Peter Greenaway, one of cinema’s most enigmatic and striking auteurs, returns to U.S. screens in October with “Rembrandt’s J’accuse,” his labyrinthine account of the intrigue behind the 17th century artist’s “The Night Watch.”
In an extract from her new autobiography which appears this week in Granta, journalist Lynn Barber writes about how the short memoir of her life as a 16-year-old in 1961, published by Granta in 2003, became a major film and meditates on the perils of writing from memory. Directed by Lone Scherfig, written by Nick Hornby and starring Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan, “An Education” arrives in the States in October.
Opening in New York today and then gradually moving across North America , “Cloud 9,” the latest film from director Andreas Dresen, examines a 67-year-old married woman’s intimate relationship with her 76-year-old lover.
Isabelle Huppert chats openly with The Telegraph in conjunction with the release of her latest film, “Home.” Huppert — described by the paper with the dynamic bon mot, “French cinema’s most beloved psychopath” — revels in her penchant for provocative roles, noting that in a hypothetical, atypical role she might have to revert to type because “half-way through my romantic comedy I probably wouldn’t be able to stop myself from doing something a little bit,” she bites her lip, “bleak - or dark.”
One Film Wonder: In 1984, Woody Allen starred in his madcap “Broadway Danny Rose” in the titular role of a luckless talent agent whose prize client is lounge singer Lou Canova, played by Nick Apollo Forte. Mia Farrow’s Tina Vitale joins the fun, as do the mob. The 71-year-old Forte is still an active performer with an official website where he describes himself as a “Pianist, Banjo, Vocalist & Composer – Actor, Humorist & Entertainer.” There is a link on his website to purchase the only movie in which he has appeared.
