Sacha Baron Cohen cut a suave figure on Friday as he hit the red carpet for the screening of his new TV series Disclaimer during Venice Film Festival. Sacha Baron Cohen cut a suave figure on Friday as he hit the red carpet for the screening of his new TV series Disclaimer during Venice Film Festival The actor, 52, opted …
When director Denis Villeneuve’s sand-swept sci-fi epic “Dune” hit theaters in 2021, fans of Frank Herbert’s original 1965 novel quickly noted one key character who was missing in action: Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. From left, Austin Butler, Denis Villeneuve and Dave Bautista on the set of “Dune: Part Two.” The book delves more deeply than the film into the power struggle within …
Sarah Polley wasn’t really looking for a project to direct when she was approached about adapting Miriam Toews’ novel “Women Talking” into a film. Though she wrote “Alias Grace,” a limited series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel of the same name, Polley had chosen not to direct anything because, she said, “I didn’t think I could direct a film …
Denis Villeneuve first read Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 sci-fi novel “Dune” when he was around 13, and for an impressionable future filmmaker growing up in Quebec, Canada, the book was like an oasis in the desert. It took a long time to find the right equilibrium so that people who don’t know ‘Dune’ will not feel left aside and will …
