Viggo Mortensen News

London, Nov 7 : American actor Mickey Rourke is said to have turned the air blue during an interview after he used a cuss word in each and every sentence.

Join Back Stage on Monday, November 9 for a Los Angeles screening of the new film "The Road," starring Viggo Mortensen, who will hold a Q&A immediately afterward.

Don't let the relatively unknown director, John Hillcoat , and writer, Joe Penhall , scare you away- The Road is shaping up to be nothing less than a thoughtful and invigorating ride.

Forget Lord of Rings. Try Lord of the Idiots. The Toronto Film Festival opened on Thursday with an outcry against the fest's City to City program, which spotlights Tel Aviv this year.

Louise Lombard left BBC period drama behind to go to LA and a starring role in 'CSI'. Now she's back in Britain but still hunting murderers.

This is the fourth in a series of reports from the Telluride Film Festival . The event customarily held over the Labor Day weekend returned for its 36th season September 4-7. Coverage included a quick look at a film screened each night and highlights of some of the group discussions and celebrity appearances.

How badly do I hope this is all a clever publicity stunt so that Viggo Mortensen can begin a much-needed rapping career? Badly enough to write my congressmen about it.

Another one bites the dust? Viggo Mortensen recently dropped a bombshell about the future of his career, telling Men's Journal in an interview that he's going to quit acting altogether.

Caption: Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean Jameson Empire Film Awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel - Press Room London, England .... VIGGO MORTENSEN stunned Oscar losers at the 2008 Academy Awards by suggesting they all perform a consolation jig in the aisles.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my thoughts on THE ROAD, which screened at the Telluride Film Festival along with a tribute to its star Viggo Mortensen.

On stage before a screening of "The Road,' Silver-Medallion recipient Viggo Mortensen recalled his first acting gig.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play father and son on a harrowing and hopeless journey in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's devastating novel "The Road," premiering Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.

A father and his son, survivors of the apocalypse, in "The Road." Often the end-of-the-world movie scenario spells the beginning of sky-high box-office. Look no further than Charlton Heston , Mel Gibson , and Will Smith .

One Israeli graffiti artist seems to think so. Above is a work of street art found on a wall in Jerusalem, only a few blocks away from both the Wailing Wall, Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock.

A TMNT fan blog noticed the other day that the official TMNT site had released details of the Turtles' panel at Comic Con, and the page had some new info.

Cool Site of the Week : Comics I dona t understand . Geek Stuff : Finally, a quality zombie jello mold .

Viggo Mortensen is selective when choosing his roles, including Good and The Road.

BIG TROUBLE: Viggo Mortensen stars in Eastern Promises on Wednesday night. Top 10 TV picks: May 5-11 Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, May 5 to Monday, May 11.

CP Taylor's final play Good, the frightening story of how a decent, middle-class, German intellectual drifts into Nazism, was given a fine production by the RSC at the Donmar Warehouse in 1981 with an unforgettable performance by Alan Howard.

He turned a brutal Russian gangster into a near hero in Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, but can he do the same for a seductive Nazi in his latest movie, Good? Viggo Mortensen talks to Chrissy Iley about passion, poetry and his performance in Cormac McCarthy's The Road One of the things that has always fascinated me about Viggo Mortensen is the way ...