COLE'S CELEB PHOTOS
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Over the years of working as a film critic in NYC, I had many opportunities to interview or meet celebrities. Many Cannes and New York Festivals enabled me to see and meet some of Cinema's finest talents. Here I've compiled a collection of photos I took on those special occasions. Some of these talented people are no longer with us, so it's especially touching to revisit them here.
Enjoy.
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Lunch with Catherine Deneuve at Cannes — "Persepolis"
Guillermo det Toro & Ivana Baquero in Cannes — "Pan's Labyrinth"
Michelle Monahan & Val Kilmer in Cannes — "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
Robert Downey Jr. & Val Kilmer in Cannes
Jean Reno & Audrey Tautou in Cannes — "The DaVinci Code"
Neil Rosen & Cole at the Fox Searchlight Party
Penelope Cruz & Pedro Almodovar in Cannes
Jason Ritter & Don Roos in NYC — "Happy Endings"
Paul Thomas Anderson & Daniel Day-Lewis in NYC
Richard Linklater & Eric Schlosser in Cannes — "Fast Food Nation"
Werner Herzog in NYC — "Grizzly Man"
Wim Wenders in Cannes — "Don't Come Knockin'"
Sam Shepard in Cannes — "Don't Come Knockin'"
Quentin Tarantino in Cannes 2004
Norman Jewison in NYC — "The Statement"
Doug Jones & Richard Jenkins in NYC — "The Shape of Water"
Lee Daniels in NYC — "The Paperboy"
Tom Hanks in Cannes — "The DaVinci Code"
Cillian Murphy & Pádraic Delaney — "The Wind That Shakes The Barley"
Malcolm McLeren in Cannes — "Fast Food Nation"
Tom Arnold in NYC — "Gardens of the Night"
Keanu Reeves in Cannes — "A Scanner Darkly"
Micky Rourke, Darren Aronofsky, Marisa Tomei — "The Wrestler"
Neil Cohen ("Chief Zabu") on La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)
Jim Jarmusch in Cannes — "Gimme Danger"
Iggy Pop in Cannes — "Gimme Danger"
Scarlett Johansson — "Girl With A Pearl Earring"
Elle Fanning in Cannes — "The Neon Demon"
Nicolas Winding Refn in Cannes — "The Neon Demon"
Atom Egoyan in Cannes — "Where the Truth Lies"
Rachel Blanchard in Cannes — "Where The Truth Lies"
Sir Anthony Hopkins "The World's Fastest Indian"
Jim Jarmusch in Cannes — "Broken Flowers"
Ken Loach in Cannes — "The Wind That Shakes The Barley"
Roger Donaldson — "The World's Fastest Indian"
Errol Morris in NYC — "Standard Operating Procedure"
Colin Ferrel in NYC — "In Bruges"
Ellen (nee Elliot) Page — "Hard Candy"
Mark Ruffalo in NYC — "In The Cut"
Agnès Jaoui at the New York Film Festival
Stew & Spike Lee in NYC — "Passing Strange"
Clive Owen — "The International"
Mai Masri ("3000 Nights") on La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)
Nick Stahl — "The Door In The Floor"
Carice van Houten — "Black Book"
Taylor Sheridan, Chris Pine & Ben Foster in Cannes
Chris Pine & Ben Foster in Cannes — "Hell or High Water"
Harvey Pekar in Cannes — "American Splendor"
Richard Schickel & Geraldine Chaplin
William Friedkin in Cannes — "Bug"
Hector Babenco in Cannes — "Carandiru"
Natalie Portman in NYC — "V For Vendetta"
Uma Thurman in NYC — "My Super Ex-Girlfriend"
Catherine Zeta-Jones in NYC — "No Reservations"
Michael K. Williams & Ally Sheedy — "Life During Wartime"
Christopher Sherwood ("All Is Vanity") on La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)
Cole with Jason Ritter & Don Roos — "Happy Endings"
Michael Somerville on La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)
Michelle Williams at the New York Film Festival — "My Week With Marilyn"
Heath Ledger in NYC — "I'm Not There"
Don Cheadle & Emayatzy Corinealdi — "Miles Ahead"
Rick Crom ("Oh, Rick") on La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)
Mandy Moore & Justin Theroux in NYC
Matthew Fox in NYC — "Vantage Point"
Vincent Gallo in Cannes — "Brown Bunny"
Guillermo del Toro in NYC — "The Shape of Water"
Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe & Robyn Hitchcock in NYC
Martin Scorsese — "Shine A Light"
Keith Richards & Charlie Watts in NYC — "Shine A Light"
Daniel Craig in NYC — "Layer Cake"
Cuba Gooding Jr. in NYC — "Dirty"
Leonardo DiCaprio in NYC — "The Departed"
Forest Whitaker in NYC — "Panic Room"
Gretchen Mol in NYC — "The Notorious Bettie Page"
Gael Garcia Bernal in Cannes — "Babel"
Alejandro G. Iñárritu in Cannes — "Babel"
Pierce Brosnan at The Essex House
Jeremy Workman — "The World Before Your Feet"