I tried really really hard to get through Steven Soderbergh's "state of cinema" address which he gave at the San Francisco Film Festival a couple of days ago. I figured, there's an American filmmaker who portrays himself an intellectual, and has made cerebral films in the past, and now he's giving an address about cinema and maybe it's going to grab me and elevate the senses. So I read on, and pretty soon ran
Italian, sybarite, lover of beauty, jaded, intellectual, addicted to work, professional, charismatic. I picture myself shaking these words in a tumbler and throwing them onto the rug to see how they will land.
Asia Argento's influences, whether in music or in film, run the gamut, but only insofar as it is worthy of being called art. She's stuck to her guns, having appeared in films by Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola
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"Only Lovers Left Alive" by Jim Jarmusch will be vying for the 2013 Palme d'Or at Cannes. The film was added Friday to the official selection of the festival, which now runs twenty films deep. The festival has also decided to complete its official selection with "Le dernier des injustes" (the last of the unjusts) by Claude Lanzmann ("Shoah"), which will be screened out of competition. In addition, "My sweet Pepperland" by Kurdish director Hiner
