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Mirren Lands Best Actress Honour at Rome Film Festival
Dame Helen Mirren and Italy’s Sergio Castellitto have scored the big acting honours at the Rome Film Festival in Italy.
“The Queen” star Mirren was named Best Actress for her portrayal of Leo Tolstoy’s wife in The Last Station, while Castellitto claimed the festival’s Best Actor prize for Alza la Testa.
But the big talking point of Friday’s (23 October 2009) awards ceremony was the Best Film winner, Brotherhood – a controversial Danish movie about a gay romance between two neo-Nazis.
Meryl Streep was honoured with the festival’s Lifetime Career Achievement Award.
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October 24, 2009 by Kirsty • Articles, Gallery Updates
Pictures: Rome International Film Festival
Helen attended the ‘The Last Station’ Photocall, Press Conference and Premiere today, on the 4th day of the 4th Rome International Film Festival in Italy. Pictures have now been added to the gallery.
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October 18, 2009 by Kirsty • Gallery Updates
Helen Mirren Not Fussy Over Films
Dame Helen Mirren has denied that she feels certain film roles are beneath her.
The Oscar-winning star said that she will continue to play a variety of parts in both blockbuster and small-budget films.
“Every film has a different feeling about it, a different character in the making of it,” she explained.
“Big budget films have a certain characteristic and smaller budget films have another characteristic and it’s incredible fun to go from one to another. I love doing films like National Treasure, which was one of my favourite movies to do – it was fantastic – and Inkheart, which is a kids’ movie, and then I can go off and do my very serious acting-y kind of things as well.”
Dame Helen also revealed that her life hasn’t changed much since she received film awards.
She has an array of honours to her name, including an Oscar, four Baftas, three Golden Globes, four Emmys and four Screen Actors Guild trophies for her roles in The Queen, Gosford Park and The Madness Of King George.
“It’s not about love, it’s about recognition – not much changes,” she admitted.
The actress’s prized awards are scattered between her homes in London and Los Angeles.
“Actually they’re a bit spread around – I’ve got some in London, I’ve got some here (in Los Angeles) and we’ve just moved house,” she said.
“We’ve been in the process of moving back into our house so actually they’re all in boxes. So I’ll have to break them out one of these days.”
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October 07, 2009 by Kirsty • Articles
Pictures: Couples Retreat Premiere – Los Angeles
Helen attended the Los Angeles premiere of the comedy “Couples Retreat” yesterday (October 5th 2009). Pictures have now been added to the gallery.
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October 06, 2009 by Kirsty • Gallery Updates
Sony Pictures Classics to Release The Last Station
Sony Pictures Classics takes North and Latin American rights to Tolstoy drama The Last Station
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up North America and Latin American rights to Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti.
The German-Russian historical drama played to great acclaim at its recent world premiere in Telluride.
Hoffman adapted the screenplay from Jay Parini’s 1990 novel of the same name. The story follows a young intellectual who arrives at the rural estate of Leo Tolstoy and gets entangled in a battle over the Russian author’s legacy involving his wife Countess Sofya and the conniving leader of a Utopian society. Ann-Marie Duff also stars.
Chris Curling, Jens Meurer and Bonnie Arnold served as producers while Andrei Konchalovsky handled executive producer duties.
SPC negotiated the sale with Robbie Little’s LA-based The Little Film Company. SPC’s upcoming roster includes An Education, Broken Embraces, The White Ribbon, A Prophet, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, Micmacs, Lebanon and Get Low.