Mark Ruffalo
Darkness Visible
Blindness
Running Time 120 minutes
Written By Don McKellar
Directed By Fernando Meirelles
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal
In Blindness, a noxious, stomach-churning and deadly pretentious freak show by Fernando Meirelles, the talented Brazilian director of City of God and The Constant Gardener, the citizens of a big city are stricken by a plague that renders them sightless. A Japanese man goes blind in traffic. The same fate befalls the man who steals his car, as well as the eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo) who attends them both. Suddenly it’s happening all over town, as victims are quarantined in the cages of an abandoned mental institution. read more »
Mark Ruffalo to Direct Sympathy for Delicious
Mark Ruffalo is getting in the director's chair for his new project: Sympathy for Delicious. It's a movie starring Mr. Ruffalo's friend Chris Long as an L.A. DJ "Delicious" Dean O'Dwyer who is paralyzed in a wheelchair (Mr. Long is actually paralyzed in a wheelchair in real life).
Delicious develops some kind of divine gift to cure the sick, according to Variety. Mr. Ruffalo will be making his directorial debut and starring in the movie as a priest who helps out Delicious; James Franco (yum) will play a trickster singer in a rock band who tries to "exploit" Delicious's gift.
James Franco gave an interview to MTV about the movie last week:
The project, a “drama that’s got comedy in it,” as Franco described it, has been kicking around since at least 2004, when Ruffalo mentioned the film while doing press for “13 Going on 30.
Mark Ruffalo, Amy Adams in for Baumbach's Greenburg
Noah Baumbach, another 90's boy who grew up, will probably have more heady examinations of "young urban angst" in Greenburg, his new film starring Mark Ruffalo (doughy animal cracker eating cop in Zodiac) and Amy Adams (Disney heroine in Enchanted, indie princess in Junebug). The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop: read more »
Ruffalo to Star in Scorsese's Shutter Island
Our favorite scruffy, everyman actor Mark Ruffalo has landed a role as a cop opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's drama Shutter Island, according to the Hollywood Reporter. read more »
Joaquin and Talking
Reservation Road is a suspenseful story of loss and revenge, about the different roads taken by two fathers after a tragic hit-and-run accident. read more »
Preposterous Runaway Jury Is Guns and Poses
