Reuters - Japanese cult director Takeshi Kitano
turns his oddball gaze on what he calls the "cruel" world of
art and art collecting in his latest movie, which has its
premiere at the Venice film festival on Thursday.
Reuters - Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in a
madcap comedy by the Coen brothers in which two gym employees
get caught up in the cloak-and-dagger world of international
espionage, with results both daft and deadly.
AP - Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate.
Reuters - Dropping the blood-curdling fare that
made his name paid off for Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
who picked up an award at Cannes this year for a family drama
that was his first non-horror work in years.
Reuters - Australian actor Guy Pearce first
grabbed the spotlight playing a demanding drag queen in the
cult classic "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the
Desert."
Reuters - The Coen brothers' latest film, the
madcap comedy "Burn After Reading," has sharply divided the
critics, unlike last year's acclaimed "No Country For Old Men"
which won four Oscars including best picture.
Reuters - Eight months after tearfully bowing out
of fashion, Valentino returned to the red carpet with a film
celebrating the man who dressed some of the world's greatest
beauties from Jackie Kennedy to Princess Diana.
AP - Of all the women Valentino has dressed in his 45-year career — from Jacqueline Kennedy to Mariella Agnelli to Gwyneth Paltrow — one red carpet moment stands out: When Julia Roberts wore a vintage black-and-white Valentino gown when she was awarded her best actress Oscar.
AP - It wasn't as easy as it looked. Tilda Swinton's first attempt at making clay impressions of her hands — part of a fundraising effort to help restore Venice's St. Mark's Square — barely left a print.
Reuters - Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in a
madcap comedy by the Coen brothers in which two gym employees
get caught up in the cloak-and-dagger world of international
espionage, with results both daft and deadly.
AP - The Venice Film Festival opened Wednesday night with the premiere of the Coen brothers' dark comedy "Burn After Reading," giving a flash of Hollywood glamour to a festival lineup with a definite art house feel.
