Slow times in Hollywood today. The biggest news, as Variety reports, is that Javier Bardem has joined the cast of Eat, Pray, Love, an adaptation of a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert. Bardem joins Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins in the project, which is to be helmed by Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy.
In Screen Daily, Nancy Tartaglione writes that the critically beloved Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami begins shooting his latest movie today in Italy. Titled Certified Copy, the film stars Juliette Binoche as a British author who gets involved in a seemingly innocent bit of role-playing with a French art gallery owner that soon spirals out of control.
Finally, click here for an oldie but goodie: a classic Dick Cavett interview with Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin, the stars of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, which was just recently released on Region 1 DVD. This clip comes via Glenn Kenny, who offers some thoughts on his blog.
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