People who follow movies know that “At Eternity’s Gate,” which opened the Camerimage film festival and traces the tragic final two years in the life of Vincent van Gogh, is a film about a painter directed by another painter: Julian Schnabel, a successful New York artist who has also now helmed five features. Less well known is the fact that Schnabel’s cinematographer on his latest picture is also a painter: Benoit Delhomme, a French Dp probably best known for “The Theory of Everything,” who paints whenever he’s not shooting.
How did you and Julian originally connect?
A few years ago I was shooting “Salomé,” an experimental film that Al Pacino was directing. Julian was a friend of Pacino and came to the set. I loved Julian as a painter and I loved his film “Basquiat,” which was about a painter. At the end of the day he said to me,...
How did you and Julian originally connect?
A few years ago I was shooting “Salomé,” an experimental film that Al Pacino was directing. Julian was a friend of Pacino and came to the set. I loved Julian as a painter and I loved his film “Basquiat,” which was about a painter. At the end of the day he said to me,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Here's something for hardcore cineastes: an incredible restoration of Marcel L'Herbier's avant-garde silent feature, which looks unlike any other movie of its time. The weird story is about a Swedish engineer who wins the hand of famous singer by demonstrating a machine that can revive the dead. The film's designs are by score of famous architects and art notables of the Paris art scene circa 1924. L'Inhumaine Blu-ray Flicker Alley 1924 / Color tints / 1:33 Silent Aperture / min. / Street Date March 1, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Georgette Leblanc, Jacque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat, Fred Kellerman, Robert Mallet-Stevens. Cinematography Roche, Georges Specht Art Direction, design, costumes, Claude Autant-Lara, Alberto Cavalcanti, Fernand Léger, Paul Poiret, Original Music Darius Milhaud (originally), Aidje Tafial / Alloy Orchestra Written by Pierre MacOrlan, Marcel L'Herbier, Georgette Leblanc Produced and Directed by Marcel L'Herbier
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Followers of art, architecture, literature and French art movies of the early 1920s...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Followers of art, architecture, literature and French art movies of the early 1920s...
- 2/21/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
From a newcomer award at the Deauville Film Festival in 2011 to a career tribute this fall, two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain has come a long way in just three years. This year, she has been a part of four films: Christopher Nolan’s potential best picture nominee Interstellar, which opens in select theaters Nov. 5; J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, which is opening AFI Fest Nov. 6; Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; and Ned Benson’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and is a combination of 2013’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him.
After graduating from Juilliard in 2003, Chastain was plucked from relative obscurity by Al Pacino to star in his production of Salome at Los Angeles’ Wadsworth Theatre in 2006. Pacino chronicles...
Managing Editor
From a newcomer award at the Deauville Film Festival in 2011 to a career tribute this fall, two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain has come a long way in just three years. This year, she has been a part of four films: Christopher Nolan’s potential best picture nominee Interstellar, which opens in select theaters Nov. 5; J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, which is opening AFI Fest Nov. 6; Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; and Ned Benson’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and is a combination of 2013’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him.
After graduating from Juilliard in 2003, Chastain was plucked from relative obscurity by Al Pacino to star in his production of Salome at Los Angeles’ Wadsworth Theatre in 2006. Pacino chronicles...
- 10/29/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Plot: Al Pacino attempts to mount both a stage reading and a film version of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" while also making a documentary about both and the famous author. Review: Based on that plot description, you might think Al Pacino bites off more than he can chew with Wilde Salome - and you'd be right. But the amusing thing about this funny, thought-provoking curio is that the famed actor realizes this just as much as you do. At various points in the movie - which is a hybrid of...
- 10/28/2014
- by Eric Walkuski
- JoBlo.com
Oscar Wilde's controversial play, based on the biblical story about the beheading of John the Baptist, has been a long-time obsession of Pacino's, on a par with Shakespeare's "Richard III" for the actor. But although he filmed his theatrical staging of Wilde's tragedy way back in 2006 (casting Chastain in her first feature) and his companion-piece documentary "Wilde Salomé" premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival (where it received mixed reviews), yesterday marked their first presentation as a double bill. Both films and the Q&A were broadcast live to dozens of cinemas across the UK and Ireland. Initially banned from the London stage for its salacious depiction of biblical characters, "Salomé" was one of Wilde's most controversial works, but the great wit's wordplay within it is rhythmic, ornate and hypnotic; it's not difficult to fathom why Pacino became smitten after seeing Steven Berkoff's famed London production in the late.
- 9/22/2014
- by Matt Mueller
- Thompson on Hollywood
Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain took to the stage at London's BFI Southbank following a special screening of Salome, a new film of the pair's 2006 L.A. stage performance of Oscar Wilde's celebrated play, and Wild Salome, Pacino's 2011 documentary chronicling his obsession with the play, Wilde and the difficulties of putting it together. Speaking in a Q&A with Stephen Fry — who is also a noted Wilde expert — Chastain talked about playing the famed princess of Judea and daughter of Herod II, her first film role after having been picked from relative obscurity at the time by
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- 9/22/2014
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Internationally celebrated stage and screen superstars Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain star in the long-shelved film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's controversial banned play Salome as well as a documentary all about the creation of the film directed by Pacino himself, titled Wilde Salome, and both will be presented along with a special QampA hosted by Stephen Fry at a special screening tonight.
- 9/21/2014
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Un Amleto di men (One Hamlet Less) is the last feature film from Carmelo Bene, stage director, actor and writer, who made a few films in the sixties and seventies. They are very much of their era: Bene seems to use theatrical sources not so much as dramas to be adapted but as texts to be exploded, so that his Hamlet film features quotations from Freud on the Oedipal myth and a restaging of Arthurian legend, along with a mish-mash of scenes from Shakespeare.
Visually and intellectually it's either beautiful or incoherent or perhaps incoherently beautiful or beautifully incoherent. Most of the action happens against a glaring white infinity wall, with simple but stunning sets assembled out of colored blocks, spheres or assemblages of books: Bene designed the film as well as directing and starring.
Most of the scenes have their origins in the Elizabethan tragedy, but poor Will probably...
Visually and intellectually it's either beautiful or incoherent or perhaps incoherently beautiful or beautifully incoherent. Most of the action happens against a glaring white infinity wall, with simple but stunning sets assembled out of colored blocks, spheres or assemblages of books: Bene designed the film as well as directing and starring.
Most of the scenes have their origins in the Elizabethan tragedy, but poor Will probably...
- 9/4/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Salome Trailers. Al Pacino‘s Salomé / Wilde Salome (2013) movie trailers stars Kevin Anderson, Jessica Chastain, Ralph Guzzo, Roxanne Hart, and Al Pacino. Salome‘s plot synopsis: “Oscar Wilde’s most controversial play is the story of a princess who lived in the time of Jesus. Salomé (Jessica Chastain) is in [...]
Continue reading: Salome (2013) Movie Trailer: Chastain wants John The Baptist’s Head...
Continue reading: Salome (2013) Movie Trailer: Chastain wants John The Baptist’s Head...
- 8/1/2014
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Back before Jessica Chastain was Jessica Chastain, at least one influential player recognized a comer. Before her breakout performance in Terrence Malick's "The Tree Of Life," she caught the eye of Al Pacino, who cast her in "Salomé," his film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. However, it's taken quite awhile for the project to hit the projection booth. In fact, a documentary about making of the movie, "Wild Salomé," first screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2011 (our review), but now both are coming as part of a double bill....at least in the U.K. A trailer has dropped for the "Salomé"/"Wild Salomé" double bill, bringing together the feature and documentary. As the trailer suggests, it's a unique opportunity to see an artist talk about his inspiration and insight regarding a project, and then seeing the result of that effort. It's also a chance to see...
- 7/29/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
If your Tuesday needs a few more severed heads than usual, you’re in luck: the new trailer for Al Pacino’s Oscar Wilde double bill of Salomé and Wilde Salomé is here. The play has long been a passion project for the shouty actor, and there’s plenty of excellent Pacino ranting (“I got four days to shoot a 90-minute play!”) for those who like that sort of thing. In the title role is one Jessica Chastain. Her performance predates Zero Dark Thirty and The Tree Of Life, though it was purportedly this play that brought her to the attention of one Terrence Malick.The original play sees the titular Salomé, daughter of King Herod, cultivate an obsession with John the Baptist, leading to dancing, pining and beheading. As Wilde himself wrote, “One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Unless it...
- 7/29/2014
- EmpireOnline
New York’s summer season just got a bit more interesting with the announcement this morning that Oscar/Tony/Emmy winner Ellen Burstyn will headline a new staging of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard for 10 free performances at The Actors Studio in Manhattan on Thurdays through Mondays between July 10-21. John Gould Rubin, former co-a.d. with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz of LAByrinth Theater, directs. The Jean-Claude van Itallie adaptation will require reservations made through reservations@theactorsstudio.org. It’s been 11 years since the last public presentation at The Actors Studio, a critically acclaimed staging of Oscar Wilde’s Salome starring Al Pacino, David Straitharn, and Marisa […]...
- 7/3/2014
- Deadline
Internationally celebrated stage and screen superstars Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain star in the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's controversial banned play Salome as well as a documentary all about the creation of the film directed by Pacino himself, titled Wilde Salome, and both will be presented along with a special QampA by the actors at a special screening in September according to a new announcement.
- 6/7/2014
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jessica Chastain will be seen at least three more times onscreen in 2014 in: J.C. Chandor's "A Most Violent Year" which sounds like it could be an Oscar contender, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” which come to think of it might be the same and Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar.” But could we see her twice more? It's possible. Another film is appearing, albeit at a one-off screening in the U.K. The twofer is the Al Pacino-directed/starring "Salome" and "Wilde Salome," the film(s) that kicked off her career before her performance in Terrence Malick's “The Tree Of Life." An adaptation of a controversial, banned and lesser known Oscar Wilde play, "Salome" was Chastain's feature film debut right out of Juilliard (Pacino therefore having bragging rights about discovering her). But it's never been properly released. Even "Wilde Salome," Pacino's documentary on the making of the movie has never been released,...
- 6/6/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Al Pacino is to present screenings of his filmed production of Salomé and documentary Wilde Salomé at an event in London that will be streamed across the UK.
Al Pacino’s Salomé, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, and accompanying documentary Wilde Salomé are to get a UK release as part of an event at London’s BFI Southbank.
The two films produced by Barry Navidi and Robert Fox will be presented together Sept 21, followed by a Q&A with Pacino that will be broadcast live via satellite to cinemas across the UK and Ireland. The event will be hosted by Stephen Fry, who played the titular role in 1997 feature Wilde.
Salomé is a filmed version of the play that was Wilde’s most controversial work, which centres on King Herod and his lust for his young stepdaughter, Salomé.
The production, in which Pacino played Herod and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) played Salomé, was filmed...
Al Pacino’s Salomé, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, and accompanying documentary Wilde Salomé are to get a UK release as part of an event at London’s BFI Southbank.
The two films produced by Barry Navidi and Robert Fox will be presented together Sept 21, followed by a Q&A with Pacino that will be broadcast live via satellite to cinemas across the UK and Ireland. The event will be hosted by Stephen Fry, who played the titular role in 1997 feature Wilde.
Salomé is a filmed version of the play that was Wilde’s most controversial work, which centres on King Herod and his lust for his young stepdaughter, Salomé.
The production, in which Pacino played Herod and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) played Salomé, was filmed...
- 6/4/2014
- ScreenDaily
London – Al Pacino’s films Salome and Wilde Salome based on Oscar Wilde’s play, are to be screened back-to-back and followed with a Q&A with the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker. The two movies will make their U.K. bows as part of a special event at the British Film Institute Southbank complex. The two films, produced by Barry Navidi (The Merchant of Venice) and Robert Fox (The Hours), will be presented together September 21. Photos: Tony Awards 2014: The Nominees The Pacino Q&A will be broadcast live via satellite to cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland and the
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- 6/3/2014
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This weekend's movies include the Michael Fassbender drug-trafficking thriller "The Counselor" and "Jackass" spin-off "Bad Grandpa."
From director Ridley Scott and first-time screenwriter / long-time novelist Cormac McCarthy, "The Counselor" tells a twisted story of power, deceit, and violence. Michael Fassbender's Counselor gets tangled up in the underground world of drug trafficking, along with Javier Bardem's spikey-haired club owner Rainer and Brad Pitt's cowboy Westray. But one woman, Reiner's eccentric girlfriend Malkina (Cameron Diaz), may pose a problem, not only for the deal, but for Counselor's relationship with his new fiancee (Penelope Cruz).
Johnny Knoxville brings his signature "Jackass" humor to the big scree once again, this time with a (loose) plot and a senior citizen disguise. In "Bad Grandpa" Knoxville dons old-age makeup to play Irving Zisman, a raunchy and ridiculous 86-year-old -- pretty much Knoxville's old-man counterpart -- who goes on a journey with his young "grandson.
From director Ridley Scott and first-time screenwriter / long-time novelist Cormac McCarthy, "The Counselor" tells a twisted story of power, deceit, and violence. Michael Fassbender's Counselor gets tangled up in the underground world of drug trafficking, along with Javier Bardem's spikey-haired club owner Rainer and Brad Pitt's cowboy Westray. But one woman, Reiner's eccentric girlfriend Malkina (Cameron Diaz), may pose a problem, not only for the deal, but for Counselor's relationship with his new fiancee (Penelope Cruz).
Johnny Knoxville brings his signature "Jackass" humor to the big scree once again, this time with a (loose) plot and a senior citizen disguise. In "Bad Grandpa" Knoxville dons old-age makeup to play Irving Zisman, a raunchy and ridiculous 86-year-old -- pretty much Knoxville's old-man counterpart -- who goes on a journey with his young "grandson.
- 10/24/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
We’ve got people behaving badly for Ridley Scott, two young ladies sharing a tempestuous romance, Johnny Knoxville doing some terrible things in old-age makeup, Al Pacino hunting down Oscar Wilde, and a dozen other films fighting for your love. It’s another big week for releases (and Javier Bardem’s hair) so here’s your trailer-ized guide to what’s coming out: The Major Names The Counselor Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Blue is the Warmest Color Read our review The Specialty Stuff Bad Behavior Bastards Wednesday Release Capital Caucus Finding Neighbors A Journey to Planet Sanity Losers Take All Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics The Pin Spinning Plates The Square A True Story When I Walk Wilde Salome If you’re afraid of going outside, Rob has you covered on DVD and Blu-rays.
- 10/23/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The 27th London Lgbt Fest offers tons of screenings in the coming days (Pictured above: Underground transgender superstar Divine in John Waters' 1974 sorta class Female Trouble) This year's London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival officially opened with a gala presentation of Jeffrey Schwarz’s I Am Divine this past Thursday. In the coming week, the festival will be showcasing dozens of features and shorts featuring characters of various forms of sexual orientation and gender identity from all over the world. Among tonight's features is John Waters' 1974 camp classic Female Trouble, starring Waters' muse Divine as a youngster who, after running away from home on Christmas Day, getting raped and pregant, and becoming a single mom, is transmogrified from loving schoolgirl to tough criminal. Waters' stock player Edith Massey plays Aunt Ida, who has obviously spent her life hanging out with the wrong straight crowd, remarking at one point in...
- 3/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Camille (1921) is directed by some guy called Ray C. Smallwood, whose IMDb profile looks like mash-up of two different guys, but who knows? We come to the film more interested in it as a vehicle for Nazimova and Valentino, but what actually seduces is the production design and costume design, by Valentino's wife and Nazimova's lover, Natacha Rambova.
Some time before art deco conquered Hollywood, this movie exults in deliciously modern, streamlined yet organic design. Some scenes go on for frankly an indecent amount of time, but we don't care if they're unfolding in opulent boudoirs or night clubs shaped by Rambova.
The movie's self-proclaimed approach, to strip Camille of her crinolines and thrust her into modern society, is amusing echoed in Radley Metzger's softcore Camille 2000 (1969), which likewise floats by on silvery clouds of beautiful people in beautiful interiors (in and out of beautiful costumes).
The screenplay is by June Mathis,...
Some time before art deco conquered Hollywood, this movie exults in deliciously modern, streamlined yet organic design. Some scenes go on for frankly an indecent amount of time, but we don't care if they're unfolding in opulent boudoirs or night clubs shaped by Rambova.
The movie's self-proclaimed approach, to strip Camille of her crinolines and thrust her into modern society, is amusing echoed in Radley Metzger's softcore Camille 2000 (1969), which likewise floats by on silvery clouds of beautiful people in beautiful interiors (in and out of beautiful costumes).
The screenplay is by June Mathis,...
- 2/28/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
In May of 2006, I sat down with actress Jessica Chastain, then an unknown and untested 29 year-old who was on the precipice of her first big break after being tapped by Al Pacino to co-star in his stage production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" at the Wadsworth Theater. Then as now, Chastain's fresh-faced beauty made every passerby do a double-take as we spoke. Her ambition to succeed as a performer was palpable, and paid off in 2011 with Chastain appearing in six high-profile films: "Take Shelter," "The Tree of Life," "Coriolanus," "The Debt," "Texas Killing Fields," and "The Help," for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination. This year, Chastain received a nod in the Best Actress category for Katherine Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and is the undisputed front-runner to take a statuette home.
Jessica Chastain Trips The Light Fantastic As Salome
By Alex Simon
Jessica Chastain is living the dream...
Jessica Chastain Trips The Light Fantastic As Salome
By Alex Simon
Jessica Chastain is living the dream...
- 2/15/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
New York — Al Pacino, energized by a conversation that has inevitably turned to the intricacies of acting, is snapping his fingers.
"When you get me on the acting trail, I get on that train," he says, punctuating what he calls an improvised "thesis on time" with staccato snaps.
The 72-year-old may be gray-haired and a little worn, but he remains, like a dancer, always on his toes, and still enamored of the "crazy, crazy, crazy thing" that is acting: "You're always looking for what's going to feed you, what's going to feed the spirit and get you going."
And Pacino is still getting going. Yet the subject of time – how much is needed to find a character (years in some cases, he says) and how it dictates the parts he chooses now – played a large role in a recent interview with the actor at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
"When you get me on the acting trail, I get on that train," he says, punctuating what he calls an improvised "thesis on time" with staccato snaps.
The 72-year-old may be gray-haired and a little worn, but he remains, like a dancer, always on his toes, and still enamored of the "crazy, crazy, crazy thing" that is acting: "You're always looking for what's going to feed you, what's going to feed the spirit and get you going."
And Pacino is still getting going. Yet the subject of time – how much is needed to find a character (years in some cases, he says) and how it dictates the parts he chooses now – played a large role in a recent interview with the actor at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
- 1/29/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
She's nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of a tenacious CIA analyst in Zero Dark Thirty and also stars in last weekend's box office winner, Mama. Here are five things you probably don't know about Jessica Chastain.
1. Born March 24, 1977 in Sacramento, CA -- her father is a firefighter and her mother works as a vegan chef.
Photos: Stars Shine At The Golden Globes
2. Credits much of her success to friend/mentor Al Pacino, who originally cast her in a 2006 stage production of Oscar Wilde's Salome.
3. Studied the Israeli self-defense system Krav Maga for several months to prepare for her role in 2010's The Debt. Speaking about its brutality, she told an interviewer, "Krav Maga is how to kill your opponent in the least time possible. It's ruthless and made me feel badass."
Video: Jessica Chastain On a Possible Oscar Nom First
4. To help her gain 15 pounds for her Oscar-nominated role of Celia in The Help, she bought...
1. Born March 24, 1977 in Sacramento, CA -- her father is a firefighter and her mother works as a vegan chef.
Photos: Stars Shine At The Golden Globes
2. Credits much of her success to friend/mentor Al Pacino, who originally cast her in a 2006 stage production of Oscar Wilde's Salome.
3. Studied the Israeli self-defense system Krav Maga for several months to prepare for her role in 2010's The Debt. Speaking about its brutality, she told an interviewer, "Krav Maga is how to kill your opponent in the least time possible. It's ruthless and made me feel badass."
Video: Jessica Chastain On a Possible Oscar Nom First
4. To help her gain 15 pounds for her Oscar-nominated role of Celia in The Help, she bought...
- 1/21/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
If you're here skimming through this website, then we'd like to think that you're already a fan of Clive Barker. And even if you're not fully well-versed in his body of work whether it be his films, novels, short stories, art, etc, we've got something super cool that you're bound (or hellbound?) to appreciate!
Below you'll find the very first two short films that Clive ever made as a filmmaker back in college titled "Salomé" and "The Forbidden" (Not to be confused with his Books Of Blood short story of the same name which later was adapted into the movie Candyman). Previously, the only way to see these were as bonus features on an import Hellraiser boxed set that Anchor Bay UK out out several years ago. Now you can get a rare glimpse at the very beginning stages of one of the most influential minds in horror fiction. Full...
Below you'll find the very first two short films that Clive ever made as a filmmaker back in college titled "Salomé" and "The Forbidden" (Not to be confused with his Books Of Blood short story of the same name which later was adapted into the movie Candyman). Previously, the only way to see these were as bonus features on an import Hellraiser boxed set that Anchor Bay UK out out several years ago. Now you can get a rare glimpse at the very beginning stages of one of the most influential minds in horror fiction. Full...
- 10/29/2012
- by Rob Galluzzo
- FEARnet
“But those who see, do not see what they see…”
—Carmelo Bene
Practically unknown outside his native Italy yet as essential to the grammar of cinema as a Brakhage, Carmelo Bene finally gets his first retrospective in the English-speaking world courtesy of the Anthology Film Archives (after running at the Harvard Film Archive) on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Though chiefly known for his theatrical work, this possessed avant-gardist gate-crashed the 7th Art leaving in his wake a succinct but indelible body of work: a death rattle of anti-cinema. Utterly removed from the abominable provincialism of auteur cinema and its authorial individualism, his films are acts of self-dispute, impudently staging the tragic farce of his inner (artistic) life.
Bene’s films regurgitate the disorder of life and its forms; with a contusive freedom of imagination he desecrates the codes of filmmaking while testing his own capacity to live up to his visions.
—Carmelo Bene
Practically unknown outside his native Italy yet as essential to the grammar of cinema as a Brakhage, Carmelo Bene finally gets his first retrospective in the English-speaking world courtesy of the Anthology Film Archives (after running at the Harvard Film Archive) on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Though chiefly known for his theatrical work, this possessed avant-gardist gate-crashed the 7th Art leaving in his wake a succinct but indelible body of work: a death rattle of anti-cinema. Utterly removed from the abominable provincialism of auteur cinema and its authorial individualism, his films are acts of self-dispute, impudently staging the tragic farce of his inner (artistic) life.
Bene’s films regurgitate the disorder of life and its forms; with a contusive freedom of imagination he desecrates the codes of filmmaking while testing his own capacity to live up to his visions.
- 4/28/2012
- MUBI
By Jennifer Raiser, Sf Wire
When Oscar Wilde visited San Francisco in 1882, his three-day presence caused a local sensation, with throngs of admirers mobbing him at every turn.
Al Pacino, in town for the premiere of his Oscar Wilde-themed documentary "Wilde Salome" found his portrayal of the notorious author-performer to be similarly compelling -- how else to explain the throngs which surrounded him from the Castro Theater to the Fairmont Hotel?
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San Francisco gets a little starstruck when new notables appear; those red carpets seem to compel the teensiest bit of green envy of our Angeleno brethren, or our New York cousins, or our Parisian pals. It's just all so paparazzi-perfect, so flashbulb fantastic. So our little City was literally a-Twitter when the Pacino premiere also included designer Jean Paul Gaultier with burlesque idol Dita Von Teese, and appearances by local matinee idols Peter Coyote and Joan Chen.
When Oscar Wilde visited San Francisco in 1882, his three-day presence caused a local sensation, with throngs of admirers mobbing him at every turn.
Al Pacino, in town for the premiere of his Oscar Wilde-themed documentary "Wilde Salome" found his portrayal of the notorious author-performer to be similarly compelling -- how else to explain the throngs which surrounded him from the Castro Theater to the Fairmont Hotel?
(Scroll Down For Photos)
San Francisco gets a little starstruck when new notables appear; those red carpets seem to compel the teensiest bit of green envy of our Angeleno brethren, or our New York cousins, or our Parisian pals. It's just all so paparazzi-perfect, so flashbulb fantastic. So our little City was literally a-Twitter when the Pacino premiere also included designer Jean Paul Gaultier with burlesque idol Dita Von Teese, and appearances by local matinee idols Peter Coyote and Joan Chen.
- 3/23/2012
- by Carly Schwartz
- Huffington Post
Hollywood legend Al Pacino wants to make a movie in Ireland after falling in love with Dublin thanks to literary genius Oscar Wilde. Pacino received a lifetime award from President Michael D Higgins at the city’s film festival on Monday night when he revealed his desire to return in a professional capacity. In town to promote his own documentary on Wilde, Pacino told reporters of his love for the writer’s work and his new infatuation with all things Irish. “I would like to make a film in Ireland some day so I could get around, see it, and be part of it and be with the people,” said the 71-year-old Pacino. The Godfather star spent five years making his documentary on Wilde’s stage play Salome which was screened as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. The work examines Pacino’s obsession with Wilde’s play...
- 2/21/2012
- IrishCentral
Jessica Chastian may be taking over Hollywood, but she isn't abandoning her New York roots.
The Golden Globe-nominated actress, who broke out with six starring film roles in 2011, has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of the play "The Heiress." She'll play Catherine Sloper, the reticent daughter of a wealthy, emotionally cold man. Sloper falls in love with Morris Townsend, who Catherine's father believes only wants her for her inheritance.
The play will mark Chastain's Broadway debut, but she's no stranger to stage drama. Trained at Juilliard, she appeared with Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde's "Salome," which was made into the film "Wild Salome" this year. She also starred in Ralph Fiennes' film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" this fall.
Nominated for the Golden Globe for her work in "The Help," Chastain also featured in "The Tree of Life," "The Debt," "Take Shelter," and "Texas Killing Fields...
The Golden Globe-nominated actress, who broke out with six starring film roles in 2011, has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of the play "The Heiress." She'll play Catherine Sloper, the reticent daughter of a wealthy, emotionally cold man. Sloper falls in love with Morris Townsend, who Catherine's father believes only wants her for her inheritance.
The play will mark Chastain's Broadway debut, but she's no stranger to stage drama. Trained at Juilliard, she appeared with Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde's "Salome," which was made into the film "Wild Salome" this year. She also starred in Ralph Fiennes' film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" this fall.
Nominated for the Golden Globe for her work in "The Help," Chastain also featured in "The Tree of Life," "The Debt," "Take Shelter," and "Texas Killing Fields...
- 1/5/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
She's the gobby scene-stealer from student sitcom Fresh Meat. So how did she portray Joyce Vincent, a woman who lay dead and forgotten in her flat for three years, in the new film Dreams of a Life?
Joyce Vincent was found in a bedsit above a shopping centre in Wood Green, north London, in 2006, three years after she had died. Council workers, finally spurred into action by rent arrears, had to scale a mountain of post before they could get through the door to where she lay in front of the sofa, the television still on. Reading the scant news reports, it was easy to jump to the conclusion she had been a marginal figure, perhaps a drug addict or somebody with no family or friends. But there were details that nagged – the Christmas presents she had been wrapping lay next to her (who were they for and why hadn't they missed her?...
Joyce Vincent was found in a bedsit above a shopping centre in Wood Green, north London, in 2006, three years after she had died. Council workers, finally spurred into action by rent arrears, had to scale a mountain of post before they could get through the door to where she lay in front of the sofa, the television still on. Reading the scant news reports, it was easy to jump to the conclusion she had been a marginal figure, perhaps a drug addict or somebody with no family or friends. But there were details that nagged – the Christmas presents she had been wrapping lay next to her (who were they for and why hadn't they missed her?...
- 12/8/2011
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
Sue Perkins raised the rafters in a new Sunday-evening panel show
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Does the world – and Radio 4 in particular – need another panel show? Apparently so, for that is what we have in Dilemma, a new, post-Archers, Sunday-night effort, hosted by Sue Perkins and peopled by the familiar: Rebecca Front, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring. Oh, and Dominic Lawson. (Coming straight after The Archers could be a toughie: it's all inter-family bickering and people banging on about organic farming at the mo. Terrible. Like Radio Prince Charles.)
Anyway, Dilemma. I have no problem with the cast: all very funny and bantery. My heavy heart came from the format: I am sick of panel shows, which, by their nature, showcase show-off men and don't play to funny women's strengths. However, Dilemma was devised by comedian Danielle Ward,...
Dilemma (R4) | iPlayer
I've Never Seen Star Wars (R4) | iPlayer
Oscar and Al Pacino (R4) | iPlayer
Victoria Derbyshire (5 Live) | iPlayer
Does the world – and Radio 4 in particular – need another panel show? Apparently so, for that is what we have in Dilemma, a new, post-Archers, Sunday-night effort, hosted by Sue Perkins and peopled by the familiar: Rebecca Front, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring. Oh, and Dominic Lawson. (Coming straight after The Archers could be a toughie: it's all inter-family bickering and people banging on about organic farming at the mo. Terrible. Like Radio Prince Charles.)
Anyway, Dilemma. I have no problem with the cast: all very funny and bantery. My heavy heart came from the format: I am sick of panel shows, which, by their nature, showcase show-off men and don't play to funny women's strengths. However, Dilemma was devised by comedian Danielle Ward,...
- 11/20/2011
- by Miranda Sawyer
- The Guardian - Film News
Last year, Jessica Chastain was a complete unknown. Now she's in everything – with everyone. She tells Steve Rose about working with Pitt, Pacino, Fiennes, Redgrave …
There's nothing we like better than an overnight success story, but Jessica Chastain's feels just too good to be true. A perfect storm of Chastain movies, swelled by critical adulation, is currently heading for our shores, in what looks like a co-ordinated assault on the awards season. Earlier this year we had a taster, with the release of Terrence Malick's Cannes-winning The Tree of Life, in which Chastain played Brad Pitt's wife – as auspicious a debut as any actor could hope for.
And this week the deluge begins. First there's The Debt, an espionage drama starring Helen Mirren. Then Chastain teamed up with Sam Worthington in steamy murder mystery Texas Killing Fields. Plus, there's civil rights Oscar bait The Help, already a...
There's nothing we like better than an overnight success story, but Jessica Chastain's feels just too good to be true. A perfect storm of Chastain movies, swelled by critical adulation, is currently heading for our shores, in what looks like a co-ordinated assault on the awards season. Earlier this year we had a taster, with the release of Terrence Malick's Cannes-winning The Tree of Life, in which Chastain played Brad Pitt's wife – as auspicious a debut as any actor could hope for.
And this week the deluge begins. First there's The Debt, an espionage drama starring Helen Mirren. Then Chastain teamed up with Sam Worthington in steamy murder mystery Texas Killing Fields. Plus, there's civil rights Oscar bait The Help, already a...
- 9/28/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s tough to categorize a piece of work when even those involved aren’t quite sure what they’re dealing with. Al Pacino isn’t sure what “Wilde Salome” is but the documentary, film, play has premiered at Venice Film Festival. Pacino says the film project, starring Irish American actress Jessica Chastain, isn’t a documentary and it isn’t a movie either. He says “it’s much more ambitious and complicated gesture in cinema." The Hollywood veteran said the fact that Wilde was hounded for his homosexuality at the end of the 19th century, was a fascinating subject. __________________ Read more: Irish American Jessica Chastain tops the box office in ‘The Debt’ and ‘The Help’ – Videos A fitting end for Denis Leary’s ‘Rescue Me’ on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 - Video Colin Farrell talks Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’ and love for Ireland __________________ "We do know that he...
- 9/6/2011
- IrishCentral
Venice, Sep 6: Veteran actor Al Pacino has been honoured at the Venice Film Festival for his work as a moviemaker.
Pacino is in Venice to promote his new directorial project 'Wilde Salome', a part-documentary about writer-poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play 'Salome'.
'We do know that he (Oscar Wilde) was... a very liberal thinker and more than that he was a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane and that he was really on dangerous ground at that time,' dailystar.co.uk.
Pacino is in Venice to promote his new directorial project 'Wilde Salome', a part-documentary about writer-poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play 'Salome'.
'We do know that he (Oscar Wilde) was... a very liberal thinker and more than that he was a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane and that he was really on dangerous ground at that time,' dailystar.co.uk.
- 9/6/2011
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Veteran actor Al Pacino has been honoured at the Venice Film Festival for his work as a moviemaker.Pacino is in Venice to promote his new directorial project .Wilde Salome., a part-documentary about writer-poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play .Salome...We do know that he (Oscar Wilde) was. a very liberal thinker and more than that he was a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane and that he was really on dangerous ground at that time,. dailystar.co.uk quoted Pacino him as saying..Part of his sexuality was what they used against him to put him away. They wanted to silence him,. he said.Pacino was awarded the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award Sunday night.
- 9/5/2011
- Filmicafe
Legendary American actor and director Al Pacino is the recipient of the Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2011 Award, a prize of the Venice International Film Festival (organized by the Biennale di Venezia), created in collaboration with Jaeger-Le Coultre, and dedicated to an artist who has left an original mark on contemporary cinema. The prize has previously been awarded to some of the greatest figures in film including: Takeshi Kitano (2007), Abbas Kiarostami (2008), Agnès Varda (2008), Sylvester Stallone (2009) and Mani Ratnam (2010).
This year, the award celebrates Al Pacino and his achievements as a filmmaker. The awards ceremony took place on Sunday September 4th during the 68th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st . September 10th 2011) directed by Marco Mueller and organized by the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. Festival Director, Marco Mueller, describes Pacino as, .An amazing director, whose experience is precious and original, and enriches the world of contemporary film.
This year, the award celebrates Al Pacino and his achievements as a filmmaker. The awards ceremony took place on Sunday September 4th during the 68th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st . September 10th 2011) directed by Marco Mueller and organized by the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. Festival Director, Marco Mueller, describes Pacino as, .An amazing director, whose experience is precious and original, and enriches the world of contemporary film.
- 9/5/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
[Editor's Note: Manolis, Tfe's Greek correspondent at the Venice Film Festival chimes in briefly on a very busy screening day. Notes on four films, the last of them a probable prize winner. -Nathaniel]
Alps
The Greek entry of the festival divided the critics assembled here, just as Dogtooth did two years ago. The Italian critics that are featured at the Daily Variety issue of the festival here have given it from 1 to 5 stars. So it’s difficult to say what it’s chances are with the jury. In Dogtooth the protagonist was trying to escape from a fake world, but in Alps the protagonist is trying to enter one; she feels she must belong to another reality, not her actual one. Aggeliki Papoulia gives an excellent performance and Yorgos Lanthimos’ fans will not be disappointed. But that said, he won’t win any new fans with Alps.
Wilde Salome
This isn't quite a film or a documentary but something inbetween as Al Pacino chronicles his attempts to make a film out of Oscar Wilde’s Salome shortly after the play was staged in Los Angeles.
Alps
The Greek entry of the festival divided the critics assembled here, just as Dogtooth did two years ago. The Italian critics that are featured at the Daily Variety issue of the festival here have given it from 1 to 5 stars. So it’s difficult to say what it’s chances are with the jury. In Dogtooth the protagonist was trying to escape from a fake world, but in Alps the protagonist is trying to enter one; she feels she must belong to another reality, not her actual one. Aggeliki Papoulia gives an excellent performance and Yorgos Lanthimos’ fans will not be disappointed. But that said, he won’t win any new fans with Alps.
Wilde Salome
This isn't quite a film or a documentary but something inbetween as Al Pacino chronicles his attempts to make a film out of Oscar Wilde’s Salome shortly after the play was staged in Los Angeles.
- 9/5/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Hollywood legend Al Pacino was the toast of Italy's Venice Film Festival this weekend (03-04Sep11) as he was honoured for his work as a moviemaker.
The Scarface icon is in Venice to promote his new directorial project Wilde Salome, a part-documentary about writer/poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play Salome, and he picked up the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at a glitzy gala on Sunday night.
Earlier that day, his film was screened to members of the press and, during a news conference after the showing, Pacino admitted he was fascinated by Wilde's lifestyle as a homosexual man living in the late 1800s.
He said, "We do know that he was... a very liberal thinker and more than that he was a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane and that he was really on dangerous ground at that time.
"Part of his sexuality was what they used against him to put him away. They wanted to silence him."...
The Scarface icon is in Venice to promote his new directorial project Wilde Salome, a part-documentary about writer/poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play Salome, and he picked up the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at a glitzy gala on Sunday night.
Earlier that day, his film was screened to members of the press and, during a news conference after the showing, Pacino admitted he was fascinated by Wilde's lifestyle as a homosexual man living in the late 1800s.
He said, "We do know that he was... a very liberal thinker and more than that he was a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane and that he was really on dangerous ground at that time.
"Part of his sexuality was what they used against him to put him away. They wanted to silence him."...
- 9/4/2011
- WENN
Getty Al Pacino at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.
Al Pacino and James Franco — two stars closely associated with their roles in big-budget commercial movies — each unveiled their latest directorial works over the weekend at the Venice International Film Festival: small-budget films about real-life gay figures of the stage and screen.
“Wilde Salome” from Pacino — the Academy Award-winning actor of “Scent of a Woman” and star of some of the most influential American films of the past 40 years, including “The Godfather...
Al Pacino and James Franco — two stars closely associated with their roles in big-budget commercial movies — each unveiled their latest directorial works over the weekend at the Venice International Film Festival: small-budget films about real-life gay figures of the stage and screen.
“Wilde Salome” from Pacino — the Academy Award-winning actor of “Scent of a Woman” and star of some of the most influential American films of the past 40 years, including “The Godfather...
- 9/4/2011
- by Dean Napolitano
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
"More personal and obsessive than his 1996 Shakespeare documentary Looking for Richard, with which it has much in common, Al Pacino's long-in-the-making Wilde Salome is both an intriguing exploration of Oscar Wilde's play about the destructive use of sexuality and an intimate self-portrait of the actor/director as he over-extends himself into performing Salome on stage and shooting a film — this film — at the same time." Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter: "Researching Salome, which he performed twice on stage, becomes an 'obsession' as he struggles to find the right mixture of the play, Wilde, himself making the play and making a movie about all of the above. Editors Roberto Silvi and David Leonard do a Herculean job compiling very disparate material into an engrossing, smooth-flowing film."
It's "an enjoyable mess," finds Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek, "particularly for anyone who gets a thrill out of documentaries about process…. [D]uring the course of it,...
It's "an enjoyable mess," finds Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek, "particularly for anyone who gets a thrill out of documentaries about process…. [D]uring the course of it,...
- 9/4/2011
- MUBI
Veteran actor Al Pacino says his future is "blank." We're thinking that's an exaggeration, considering the fact that his past is anything but. The 71-year-old Oscar-winner has appeared in almost 50 films and, on Sunday (Sept. 4) was honored with the Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival.
The award is given to a filmmaker who has "left an original mark on contemporary cinema." According to Reuters, though, the actor's acceptance speech focused on Pacino's contention that he had no idea where he was going with his latest directorial effort, "Salome."
"Salome," starring Pacino and the now-ubiquitous Jessica Chastain, is looseley based on Oscar Wilde's play about the biglical Tale of Salome and King Herod.
I didn't know where I was going," said the actor. "I'm confused."
Pacino showed up for the ceremony, reports Reuters, wearing an unbuttoned silk shirt that was apparently the same one he wore...
The award is given to a filmmaker who has "left an original mark on contemporary cinema." According to Reuters, though, the actor's acceptance speech focused on Pacino's contention that he had no idea where he was going with his latest directorial effort, "Salome."
"Salome," starring Pacino and the now-ubiquitous Jessica Chastain, is looseley based on Oscar Wilde's play about the biglical Tale of Salome and King Herod.
I didn't know where I was going," said the actor. "I'm confused."
Pacino showed up for the ceremony, reports Reuters, wearing an unbuttoned silk shirt that was apparently the same one he wore...
- 9/4/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: There has been a lot of chatter around the amount of time Glenn Close has poured into “Albert Nobbs,” which she guided to the screen over the course of several years, serving as a producer, co-screenwriter and star.
Al Pacino feels her pain. The Oscar-winning screen legend has spent years getting under the skin of Oscar Wilde’s play “Salome,” and his passion for the tragedy shines through in the new drama “Wilde Salome,” which Pacino brought to the Venice Film Fest over the weekend so it could screen out of competition.
A sort of work-within-a-work film, “Salome” explores how Pacino stretched himself thin by acting in a stage production of Wilde’s film (alongside Jessica Chastain of “The Debt” and “The Help”) as he also prepared this film about the experience.
THR calls the movie “more personal and obsessive” than his similar film “Looking for Richard.
Hollywoodnews.com: There has been a lot of chatter around the amount of time Glenn Close has poured into “Albert Nobbs,” which she guided to the screen over the course of several years, serving as a producer, co-screenwriter and star.
Al Pacino feels her pain. The Oscar-winning screen legend has spent years getting under the skin of Oscar Wilde’s play “Salome,” and his passion for the tragedy shines through in the new drama “Wilde Salome,” which Pacino brought to the Venice Film Fest over the weekend so it could screen out of competition.
A sort of work-within-a-work film, “Salome” explores how Pacino stretched himself thin by acting in a stage production of Wilde’s film (alongside Jessica Chastain of “The Debt” and “The Help”) as he also prepared this film about the experience.
THR calls the movie “more personal and obsessive” than his similar film “Looking for Richard.
- 9/4/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
By Mike Collett-White
Venice, Italy (Reuters) - Hollywood veteran Al Pacino is honoured by the Venice film festival on Sunday with a special prize and the presentation of his latest directorial project "Wilde Salome."
Even at such a star-studded festival, where the likes of George Clooney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna have walked the red carpet this year, Pacino drew large crowds of screaming fans and autograph hunters to the Lido island.
He receives the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at a gala awards ceremony.
Wilde Salome is part documentary about the staging of Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde's play "Salome" starring rising star Jessica Chastain, part an exploration of the author and part film version of Salome itself.
Pacino, one of the giants of cinema with eight Oscar nominations including one win to his name, admitted to being a little confused about what type of picture he had made.
Venice, Italy (Reuters) - Hollywood veteran Al Pacino is honoured by the Venice film festival on Sunday with a special prize and the presentation of his latest directorial project "Wilde Salome."
Even at such a star-studded festival, where the likes of George Clooney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna have walked the red carpet this year, Pacino drew large crowds of screaming fans and autograph hunters to the Lido island.
He receives the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at a gala awards ceremony.
Wilde Salome is part documentary about the staging of Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde's play "Salome" starring rising star Jessica Chastain, part an exploration of the author and part film version of Salome itself.
Pacino, one of the giants of cinema with eight Oscar nominations including one win to his name, admitted to being a little confused about what type of picture he had made.
- 9/4/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
What a pleasure it is to watch Al Pacino’s Wilde Salome. There is no need to present the legend that is the man who played Michael Corleone, Serpico, Tony Montana and Sonny Wortzik, just his name evokes scenes, characters and quotes from dozens of films. Yet after a career of more than forty impressive years, Pacino still finds a way to challenge himself and share his passion about acting with the rest of us.
Wilde Salome is his second documentary as a director, the first was Looking for Richard, where a camera followed him while preparing for the staging of a performance of Richard III by William Shakespeare. That was in 1996 and although the world and Hollywood has changed a great deal, Pacino’s passion for acting and for the classics is still as strong as ever.
In Wilde Salome he takes the same concept...
What a pleasure it is to watch Al Pacino’s Wilde Salome. There is no need to present the legend that is the man who played Michael Corleone, Serpico, Tony Montana and Sonny Wortzik, just his name evokes scenes, characters and quotes from dozens of films. Yet after a career of more than forty impressive years, Pacino still finds a way to challenge himself and share his passion about acting with the rest of us.
Wilde Salome is his second documentary as a director, the first was Looking for Richard, where a camera followed him while preparing for the staging of a performance of Richard III by William Shakespeare. That was in 1996 and although the world and Hollywood has changed a great deal, Pacino’s passion for acting and for the classics is still as strong as ever.
In Wilde Salome he takes the same concept...
- 9/4/2011
- by Andrea Pasquettin
- Obsessed with Film
"I didn't know what to do with this passion, these feelings I had -- for Oscar Wilde."
These are the words of none other than Al Pacino, the director, actor, and all-around force behind the movie "Wilde Salome," a film/documentary mix that explores Pacino's deep feelings for Wilde's play about the biblical temptress. The film is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival, out of competition.
The trailer shows Pacino and his cohorts trampling around England in search of Oscar Wilde, whoever or whatever that might turn out to be. This is, Pacino says, his "obsession." Pacino has played King Herod on the stage multiple times over his career, a monarch in the throes of a very different obsession. Back in 1992, The New York Times compared his interpretation of the character as "close to Caligula or Nero."
Frenzied, energetic and wild-haired, Pacino is the focal point of...
These are the words of none other than Al Pacino, the director, actor, and all-around force behind the movie "Wilde Salome," a film/documentary mix that explores Pacino's deep feelings for Wilde's play about the biblical temptress. The film is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival, out of competition.
The trailer shows Pacino and his cohorts trampling around England in search of Oscar Wilde, whoever or whatever that might turn out to be. This is, Pacino says, his "obsession." Pacino has played King Herod on the stage multiple times over his career, a monarch in the throes of a very different obsession. Back in 1992, The New York Times compared his interpretation of the character as "close to Caligula or Nero."
Frenzied, energetic and wild-haired, Pacino is the focal point of...
- 9/1/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
“I’m doing a play. I’m doing a movie of the play. And I’m doing a documentary all at the same time. I have to function two ways: one as a director dealing with a camera, and the other as an actor. I’ve got too much to do!” So says Al Pacino at the start of the trailer for his documentary Wilde Salome.
In 2005 Pacino starred in Oscar Wilde‘s play Salome and became inspired to explore his own obsessions about Wilde’s work. I hope what we see in the trailer below is only a glimpse of Pacino’s fall into madness and obsession; this should make for some great viewing.
In 2005 Pacino starred in Oscar Wilde‘s play Salome and became inspired to explore his own obsessions about Wilde’s work. I hope what we see in the trailer below is only a glimpse of Pacino’s fall into madness and obsession; this should make for some great viewing.
- 9/1/2011
- by Graham
- City of Films
Cher is in full Mama Grizzly mode over the haters who are trashing Chaz on the message boards for Dancing With the Stars. She's taken to Twitter to rally her followers and to talk about how brave it was for Chaz to put himself out there like that. Incidentally, here are the pairings for the celebrities and the professional dancers.
Speaking of hateful things, Rep. Michele Bachmann will publish a memoir about "her roles as a tax attorney, a wife, a mother of five and a foster mother of 23." Just in time for the Christmas shopping season we get an alternative to the lump of coal for kids who have been naughty!
Wall Street trader Scott Redler is making news after hiring a helicopter for $7,000 to bring him and his family out of a damaged area of Vermont back to New Jersey, and then telling the media he did it...
Speaking of hateful things, Rep. Michele Bachmann will publish a memoir about "her roles as a tax attorney, a wife, a mother of five and a foster mother of 23." Just in time for the Christmas shopping season we get an alternative to the lump of coal for kids who have been naughty!
Wall Street trader Scott Redler is making news after hiring a helicopter for $7,000 to bring him and his family out of a damaged area of Vermont back to New Jersey, and then telling the media he did it...
- 9/1/2011
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
[1] Al Pacino's known for many memorable roles -- most notably, Tony Montana in Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather -- but it turns out one of the parts nearest and dearest to his heart is one that few film buffs have seen. Pacino has a little-known obsession with Oscar Wilde's play Salome, and has played the part of King Herod in multiple stage productions. When he reprised the role in 2006, he brought along a film crew to collect footage for a documentary he was directing about his attempt to understand one of his favorite works and the iconic writer behind it. Five years later, Pacino's film is ready to make its debut at the Venice Film Festival. Wilde Salome follows Pacino all over the world as he explores his passion for Wilde and his work, much as 1996's Looking for Richard saw him examine William Shakespeare's Richard III.
- 8/31/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Sneak Peek a new poster and trailer supporting the upcoming documentary drama "Wilde Salome", written, directed by and starring Al Pacino.
Based on the 1891, one act play by author Oscar Wilde, "Wilde Salome, recounts the Biblical story of 'Salome', stepdaughter of 'Herod Antipas', who, to the delight of her mother 'Herodias', requests the head of 'John the Baptist' on a silver platter as a reward for dancing 'the dance of the seven veils'.
Cast also includes Jessica Chastain, Kevin Anderson, Estelle Parsons, Roxanne Hart, Barry Navidi and Joe Roseto :
"...Referred to by actor/director Al Pacino as his most personal project ever, the unconventional feature documentary 'Wilde Salome' invites audiences into Pacino’s private world, as he explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde’s acclaimed play 'Salome', Wilde himself and the birth of a rising star in actress Jessica Chastain..."
Click the images...
Based on the 1891, one act play by author Oscar Wilde, "Wilde Salome, recounts the Biblical story of 'Salome', stepdaughter of 'Herod Antipas', who, to the delight of her mother 'Herodias', requests the head of 'John the Baptist' on a silver platter as a reward for dancing 'the dance of the seven veils'.
Cast also includes Jessica Chastain, Kevin Anderson, Estelle Parsons, Roxanne Hart, Barry Navidi and Joe Roseto :
"...Referred to by actor/director Al Pacino as his most personal project ever, the unconventional feature documentary 'Wilde Salome' invites audiences into Pacino’s private world, as he explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde’s acclaimed play 'Salome', Wilde himself and the birth of a rising star in actress Jessica Chastain..."
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- 8/31/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
"I've got too much to do!" I'm not sure what this is or where it came from, but Yahoo has debuted a trailer for a docu-drama film starring and directed by Al Pacino called Wilde Salome. The film is about Pacino's obsession with, and attempt to perform, the Oscar Wilde play Salome. "I'm going to do your play, I'm going to do a movie of the play, and I'm doing a documentary all at the same time" is exactly how he explains it in the teaser trailer. I didn't even know this existed, but no worries, it's Pacino so bring it on. However, I feel like this is one of those films that you might walk out thinking "what the heck did I just watch?" Have fun! Watch the first teaser trailer for Al Pacino's Wilde Salome, from Yahoo: You can also grab the Wilde Salome teaser trailer in High...
- 8/31/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Al Pacino might be the kind of guy who agrees to shameful, hot dog-related cameo in an Adam Sandler cross-dress movie, but he is still (partly) a serious thespian. For evidence, look no further than the Oscar winner's next directorial effort, Wilde Salome, a behind-the-scenes documentary that combines footage of his Broadway performance of Oscar Wilde's Salome with video of Pacino obsessing over the poet and directing/stressing out about his project. It's all very meta. Click ahead to see Pacino unravel in the first glimpse of Wilde Salome.
- 8/31/2011
- Movieline
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