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What’s next for Tony winner Ivo van Hove? Maybe Hollywood!

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What’s next for Tony winner Ivo van Hove? Maybe Hollywood!

Director Ivo van Hove (Theo Wargo / Getty Images)
Director Ivo van Hove (Theo Wargo / Getty Images)

Ivo van Hove, film director? The Belgian auteur, who won a Tony tonight for his direction of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge,” said he’d love to direct a film here. He’s directed movies in the Netherlands, but “Holland is not very well known for that.”

Among his many projects will be directing Jude Law in “Obsessione,” based on the 1943 Luchino Visconti film inspired by James Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice.” He also will be bringing “The Damned” to the Avignon festival in France in July.

After his Tony win for “A View From the Bridge,” Van Hove was asked about his “obsession” with Visconti.

“Visconti, like Miller, is one of the great artists of the 20th century, and their work is resonant in their times and in our times.” About “The Damned,” about the rise of Hitler in Germany, he said he was interested in “Luchino’s venomous connections between the extreme right wing and the financial industry. But he deals with it in a subtle and elegant way.”

A View From the Bridge” comes to the Ahmanson in September.

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