of films adding to the already includes the formerly announced relationship drama Last Night.
These upcoming releases covers many genres and introduce stars such as Zach Braff, Vincent Gallo and Zoe Kravitz, as well as filmmakers such as Peter Mullan, Jerzy Skolimowski and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Searching for the films that are sure to take some attention is Deborah Chow‘s The High Cost of Living; dark romantic drama about intertwined fates centers on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child, and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will forever change their lives. What comes out is the unlikely affiliation between the two and their equal confrontation of loss, and whether the cost of living is worth the price.
Venice Film Festival 2010 Winners
Sofia Coppola‘s Somewhere won Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2010.
Quentin Tarantino, this year’s head of the Jury said:
“This is a film that enchanted us from our first screening; yet, from that first enchanting screening it grew, and grew, and grew, in both our hearts and our analysis.”
Somewhere stars Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura among others.
Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans.
Johnny has lost all sense of his true self. Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him. Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence…
The Silver Lion went to Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia‘s political tragicomedy The Last Circus (Balada triste de trompeta or A Sad Trumpet Ballad).
Promises Written in Water by Vincent Gallo, Venice Film Festival 2010
Venice Film Festival 2010 finally started, so, it’s our turn to keep writing about some movies that will compete for the Golden Lion!
One of the movies that will play In Competition category is drama titled Promises Written in Water, written, directed, edited and produced by Vincent Gallo.
Promises Written in Water is an extremely stripped down abstract romantic story of a man and a woman, both in crisis. Kevin is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life.
Mallory is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation.
Essential Killing Starring Vincent Gallo, Venice Film Festival 2010
The 67th Venice International Film Festival will take place on the Lido from September 1 through 11, 2010, and we’re here to remind you to bookmark this event!
The last title, presented in its world premiere screening, In Competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival is Essential Killing, the new film by Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski that goes like this:
“Captured by the US military in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transported to a secret military black site somewhere in the Eastern Europe.
When the armed convoy he is riding in plummets off a steep hill, Mohammed finds himself suddenly free and on the run behind the enemy lines, among a hostile, snow blanketed forest.
Cannes 2009 Fortnight Opener Coppola’s Tetro Trailer
UPDATE May, 18, 2009 – REVIEW
Francis Ford Coppola turned down Cannes’ non-competing slot, but his latest “Tetro” will open Directors’ Fortnight program at Cannes Film Festival.
We’ve got today the first official trailer for “Tetro” which stars newcomer Alden Ehrenreich as Bennie and Vincent Gallo as his brother Tetro. The movie is both written and directed by Academy Award winning Coppola.
Coppola to shoot ‘Tetro’ in Argentina with Gallo and Bardem
“After a while I realized that I was getting further and further away from what my original intentions had been.
So at this age I decided, ‘Well, why don’t I make the kinds of films I wanted to do when I was 18? I’ll just do it later in life.’”
The 68-year-old Francis Ford Coppola explains in an interview with The Associated Press.
The five-time Oscar winner, best known for “The Godfather” trilogy about the Corleone mafia family, is preparing to shoot a film about a much different, but equally dysfunctional, Italian-immigrant clan.
“Tetro,” for which Coppola wrote an original screenplay, follows two sons of a great but monstrously self-absorbed orchestra conductor in contemporary Argentina.
Much of the film will be shot in La Boca (Argentina), a neighborhood marked by the legacy of poor Italian immigrants who arrived by the shiploads in the early 20th century.
Researching his tale, Coppola discovered many parallels between Buenos Aires and the New York he grew up in.
“Italian families emigrated to Argentina and the United States, and very often brothers in the same family would go two different directions,” Coppola explains, relaxing in the courtyard of his new home and studio, which comes complete with the steel barbecue grill no self-respecting Argentine would do without.
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