Lifetime Achievement of The Golden Lion at Venice 2019
Almodovar achieves the one-of-a-kind status word "aura"
May you live in interesting times.

Bernardo Bertolucci, director receives Golden Lion at Venice 64

"Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind

Art in The Present Tense"

Published with Film and Festivals on the 64th edition of Venice Film Festival

"A natural next step"

Olivia Colman, actress

"The more I work out of Greece, the more Greek I feel"

Yorgos Lanthimos, director

“Just a joy, on these beautiful sets and colourful, wonderful compositions”

"That's nice!"... the black and white sketch

Jude Law

directed by the humour and attention to detail of

Paolo Sorrentino

We listen to Frantz recall “The noise is terrifying. The sound of the wind in the leaves. I can’t hear the notes. Le Suicide, Manet”.

Pierre Niney

Paula Beer wins best young actress for her portrayal, in both tongues, of a love torn soul drawn into mourning and faced with the imagery of Manet’s painting, Le Suicide

Paula Beer

Humour as director Philippe Faladreau provides “Something gritty and sexy in the design of the film, and embraces the flaws of the hand held camera”

Philippe Faladreau

Naomi Watts, actress, goes into costume for her audition sporting “Red boots, fake boobs, leopard print tights, all art forms there to connect to yourself” and she says “Wow, did you just do that!”

Naomi Watts

She responds dreamlike “Oh, are we on a desert island? Oh, that’s gorgeous!” The Light Between Oceans

Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender

A dream in the real world, rhythms of a speech pattern, without cynicism, nursing fantasies, hitting the double chord, with joy in his work, then lights out.

Emma Stone and Damian Chazelle

Silver Lion for best director to Pablo Trapero.
Peter Lanzani, Agustin Almodovar, Pablo Trapero, Guillermo Francella

Passion du Nord. Un Pays dans la France. Chaque elegance d'humour! Le Patron de mon montage, Le Chameleon. Fabrice Luchini, Coppa Volpi award for best actor.
Christian Vincent, Fabrice Luchini, Matthieu Tarot

Beauty will save us. Art will save the World. A Unique fight to live a life authentic, about inclusion; the key is love, sexuality and gender, the depth of a partner's empathy.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Amber Heard, Tom Hooper, Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander.

Events that define the 20th Century. A beautiful event, not the music, but Scott Walker.
Tom Sweet, Berenice Bejo.

Les Memoirs, magical thinking.
Giacomo Bendotti, Lou de Laâge, Piero Messina, Juliet Binoche, Giorgio Colangeli.

Beautiful, human, lasting, expressing myself completely through dancing. Ralph Fiennes.
D Kajganich, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Luca Guadagnino, Tilda Swinton, Matthias, Schoenaerts, M Costigan.

A Bigger Splash at Harry's Bar, sketch with Barman Marco Salvadori, Carlotta Cerquetti, Arrigo Cipriani, actress Tilda Swinton and director Luca Guadagnino

At Harry's Bar with Ralph Fiennes, who plays the part of another Harry in 'A Bigger Splash'

The Evil and I are old friends, a danger transformation, bad people do bad things well! Painting a character you don't like and a tremendous responsibility for truth to the person as Johnny Depp plays James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black Mass.
Joey Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Johnny Depp, Scott Cooper.

Humour, as Johnny Depp jests "I killed my dogs and ate them!"

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award 2014
Editor to Martin Scorsesee
Documentary pulls out people’s characters. A 6 week course.
Bad with Michael Jackson. White Gloves.
Raging Bull. Red Gloves.

“Thank you for the lovely drawing”

Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award and Olive Ketteridge.
Refusing to cry. Feminists, character actors. In a deep well. 57 year old woman.
Olive Ketteridge Target audience? 15 year old males.

3 lifelines to Lars

A pleasant life working with Lars.
Reading and talking about sexuality.
He’s just sighing. People don’t learn how to have good sex.
Started as a shorter film, it grew and grew, a longer process and dependence on sex.

J. Halland, V. Wigunic, Stellan Skarsgard, A. De Luca, L. Vesth

Venice Biennale

Koolhaas and Baratta introduce the design concepts
for this years Venice Architectural Biennale:
Fundamentals, where an exceptional research centre
looks to absorb 100 years of modernism to confront
developments of conceptual art.

Rem Koolhaas, Paolo Baratta

King Lear on Broadway,
Show me the man who is not passion’s slave.
Tragic Comic Fall viewed as glamorous.
Comedy and tragedy, the mask kisses them both.
“That’s nice!”

Al Pacino, Barry Levinson

A wonderful construct to put the cat there,
I just stood there and let everything fall in there

David Gordon Green, Al Pacino

Good-bye Mommy

Kept as open as possible, as free, no restrictions.

Elias Schwarz, Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl, Severin Fiala, Lukas Schwarz

San Servola - “Open” Art Exhibition Sketch

Critic versus Film - Theatre versus Film. In their shoes.
Confronting the same kind of madness. Batman. Covered in Different angles.
That Shout!
Write without punctuation.

Alejandro Innaritu, Michael Keaton, Ed Norton

Venice Film Festival
Boxing day

A waltz between friends.
Master and Man, Tolstoy adaptation

Bernard B. Rose, Danny Huston, Matthew Jacobs

Venice Film Festival
To The Wonder

“C’est Jolie”

Olga Kurylenko

Narration: A crisis in faith? A Michaelangelo retrospective at Arsenale - Venice Biennale
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joaquin Phoenix

Andromeda’s Rock, Jaffa
Palazzo Grassi

A live drawing whilst viewing the short film,
The Declaration by Yael Bartana

Venice Film Festival
Fill the Void - Lemale et Ha’Chalal

Hadas Yaron, Coppa Volpi for best Actress

DAYLIGHT, DAY AFTER RUSHES
Spontaneity, Religion and Marriage.
Man has a function and responsibility as a power. Woman has too much power
Ulrich Steidl, Nabil Saleh, W. Thaler, eine Frau Maria Hoffstratter

Venice Film Festival

Tai Chi 0, not for attacking purposes.

Stephen Fung, Kuo-Fu Chen, Angela Baby Yang

Venice Film Festival
At Any Price
A Series of changes.

H.E Newton, R.Bahrani, Zac Efron, Maika Monroe

Venice Biennale

L’Atelier, a black canvas.
Architect Peter Zumthor collaborating with
film director Wim Wenders on a film that will
document one of his major projects.

Peter Zumthor