Cannes 2009: Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Hilary Swank, Lily Cole

Julie Gayet (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images)

Lily Cole (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images)

Hilary Swank (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
 

Cannes 2009: Heath Ledger in THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian:
"Heath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam’s loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp gamely stepped into the breach.

"When Gilliam shoots off into his surreal wonderland, his film has a kind of helium-filled jollity and spectacle. … But the film’s convoluted curlicues are tiring, insisting too loudly on how ‘imaginative’ everything is. And when it descends into the real world – Lucy [...]

Sally Potter’s RAGE Multi-Platform Release

Judi Dench, Jude Law (as a female top model), Riz Ahmed

In conjunction with its traditional media release worldwide, Sally Potter’s Rage will be released — as a series of episodes — by web TV service Babelgum online and via mobile through the fall/winter of 2009.
Starring Simon Abkarian, Patrick J. Adams, Riz Ahmed, Bob Balaban, Adriana Barraza, Steve Buscemi, Jakob Cedergren, Lily Cole, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jude Law, John Leguizamo, David Oyelowo, and Dianne Wiest, Rage premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
The film’s setting is a New York fashion house, where a young blogger shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone with an eclectic group of people, including a celebrity supermodel, a seamstress, a [...]