Burning Plain opens Venice Film Festival
Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, The Burning Plain, opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story. The Burning Plain, written and directed by the 21 Grams and Babel screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia's mother, Gina, at a

Burning Plain opens Venice Film Festival
Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, The Burning Plain, opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story. The Burning Plain, written and directed by the 21 Grams and Babel screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia's mother, Gina, at a

`The Burning Plain' debuts at Venice film festival - AP
Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, "The Burning Plain," opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story. "The Burning Plain," written and directed by the "21 Grams" and "Babel" screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia's mother, Gi

Arriaga debuts at Venice film festival
"The Burning Plain," written and directed by the "21 Grams" and "Babel" screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia's mother, Gina, at a pivotal moment in her young life. The film, which debuts at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, is one of 21 movies competing for the Golden Lion, which will be awarded Sept. 6. Directed by Mexico-born Arriaga, it

Theron attends `Burning Plain' debut in Venice - AP
Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, "The Burning Plain," opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story. "The Burning Plain," written and directed by the "21 Grams" and "Babel" screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia's mother, Gi

Theron attends `Burning Plain' debut in Venice
Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, "The Burning Plain," opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story. "The Burning Plain," written and directed by the "21 Grams" and "Babel" screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia's mother, Gin

Theron attends ‘Burning Plain’ debut in Venice
“The Burning Plain,” written and directed by the “21 Grams” and “Babel” screenwriter, stars Charlize Theron as a troubled Oregon restaurant manager who is forced to confront her past when a mysterious visitor arrives from Mexico. Kim Basinger appears in flashbacks as Sylvia’s mother, Gina, at a pivotal moment in her young life.The film, which debuts at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, is one of 21 movies competing for the Golden Lion, which will be awarded Sept. 6. Directed by Mexico-born A

Charlize Theron At The Venice Film Festival For The Burning Plain Photocall
Charlize Theron is out in Venice, Italy for the 2008 Venice Film Festival.  These pictures are from day three of the big event at the photocall for her film ‘The Burning Plain’ She is looking stunning, as usual.      WENN Written by Kelly · Filed Under Charlize Theron  Comments One Response to “Charlize Theron At The Venice Film Festival For The Burning

65th Venice Film Festival - “The Burning Plain”
Charlize Theron

Monster? What Monster? Charlize dazzles on the red carpet at Venice Film Festival
Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron brought old school Hollywood glamour to the red carpet of the 65th Venice Film Festival in Italy.

Charlize Theron @ “The Burning Plain” photocall in Venice, Italy Today
Beautiful Charlize in a gorgeous pink dress, but the shoes ughhhh!

Charlize Theron Premieres "The Burning Plain"
Continuing along with her busy day at the Venice Film Festival, Charlize Theron once again looked stunning on the red carpet - this time for the premiere of her new movie “The Burning Plain”. The Academy Award-winning South African actress both starred in and acted as executive producer for the Guillermo Arriaga directed...

Venice Fest 2008: Charlize Says Being Producer/actor Great on “Burning Plain”
Charlize Theron talks about her first outing as a producer on what turns out to be a hit at 65th Venice Film Festival By Cassandra Gava VENICE, Italy (Hollywood Today) 8/31/08 — “It seemed like the toughest thing about being an Executive Producer and lead actress is negotiating with yourself,” Charlize Theron told Hollywood [...]

Charlize Theron gets marriage proposal
Charlize Theron was just in Denver, but today she's in Venice at the film festival. At a press conference, the 33-year-old actress spoke about how there were only a "nominal" number of actresses over 50 working in the movie industry, reports The Telegraph. One of them, she pointed out, is Kim Basinger, 54, who plays her mother in new film The Burning Plain, which is showing in competition.  "Kim is amazing. There is a strength about Kim now, at her age, more than when she was working

Pics from Venice Film Festival
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Burning Plain Frontrunner for Golden Lion?
From The Telegraph: Only three days in to the Venice Film Festival, a front-runner for the Golden Lion best film award has emerged. The Burning Plain, written and directed by the Mexican film-maker Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, has all the right credentials: it is serious-minded and ...

Basinger and Theron team up for complex love story - Reuters
Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in "The Burning Plain," an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga.

Basinger and Theron team up for complex love story
Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in "The Burning Plain", an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. The film is the first of five US entries to appear in the main competition at the Venice film festival, and was warmly applauded by critics and journalists on Friday at a press screening ahead of its red carpet world premiere. Arriaga is best known for his scripts that include well rec

Alec Baldwin Still Hates Kim Basinger [Celebrity Death Match]
With his success on the awesome 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's been enjoying his reclaimed status as beloved funny dude for the last couple of years now. But raise the subject of his ex-wife Kim Basinger and you'll be treated to hot flashes of psycho "you're a little pig" voicemail dad. In a profile in the upcoming New Yorker, he asks, "Think I'm walking stiffly? Yeah, there's a 120-pound actress on my back." Baldwin's gripe, he says, is that Basinger is constantly trying to drive a wedge between him and their 12-

ALEC CAN'T STOP BASHING KIM
Alec Baldwin has been divorced from Oscar-winner Kim Basinger for six years now, but the "30 Rock" star still bristles on the subject of his blond ex-wife. "Think I'm walking stiffly?" he asks journalist Ian Parker in this week's New Yorker. "Yeah, there's a 120-pound actress on my back." Baldwin accuses Basinger of trying to destroy his relationship with their daughter, Ireland, 12, with whom they share joint custody after a bitter battle. "Parental alienation is about people who narcissistically pro

Basinger and Theron team up for complex love story (Reuters)
Reuters - Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in "The Burning Plain," an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga.

Basinger and Theron team up for complex love story
VENICE (Reuters) - Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in "The Burning Plain", an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga.

Stories and Elements
"We never tell stories in a linear way -- we always tell them in a decomposed way," Guillermo Arriaga, director-writer of The Burning Plain, has told the Guardian's Mark Brown. "If you ask how did I become a director, I will not begin at the beginning. I will talk about my grandfather, my trip to Italy and so on. That's the way we tell stories in real life." Burning Plain director-writer Guillemo Arriaga, star Charlize Theron "I've always been driven to the desert. I think the landscape itself inf

Charlize Theron was spotted at Venice Italy
Charlize Theron was spotted at Venice, Italy (August 28, 2008) at an exclusive party at the Guggenheim Museum to celebrate the premiere of “Valentino: The Last Emperor” as part of the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Charlze was looking all red hot and gathering all the paparazzi attenton towards her. Charlize was wearing an asymmetrical jewel neckline [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Charlize Theron was spotted at Venice Italy", url: "http://showstalker.net/2008/08/charlize-theron-was-spotted-at-venice-ita

Reporter Asks Charlize Theron to Marry Him
A cheeky reporter made Charlize Theron blush at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Thursday, August 28, by asking her to marry him and then quizzing her about sleeping arrangements.