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Looking for Richard

Homage to Al Pacino
Al Pacino will be in the spotlight for tonight's evening event, which includes his presence and the screening of Looking for Richard. Of Sicilian descent, Alfredo Pacino was raised in the South Bronx until he dropped out of school at the age of 17. He worked at odd jobs for several years until he had raised enough money to go to acting school. He went on to join the Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. From a drunk to a drug addict, his intense anti-hero roles on stage eventually led to his remarkable performance in Panic in Needle Park (1971), winning him an acting reputation. He was a star in both Godfather and Godfather II (1972, 1974), made many other films such as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and finally won an Oscar in 1992 for his role in Scent of a Woman.

Al Pacino

The stage remained a first love for Pacino and in 1996 he directed and starred in the well received Looking for Richard, a documentary style film presenting the staging of Shakespeare's "Richard III" juxtaposed with a look at what Shakespeare means to people in all walks of life.

BOWFINGER
Frank Oz, Director
"We didn't put the accent on Hollywood movie-making. Our movie is about a group of dreamers with ambition, but who are shall we say incompetent."

Bowfinger

Bowfinger


Sunday, Sept 5

  - Panorama
 

Drop Dead Gorgeous
by Michael Patrick Jann with Denise Richards, Kirsten Dunst Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
by Martha Coolidge with Helle Berry, Klaus Maria Brandauer

 
  - Avant-Premieres
  Bowfinger
by Frank Oz with Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy
  - Prix Michel Ornano
  The Ornano Prize, created in 1991 by the members of the Motion Picture Association, is dedicated to the memory of Michel d'Ornano, who was a minister, Deauville mayor and founder of the Deauville American Film Festival. Since 1992, the prize awards the best original screenplay brought to the screen.
In the presence of Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association, Stephen Brizé will be awarded this year's Ornano Prize on Sunday Sept 5 for his film Le Bleu des Villes, which was previously screened in the Director's Fortnight at Cannes 99.