De Niro @ 65.

While "his current work can feel like something of a letdown," writes Phlip Horne in the Sydney Morning Herald, "From 1973 to 1984, every [Robert] De Niro film was a major event: we trusted him to break important new ground, and knew he had put so much of himself into these parts that they would be fresh and challenging discoveries." Horne holds out hope for Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? and: "After that, he's working again with Michael Mann on the hitman thriller Frankie Machine, and plans to reunite with Scorsese at least one more time. It seems the Taxi Driver is not yet ready to collect his bus pass."

Updated through 8/20.

Congrats in the German papers: Claudius Seidl in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung runs a few photos.

Online viewing tip. Quentin Tarantino in 1994 on De Niro, parts 1, 2 and 3.

Update, 8/20: Nifty press release:

Robert de Niro opened an exhibition containing 25 paintings made by his father at BBK in Bilbao. The exhibition has been curated by Martine Soria and will be on view through September 27.

Grounded in European antecedents, specifically French, but unmistakably American in style, the paintings of Robert De Niro, Sr, represent one of the foremost achievements in painterly representation. De Niro's efforts to reconcile the real with the abstract through the use of brilliant draftsmanship, bold, Fauvist-inspired colors, and confident, gestural brushwork stand as one of the great achievements in postwar twentieth-century American painting.

Posted by dwhudson at August 17, 2008 9:23 AM