Last movie in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011, “Texas Killing Fields” is inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial [ Read More ]
The world is going to an end: Director Abel Ferrara seems to advice all of us to that statement. No escape, no survivors. He tells us in his upcoming movie, “4:44 Last Day on Earth”, from the official competition in Venice Film Festival 2011, starring Willem Dafoe. In a large apartment high above the city [ Read More ]
Inspiration from contemporary and past literature seems to be the center around most of the movies run at the Venice Film Festival 2011. So Director Andrea Arnold has worked to adapt Emilie Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”, also inspired from cinema-version of the past (starring Laurence Olivier). Since its publication in 1847 Emily Bronte’s only novel “Wuthering [ Read More ]
King of the day, Mr. Tomas Alfredson! A piece of UK conquers today’s red carpet and conference-hall, with the spy-story “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, by Alfredson, starring the 2011 Academy Award Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, David Thewlis, Mark Strong and Ciaran Hinds, adapted from John Le Carrè’s book. Set in the ‘70s, the [ Read More ]
“The Ides of March”: Clooney’s best? Seduction, power and corruption: the cast interview Written and directed by George Clooney, “The Ides of March” has been screened in competition as opening movie for the 68th Venice International Film Festival, with large agreements by public and critics. The movie, based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, with [ Read More ]