Venice 2009: Eva Mendes, Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

Prince of Tears photocall
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Venice 2009: Eva Mendes, Werner Herzog, Nicolas Cage

Producer Edward R. Pressman with actors Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes, and director Werner Herzog at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Host Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans Dinner held at Cipriani during the 66th Venice Film Festival.
Photo: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre

Eva Mendes

Edward R. Pressman, Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Jaeger-LeCoultre International Public Relations Director Isabelle Gervais, Werner Herzog

Giffoni 2009: Eva Mendes, Emanuele Bosi, Raoul Bova, Christina Ricci

Eva Mendes

Emanuele Bosi

Raoul Bova

Christina Ricci
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Giffoni 2009: Winona Ryder, Eva Mendes, Paolo Conticini, Gianmarco Tognazzi

Winona Ryder
“There are dark periods, in which cinema seems to be puritan, stagnant,” Ryder was quoted as saying at the Giffoni site, in what was apparently English translated into Italian and then translated back into English. “I hope that this new time, with Barack Obama – and I tell this even if I’m an immigrant couple daughter – let us to leave behind this dark atmosphere which derives from the George Bush government. Some months ago, some teachers have got the sack because of the subject they taught. But I feel that everything will change.”

Eva Mendes

Paolo Conticini

Gianmarco Tognazzi
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Golden Globes 2009: Eva Mendes, Evan Rachel Wood, Simon Baker

Eva Mendes © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Evan Rachel Wood © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Simon Baker © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

TRAINING DAY – Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

Training Day (2001)
Direction: Antoine Fuqua
Screenplay: David Ayer
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Macy Gray, Eva Mendes, Raymond J. Barry, Dr. Dre
 

 

Every few years, the Los Angeles Police Department gets embroiled in one scandal or other. The public is then told that the problem has been caused by a few bad apples; the system itself remains spotlessly clean. We get to taste quite a few of those bad apples in Training Day, a 2001 thriller that depicts a police culture embedded in corruption and violence. As such, the film could have become an early 21st-century Chinatown — a reflection of a city and a society so corrupt that nothing and no one are what they [...]