Cognac Wellerlane Interviews Director Matt Tyrnauer, Actress Anamaria Marinca and Australian Director Elissa Downs at the Hamptons Film Festival
Hello darlings, welcome back to Cognac’s Corner Magazine
Cognac interviews Director Matt Tyrnauer at Opening Night for the movie premier Valentino: The Last Emperor – Video by Mauro Botero
The Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to celebrate the Independent film – long, short, fiction and documentary – and to introduce a unique and varied spectrum of
international films and filmmakers to entertain inspire and amuse audiences.
The festival is committed to exhibiting films that express fresh voices and differing global perspectives, with the hope that these programs will enlighten audiences, provide invaluable exposure for filmmakers and present inspired entertainment for all.
The 16th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival took place on October 15 – 19, 2008
This year I attend the opening night premiere of Valentino: The Last Emperor directed Matt Tyrnauer.
Valentino has been an iconic fashion designer for forty-five years. He is the pride of Rome, the eternal city.
He is plagued by questions about retirement, and by the new bottom line thinking of the financiers who have taken control of haute couture. As a child he dreamed of the beautiful women of the silver screen.
Dressing them became his obsession: I love beauty, he says, it’s not my fault. Every item in all of his collections is hand-sewn by the hundred seamstresses who turn Valentino’s drawings into such fabulous dresses that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy decided to have her entire wardrobe done by him. Beyond the backstage bedlam, onstage glamour and offstage business dealings, Valentino is revealed as an exacting, stubborn and emotional man.
Fit, trim and perfectly coiffed into his seventies, he throws himself completely into the work that is the love of his life, even as forces conspire to wrest control of his company away from him and his life and business partner, the dapper, insightful and deeply loyal Giancarlo Giammetti. In the end it is always Valentino who makes the show and then steals it with the power of his genius and indomitable will.
Cognac interviews Actress Anamaria Marinca at the Hamptons Film Festival – Video by Mauro Botero
I also had the chance to chat with Actress Anamaria Marinca about her role in the film “Boogie”
In the Romanian film, BOOGIE, Directed By: Radu Muntean, the central character, Bogdan, (Boogie to his friends) is on weekend holiday with his wife and their three year-old son. Overworked and desperate to relax, Boogie struggles to adjust to the erratic whims of a child and demands of his wife.
At every turn, they seem committed to stopping him from enjoying himself.
Then he runs into his still-single high school buddies who are also in town for the weekend.
Boogie longs to re-connect with his friends – and their youthful days of late night drinking and carousing. Needless to say, his wife is not too happy about this.
For more info about this extraordinary film please visit www.Boogiethemovie.com
Cognac interviews Australian Director Elissa Downs at the Hamptons Film Festival – Video by Mauro Botero
Another film receving quite a bit of press was “The Black Baloon” directed by Elissa Downs.
An Australian film, “The Black Baloon” is a sensitive story revolving around character Thomas.
All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity.
Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie (Gemma Ward), accept his brother
Toni Collette stars in this funny and heartwarming first feature from Australian director Elissa Downs.
For more info about these films please visit http://hamptonsfilmfest.org/
Until my next celebrity event darlings,
Pink Champagne Kisses
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