[caption id="attachment_175666400" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Monica Vitti in Antonioni's L'Eclisse[/caption] I first encountered Monica Vitti in Antonioni's L'Eclisse, a film which I had originally obtained, bizarrely, on video tape, as it had not yet been released on DVD then. I was immediately struck by her moody-poetic screen...
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Read MoreAs I arrived in Cork, the ever prolific and hardworking Rouzbeh Rashidi informed me that in addition to HE, we were to shoot some scenes for another feature film he was putting together (in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain), and he did so in ...
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"I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'" Alain Delon delivered great pe...
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