Ben Affleck Wins Best Actor

Hell has frozen over. Ben Affleck won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his portrayal of cinema’s first Superman, George Reeves, in “Hollywoodland”. The movie is playing in theaters now. Yahoo shows a critics rating of B-, and viewers of the movie give it a B. Might be good. Maybe now Ben won’t mind so much the intrusive Photogs.

Picture taken 31 August 2006 of US actor Ben Affleck arriving for the screening of director Allen Coulter’s “Hollywoodland” at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival at the Lido in Venice.

The Chinese movie “Still Life,” a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China’s gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, on Saturday won this year’s Golden Lion – the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke made “Still Life.”

This weekend I saw Little Miss Sunshine, and the Illusionist. Both were very good. Little Miss Sunshine is a comedy that is a bit different than any comedy I’ve seen before, and it worked. Sunshine might be up for an award. Ed Norton and Jessica Biel were in the Illusionist, and while Ed is always good, and Biel was too, I expected more from Biel, however I wasn’t disappointed by her performance.