Robert Frank : Portrait

SanyuSwiss-born Robert Frank returns to his home country at the Locarno Film Festival! The 76-year old legendary photographer and video artist studied in Zurich, his birthplace before immigrating to the USA. In 1958, he published the legendary photography book, "The Americans", a mapping of 60s America, contributing radical innovations to the prevailing photographic conventions of the time. His films often mix his public and private life as in Conversations in Vermont (1969) and Life Dances On (1980). His half-hour 35mm film Sanyu, presented in Locarno in the Filmmakers of the Present section, is about a close friend who died 40 years ago in Paris, the Chinese painter Sanyu. more


Terence DaviesTerence Davies : Press conference highlights

Looking at other period pieces...
"It's always odd to be mentioned alongside a Scorcese film... But it is great for my vanity! (laughs) I do love The Age of Innocence. There is a great shot in this film... I would have died for such a shot! And I probably will... The others I am afraid I don't respond to. I can't feel anything for Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady... Perhaps it is because I am getting old and miserable... (getting dramatic) I am getting miserable and I love it!" (laughs). more

 


Michael Almereyda : Press conference highlights

Michael Almereyda"Don't you think the references to Pepsi and Blockbuster are somewhat jarring?"
"The only criticism about the film that really meant anything to me was precisely this criticism, which I think is born of cynicism. It is a complete misunderstanding of my intentions. That contrast was meant exactly as a contrast to the world of Shakespeare. And we in fact were not paid by Pepsi or Blockbuster, but we had to pay them...more



Bryan Singer: Interview

X-MenB.S.: We have no specific stories in the works, but definitely this film introduces the universe of the X-Men, in the same way that the comic books introduce the super-heroes and their characters. They are always introduced with the notion of expansion and growth. That's the way I approached them.

C.P.: Some of the actors have already signed for one or two sequels. Is it the same for you?

B.S.: No. I might be interested but I'm not obligated. It depends on the circumstances. I did my deal so I wouldn't be forced to do another movie. more



Bryan Singer: Portrait

Bryan SingerLike Charles Foster Kane in Xanadu, Bryan Singer lives alone in an unfurnished mansion in Los Angeles. The 34-year-old filmmaker is not, however, a mutant recluse, especially now that he's completed his fourth feature film, X-Men. "The house has been completely empty for two years except for a bed, my television with a VCR and DVD and a fish tank. When I have friends over we have pizza on the floor," Singer recently told the New York Times.
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Paul Verhoeven

Paul VerhoevenPaul Verhoeven is to receive the 12th Leopard of Honour and is in Locarno to promote his latest film, Hollow Man, a science fiction thriller about scientists who learn how to make people invisible. It stars Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon, who will be in Locarno before heading to Deauville where they will promote the film at the festival of American Film.
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