Sevilodorf writes: A heads up about a special showing of Alatriste starring Viggo Mortensen at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on Saturday March 16th. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles. Link below goes to write up on the Spanish Cinema Festival. [More]
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ — The Los Angeles Ballet celebrates its much-anticipated arrival on the Southern California cultural landscape with a fundraiser on Thursday, November 9th at Bergamot Station. The evening will be hosted by Anjelica Huston and will feature a celebrity art auction including the works of Steve Martin, Orlando Bloom, Tony Bennett, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Bridges, Julie Andrews, Tommy Chong, Leonard Cohen, David Cowles, Tony Curtis, Gil Garcetti, Joel Grey, Buck Henry, Dennis Hopper, Martin Mull, Jane Seymour, Richard Schiff, the evening’s host Angelica Huston plus some surprise works. The benefit will also spotlight the Company’s talented new ballet dancers as they make a special introductory appearance. [More] [losangelesballet.org]
MADRID (AFP) – Spanish novelist Arturo Perez Reverte lauded the film adaptation of the exploits of his hero, Captain Diego Alatriste, by director Agustin Diaz Yanes in “Alatriste,” which debuts on Spanish screens this week. “I liked it very much, as it is fearsome, pitiless and heroic — as was my story,” Perez Reverte told a pre-screening gathering in Madrid. Alatriste, played in the film by US actor Viggo Mortensen, 47 of “Lord of the Rings” fame, is a unscrupulous 17th century adventurer in the movie, set in Spain’s “golden age” under King Philip IV which coincided with the emergence of artistic giants such as Velasquez and the development of the “New World.” [More]
Viggo Mortensen (“A History of Violence”) will play a 1930’s German professor turned Nazi supporter in the big screen adaptation of “Good,” Production Weekly reports. Brazilian director Vicente Amorim (“O Caminho das Nuvens”) will helm the film that is based on CP Taylor’s award-winning play that chronicles the professor’s decent into the Reich and his ability to slide down the path of evil. [More]
Naomi Watts will join Viggo Mortensen for the London-based thriller Eastern Promises. David Cronenberg will direct the script by Steven Knight, which delves into the same seedy underside of London life that Knight explored in Dirty Pretty Things. Watts will play a midwife at a London hospital who gets dragged into the criminal underworld when she tries to discover the identity of a dead patient. The movie will begin filming in November.
Newswise — “Lord of the Rings” star Viggo Mortensen told the graduates of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, that “activism is not a dirty word” and urged them to be active citizens, particularly to make changes in the country’s health-care system. Mortensen, star of “A History of Violence,” graduated from St. Lawrence in 1980 and spoke to the University’s 567 graduates at Commencement on Sunday, May 21, in Appleton Arena on campus. He also received an honorary doctor of arts degree at the ceremony, held indoors for the first time in 21 years. “Much has changed in this country and the world since 1980,” he said, “but the value of active citizenship is greater than ever. Making an earnest attempt to connect with people and issues outside of one’s own limited personal circle will always be worthwhile. My liberal arts education at St. Lawrence taught me as much, and for that I am grateful.” [More]