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You have a couple options if you want to watch a film from Criterion's unparalleled collection of cinematic classics. You can buy a physical copy of the movie from their website (look out for those flash sales they're always doing), you can wait approximately 10 hours in line to visit their Mobile Closet (a.

Alfre Woodard, John Benjamin Hickey, Makenzie Leigh, Lewis Pullman, and Jordan Preston Carter in ‘Salem’s Lot’ (Photo by Courtesy of New Line Cinema/Max)

Max’s October 2024 lineup includes a new adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling vampire novel Salem’s Lot and the premiere of the eight-episode comedy series The Franchise starring Himesh Patel. Jordin Sparks hosts and Johnny Weir and Terrell Ferguson judge the new competition series Roller Jam debuting on October 10th. And Dylan O’Brien stars in Caddo Lake, a mystery thriller premiering on October 10th.

The streamer’s October calendar of new series and films also includes the documentaries I Am Not A Monster: The Lois Riess Murders, Louder: The Soundtrack of Change, and Breath of Fire. Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap starring Josh Hartnett makes its streaming premiere on October 25th, and Maxxxine with Mia Goth debuts on October 18th.

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Isabella Rossellini will be honoured during the upcoming European Film Awards with a career award celebrating her body of work as an actor and filmmaker.

The Italian model and movie star, who is the daughter of Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, made her acting debut in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film “Il Prato” before breaking out internationally in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in 1986, followed by prominent roles in films such as Taylor Hackford’s “White Nights,” Robert Zemeckis’s “Death Becomes Her,” and Peter Weir’s “Fearless,” to name a few.

Rossellini, who is 72, has more recently resurfaced as a standout character actress, with meaty parts in Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” alongside Josh O’ Connor, “Spaceman” with Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan, and Edward Berger’s soon-to-be-released “Conclave” in which she plays a scene-stealing nun.

A longtime resident of Long Island, where she lives on a farm,...

Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s European Film Awards.

The Italian-American star, daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, was a successful fashion model — famously for French cosmetics brand Lancôme — before shifting into acting. Her first leading role came in the Taviani brothers’ drama The Meadow (1979), but her international breakout was David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) in which she played the mysterious and tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens. The performance, in which Rossellini also sang the film’s titular tune, won her the Independent Spirit Award for best female lead.

Over the next four decades, Rossellini carved out a unique career in cinema, moving between big-budget features — Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (1992), Peter Weir’s Fearless (1993) — and independent auteur films, working with Peter Greenaway (2003’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases), Guy...

The European Film Academy (Efa) is to honour actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini with the European Achievement In World Cinema award.

Rossellini will be an honorary guest at Efa’s European Film Awards ceremony in Lucerne on December 7.

Rossellini made her cinematic debut as an actress in 1979 in the Taviani brother’s film Die Wiese and has appeared in numerous other films since, including Blue Velvet, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Big Night, and Joy.

She has worked with directors such as Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell, David Lynch, Robert Wilson, Taylor Hackford, Marjane Satrapi and Guy Maddin.

Anlässlich der diesjährigen 37. Verleihung der European Film Awards freut sich die European Film

Academy, die Schauspielerin und Filmemacherin Isabella Rossellini für ihr herausragendes Werk

mit dem European Achievement in World Cinema Award auszuzeichnen.

Isabella Rosselini (Credit: Paola Kudacki/Truck Archive)

Isabella Rossellini wuchs in Paris und Rom auf. Mit 19 Jahren zog sie nach New York City und

arbeitete als Übersetzerin und Journalistin für den italienischen Fernsehsender Rai. Im Alter von

28 Jahren begann sie eine Karriere als Model und war auf zahlreichen Titelseiten von Zeitschriften

wie Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar und Vanity Fair zu sehen. Die Stilikone Isabella Rossellini begann

1982 eine 14-jährige Karriere als exklusive Werbeträgerin für Lancôme. Als sie 40 Jahre alt wurde,

wurde ihr Vertrag nicht verlängert. Isabella Rossellini gründete ihre eigene Kosmetikmarke

Manifesto und wurde 2016 von Lancôme erneut als Werbeträgerin engagiert, um Integration zu

fördern und gegen Altersdiskriminierung zu kämpfen.

Isabella Rossellini gab ihr Kinodebüt als Schauspielerin 1979 in...

Isabella Rossellini puts down her fork, straightens her back and shows me how she nailed a pivotal moment in her new movie, “Conclave,” a Vatican-set thriller that unfolds a world away from her 28-acre Long Island farm where we’re having lunch. In the scene, Rossellini’s character, a nun named Sister Agnes, is navigating a darkened hallway, trying to remain undetected, when she glimpses something mysterious unfolding a few feet in front of her.

“My heart has to beat much faster, so the camera picks it up,” Rossellini says. “Your breath has to translate that. So I …” And with this she inhales, drawing in oxygen as quietly as she can, filling the room with a sense of tension without saying a thing.

It turns out great screen acting is all about waiting to exhale.

In “Conclave,” Sister Agnes tends to the fraternity of cardinals gathered to choose the next pope.

Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno and Other Shorts is now showing on Mubi in many countries.Green Porno: Mantis. Ask any film lover about Isabella Rossellini, and the first image that springs to their mind is most likely to be the star’s iconic performance as songstress Dorothy Vallens, the femme fatale of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), a glamorous yet tortured vision draped in sensual, shimmering black. Revealing a delightfully eccentric side to her screen image, Rossellini’s directorial career ventures into a very different realm of sexuality: that of the mating and maternal habits seen in the animal kingdom. Rossellini’s playful and educational micro-shorts—divided into three series cheekily titled Green Porno (2006–2008), Seduce Me (2010), and Mammas (2013)—are vaudevillian studies in animal behavior, awash in puppetry, construction-paper sets, and slapstick. In addition to her writing and directing duties, Rossellini also gamely performs these frisky rituals in inventive,...

Some apotheosis of film culture has been reached with Freddy Got Fingered‘s addition to the Criterion Channel. Three years after we interviewed Tom Green about his consummate film maudit, it’s appearing on the service’s Razzie-centered program that also includes the now-admired likes of Cruising, Heaven’s Gate, Querelle, and Ishtar; the still-due likes of Under the Cherry Moon; and the more-contested Gigli, Swept Away, and Nicolas Cage-led Wicker Man. In all cases it’s an opportunity to reconsider one of the lamest, thin-gruel entities in modern culture.

A Jane Russell retro features von Sternberg’s Macao, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Raoul Walsh’s The Tall Men and The Revolt of Mamie Stover; streaming premieres will be held for Yuen Woo-ping’s Dreadnaught, Claire Simon’s Our Body, Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil, the recently restored Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles, and The Passion of Rememberance.

Read More: Isabella Rossellini Named President of Cannes' Un Certain Regard Jury Legendary actress Isabella Rossellini will receive the Dallas Star award from the Dallas Film Society on November 20 at their 6th annual The Art of Film gala. Rossellini is descended from film royalty -- her parents are Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman -- and has an accomplished career in cinema all her own. Best known for her leading role in "Blue Velvet," the actress also has notable film appearances in "Wild at Heart," "Death Becomes Her," "Infamous," "Two Lovers" and "Enemy."  Recently, she has been writing, directing and starring in a collection of short films called "Green Porno," which airs on the Sundance channel. The Art of Film event will feature a moderated conversation with Rossellini, as well as a dinner and a collection of 20 works of art from Andy Warhol. Proceeds from the event will benefit programming...

The actress and writer-director will be honoured at The Dallas Film Society’s 6th annual The Art of Film gala on November 20.

The star of Blue Velvet among many other films and writer-director of Green Porno will take part in an on-stage conversation with journalist Gary Cogill.

The non-profit Dallas Film Society will invest the proceeds into year-round programming such as the upcoming Dallas International Film Festival and the 2016 Dfs Summer Film Camp.

“Isabella Rossellini has established a remarkable acting career in Hollywood and on television and we look forward to celebrating her many accomplishments,” said artistic director James Faust.

“Ms Rossellini will certainly provide guests with an entertaining evening and will do the Dallas Film Society a great honour when she accepts the Dallas Star Award.”...

It’s almost October and that means Netflix is about to refresh their content with some new titles and by removing some others. Some of the notable titles leaving include: The Big Lebowski and A Nightmare on Elm Street. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including Boogie Nights, Batman Begins and Curse of Chucky for your Halloween needs.

All Title Dates are Subject to Change

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Available 10/1

A Christmas Carol (1938)

About Alex (2014)

Alexander: Theatrical Cut (2004)

American Pie (1999)

Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics Collection: Collection 1

Batman Begins (2005)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Dark Was the Night (2014)

Design on a Dime Collection: Collection 1

El Tiempo Entre Costuras (2013)

Extreme Homes Collection: Collection 1

Fixer Upper: Season 1

Genevieve’s Renovation: Season 1

Glass Chin (2014)

House...

Norika Fujiwara to narrate and provide voiceover for the Japanese version of Isabella Rossellini’s series.

Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno Live has been selected to screen in the inaugural Panoramic Section of the Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 22-31).

Japanese pay-tv broadcaster Wowow partnered with Sundance Productions on the film, documenting the stage version of Rossellini’s award-winning Green Porno series, which dramatizes the sex life and mating habits of home and garden creatures.

It has also been revealed that Japanese actress and former model Norika Fujiwara will narrate and provide voiceover for Rossellini for the Japanese audience.

Fujiwara is known to local audiences as the voice of Princess Fiona, originally played by Cameron Diaz, in the Japanese-dubbed versions of all four Shrek films.

Kayo Washio, who runs Wowow’s Los Angeles office, executive produced the film with Sundance Productions’ Laura Michalchyshyn.

Director is Jody Shapiro and producer is Sundance Productions’ Molly O’Keefe.

Wowow retains...

Italian-American actress and director to head Un Certain Regard jury.

Isabella Rossellini is to preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 68th Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).

The Italian-American actress and director will head a jury that will judge 20 films, set to be announced when the full line-up is unveiled on April 16.

At this year’s Cannes, Rossellini will take part in a tribute to her actress mother by attending the screening of Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words‏, a documentary by Stig Björkman being shown as part of the Cannes Classics. (This year’s Cannes poster features Bergman)

She will also launch her own ‘Ingrid Bergman Tribute’ to celebrate the centenary of her mother’s birth. The show, directed by Guido Torlonia and Ludovica Damiani, will be based on both her autobiography and her correspondence with Roberto Rossellini.

With the help of a soon-to-be-announced jury made up of artists, journalists and festival...

Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” …

Makenzie Leigh: Couldn’t pick three, apologies. Album: All Thing Must Pass, George Harrison.

Song: Revolt of the Dyke Brigade, Star Rover. Film: Child’s Pose, Calin Peter Netzer. Book: Twilight, Stefan Zweig. TV Series: Slings & Arrows. Painter: Titus Kaphar. Video: Green Porno

Lavallee: I’d like for you to give us an overview of your character’s Pov and her rapport/the dynamic she has with the central character of James White.

Leigh: Hmm. I would say she is afraid: of life and its adult responsibilities, of saying the wrong thing, of being found out. I think she is always presenting a visage, not just to the world, but to herself as well. She has ideas about the type of man she wants to date, the world she wants to live in, the people she wants to be around,...

FX’s The Strain winds up it’s first season this weekend and we sat down with Guillermo del Toro and his cast to talk about where the show ended, where it goes next and how their vampires stack up against those who “glitter”. Plus famed actress, Isabella Rossellini takes her Green Porno from TV to the stage and tells us how it all got started.

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Isabella Rossellini has been explaining and interpreting the sex acts of animals on camera in hyper-colored and papercrafted anatomically correct costumes since way back in 2008. That’s when the Italian model, actress, and former Mrs. Scorsese debuted Green Porno. It’s an original web series from the Sundance Channel that has so far spawned three distinct seasons comprised of dozens of episodes, each of which features Rossellini and conveys legitimate and interesting animal reproductive facts in a style that’s equal parts visually appealing, comical, and informative. It’s a good series. And it’s birthed a stage show now, too. Green Porno just completed it’s limited run at Brooklyn’s famed Bam performing arts venue on January 25, 2014. The one-woman show starring Rossellini, written by Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carriere, staged by Muriel Mayette, and light and video designed by Antoine Manichon received a touch-more-than-tepid review from Neal Genzlinger at the New York Times,...

Considering how much of Green Porno is about aquatic sex, it’s only fitting that Isabella Rossellini has chosen to stage her performance piece on the Fishman Stage, in the new Fisher Building, at Bam. In that auditorium-style black box, with no set but a screen and a podium, she delivers what amounts to a lecture with projected illustrations (she calls it a “conference”) about the myriad ways reproductive biology functions throughout the animal kingdom. She’s the best professor you could ever imagine: witty, lovely to watch, charmingly eliding non-Italian consonants so that the hamster she portrays at one point becomes an “amster.” So what if the result has no business calling itself a play? As a seminar, it’s about as much fun as you can have learning about the fun other creatures are having.There is a light attempt to dramatize, or at least theatricalize, the material,...

Toronto — Having chronicled the sex lives of insects with Isabella Rossellini in her Green Porno series, Jody Shapiro turns to beekeeping in Burt's Buzz, a portrait of the bearded fellow whose face adorns a lip balm near you. Demonstrating the unlikely fact of Burt Shavitz's worldwide celebrity, the film shows how a man who lives without electricity became the face of a huge corporation. Full of eccentric notes and a touch of melancholy, the doc may ride its subject's fame to a respectable showing in limited theatrical bookings before VOD. Those who don't know his story already may at

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Isabella Rossellini will guest star on "The Blacklist."

According to The Wrap, Rossellini will play Floriana Campo, an advocate to end human and sex trafficking. Look for the character to become the target of an assassin who disguises his killings as accidents.

In addition to Rossellini, whose other TV credits include "Chicago Hope," "30 Rock," "Treme" and "Green Porno," Jane Alexander will also appear in the same episode as an official in the Department of Justice.

"The Blacklist" stars James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington, a former government agent turned to a life of crime and became one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives known as "the Concierge of Crime." In the pilot, he mysteriously surrenders to the FBI and demands to only speak with Elizabeth "Liz" Keen (Megan Boone).

"The Blacklist" cast also includes Diego Klattenhoff, Harry Lennix and Ryan Eggold. "ER" veteran Parminder Nagra recently joined the cast as FBI Agent Margot Malik.

Yesterday we looked back at the exquisite documentaries that have graced us with their presence thus far in 2013, but now it is time to look to the Toronto International Film Festival which plays host to the biggest docu titles of the fall festival season. While Sundance tends to be the spring launching pad for politically charged films, Tiff tends to have a broader spectrum of non-fiction fare. This morning, Tiff Docs programmer Thom Powers and the rest of the team at the Lightbox dropped a press release with the list of non-fiction films joining this year’s already stacked lineup.

Unsurprisingly there are a few titles making their way over from Cannes in Frank Pavich’s hilarious and tragic Jodorowsky’s Dune, Claude Lanzmann’s continued Holocaust investigation with The Last of the Unjust and Mark Cousins’s film history follow up The Story of Children and Film. Expectedly, Errol Morris...

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Good afternoon everyone!

Happy birthday Carol Kane and Isabella Rossellini!

Rossellini in Sundance Channel’s "Green Porno."

If you were just saying to yourself, “why aren’t there more lesbian puppets in the world?” Then your cries have been answered. Check out a (slightly Nsfw) preview for Logo’s next episode of Felt (which airs Mondays @ 10/9c on Logo).

Melissa Etheridge weighed in on Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy announcement and confirms that she and Linda Wallem are still going strong. When asked to comment about Jolie’s big news Etheridge said, “I have to say I feel a little differently. I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer.

Isabella Rossellini is a dauntless actress and a famous beauty descended from film royalty, which makes it all the more wonderful that her work as a director has been so delightfully silly. Partnering with Sundance Channel, Rossellini has produced several memorable series of nature-themed short films for the web and other outlets, all starring herself enacting animal, fish or insect behavior. She began with 2008's "Green Porno," in which she acted out the mating rituals of a dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, worm and others creatures using Diy costumes and props. More seasons followed, taking on marine and environmental subjects, leading to a sequel of sorts about wooing rituals called "Seduce Me." Rossellini's newest installment in her ever-expanding series is "Mammas," which looks at maternal practices as seen in hamsters, spiders and other forms of life. "Mammas" is now live on Sundance Channel's website following a premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in.

Are you having one of those days where you're like, "Man, I just want to see Isabella Rossellini, wearing Missy Elliot's outfit from the 'The Rain' video, have sex with a giant toad?" Perfect, because we have a clip of just that. It's a part of her new Web series for the Sundance Channel called Mammas. Just like her previous brilliant, super-weird series Green Porno and Seduce Me, in each of the new nine shorts, Rossellini dresses up like a different animal and explains a bizarre part of their lives. In honor of Mother's Day, each video looks at "creatures’ rites of passage into motherhood." (Five shorts, not including the toad-grinding below, are live now on SundanceChannel.com; the rest go live Sunday and air all together on the Sundance Channel Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Et.) Anyway, sorry, we know: less talk, more simulated toad sex.

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Good afternoon and happy National Give Out Day!

Today Americans across the country are all giving funds to support the organizations that work on behalf of the Lgbtq community. Please help out if you can!

Happy birthday to Rent’s Rosario Dawson and Candice Bergen!

Evan Rachel Wood steals focus in the below ad for Gucci Guilty Black cologne.

Our gay brother Neil Patrick Harris will once again host the Tony Awards. Tune in to CBS on Sunday, June 9 to watch Harris host for fourth time.

In random news, Amy Poehler and her brother have started a Swedish TV production company called Syskon. Poehler’s brother Greg, who lives in Sweden, will star in a half-hour comedy called Welcome to Sweden, based on his real life. The Poehler siblings will be creating numerous half-hour comedies but you can only...

Ever since we found out that Isabella Rossellini was making a follow-up to her naughty web series, "Green Porno," we've been early awaiting what the smoldering Italian actress had to offer next. Finally, the day has come; today Rossellini released a clip of her quirky, soon-to-debut project -- "Mammas," which premieres this Sunday on the Sundance Channel.

A celebration of all things maternal, the clever romp through animal instincts takes a cue from its predecessor, placing Rossellini in a hilarious array of costumes as she explores the ins and outs of motherhood. From selfless mother spiders to slightly terrifying female hamsters, she acts out an abundance of maternal types, just in time for Mother's Day weekend.

If you watched "Green Porno," her clever ode to animal sexual behavior, you know that Rossellini isn't afraid to get weird. Watch the video above for a sneak peek of "Mammas" and let us...

Isabella Rossellini charmed the world with "Green Porno," the strange, funny and idiosyncratic short film/web series she did for the Sundance Channel in which she donned costumes to enact the mating rituals of a dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, firefly, worm, snail and housefly. The first eight-installment season of "Green Porno" ran in 2008 and focused on insects, the second moved on to sea creatures while the third had environmental themes. In the spirit of "Green Porno," Rossellini's latest shorts series is "Mammas," which will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum Expanded program before heading to SundanceChannel.com and to the network's air on Sunday, May 12 -- Mother's Day. As the title indicates, "Mammas" will find Rossellini playing an animal mother in nine episodes written and directed by the actress. She'll look at non-traditional creatures and their expressions of their...

"Green Porno" fans rejoice, because Isabella Rossellini and her devilishly naughty sense of humor are back on the Sundance Channel.

The forever-sultry Italian actress announced she's moving beyond her fascination with animal sexual behavior and onto the phenomenon of maternal instinct in a new short video series called "Mammas." Debuting on Mother's Day (mark May 12 on the calendar now), the program will explore all things motherly in nature, from laid-back cuckoos who use others to care for their young to overly protective wasps.

“The art of being a mother and how it transcends all species is captivating," Rossellini says in statement. "These 'Mammas’ may change and confound your ideas of maternity, whether it’s the inherent altruistic nature of mothers to the great lengths various creatures will take to ensure the survival of their young."

From what we've read, you can expect the same level of absurd costumes and intense...

This story first appeared in the Feb. 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Isabella Rossellini has exchanged the glamour of modeling and acting to simulate sex as a worm, a bee and more in her quirky short film series Green Porno. With Mammas, her series exploring maternal instinct in different animal species, set to screen in Berlin, the 60-year-old spoke with THR about her third career as an experimental filmmaker. The Hollywood Reporter: Do you consider yourself more of a director than an actress these days? Isabella Rossellini: At this point I think of myself more as an avant-

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To whom would I like to say sorry? Chickens, because I ate them

Isabella Rossellini, 60, was born in Rome, the daughter of actor Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini. She made her film debut in 1976, in her mother's film A Matter Of Time. From 1979 to 1982, she was married to the Raging Bull director Martin Scorsese. Rossellini was the face of Lancôme for 14 years, until it dropped her when she turned 40. She starred in Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her and the TV series 30 Rock. More recently, she has been studying biology and made a series of films called Green Porno about the sex lives of animals, as well as designing a handbag collection for Bulgari.

Where would you like to live?

In the wild, studying animal behaviour, like Jane Goodall does.

What is your greatest fear?

Getting sick.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Workaholic.

What is the...

Berlin – Berlin Film Festival regular Isabella Rossellini will return to the German capital next year to present her latest experimental work as a director: the short film series Mammas, which will screen in Berlin’s Forum Expanded program. Mammas follows up on Rossellini’s Green Porno project, which also screened in Berlin. In the new series, the Oscar-nominated actress again takes on the roles of several animal creatures. With Green Porno the subject was animal sexual behavior. In Mammas, the short films explore the maternal instincts of various animal species. Other highlights of this year’s Forum Expanded program, which focuses

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With its populations in crisis and scientists baffled, the humble honey bee has a new, unlikely champion: Isabella Rossellini. The actor and model tells Tim Lewis why she has swapped life as the most glamorous woman in Hollywood for quirky conservation films and paper beards

Isabella Rossellini – actor, muse, style icon – sits on the ground, legs splayed. She's not in a good way: she has a pair of black eyes, her yellow and black tunic is rumpled, her antennae are bent all out of shape. Most alarmingly, her penis has snapped off and blood is seeping from her midriff.

An old man, who looks very much like Rossellini but with a lush beard made from shredded newspaper, leans forward, concerned. "What happened to you? You are severely wounded," he points out.

"I had sex," she replies matter-of-factly.

"What kind of sex?"

he asks.

"Regular bee sex."

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We're celebrating twins while we're in Gemini

Did you know that Isabella Rossellini had a twin sister? They aren't identical but she does. The legendary screen goddess Ingrid Bergman had four children, the first Pia arrived with her first marriage to Peter Lindstrom. After her scandalous affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini (which sank her career in the Us for a good long while -- her third Oscar was seen, to some extent, as Hollywood's forgiveness) she moved to Italy, and had son Roberto Rossellini folllowed by daughters Isabella and Isotta Ingrid.

The Rossellini kids in 1959: Isabella, Roberto and Isotta Ingrid

Do you think Isotta Ingrid is as fascinated by animal sex* (Green Porno forever!) as her sister Isabella? Well, Isotta is in Academia, so... maybe.  

a more recent picture of the twins and more after the jump.

The 15th Annual Webby Awards unleashed its massive list of nominees today, with 130 nominees in the Online Film and Video section alone. "If the Web 2.0 revolution has shown us anything, it's that the Internet is a proven star-making invention," reads the Webbys website. Indeed, Best Web Personality category noms came from outside Hollywood: YouTube and web star Justine Ezarik for iJustine, New York Times technology columnist and CBS News correspondent David Pogue, Between Two Fern's Zach Galafianakis, Great Depression Cooking's Clara Cannucciari, and Egyptian-American filmmaker Rahab Elewaly. For Best Individual Performance however, nominees included more traditional Hollwood names: Lisa Kudrow for Web Therapy (Lexus), Ralph Macchio for Wax on F*ck Off (Funny Or Die), Isabella Rossellini for Green Porno (Sundance), Cheri Oteri for Liza Life Coach (AMCtv.com), and Jim Carrey for Funny Or Die's Presidential Reunion. The Best Drama category saw nominations primarily from independent series: Out With Dad,...

Warning: podcast contains explicit references to anatomy and sexual acts between consenting animals.

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of America's space milestones. His name was Ham and he came from French Cameroon. Henry Nicholls is back in the studio with us. He's unearthed some never before broadcast audio footage he recorded in 2007 when he went to visit the remains of this amazing chimpanzee.

The Higgs boson might be closer than ever. The decision has been made to keep the Large Hadron Collider up and running for another year before its scheduled maintenance. We cross live-ish to Paul Collier in the room at Cern where the beam is switched on and off. Paul's job title is possibly the greatest on the planet. He is Head of Beams at Cern.

Our very own Alok Jha has his first book out. Despite his best efforts to avoid talking about it, we...

In a series of short films, Isabella Rossellini acts as a range of animals having sex. She just wants to amuse us, she says – and teach us some hard science about the birds and the bees

Against the odds, Isabella Rossellini transforms into a migrating salmon with nothing more than goggles, a body-stocking and an elaborate paper hat, and waits for a worthy mate to notice her. He arrives in primary colours, dangling jauntily from a string, and quickly wins her heart. "Here are my eggs," the daughter of Hollywood legend Ingrid Bergman cries to the quivering puppet. "Spray them with your sperm!"

Welcome to the quirky world of Seduce Me, the latest series of disarming short films from the 58-year-old actress, model and ex-wife of Martin Scorsese best known for Blue Velvet, Fearless and Death Becomes Her. The films, produced by Robert Redford's Sundance Channel, are written and co-directed by Rossellini,...

What did your mouse edge towards on this site this year? Here are the top 10 most viewed articles, galleries, videos, audio streams and interactives. On your own head be it …

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1) Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke

Our most-viewed piece of content of any type, by some distance, was this brief news story about the efforts of water mammals in saving the life of an 84-year-old man. It was shared on Facebook no less than 77,000 times.

2) Hitler? A scapegoat. Stalin? I can empathise. Oliver Stone stirs up history

A report from the Us previewing the director's dubious-sounding TV documentary series.

3) The greatest film scenes ever shot

Philip French and assorted directors and producers pick their favourites.

4) The death of Sex and the City

Hadley Freeman dances entertainingly on the grave.

5) Oscars 2010 liveblog: the 82nd Academy Awards as it happens

Five-and-a-half-hours of glamour, gongs and grinding fatigue.

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Throughout her career, Isabella Rossellini has been closely associated with a number of powerful, successful filmmakers, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, and of course, her father, Roberto Rossellini. But she is now well on her way to becoming one of those filmmakers herself: after making a short named “Oh La La” in 2006, she took the helm of the Sundance series “Green Porno” in 2008, and returns to the network starting this week for a follow-up, entitled “Seduce Me.”...

James Franco, Julian Schnabel and Isabella Rossellini are among the talent announced for this year's Hamptons International Film Festival "Conversation With..." series. The festival runs from October 7 to October 11. In addition to taking part in the series, Rossellini will exhibit new episodes of her Sundance Channel short nature series, "Seduce Me," which is a follow up to her previous series, "Green Porno;" Schnabel will be in attendance for the ...

Canadian filmmaker Jody Shapiro‘s (of Green Porno Internet fame) new documentary, How to Start Your Own Country, is a quirky, informative, and all-around entertaining venture into the how and why of the micronation, small territories that claim to be independent countries, but are not recognized by major governments or international organizations.

Based on Erwin Strauss‘s 1979 book of the same name, How to Start Your Own Country isn’t actually an instruction manual. It’s more of a study on the people who have started their own micronations and the conditions that led to their founding. Shapiro takes us all around the world, from the historic Principality of Seborga in Italy to the Hutt River Province in Australia and more, to explore not only what it means to be a country, but also what drives a person to claim national independence.

For a documentary, there’s an unexpected amount...

Actor and film-maker to preside over Berlinale jury, responsible for deciding winner of Golden Bear prize for best film

The actor and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is to chair the jury for next year's Berlin film festival. Rossellini, who has appeared in movies such as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart, debuted a self-penned short film by Guy Maddin, My Dad is 100 Years Old, at the event in 2005. Recently she shot and starred in a series of short films about animal sexual behaviour, Green Porno, for Robert Redford's Sundance Channel.

Rossellini's jury will be responsible for deciding the winner of next year's main prize, the Golden Bear for best film. The 58-year-old daughter of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini and Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman follows the German film-maker Werner Herzog, who took charge last year. No other members of the jury have yet been announced.

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The Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20, 2011).

"It’s fantastic that Isabella Rossellini will be the President of the Berlinale Jury in 2011," says the festival's director Dieter Kosslick. "She is a multifaceted, creative film artist with extensive experience in European, American and international cinema."

Isabella Rossellini is one of the most renowned actresses in international cinema. Over the past years, she has also become a distinguished producer and director. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and of Italian director Roberto Rossellini, she first started her career as a fashion designer and journalist. At the time she worked mainly in New York. Her acting debut came in 1976, when she appeared alongside her mother in Vincente Minelli's A Matter Of Time. She then went on to roles in films by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Norman Mailer,...

Jon Stewart poked a stick last night at Sundance's avante garde "Green Porno" series that featured Isabella Rossellini as various creatures mating. Directed, written by and starring Isabella Rossellini, her mini 'Pornos' called "Seduce Me" are five two-minute portraits which explore the unconventional seduction rituals of creatures ranging from bugs to cuttlefish. The weird series is now in its third season and will focus on marine life. Link But the clip Stewart made hay with was her "Bed Bug porno", as if we all were not already creeped out enough by the bed bug news explosion currently. Last night's Daily Show was all about the parasitical blood suckers. Stewart with his wide eyed patented tongue-in-cheek shock introduced video...

An intriguing entry in the Toronto International Film Festival examines what can happen when you decide to put your name on the map. Filmmaker Jody Shapiro who collaborates with Guy Maddin on his otherworldy films and Isabella Rossellini on her Green Porno series, spent six months circling the globe in search of micronations, little backyard states or thousand year old principalities for his documentary How to Start Your Own Country. He met various heads of state including trying to determine what drives the need for territory to call one.s own. How to Start Your Own Country is a Canadian production and will be shown as part of Tiff.s Real to Reel Documentary series. Monsters and Critics -...

When I saw Isabella Rossellini earlier this week at the Webby Awards, where she was accepting her second Webby for her Sundance Channel (trippy, yet, randomly interesting) online series Green Porno, my first thought was a corny one: “The magical potion from Death Becomes Her is real after all!” I didn’t get a chance to ask her about it. We were busy chatting about her pregnant dog that was about to give birth — yes, it was one of those 60-second red carpet interviews that just goes in a direction you never see coming but is too short to repair.

At last night’s Webby Awards, where a five-word acceptance speech is the only barrier between the winners and a room full of scoffs and harsh judgment from peers, the offerings turned out to be a tad disappointing. Last year, Jimmy Fallon’s “Thank God, Conan got promoted” was honest, self-deprecating, and personal, without being an inside joke that no one could understand. In other words, everything a five-worder should be.

This year, however, contained a number of offenses. First, you had the cheaters (Bbdo – “Please visit bbdoacceptancespeech.com”), followed by the overtly commercial (NYTimes.com – “All the news that’s fit.

Sexual appetite just got a whole new meaning. The Sun reports that Nicolas Cage has a very strict eating regimen that doesn't conform to the usual vegetable/animal norms. He isn't a vegetarian. He isn't a free-for-all carnivore. He's devours only those who have dignified sex. We should only take this with a grain of salt, since it's the Sun, but true or false, this is too strangely wonderful to ignore.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales -- sentient life -- insects, reptiles. I actually choose the way I eat according to the way animals have sex. I think fish are very dignified with sex. So are birds. But pigs, not so much. So I don't eat pig meat or things like that. I eat fish and fowl. Now allow me to go Green Porno on you to explain this. The website included a...

When Isabella Rossellini began her first year of Green Porno, every interviewer asked: Why? The question was understandable; actresses don't often turn towards the world of short filmmaking to dig into science, to show the masses how insects reproduce ... especially by making themselves look like human incarnations of said creepy crawlies.

Rossellini told each interviewer how Robert Redford and the Sundance Channel were eager to relaunch and experiment with the short film format, and how they hoped the experimentation could be on environmental subjects. It was the perfect diving board for the actress and model. She'd always been interested in animal behavior, and had wanted to make a film about animals ever since she was 14 or 15 and read King Solomon's Ring. She dreamed of being like Jane Goodall, but life took her in a different direction, until some forty years later when she was able to revisit her childhood dream.

Isabella Rossellini was 28 when she began posing for Vogue Magazine and first entered the North American public eye. This marked the beginning of her modeling career, and by the typical standards of the industry, she was ancient. Normally we'd see some nubile, empty vessel staring out at us from the fashion glossies, somebody just waiting for us to project our fantasies upon them. However, Rossellini--already married to director Martin Scorsese and a child of famous parents--wasn't some kid new to the world of fashion and celebrity. No, in her we encountered a fully formed woman, somebody who defied external definition and projected her character outward, rather than absorbing whatever the photographer or audience decided to impose upon her. In short, Isabella Rossellini was different from what we were used to.

This unique quality was made abundantly clear in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet. For a mainstream, commercial release the...

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Last September, we spoke with Isabella Rossellini about her “Green Porno” Web series, which featured the “Blue Velvet” actress exploring the mating behavior of animals and insects in short two-minute films. In the interview, she talked about the show’s strange fans, including a group of scientists who attended a screening at the Toronto Film Festival dressed in animal penis-shaped hats.

That disturbing sight hasn’t scared Rossellini off the subject, though. Tonight, she returns with “Seduce Me,” another short film series that explores bizarre seduction rituals of animals and insects, including cuttle fish (males impersonate females to sneak into large groups), garter snakes (the male is monogamous) and, in tonight’s episode, bed bugs (think violent, frenetic coupling). The series will premiere online at sundancechannel.com and eventually appear on the Sundance Channel on May 25. Here’s a preview clip.