Al Pacino honoured

Veteran actor Al Pacino has been honoured at the Venice Film Festival for his work as a moviemaker. Pacino is in Venice to promote his new directorial project Wilde Salome, a part-documentary about writer-poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play Salome.

"We do know that he (Oscar Wilde) was... a very liberal thinker and a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane," dailystar.co.uk quoted Pacino as saying.

"Part of his sexuality was what they used against him. They wanted to silence him," he said. Pacino was awarded the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award Sunday night.

Source: IANS

Al Pacino to play Matisse in new movie

LOS ANGELES: Veteran US actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in an upcoming film about the French artist and his relationship with his nurse and model, industry daily Variety reported.

"Masterpiece," about the pioneering painter's relationship with his nurse and model Monique Bourgeois, will be directed by Deepa Mehta, whose previous work includes 2003's "Bollywood Hollywood" and "Water" in 2006.

No start date has yet been fixed for the project, which will be made by production company Escape Artists from a script by Donald Martin, although casting will soon begin for the two female lead roles.

Bourgeois started to work for Matisse at the age of 21 in 1942, and featured in several of his canvases, before the war separated them until they met again in southern French town of Vence in 1946.

She had become a Dominican nun under the name Sister Jacques-Marie, and inspired him to paint a chapel there, which became one of the painter's final masterpieces.

Pacino recently won a Golden Globe for his performance as famed assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, whose controversial tactics earned him the nickname Doctor Death in "You Don't Know Jack" for HBO.

The Oscar-winning actor is also set to play controversial record producer Phil Spector in an untitled HBO movie from writer-director David Mamet.(AFP)

Al Pacino wins Emmy for best actor

Hollywood veteran Al Pacino bagged the outstanding lead actor in a mini series or movie award at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Directed by Barry Levinson, the miniseries is about the life and work of physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, which is played by Pacino.

Mick Jackson won the outstanding directing for a miniseries, movie or a dramatic special award for making the biopic Temple Grandin, about a woman with autism who revolutionised practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughter houses.