Sam Mendes & Antonello Dè Medici, GM Hotel Danieli - Photo: Mirco Toffolo |
Sam Mendes won the Oscar for his debut film, American Beauty, and the Danieli soirée, called "Revolutionary Beauty," was inspired by that film, as well as Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road. This year, all the guests were given red roses made of silk to wear on their lapels -- in fact, the terrace and the interior were teeming with the color red -- there was even a sofa masquerading as a rose-colored American Beauty bathtub.
Cat Bauer goofing around in American Beauty bathtub at Variety party |
Fish burgers inspired by the "Mr. Smiley" American Beauty scene |
Alejandro Aravena & Cat Bauer at Variety party - Terrazza Danieli |
Last Friday, I was over by Rialto when I saw Alejandro Aravena, winner of this year's Pritzker Architectural Prize and the Director of the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, Reporting from the Front, get off the vaporetto. He said he would be in Venice for meetings for the next eight days, and I hoped I would see him around. Sure enough, there he was on the Terrazza Danieli, a force of nature in the Biennale wind machine, shaking up the forest and shedding some light on how we build the environments of our world.
Variety.com |
One of the proud creators of the garden for the new Sala Giardino |
The Hollywood Reporter wrote that after premiering three Academy Award winning films in the last three years -- Gravity, Birdman and Spotlight -- the world's oldest film festival was once again Hollywood's award-season launchpad.
There are lots of important films to talk about this year, so stay tuned!
Ciao from the Venice Film Festival,
Cat Bauer
Venetian Cat - The Venice Blog
The exclusive Variety bash at Terrazza Danieli on the eve of the grand opening of the Venice Biennale International Film Festival is now in its seventh edition. This year, the legendary show-biz magazine and Starwood Hotels celebrated the career of Academy Award-winning director, Sam Mendes, who is the President of the Jury of this year's film festival.
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