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Isabella Rossellini to Receive Locarno Film Festival Excellence Award

Isabella Rossellini to Receive Locarno Film Festival Excellence Award

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Italian-American actress, model, filmmaker and icon Isabella Rossellini with its Excellence Award at its 79th edition this summer. Rossellini will be honored on the opening night of the festival, Wednesday Aug. 5 in the picturesque Swiss town’s Piazza Grande. “An icon of contemporary cinema, television, and fashion whose name is virtually synonymous with artistic daring and technical excellence, Rossellini has long fused the technical brilliance of Hollywood with the European spirit of artistic fearlessness across an extraordinary, multi-faceted, decades-long career,” Locarno organizers highlighted. “After first making a major cultural impact as a model, Rossellini seared herself into the collective imagination as the haunting Dorothy Vallens in David Lynch’s masterpiece Blue Velvet (1986), a role that blended glamour, raw vulnerability, and unforgettable intensity.” Added the festival: “Born of cinema royalty, Rossellini has left her distinct mark on film history, forging a career featuring collaborations with filmmakers like Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell, Taylor Hackford, Marjane Satrapi, Guy Maddin, the Taviani brothers, or of course, most memorably of all, David Lynch, …

Inside Cannes’s Most Exclusive Parties, Featuring Joan Collins, Adam Driver, Isabella Rossellini, and Scarlett Johansson

Inside Cannes’s Most Exclusive Parties, Featuring Joan Collins, Adam Driver, Isabella Rossellini, and Scarlett Johansson

Published by Sam Flores

It’s Cannes Film Festival time again, which means that the days are longer, warmer, and, for the hot, rich, famous, and most fortunate, spent rubbing shoulders and sipping wine on the French Riviera. Keep up if you dare, because they’re about to get very busy. Wednesday, May 13 Dame Joan Collins, Isabella Rossellini, and Laurent Lafitte kick things off at a luncheon for their new film, The Duchess. Then, in the evening, the cast of Parallel Tales, the new French-language film from Oscar nominee Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman), will celebrate at a dinner on the beach, with Veuve Clicquot flowing; the film features Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Adam Bessa, and Catherine Deneuve. Later still, Mubi and Plan B Entertainment’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma—directed by Jane Schoenbrun and starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson—toasts its premiere with Up Provence until the early hours of the morning. Thursday, May 14 Law Roach will be a guest of honor at a Magnum fête following the ice cream company’s inaugural …

Princess Isabella is a style ‘pioneer’ on 19th birthday in Black Swan tutu – and it’s H&M

Princess Isabella is a style ‘pioneer’ on 19th birthday in Black Swan tutu – and it’s H&M

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s a day for celebration in the Danish royal household as King Frederik and Queen Mary‘s eldest daughter, Princess Isabella, turns 19. To mark the occasion, Isabella featured in a set of new portrait photos with her skirt stealing the show. As identified by Royal Fashion Police on Instagram, the young royal sported the black tulle tutu-style midi skirt from Giambattista Valli Paris’s 2019 collaboration with H&M. The dramatic piece featured metallic detailing, layered ruffle detailing, and felt straight from Black Swan with its balletic silhouette. It was styled with black suede slingback heels by Tony Bianco, as well as a cream jumper and the ‘Life’ bracelet by Ole Lynggaard. Adding to the youthful quality of the look, Isabella wore her brunette hair down and styled in loose curls. Princess Isabella steps into her own It was a look that caught the eye of fashion stylist Sian Clarke of Styled by Sian. Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Who are the Danish royal family? “Princess Isabella has such a contemporary twist on royal style, and I …

Isabella Rossellini Continues To Question The Meaning of Beauty

Isabella Rossellini Continues To Question The Meaning of Beauty

Published by Sam Flores

To build her character, the longtime wife of the man who wants to bring an appearance-changing injection to the masses, “we worked on the physical appearance, spending hours creating this absurd high fashion. One day I said to Ryan: ‘Did you choose me because I have something in common with this over-the-top character?’ It’s true that I come from a fashion background, but I’ve never had plastic surgery, I’m also a farmer…” “But the director’s skill lies in choosing the actors, and even if you disguise yourself behind poses and costumes, a part of you always emerges. I remain convinced that he was making fun of me a little,” she says. In fact, there is something in common between her and the woman she plays. “My character loves beauty, but she defines it differently than others: not just youth, muscles, prowess. Rather, it’s an art form, an expression of elegance. It’s in the way you present yourself to others: what you want to communicate through your clothes, rather than obeying the dictates of thinness and …

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Solves Big Mystery (But Not That One)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Solves Big Mystery (But Not That One)

Published by José Betancourt

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist of all time. That mystery derives from the still unsolved case of three invaluable paintings—by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Manet—that were stolen by thieves who broke into the Dutch Room in 1990 and made off with artworks whose whereabouts remain unknown. The newer mystery involves the question of how best to spruce up a set of 17th-century chairs to a period-faithful state as part of a three-year restoration of the Dutch Room. Related Articles As reported by the Boston radio station WBUR, “Much of its restoration has consisted of relatively straightforward tasks, like cleaning the painted Italian ceiling and refinishing the floors. But the set of 14 chairs posed a unique challenge. They had been reupholstered multiple times over the years, and the old …

Wuthering Heights Director Addresses Controversial Isabella Scene

Wuthering Heights Director Addresses Controversial Isabella Scene

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell via Associated Press This article contains spoilers for Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell is opening up about one of the biggest changes she made to the original story for her new big-screen adaptation. Much has already been made of Emerald’s fast-and-loose approach to staying faithful to the source material in her new spin on Wuthering Heights, so much so that the title of her film is listed in quotation marks to indicate how much it’s her version of events. One of the most polarising aspects of the new film involves Alison Oliver’s character Isabella, and what transpires between her and Heathcliff. In the original film, Isabella and Heathcliff’s relationship is depicted as coercive, violent and abusive, with the latter even killing the former’s dog as an act of cruelty shortly after marrying her. However, in the film, when Nelly drops in on Isabella and Heathcliff, it’s suggested that their relationship is more of a consensually submissive one, with Isabella chained up and acting like a dog, even quietly winking at her …

Horny Isabella Linton is the Best Part of “Wuthering Heights”

Horny Isabella Linton is the Best Part of “Wuthering Heights”

Published by Jenni Sidey

Emerald Fennell’s latest, fluid-spattered endeavor is a Technicolor take on Wuthering Heights, arguably the greatest and most influential gothic novel of all time. You know the main beats of the original IP, or you should: Cathy and Heathcliff grow up under the same eerie roof and bond with one another for life, but their myriad mistakes and vicious dispositions drive them apart and make everyone around them miserable. Eventually, Cathy dies giving birth to her mini-me daughter and Heathcliff becomes a singularly abusive landlord. To this, Fennell adds her signatures—campy, horny details, and (as Tina Fey pointed out, almost clairvoyantly, in an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast) a third act that takes a sexually violent turn we’re meant to be surprised by. Although Fennell layers on the bombastic visual flourishes—including baseball-sized strawberries and a river that runs blood red—her adaptation ruthlessly scales down the most genius elements of Emily Brontë’s epic horror-romance; elements that probably felt too abstract and ineffable to suit the third-time director’s tastes. Put another way, this is Wuthering Heights for …