Director Penn goes `Into the Wild'
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Sean Penn is back where he wants to be: behind the camera, not in front of it.
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Arts & entertainment: Event also plays host to new features from Ang Lee, Julian Schnabel, Sean Penn and Todd Haynes.
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Dozens of Irving Pennâs portraits of artists, writers and musicians are on view in âClose Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writersâ.
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La natura di 'Into the Wild', nelle terre selvagge, diretto dall'attore e regista americano. Un'occasione per scoprire l'Alaska, dove l'ambiente &egrave; grandioso e spettacolare
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Arthur Penn will receive an honorary award at the Berlin film festival for his role in helping reshape Hollywood during the 1960s and `70s with films such as "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Night Moves."
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The yet-untitled film will deal with adventure sports.
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A new biography and DVD set reminds viewers why the director's films haven't lost their ability to thrill.
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Sean Penn's road trip movie Into the Wild gets four nominations for next year's Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Wilderness drama "Into the Wild," directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch, topped a surprising list of Screen Actors Guild nominees on Thursday with four nods overall, including best ensemble cast.
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American actor-director Sean Penn has been named to head the jury of the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival, organizers of the event announced on Thursday.
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Namesake star Kal Penn's blog is getting funnier by the day.
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In his latest film, the young Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul pushes at the limits of narrative with grace and a puckish willfulness.
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There are some genuine chills  in Christian Petzold's mystery tale "Yella," which recently  screened In Competition at the Berlin International Film  Festival, and even though many will see through his  legerdemain, it won't entirely spoil the pleasure of seeing how  he does it.
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For a filmmaker who has built his career on the cutting edge of controversy, Oliver Stone delivers a surprisingly conventional take on Alexander the Great.
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TORONTO  - Sean Penn is attached to play gay '70s San Franciso politician Harvey Milk, and Matt Damon his assassin in a long-gestating project from director Gus Van Sant.
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Mira Nair's film grabbed the audience from the first frame.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.