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Video Diary:
Highlights of Day 12
Festival Diary:
Laura Harring and Naomi Watts, the stars of David Lynch's new pic "Mulholland Drive", brought a welcome splash of glamour to the festival on Sunday. Also attending screenings were Anna Friel, star of "The War Bride", and "The Full Monty" producer Umberto Pasolini, for his new historical drama "The Emperor's New Clothes", starring Ian Holm.
Following his striking departure with "The Straight Story" in 1999, David Lynch returns to more familiar territory with his surreal thriller "Mulholland Drive".
Laura Harring told us: "Usually a director is very simple, direct and to the point, but with David, everything was a metaphor or a simile. For me that was something so different. It was like talking to a poet - in fact I do believe that David is a poet. He was so level-headed and gentle, and for a man who drinks 20 cups of coffee a day that is really unusual!" See the Harring interview.
Co-star Naomi Watts also talked about Lynch: "He's someone who guides you very gently through his world, and it is a very different world. His mind works in such an interesting way, he never tells you what it is that he wants. He wants the actors to find it for themselves and add to the role." Watch the Watts interview.
Lyndon Chubbuck, the director of "The War Bride", couldn't speak highly enough of the film's star Anna Friel: "Working with Anna was a gift, it was easy, it was one of the highlights of my career," he said. "I have worked with maybe eight or nine Academy Award-winning actors, and she is certainly the equal of any of them. Jim Carrey and Brad Pitt went to my acting school in Hollywood, so when I say this it's coming from somone with the gravitas to say Anna was brilliant." See the full interview.
In addition to Anna Friel, Chubbuck was joined on stage by Friel's co-star, Julie Cox, to introduce the film. Anna Friel will be back in town on Tuesday for the gala screening of "Me Without You". See the separate video interviews with Anna Friel and Julie Cox.
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