With her new film about the sex lives of insects, Isabella Rossellini realizes a lifelong goal to make a film about nature.
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The four-time Oscar nominee and her director Tom Kalin (Swoon) talk about their new film Savage Grace.
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"It felt to me like the artifact of a lost civilization," said author Ann Druyan after watching Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. "It was like a meditation by someone who had survived post-Copernican stress syndrome." The Contact writer was joined by astronaut Buzz Aldrin, MIT professor, Marvin Minsky, and actor Matthew Modine for a panel, 2001: A Space Odyssey - Ahead of Its Time, at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend.
Of the group, astronaut Aldrin was the most critical of the film. "In my days of growing up, the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, the people who wrote those were trying to be as absolutely realistic as they possibly could and then I think we started getting esoteric," he explained. "I'm not sure exactly when in 1968 I saw this but I remind myself that I had done space walking in November of 1966. So I had a rather critical analysis." After watching it again he still prefers something like Apollo 13, a movie he says, "testifies to the fact that you can tell a fantastic story and stay right with the simple basic reality."
As to the future possibility of a moon base, said Aldrin, "Having been there, the moon is just a sorry place for habitation." Adding, "I'm just trying to get people to think differently about a second habitation for the earth, and it's not on a space station. It would be logically on Mars."
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The Festival's two co-founders, Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, discuss how the festival's original goals have evolved from its post-9/11 days to the present.
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The actor most often associated with heavy-hitting political films like Crash and Hotel Rwanda acknowledges he tries to keep his fun side out of the media.
The script for Fanboys had been around for awhile, but because it was about Star Wars, some producers were scared to take on the topic. Kevin Spacey's solution? Call George Lucas.
Shootout co-host Peter Guber knows first hand how Comic-Con can make or break a movie.
