Which stars have been out and about this past week? Whole galaxies of them. I've collected a few randomly for this edition of the
red carpet lineup. It's but a tiny fraction of the luminaries since we're now in the thick of festival season. Telluride is behind us, Venice wraps today, and Toronto just kicked off. And that's just the big ones.
Nicholas Hoult and
Julianne Moore hit Venice for the premiere of
A Single Man (see previous post).
An Education's
Carey Mulligan, quickly emerging as the one to beat for
Best Actress, is going to be fought over fiercely when it comes to dressing for the Oscars, just watch. She wore this Prada 09 Fall/Winter collection piece for her film's Toronto premiere. Oscar winner
Jennifer Connelly and her perpetually Oscar snubbed husband
Paul Bettany were also in Toronto promoting the Charles Darwin biography / marital drama
Creation.
Finally, Venice had the cast of the sci-fi drama
Mr. Nobody starring Jared Leto as a 120 year-old man. And, what do you know,
Sarah Polley came. Polley sightings are exciting since she's not exactly a red carpet staple. But --and it feels so weird to say this given my actress predilections -- I'd rather she get back behind the camera very soon as a writer/director.
Away From Her was just fine filmmaking.
What else ya got, Sarah?
Little Know Fact: In late May of 1960 all of the world's major film festivals met for a wild orgy at Cannes. Just as
La Dolce Vita was handed the Palme D'Or,
Tilda Swinton was conceived. Cannes herself, heavy with child, fled to England and gave birth to Tilda not five months later (everything happens quickly at festivals).
It's totally true! For Tilda is the film festival anthropomorphized: the rush of celebrity, the discovery of the exotic, the air of the international and the thrill of the avant garde. Festivals just don't feel complete without her, do they?
She was all over Venice last week (I've repurposed the photos from
Zimbio). Witness...
Tilda's Venice palette: baggy black (a la 07 Oscars), earth tones, white. I wonder if she'll show up in Toronto? While in Venice, she was promoting
Lo Sono L'Amore, an Italian drama. Longtime Swintonites should note that a reunion with her
Teknolust director is currently in development. It's called
Gene to the Fourth and the actress would play a woman seeking eternal life through scientific experiments. But first, and as early as April, Swinton is set to go before the cameras as
Die Blutgräfin (
The Blood Countess). Yes, that's the same vampiric Hungarian role that
Julie Delpy played in the unreleased film
The Countess, a film I'm starting to feel I'll never have the opportunity to see.
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