Angelina Jolie and Film Restoration at Cannes
May 22nd, 2007 by Andre Soares
© 2007 Paramount Vantage
Kenneth Turan interviews A Mighty Heart star Angelina Jolie for the Los Angeles Times:
"Jolie, whose forceful, immediate performance as Mariane Pearl is the heart of [Michael] Winterbottom’s taut, involving film, is seated on the nearly deserted terrace of the Hotel du Cap, displaying the same level-headed focus and intelligence that enables her to survive the Cannes madness without a glove being laid on her.
"Jolie’s friendship with Pearl, as it turns out, considerably predates the film. ‘Like most people in the world, I assumed Danny would be returned,’ she remembers of Pearl’s 2002 kidnapping and execution in Pakistan. ‘When he wasn’t, I was moved by Mariane’s strength, I was shocked by it. To be able to speak about her love for that country, her thoughts about the other Pakistani men who lost their lives in the same period, I didn’t know where that came from. I didn’t think I could have done it.’"
Via Expatica — Martin Scorsese discusses film restoration in an Agence France Presse article:
"Coming from a working-class background in New York, my parents were not educated and weren’t in the habit of reading books so I saw a great deal of film on television in particular … This opened up a whole world to me, foreign films on television, and introduced so many different cultures to me and I found I was fed by those cultures, and I think the same thing has happened all around the world."
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