• x055 On set: Lulworth, UK (11/24/12).
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Stockholm Festival Favors ‘Lore’
The 23rd Stockholm International Film Festival gave its top prize, the Bronze Horse, to Cate Shortland’s coming of age story Lore. The German-Australian production is Australia’s entry for the foreign language Oscar. The film also took awards for best actress (Saskia Rosendahl), cinematography (Adam Arkapaw) and music (Max Richter). Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts Of The Southern Wild added to its festival haul with the best first film award and Andrew Dominik took the screenplay prize for Brad Pitt-starrer Killing Them Soflty. Tim Roth was named best actor for Rufus Norris’ Broken and a special mention was noted for that film’s Eloise Laurence.
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‘The Impossible’ made Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt cry
At least, that seems to be the case for A-list supernovas Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt who, according to Ange, shared a tender moment together while watching Ewan McGregor’s performance in the upcoming film The Impossible.
Jolie hosted a special screening of the movie — which centers on a family dealing with the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami — in London Monday night where she gushed about McGregor.
“I have known you for years and you are one of my favorite actors and I’ve always loved to watch you, but I watched this and I didn’t recognize you,” Jolie told the Scottish actor. “To say it is one of the best performances of the year, really doesn’t give it credit, because it doesn’t feel like a performance. It’s from such an honest place and so deeply emotional.”
She went on to say that McGregor was so good, in fact, that he moved both she and her fiancé Brad Pitt to tears.
“You rarely see this emotion from a man on screen and I called (McGregor) later to tell him how much he made me cry,” she added. “I was crying, and I looked over at Brad and he was crying. It’s just really, really powerful. As an actor, I’m in awe.”
Pitt’s a hit man
Brad Pitt is expected to hit New York Monday to pump his latest film, “Killing Them Softly.” The star, who plays a contract killer in the movie, will hit a downtown screening and party where, we hear, guests will include Pitt’s co-stars James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta. The Andrew Dominik-directed movie, in which Pitt investigates a heist that took place during a high-stakes, mob-protected poker game, is based on George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel “Cogan’s Trade.” It opens Nov. 30.
