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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Venice/Telluride Update: Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder' Confuses Audiences; Salman Rushdie on 'Midnight's Children'; Marion Cotillard Honored at Telluride; Todd McCarthy's 'Ginger & Rosa' Review

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The Hollywood Reporter Festival News
September 2, 2012
LATEST FESTIVAL NEWS

Venice 2012: Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder' Premieres, Confuses Audiences
Star Olga Kurylenko says Malick, who was absent from the premiere, wrote the part for her without even knowing her: "I think he’s psychic.”

Venice 2012: Spanish Filmmaker David Victori Wins $500K in YouTube Contest
The Your Film Festival cash award comes with a promise that Michael Fassbender and Ridley Scott will co-produce Victori's next production.

Venice 2012: Ulrich Seidl on his Controversial 'Paradise: Faith'
The Austrian director responds to backlash from the Italian media for his scandalous, "blasphemous" film, the second in a trilogy.

Venice 2012: Italy's Gabriele Muccino Eyeing Science Fiction for Next Project
The "Pursuit of Happyness" director is eyeing a new genre and looking to cast Keanu Reeves as the lead.

Telluride 2012: Sights and Sounds at the Saturday Parties
Hosts included The Hollywood Reporter and UCLA School of Theater, Film, and TV; Film Society of Lincoln Center; Sony Pictures Classics; and the Academy.

Telluride 2012: Salman Rushdie on 'Midnight's Children': 'I Sold the Rights for $1'
The Booker prizewinning author explains the 31-year genesis of Deepa Mehta's adaptation of his novel.

Telluride 2012: Marion Cotillard Comes to Town for Career Tribute and 'Rust and Bone' Premiere
The actress could become only the fifth woman to earn multiple Oscar nominations for performances given in a foreign language.

Telluride 2012: Gael Garcia Bernal Reminds Chileans to Just Say 'No' in Cannes Carryover
Pablo Larrain's third film chronicles the ad campaign that aimed to mobilize Chileans to vote against an extension of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Telluride 2012: Haneke's 'Amour' Proves All You Need Is 'Love' (And a Lot of Hankies)
Michael Haneke's drama won the Palme d'Or at May's Cannes Film Festival and was easily the most highly-anticipated film at this month's Telluride Film Festival.

Telluride 2012: Festival Pays Tribute to Filmmaker Roger Corman
In a conversation with THR's Todd McCarthy, the honoree says, "I was lucky enough to come along right when the independent field really began to grow."

LATEST FESTIVAL REVIEWS

Ginger & Rosa: Telluride Review
Just 13 during the shoot, Elle Fanning exhibits an amazing range in Sally Potter’s sharply observed tale of growing up amid the turmoil of nuclear threat and familial discord.

Boxing Day: Venice Review
Following "Ivans XTC" and "The Kreutzer Sonata," writer-director Bernard Rose and lead actor Danny Huston complete their trilogy of Tolstoy updates with this two-character drama.

Mold (Küf): Venice Review
Ercan Kesal and Muhammet Uzuner star in writer-director Ali Aydin's debut feature, a Turkish-German co-production examining issues of loss, grief and guilt.

Love Is All You Need: Venice Review
Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier follows her Oscar winner "In a Better World" with a warmly sentimental comedy that stars Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm.

To the Wonder: Venice Review
Everyone and everything is contaminated to Terrence Malick, who fills his film with one inconclusive scene after another.

Lullaby To My Father: Venice Review
Prolific director Amos Gitai profiles his architect parent in this Swiss/Israeli/French co-production.

The Master: Venice Review
Paul Thomas Anderson's extraordinary character study, with a career-defining performance from Joaquin Phoenix, is not the Scientology exposé everyone was expecting.

Midnight’s Children: Telluride Review
Faithful Salman Rushdie adaptation might play better at a literary convention than at the cineplex.

The Attack: Telluride Review
The film, from Lebanese-born director Ziad Doueiri, centers on a Palestinian surgeon who learns about his wife's secret life as a terrorist after she kills 17 people in a suicide bombing.


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