BOARDING GATE (2007)
Role: Sandra
Director: Olivier Assayas
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UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE (2007) Role: Vellini
Director: Catherine Breillat
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MOTHER OF TEARS (2007)
Role: Sarah Mandy
Director: Dario Argento
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GO GO TALES (2007)
Role: Monroe
Director: Abel Ferrara
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DE LA GUERRE (2008)
Role: Uma
Director: Bertrand Bonello
To be released in French theaters on October 1, 2008 Info -
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Welcome to Ode To Azia, an official website 100% dedicated to the multitalented Asia Argento!
Ode to Azia started as a small fansite in 2003, kept growing over the years, and has since then become the largest resource for Ms. Argento on the internet. It's been an authorized Asia Argento fansite from the beginning, but it recently become her second official online home.
Ode to Azia is a bit like Asia Argento herself: not everyone may like us, but we're here to stay!
I hope that new visitors will leave the site with a better knowledge and appreciation of Ms. Argento and her work. And I also hope that old time fans will keep coming back for their Az fix.
While we're at it, I'd like to remember you all that I'm always looking for contributions, so please consider donating scans, videos, anything.
Dear loyal Ode to Azia visitors and Asia Argento fans:
May all the dreams in your eyes, all the desires in your heart and all the hopes in your life blend together, to give you the most spectacular New Year ever.
Like every year, there will be a special New Year’s Eve party at MavĂą. This year’s party is called Albastratta09. The event is now a historic appointment for the club-masseria (manor farm) in Valle d’Itria.
On the night of the 31st of December there will be an exclusive Bal en Tête in which the public will be able to disguise itself as in a real commemoration of the legendary bal that, during the years of the Belle Époque, promoted competitions for the most extravagant and outlandish hats and hairdos.
The Queen of the Ball will be Asia Argento, who will also be the main guest DJ, and there will be several surprises in the many areas of the club.
Dress code: affected head coverings, cute fashion hats, exaggerated hairdos and everything else one can think of…
MavĂą Club, Locorotondo
S.P. Locorotondo – Cisternino (il percorso sarà facilitato da indicazioni lungo la strada) www.mavu.it www.myspace.com/mavuclub
eventi@mavu.it
Info prevendita, prenotazioni, serata danzante e pernottamenti: 393/0213850
Cenone & Champagnerie: 388/6560545
Baby Parking: 388/6560545 (il servizio sarĂ attivato con un numero minimo di prenotazioni).
Panorama.it put the record straight on the so-called Asia Argento Official Facebook Page in which she appears with a crown of thorns. It isn’t hers. “A friend put me on Facebook, but I never went there and I didn’t choose that image,” she said.
I’ve added a very interesting scan from Spin. They have a section where they ask how entertainers entertain themselves. And Asia was March’s entertainer. I know many of you visit this site because of the pics, but I have to say that I love to read what my favorite artists think and like as much as I like new pics. Even if we don’t always share their tastes, it’s good to know that there’s something going on inside their heads, and maybe they can make us discover new things we wouldn’t have known without them.
“When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad”
This time around, unlike what happened in the French teaser trailer, Ms Argento isn’t in just one single “blink and you’ll miss it” kind of scene. And we certainly appreciate it! Fun fact: look for a pic from this specific editorial in the scene where AĂŻssa MaĂŻga’s character is looking at a photo of Calhoune on the wall.
Here’s a very very lovely picture of Ms Argento with her children, Anna Lou Castoldi and Nicola Giovanni Civetta, to spread the holiday cheer!
And, to you, dear Ode to Azia visitors: May this Christmas (or whatever you celebrate or don’t celebrate) be bright and cheerful and may the New Year begin on a prosperous note!
The Ä°stanbul Museum of Modern Art’s movie theater presents a program of four films featuring Italian actress Asia Argento through Dec. 28. Admission is free of charge for museum visitors. For a full schedule, go to www.istanbulmodern.org.
Celebrities such as the former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, Asia Argento, Luisa Ranieri, Anna Falchi, greeted the opening of the first Cavalli Club (yes, Roberto Cavalli, the fashion designer), located in an old deconsecrated Anglican church adjacent to the basilica del Carmine, where Masaccio’s fresco paintings (don’t know who he is? then let me share his Wikipedia page with you) are preserved. A polyfunctional place, projected by the architect Italo Rota, that is at the same time a bar, a restaurant, a place for shows, a nightclub.
This time in Istabul, Turkey!!! At the young age of 33, Asia is one of the few actresses out there who have retrospectives of their career being shown around the world! How cool is that? It’s great to see Asia’s work being recognized.
For more information, please visit the website of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.
The retrospective will take place from December 11th to December 28th.
Asia Argento, a rebel in the movie industry, started her journey as the daughter of famous Italian horror director Dario Argento. Asia Argento, who was a star from the birth, has turned into a challenging persona by playing several villain roles. The Asia Programe taking place 11-28 December, includes Land of the Dead which she concurred Hollywood, La Terza Madre, the last movie of the “Three Mother” thriller trilogy which started with Suspiria in 1977, Transylvania which she played with Birol Ünel and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things which she directed.
For its 4th edition, the label L.E.N.Y. (Limited Edition New York) asked several celebrities such as Pete Doherty, Irina Lazareanu, Angela Lindvall, or Asia Argento & Michele Civetta (and many others) to create t-shirts around the concept “Design for a cause and save the planet”. The benefits made with the sales of this ultra-hype brand will be fully given to Al Gore’s ecological association “The Climate Project”, that fights for the respect for the environment.
Delicate, athletic but supple, sexy but not a vamp or a bimbo, with dark hair and Oriental looking eyes, Faith is already one of the top female characters on the Internet: there are already 17 millions pages dedicated to this game.
She’s one of the few Italian actresses who achieved stardom at international level. She loves challenges, the the point of going from the big screen to a photo set or DJ gigs. She’s Asia Argento, who for the first time puts herself to test at the world of videogames. She’s the “voice” of the new digital diva, Faith, protagonist of “Mirror’s Edge”, the new blockbuster created by Electronic Arts, the most important multinational of digital entertainment, out on November 14th.
“Mirror’s Edge”, developped for the next gen consoles, takes place in a future megalopolis, where a real police stage was imposed. The civil freedoms were limited. Any kind of objection is repressed. Communication is completely controlled. But not everyone resigned. Some groups that don’t accept the impositions resist and in order to communicate with one another they use “runners”, young messengers who use the roofs to move around and transmit their messages without being intercepted by the police forces. Faith is one of these runners.
I’ve added captures from the intros of 3 episodes of “Crime and Passion”, the TV Special that Asia presented on Fox Crime in Italy last July. All intros were directed by her husband, director Michele Civetta.
The videos, along with other works by Civetta can be viewed on Quintessence Films’ YouTube Channel. Quintessence Films is a limited film production company specializing in music videos and commercials. Founded by Michele Civetta and Manu Gargi in 2006, it now has expanded to include directors Asia Argento, Peter Demming, James Franco and Tommy O’Heaver, as well as producers Kevin Turen and Roberto Zalkind. Official Website: Quintessence Films.
This Saturday, the BAMcinematek bows before Lady A with a career retrospective. “Sexy, Scary, and Often Naked: Asia Argento” features some of her best work as an actress as well as her adaptation of “The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things” and the local premiere of her new film, “On War,” with Argento as the leader of a sex cult. Movie tickets can be bought here. Asia won’t be attending the retrospective.
It’s been a while since I last added a video to our YouTube Channel. But things have been quite calm and other people added videos on YouTube too so I just put a link to their uploads here at the site. Anyway, today I uploaded the new Archigram video clip featuring Miss Asia! But it doesn’t just feature Az! It features her husband Michele, Anna Lou and even baby Nicola! A very special and sweet video that shows Asia’s family, that shows Asia when she’s not acting, when she’s just living her life like anyone else. Directed by Michele Civetta.
PS: Haters, stop hating!
PS: Thanks to Orbitlane and GiGi for the heads-up!
First public appearance for Asia after Nicola’s birth!
Asia Argento and director Olivier Assayas (who directed her in “Boarding Gate“) attended the “Appaloosa” Premiere during the 3rd Rome International Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 25th.
Martin Scorsese asked Asia Argento and Mario Sesti, artistic director of the session L’Altro Cinema/Extra, to introduce and present at the Rome International Film Festival the avant-premiere screening of the restored copy of “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman“, the film directed by Albert Lewin in 1951, with James Mason, known mostly for the unforgettable performance by Ava Gardner and the magnificent photography by Jack Cardiff. The restoration was a collaboration between the Film Foundation, the Rome International Film Festival and the Franco American Cultural Fund. “Seeing this film — said Scorsese, is like entering a strange and wonderful dream”. Asia Argento, after having accepted Scorsese’s invitation, said she “accepted with enthousiasm Martin Scorsese’s proposition to support his foundation’s activities. Seeing this film, it was difficult to establish whether the real protagonist is the amorous drama between Ava Gardner’s femme fatale night-club singer and the cursed captain James Mason, or the legendary Jack Cardiff’s Technicolor”. The film was projected today, Saturday October 25th, at 11:30pm, at the Teatro Studio dell’Auditorium.
Asia Argento’s furiously uninhibited performances have graced films by such directors as Catherine Breillat and Abel Ferrara. As previously mentioned here, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will offer a week of her work. (718-636-4100.)
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OT: I’ve received another submission for the “favorite films” survey.
Former Marilyn Manson band member Brad Stewart (a.k.a. Gidget Gein) has died. He was apparently found at his Burbank home on Thursday, October 9th. A heroin overdose was the cause of his death.
Stewart played bass with Manson from 1989 through 1993. He was fired from the band, and was replaced by Twiggy Ramirez, however his influence remained apparent in Manson’s style and music.
He appeared in the Manson “(s)AINT” video clip directed and co-starred by Asia Argento in 2004. The video also features his art: the heart that appears in one segment. The heart is a two edition piece of art. The one in the video is owned by Asia and the other one (that doesn’t appear in the video) is owned by artist Damian Crowley. The sculpture is known as In Case of Emergency Break Heart.
While we’re talking about losses. I’m editing this post to dedicate it to Guillaume Depardieu, Asia’s co-star in “De La Guerre”, as well.
The cause of death was named as pneumonia, which he’d contracted three days earlier in Paris’ Raymond Poincare hospital.
Guillaume had pursued the family theatrical tradition, winning roles in numerous French films including, most recently, “Versailles” and “De la Guerre”. He began his career proper in 1995, when a starring role in “Les Apprentis” won him a Cesar award for Most Promising Newcomer.
This was also the year in which Depardieu was involved in a serious motorcycle accident that left him needing surgery on his knee. He was in and out of hospital for eight years following complications. In 2003 he developed a Staphylococcus aureus infection, which led eventually to his leg being amputated.
Guillaume Depardieu is survived by his father; his mother, Elisabeth; sister Julie; half-sister, Roxane; and seven-year-old daughter, Louise.
Even when she’s doing Dancefloor music – the spirit of her father keeps haunting Asia Argento.
This woman can be a wet dream. Or a nightmare. Now the actress/cat of satan Asia Argento even sings, which gives her the opportunity to be sexy and scary at once. And to share the best wisdoms of an Italian underground diva while doing so. “Live Fast! Die Old!” sings the daughter of horror movie legend Dario Argento with her graveyard nicotine-voice, provocative disco beats in the background – only one of three hits on “Cloudbuster”, the new album of the young munich electro crew Munk, for which Asia contributes the lead singing. Another career for the 32 year old, who already appeared at the age of 16 in the movies of her father. In her scandalous directing debut “Scarlet Diva” she played in 2000 a decadent actress, for the movie camera or the cover of the Italian GQ she willingly undressed to show her numerous tattoos. The action hit “xXx” with Vin Diesel resulted in worldwide attention for Asia – while she did music videos and travelled around as a Techno DJ. In September she’s expecting her second child (the father: director Michele Civetta, with whom she’ll do Coin Locker Babies next year), that’s why she’s keeping a low profile. For GQ she made time for an interview in her kitchen in Rome.
Asia does “white magic” in the August issue of GQ Germany. She promotes “Cloudbuster” by Munk, which features her lyrics and singing. She talks about music, politics, her teenage heavy-metal-phase and recommends “Passion of the Christ” and “Apocalypto” by Mel Gibson. He may have a bad reputation in real life, but Asia considers him a free spirit and a visionnaire when it comes to filmmaking.
After its exhibition at the Cannes Film Festival, “De La Guerre” finally premieres for good in France and Italy (in only 29 theaters) this Wednesday, October 1st.
The French trailer as well as three video clips can be seen on Allocine.fr.
The filmmaker spoke with iF in an exclusive interview about making his latest opus, what to expect from his next film GIALLO and what he really thinks about the forthcoming SUSPIRIA remake that has PINEAPPLE EXPRESS director David Gordon Green attached.
Thanks to the always wonderful Beatrice, we have two new wedding scans.
I wish the Italian media stopped using that 5-6 months old quote from Marco (the one that says that if Asia was indeed pregnant, he prayed for the poor dad) and, most of all, misquoting it. As far as I know, he didn’t say he prayed for the poor new baby. If he’d said so, he’d be saying he prays for his daughter too as she is raised by Asia. In my humble opinion, we should leave kids out of couples fights or breakups. For better or for worse, the children will always be something a couple will have in common and the couple should always try to think about their well being. And breakups happen as painful as they can be. I’ve already said it in the past, but that’s not changed: I wish Marco (and Asia too, but she seems to have found it now) finds peace and happiness. Together or apart, I wish the best for him and Asia. He was (and will always be in some way) a very important part of her life. Anyway, I hope the Italian media stops asking him about this kind of things and mentioning him in embarrassing situations that aren’t deserving of him and of Anna Lou. He’s a talented musician and the press should focus on his talent or the things that make him happy, rather than the things that hurt him somehow. And enough with implying that Asia was a cold heartbreaker. As much as one feels they know them, only the two of them really know what happened and how they felt. And there’s always two sides for a same story. But, hey, misery sells… Sad but true!
It seems “Mother of Tears” will be released on September 23rd (Tuesday) in the US. Amazon even has a page for it. There does seem to be a bit of confusion with them though. They say the film is rated R, while the box art clear states it’s unrated.
Here’s the link: Amazon.
Thanks Russell for the heads-up.
By the way, it made me think about something… What films appeal to the Asia fans who visit the site? Indie, arthouse, mainstream, horror, comedy, romance, musical, crime, thriller, etc. So, make a list of your fave movies ever and your faves from 2007/2008 and share some recommendations with other visitors. After all, we have at least one taste in common! Maybe we share even more! I’ll post a list here after I receive a few emails. Contact me here.
Asia’s birthday won’t be before tomorrow, Saturday September 20th (and what a fabulous birthday gift she received, 5 days before her birthday: little Nicola Giovanni!!!), but I don’t know if I’ll be around so I’ll leave her my birthday wishes here and also my birthday gift for the site’s visitors: DVD captures from the extras contained in the French “Mother of Tears” DVD.
First of all, the birthday wishes!
Your Birthday makes this day all the more special and beautful!
Wishing you another year of good health, happiness and prosperity!
May you feel on top of the World on your Birthday and all year through!
Happy Birthday!
In fact, all the best for Asia, Michele, Anna Lou, Nicola and their loved ones!
And, now, let’s proceed to the “Mother of Tears” goodies!
Music: Asia Argento - Disco Sux/U Just Can't Stop The Rock/Sad Core (2008)
At the young age of 33, Asia is one of the few actresses out there who have retrospectives of their career being shown around the world! How cool is that? 
It’s great to see Asia’s work being recognized. 
