Okay, raise your hand if you want to see Colin Firth in a tux! *demented poodle dance* I do! I do!  The suave and debonair Mr. Firth accommodated all of us drooling fools by donning said tuxedo for the red carpet premiere of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy today at the Venice Film Festival.

Of course, Colin brought along his stunningly beautiful wife, probably to translate, since she’s Italian and all…yeah right. Will you look at the hand placement on the pic above? Yes, that’s right, Mrs. Firth has her hand on Mr. Firth’s ass. Now look at the expression on his face. ‘Nuff said.

Gary Oldman looked very dapper as well. He brought along his gorgeous wife, Alexandra Edenborough for a little PDA. (Gotta keep the spark alive somehow. She’s his fourth and none of them have lasted more than three years. Her contract’s about to expire.)

Pics of Mark Strong are always a treat. This guy stays close to home and his two young sons unless he’s got a movie to promote. He was, as always, accompanied by his lovely wife Liza Marshall. They really are a beautiful couple. I love the way she looks at him.

Along with the director, other members of the cast, including John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch and apparently the only woman in the movie, Svetlana Khodchenkova (that’s not completely true but she’s the only with a significant role) were also in attendance. I was sorry Ciaran Hinds wasn’t there, but most especially I’m bummed there was no Tom Hardy in a suit to ogle. I guess he used up all of his free passes with Christopher Nolan in order to promote Warrior and he’s hard at work on the set of The Dark Knight Rises.

Have a look at the lovely pics of the premiere and the photo call. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy opens on 16 September for you Brits and December 9 in the colonies.

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Madonna was at the Venice Film Festival where her film W.E. was flambayed quite nicely by critics and although that would have had most people eating a bit of humble pie, this is Madonna we’re talking about.

When some fan handed her a bouquet of hydrangeas she smiled thanking the person before giving a ‘look’ to the person to her left and under her breath saying:

I absolutely loathe hydrangeas. He obviously doesn’t know that.

No sh*t he doesn’t know that. Or maybe he does and it’s payback for W.E.? Either way show some class and don’t be a nasty ingrate. You know I really thought Madonna had changed with all her spirituality and Kabbalah stuff, but she really is still just a bitch.

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Okay so that wasn’t the best pun I’ve ever come up with. Sue me. The point is that director Steve McQueen brought another Michael Fassbender movie, Shame, to the red carpet on the Lido in Venice, which naturally meant that Fassy himself suited up for the event and brought his megawatt smile with him.

Shame is only Steve McQueen’s second movie, the first being 2008′s Hunger, which also starred Fassbender. (For his third, Twelve Years A Slave, he’s going with Chiwitel Ejiofor and I’m perfectly okay with that!) Shame is the story of Brandon (Fassbender), a 30-something disillusioned, damaged, New Yorker and his myriad sexual escapades, and what happens when his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves in with him. It had its world premiere in Venice and is getting great reviews for both the film and especially Fassbender’s performance. It’s getting a lot mention as the stand out film of the fest and a strong contender for the grand prize, the Golden Lion. Almost simultaneously, the film played the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado (as did Fassbender’s other project, A Dangerous Method). There are actually three high-profile film festivals going on right now: Venice, Deauville (in France) and Telluride. The season is in full swing! Can’t wait for all the news and pics that will be coming out of Toronto soon!

In the meantime, enjoy the pics from the Shame premiere and the photo call earlier in the day. It doesn’t look like Carey Mulligan made it but along with Fassbender and McQueen is screenwriter Abi Morgan and producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman.

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David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method premiered last night on the Lido with a gala red carpet premiere attended by the director, along with his stars Viggo Mortenson, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Vincent Cassel and Sarah Gadon.

The film itself is getting rave reviews. Moveline said, “David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, …is probably the most fun you’ll ever have watching a movie about Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud duking it out — and nurturing a deep-rooted but fragile friendship — in early 20th century Austria and Switzerland. ” Indie Wire calls it ““…fearsomely smart; a grown-up film that doesn’t forget to move you even as it fires up the synapses.” OMG I cannot wait!

Okay enough about the movie, I know you want to look at the pretty people. And pretty they are. They all appear to be having fun too. Especially Fassbender who seems to be having the paparazzi on as he mugs shamelessly during the photo call earlier in the day. (Shamelessly? He’ll be back later in the Festival with McQueen’s Shame.)

For now, enjoy the pics!

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George Clooney, who is rapidly becoming the silver lion of American Film (check out the poster for his film, he’ll be on a stamp soon), pulled up to the Lido in a shiny white boat last night (I predicted ‘stretch gondola’ but I was damn close!) and stepped out onto the red carpet for the world premiere of his latest directorial effort, The Ides of March. No, that’s not Elisabetta Canalis in the boat, it’s Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber.

Also in attendance were George’s costars Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Paul Giamatti. Conspicuous by his absence was Ryan Gosling who denied the women of Italy his Baby Goose-iness because he’s still in upstate New York filming The Place Beyond the Pines.

After a stop in Toronto, The Ides of March opens in the US on October 7 and in the UK on 28 October. Watch this space…we’ll have more from Venice in the next few days!

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The world’s oldest film festival, the 68th annual Venice Film Festival opens Wednesday (in of all places, Venice, Italy) and runs through Sept. 10.

Darren Aronofsky heads the jury that will screen twenty-two films before determining the winner of the prestigious Golden Lion. The festival will premiere what are already some of the most talked about films of the year, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy) to A Dangerous Method, starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung, and Kiera Knightley as Sabine Spielrein, the patient Jung takes as a mistress. Fassbender will also have Steve McQueen’s Shame to showcase. (Remember, we were hoping for a hat-trick with Steven Soderbergh bringing Haywire? He opted to bring Contagion instead.)

The Ides of March, directed by and starring George Clooney as well as his hand-picked successor Ryan Gosling, will open the festival with a red carpet gala presentation. Expect pics of George and Baby Goose!

These are all films I’ve been talking up all summer and the festival is still all just a tease until the films mentioned above (in addition to Madonna’s first feature film, W. E.) come to these shores, but in the meantime, the Sundance Channel will be giving us, for the first time, coverage of the festival, beginning Sept. 3. We’ll miss part of it, but I’m sure there will be recaps and the coverage will feature interviews from the red carpet as well as longer specials.The glitz! The glamour! Perfect prep for TIFF!

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