Venice 2009: Matt Damon, Jane Birkin, Jacques Rivette
Matt Damon
Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Rivette
Jane Birkin
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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by Monica Montenegro | September 13, 2009
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Tags: Jacques Rivette, Jane Birkin, Matt Damon, Photos, Sergio Castellitto, Venice 2009, Venice Film Festival
Lucy Gordon
Lucy Gordon, a young British actress perhaps best known for a small role in Spider-Man 3, was found dead in her Paris apartment yesterday, May 20. Gordon’s death was an apparent suicide. She is supposed to have hanged herself while her boyfriend, cinematographer Jérôme Alméras, slept. Gordon would have turned 29 tomorrow, May 22.
The Oxford-born Gordon worked as a model before making her feature-film debut in the little-seen Perfume in 2001.
Among her other screen credits are the romantic comedy Serendipity, with John Cusack; The Four Feathers, opposite Heath Ledger; Steve Clark’s dramatic comedy Frost, starring Jason Behr; Russian Dolls, with Romain Duris; and John Krasinski’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, which was screened at this [...]
by Andre Soares | May 21, 2009
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Tags: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Lupfer, Heath Ledger, Jane Birkin, Jérôme Alméras, Joann Sfar, John Cusack, John Krasinski, Lucy Gordon, Marc du Pontavice, Perfume, Romain Duris, Russian Dolls, Serendipity, Serge Gainsbourg, Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers, vie héroïque
Jane Birkin: To Bare or Not to Bare
From The [London] Sunday Times: "Jane Birkin, whose career highlights include simulating sex in the song ‘Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus’ and appearing naked in some questionable films, has never been noted for modesty.
"Now the British-born actress-singer has decided to make her own biopic in which she is writing, directing and starring as herself. For good measure Birkin, whose marriage to the louche French performer-director Serge Gainsbourg made her an icon of the late 1960s and 1970s, has signed a cast of friends and relatives for the movie, entitled Boxes."
I’m not sure if that’s true, but the Times article goes on to state that back in the mid-1960s Birkin "distinguished herself by becoming the first actress to show her pubic [...]
by Andre Soares | May 13, 2006
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Tags: Jane Birkin, Sex