Maggie Smith: Dustin Hoffman picks up film fest award (USA TODAY)

8:27AM EST September 30. 2012 - Where in the world is Dustin Hoffman?

In Spain at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The actor picked up the Special 60th Annual Donostia Award Saturday evening in recognition of his career achievement.

Hoffman also closed the festival with his directorial debut, Quartet. In the film, Hoffman directs Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon as members of a home for retired opera singers who each year celebrate Verdi's birthday with a concert. The film hits theaters in January.

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Ewan McGregor: Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient! (JUST JARED!)

Ewan McGregor flashes a smile while receiving the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kursaal Palace during the 2012 San Sebastian International Film Festival on Thursday (September 27) in San Sebastian, Spain.

The 41-year-old Scottish actor was honored for his career as well as his performance in The Impossible

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Ewan McGregor to be honoured The Scottish actor will receive San Sebastian film festival’s Donostia Award

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor and Oscar-winning US actor Tommy Lee Jones will be honoured with an award in tribute to their careers at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain next month.

McGregor, the 41-year-old “Star Wars” star, will receive the festival’s Donostia Award, “awarded to a great film personality in recognition for their work and career”, at a ceremony on September 27, they said in a statement.

“Often hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, Ewan McGregor consistently captivates audiences with a diverse line-up of roles across a multitude of genres, styles and scope,” it said.

“McGregor’s career has been highlighted by a continuous string of bold and daring performances, from his breakthrough role as the heroin-addicted Mark Renton in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, to the legendary Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars saga, to starring opposite Nicole Kidman in the musical Moulin Rouge.”

The actor’s latest film “The Impossible”, a drama based on a true story of a family’s fight to survive during the 2004 tsunami, will have its European premiere at the festival after the ceremony to award McGregor the prize.


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A 3 MUSKETEER REVIEW FROM THE SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL!

One of the greatest benefits of this site has been meeting all the wonderful fans around the world.  Simona from Italy has most graciously translated this Three Musketeer part of a larger review for us.
Mille Grazie, Simona!

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TRADUZIONI RECENSIONI de

I TRE MOSCHETTIERI

COMINGSOON

Monks, musketeers and police in San Sebastian!

Carola Proto

With the shout of “All for one and one for all!”, arrived in the Basque land, strictly in 3D and armed with swords, costumes and humor, the most famous swordsmen of France: Athos, Porthos, Aramis and the boy of Gascony, D'Artagnan.

Three weeks before the Italian release, the San Sebastian Film Festival opened its doors to the cinema maistream with the European premiere of The Three Musketeers, again - but still welcome - transposition of the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Entrusted to the expert hands of “Resident Evil's Dad” Paul W.S. Anderson, this version leaves out the epic and verbosity of many previous adaptations, to play consciously with the cliché of a story all too familiar.

Simplified for script requirements and enhanced with special effects, becomes a glowing and delicious film where the characters happily debunk their myth. Among grimaces, betrayal and acrobatics, all become archetypes and return to being what they were when they were created: heroes of a novel's appendix.

If he had been sitting next to us at the cinema, in short, Dumas would spend a wonderful time.

As an admirer of women, he would have appreciated the necklines of Milla Jovovich in the role of the mischievous Milady De Winter.

As a wry joker, he would have approved the sly smile and the sidelong glance of Christoph Waltz's version of Cardinal Richelieu.

As a lover of elegance, then, he would loved upturned mustache and fine clothes of the Lord Buckingham of Orlando Bloom.

Perhaps he wouldn't have agreed with the decision to reduce the bone the Affair of the Necklace - eliminating most of the episodes in England-, but surely he would have forgiven the writers for the poetic license to move the battles on massive galleons supported by balloons.