Mexico’s Monterrey Film Festival (ficmonterrey) is chasing new ambitions in a bid to raise its international profile. Buttressed by generous state, local and private backing as well as some federal funding, the festival, running Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, aims to become Mexico’s most prominent international film festival and a key creative hub in Mexico.
This year’s 19th edition boasts a new director, Janeth Aguirre, also its first female director, and new hires: Diana Cadavid, a programmer for Toronto (TIFF), LA Latino Int’l Film Fest (Laliff) and Colombia’s Cali, who has taken charge of the festival’s burgeoning industry section, and LA-based PR agent Alvar Carretero of Joshua Jason Public Relations.
In recognition of its country guest of honor, South Korea, the fest will open with “Little Forest” by Yim Soonrye, one of the few prominent women film auteurs in South Korean New Wave cinema. Five of her...
This year’s 19th edition boasts a new director, Janeth Aguirre, also its first female director, and new hires: Diana Cadavid, a programmer for Toronto (TIFF), LA Latino Int’l Film Fest (Laliff) and Colombia’s Cali, who has taken charge of the festival’s burgeoning industry section, and LA-based PR agent Alvar Carretero of Joshua Jason Public Relations.
In recognition of its country guest of honor, South Korea, the fest will open with “Little Forest” by Yim Soonrye, one of the few prominent women film auteurs in South Korean New Wave cinema. Five of her...
- 9/11/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Utama wins first awards for a Bolivian film.
In a one-two for Amazon’s original film and TV businesses Santiago Mitre’s courtroom drama Argentina, 1985 took five top honours at the 2023 Platino Awards on Saturday night (April 22), while News Of a Kidnapping from Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García claimed four.
Amazon Studios’ Argentina, 1985 won best Ibero-American fiction film, best actor for Ricardo Darín, best screenplay for co-writers Mitre and Mariano Llinas, best art direction, and film & education in values awards.
Satuday’s triumph here at Madrid’s Ifema Municipal Palace follows Oscar and Bafta nominations and the Goya for best Iberoamerican film.
In a one-two for Amazon’s original film and TV businesses Santiago Mitre’s courtroom drama Argentina, 1985 took five top honours at the 2023 Platino Awards on Saturday night (April 22), while News Of a Kidnapping from Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García claimed four.
Amazon Studios’ Argentina, 1985 won best Ibero-American fiction film, best actor for Ricardo Darín, best screenplay for co-writers Mitre and Mariano Llinas, best art direction, and film & education in values awards.
Satuday’s triumph here at Madrid’s Ifema Municipal Palace follows Oscar and Bafta nominations and the Goya for best Iberoamerican film.
- 4/23/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Utama wins first awards for a Bolivian film.
Santiago Mitre’s courtroom drama Argentina, 1985 from Amazon Studios took five top honours at the 2023 Platino Awards at Madrid’s Ifema Municipal Palace on Saturday night (April 22), while stablemate Prime Video’s News Of a Kidnapping from Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García claimed four.
Oscar- and Bafta-nominated Argentina, 1985 premiered in Competition at Venice last year and added to an awards haul that also earned recognition at the Goya awards, among others.
Mitre’s latest film won best Ibero-American fiction film, best actor for Ricardo Darín, best screenplay co-written by Mitre and Mariano Llinas,...
Santiago Mitre’s courtroom drama Argentina, 1985 from Amazon Studios took five top honours at the 2023 Platino Awards at Madrid’s Ifema Municipal Palace on Saturday night (April 22), while stablemate Prime Video’s News Of a Kidnapping from Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García claimed four.
Oscar- and Bafta-nominated Argentina, 1985 premiered in Competition at Venice last year and added to an awards haul that also earned recognition at the Goya awards, among others.
Mitre’s latest film won best Ibero-American fiction film, best actor for Ricardo Darín, best screenplay co-written by Mitre and Mariano Llinas,...
- 4/23/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Ians) Aiff president Kalyan Chaubey and secretary general Shaji Prabhakaran on Sunday met the leaders of two of the world’s greatest legacy clubs in Madrid and held discussions on a wide range of subjects related to football and its development.
Chaubey and Prabhakaran met Real Madrid President Florentino Perez and the club CEO Jose Angel Sanchez. The chief of the 122-year-old club, considered one of the most respected figures in world football, assured Indian football of all help and cooperation in the near future.
Chaubey and Prabhakaran had another meeting with the Atletico de Madrid President Enrique Cerezo.
Speaking on the meetings, Chaubey said: “Meeting the presidents of the two clubs was a wonderful opportunity and I thank both of them for giving us the honour and discussing various problems of the game, especially in India. I am simply moved by the openness of the senior officials here,...
Chaubey and Prabhakaran met Real Madrid President Florentino Perez and the club CEO Jose Angel Sanchez. The chief of the 122-year-old club, considered one of the most respected figures in world football, assured Indian football of all help and cooperation in the near future.
Chaubey and Prabhakaran had another meeting with the Atletico de Madrid President Enrique Cerezo.
Speaking on the meetings, Chaubey said: “Meeting the presidents of the two clubs was a wonderful opportunity and I thank both of them for giving us the honour and discussing various problems of the game, especially in India. I am simply moved by the openness of the senior officials here,...
- 2/26/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Chilean star writer José Ignacio “Chascas” Valenzuela, creator, showrunner and executive producer of hit Netflix series “Who Killed Sara?” has formed a production company with L.A.-based Argentine producer Lucas Akoskin of Aliwen Entertainment.
The new bi-coastal production company, called Malule Entertainment, will be based out of Los Angeles and Miami, where Valenzuela resides. Both partners have lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years.
Hinting at the type of films and TV series they’ll be producing, Valenzuela said: “I’m most interested in exploring the chance to collaborate with first-rate screenwriters and, at the same time, give emerging Latin American writers the opportunity to write hybrid stories that mix genres and formats.”
“Who said that a thriller cannot be written as if it were a melodrama? Why can’t a romantic comedy have, in addition to a powerful love story, a layer of suspense?” he pointed out.
The new bi-coastal production company, called Malule Entertainment, will be based out of Los Angeles and Miami, where Valenzuela resides. Both partners have lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years.
Hinting at the type of films and TV series they’ll be producing, Valenzuela said: “I’m most interested in exploring the chance to collaborate with first-rate screenwriters and, at the same time, give emerging Latin American writers the opportunity to write hybrid stories that mix genres and formats.”
“Who said that a thriller cannot be written as if it were a melodrama? Why can’t a romantic comedy have, in addition to a powerful love story, a layer of suspense?” he pointed out.
- 11/4/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Nicole Kidman’s 2001 haunted house film “The Others,” directed by Chilean helmer Alejandro Amenabar, is getting a remake.
“The Others,” set in 1945 in a remote country house on the British island of Jersey, centered on Kidman’s character, Grace Stewart, discovering unknown “others” living in her home. One of her children says she has seen a group of people in the house several times — a man, a woman, an old woman and a child named Victor — who claimed “the house is theirs.”
“The Others” was a box office hit, grossing more than $200 million on a $17 million budget. The film won seven of Spain’s Goya Awards, including best film and best director for Amenabar.
Universal Pictures optioned the rights to “The Others” from Sentient Entertainment, which acquired control of the rights in a heated bidding war in April from FilmSharks-owned The Remake Co. and Video Mercury. Sentient made the deal...
“The Others,” set in 1945 in a remote country house on the British island of Jersey, centered on Kidman’s character, Grace Stewart, discovering unknown “others” living in her home. One of her children says she has seen a group of people in the house several times — a man, a woman, an old woman and a child named Victor — who claimed “the house is theirs.”
“The Others” was a box office hit, grossing more than $200 million on a $17 million budget. The film won seven of Spain’s Goya Awards, including best film and best director for Amenabar.
Universal Pictures optioned the rights to “The Others” from Sentient Entertainment, which acquired control of the rights in a heated bidding war in April from FilmSharks-owned The Remake Co. and Video Mercury. Sentient made the deal...
- 10/12/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to remake “The Others,” the 2001 Nicole Kidman horror film from director Alejandro Amenábar, and both Universal and Sentient Entertainment are currently in development on the remake.
In “The Others,” Kidman plays a woman in post-war 1945 who lives with her two children, both photosensitive to light and who now fear their home is haunted. The movie is a supernatural, psychological horror film, and in 2001 it was an unexpected international box office hit, grossing $209.9 million worldwide. It even scored Kidman a Golden Globe nomination and was nominated for nine Goya awards for the Spanish director Amenábar, even though it didn’t have any Spanish language in it.
It’s unclear how or if the film will be updated or how much it will draw from the original script.
Sentient Entertainment previously acquired and announced the remake rights this past April. Sentient’s Renee Tab, a producer...
In “The Others,” Kidman plays a woman in post-war 1945 who lives with her two children, both photosensitive to light and who now fear their home is haunted. The movie is a supernatural, psychological horror film, and in 2001 it was an unexpected international box office hit, grossing $209.9 million worldwide. It even scored Kidman a Golden Globe nomination and was nominated for nine Goya awards for the Spanish director Amenábar, even though it didn’t have any Spanish language in it.
It’s unclear how or if the film will be updated or how much it will draw from the original script.
Sentient Entertainment previously acquired and announced the remake rights this past April. Sentient’s Renee Tab, a producer...
- 10/12/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
‘The Others’ Remake In The Works As Universal Pictures & Sentient Entertainment Partner On New Movie
Exclusive: The Nicole Kidman horror classic is getting a makeover. Sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures and Sentient Entertainment have partnered on the remake of Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others and are in development on a film.
In a competitive situation, Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the film from Sentient. Deadline broke the news in April that Sentient had acquired control of the rights in a highly competitive situation from FilmSharks owned The Remake Co. and VideoMercury. Sentient made the deal with FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud and European football club Atletico Madrid President Enrique Cerezo’s Video Mercury. Cerezo originally acquired the film rights when he purchased Sogecine.
Sentient’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin will produce alongside Aliwen Entertainment’s Lucas Akoskin. Cerezo will executive produce alongside Rud and Miller Way’s Michael and Jeeny Miller. SVP Production Sara Scott will oversee the project on behalf of Universal.
In a competitive situation, Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the film from Sentient. Deadline broke the news in April that Sentient had acquired control of the rights in a highly competitive situation from FilmSharks owned The Remake Co. and VideoMercury. Sentient made the deal with FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud and European football club Atletico Madrid President Enrique Cerezo’s Video Mercury. Cerezo originally acquired the film rights when he purchased Sogecine.
Sentient’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin will produce alongside Aliwen Entertainment’s Lucas Akoskin. Cerezo will executive produce alongside Rud and Miller Way’s Michael and Jeeny Miller. SVP Production Sara Scott will oversee the project on behalf of Universal.
- 10/12/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal Pictures and Sentient Entertainment are partnering on a remake of Alejandro Amenabar’s 2001 ghost story The Others, which starred Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston.
The reboot is in development after Universal Pictures optioned the rights to The Others from Sentient. The original film portrayed a woman living in a darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children, only to become convinced that the home is haunted.
Sentient’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin will produce the remake alongside Aliwen Entertainment’s Lucas Akoskin. Enrique Cerezo will executive produce alongside Guido Rud and Michael and Jeeny Miller.
Sentient acquired control of the ...
The reboot is in development after Universal Pictures optioned the rights to The Others from Sentient. The original film portrayed a woman living in a darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children, only to become convinced that the home is haunted.
Sentient’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin will produce the remake alongside Aliwen Entertainment’s Lucas Akoskin. Enrique Cerezo will executive produce alongside Guido Rud and Michael and Jeeny Miller.
Sentient acquired control of the ...
- 10/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Universal Pictures and Sentient Entertainment are partnering on a remake of Alejandro Amenabar’s 2001 ghost story The Others, which starred Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston.
The reboot is in development after Universal Pictures optioned the rights to The Others from Sentient. The original film portrayed a woman living in a darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children, only to become convinced that the home is haunted.
Sentient’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin will produce the remake alongside Aliwen Entertainment’s Lucas Akoskin. Enrique Cerezo will executive produce alongside Guido Rud and Michael and Jeeny Miller.
Sentient acquired control of the ...
The reboot is in development after Universal Pictures optioned the rights to The Others from Sentient. The original film portrayed a woman living in a darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children, only to become convinced that the home is haunted.
Sentient’s Renee Tab and Christopher Tuffin will produce the remake alongside Aliwen Entertainment’s Lucas Akoskin. Enrique Cerezo will executive produce alongside Guido Rud and Michael and Jeeny Miller.
Sentient acquired control of the ...
- 10/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” swept the 7th Platino Xcaret Awards, winning best Ibero-American film, as well as the best director and screenplay for Almodovar. It also took home three other awards: Original music for Alberto Iglesias, editing for Teresa Font and best actor for Antonio Banderas, Oscar-nominated for his role in Almodóvar’s semi-autobiographical opus.
Relegated to an online announcement by the Covid-19 pandemic, Ibero-America’s most prestigious awards ceremony unveiled the winners on its YouTube channel on Monday, June 29 where Platinos ambassador and CNN Español journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas teamed up with Mexican actor-comedian Omar Chaparro and Colombian actress-singer Majida Issa to read out the winners.
Enrique Cerezo, president of the Premios Xcaret, said: “We regret that we couldn’t be present on site because of a nightmare we hope to wake up from soon.”
It was a banner year for Spanish productions which went home with...
Relegated to an online announcement by the Covid-19 pandemic, Ibero-America’s most prestigious awards ceremony unveiled the winners on its YouTube channel on Monday, June 29 where Platinos ambassador and CNN Español journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas teamed up with Mexican actor-comedian Omar Chaparro and Colombian actress-singer Majida Issa to read out the winners.
Enrique Cerezo, president of the Premios Xcaret, said: “We regret that we couldn’t be present on site because of a nightmare we hope to wake up from soon.”
It was a banner year for Spanish productions which went home with...
- 6/29/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly 20 years after its stunning 2001 debut, Alejandro Amenabar’s horror classic “The Others” is set to have a Spanish-language TV series spin-off.
Miami-based Btf Media has snagged the series format rights from FilmSharks subsidiary the Remake Co. and Enrique Cerezo’s Video Mercury Films.
In the original, WWII is coming to an end and a mother, played by Nicole Kidman, is anxious to protect her photosensitive children in a gloomy, isolated mansion while she waits for her husband to return from battle in France. The arrival of three enigmatic servants reveals some unexpected and chilling secrets.
The gothic film grossed more than $200 million worldwide, garnering a clutch of nominations and awards, including a Golden Globe actress nomination for Kidman and several Goya awards, including best film.
Btf founders Ricardo Coeto and Francisco Cordero will produce the series while FilmSharks’ Guido Rud and Cerezo executive produce.
“We are honored to bring...
Miami-based Btf Media has snagged the series format rights from FilmSharks subsidiary the Remake Co. and Enrique Cerezo’s Video Mercury Films.
In the original, WWII is coming to an end and a mother, played by Nicole Kidman, is anxious to protect her photosensitive children in a gloomy, isolated mansion while she waits for her husband to return from battle in France. The arrival of three enigmatic servants reveals some unexpected and chilling secrets.
The gothic film grossed more than $200 million worldwide, garnering a clutch of nominations and awards, including a Golden Globe actress nomination for Kidman and several Goya awards, including best film.
Btf founders Ricardo Coeto and Francisco Cordero will produce the series while FilmSharks’ Guido Rud and Cerezo executive produce.
“We are honored to bring...
- 6/22/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, La-based Sentient Entertainment has won the remake rights to Nicole Kidman horror movie hit The Others, which scared up north of $200M global when it was released in 2001.
Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Alejandro Amenabar’s timely self-isolation tale about a war widow who hides her children away in an isolated mansion due to a rare disease characterized by photosensitivity. The arrival of three mysterious servants unlocks the house’s terrifying secrets. Kidman was Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated for her turn and writer-director Amenabar won Goyas for Best Director and Screenplay.
More from DeadlineSentient Pacts With The Washington Post On Film About Police Dog Who Sniffed Out Colombian Drug CartelSpanish-Language Horror Hit 'Morgue' Strikes Sales Deal With Remakes Specialist FilmSharks; Watch First International TrailerHBO Latino Takes U.S. Rights To Animated Film 'Lino 3D', Canada Deal Also Closes -- Cannes
Sentient struck...
Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Alejandro Amenabar’s timely self-isolation tale about a war widow who hides her children away in an isolated mansion due to a rare disease characterized by photosensitivity. The arrival of three mysterious servants unlocks the house’s terrifying secrets. Kidman was Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated for her turn and writer-director Amenabar won Goyas for Best Director and Screenplay.
More from DeadlineSentient Pacts With The Washington Post On Film About Police Dog Who Sniffed Out Colombian Drug CartelSpanish-Language Horror Hit 'Morgue' Strikes Sales Deal With Remakes Specialist FilmSharks; Watch First International TrailerHBO Latino Takes U.S. Rights To Animated Film 'Lino 3D', Canada Deal Also Closes -- Cannes
Sentient struck...
- 4/8/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris and Los Angeles-based Federation Entertainment has acquired the TV format and remake rights to Alejandro Amenábar’s debut feature, “Thesis.” It’s a prime example of the value of key older movie titles from standout younger foreign-language auteurs.
Producer of “The Bureau,” “Marseille,” “Bad Banks” and “Hostages,” Federation Entertainment will produce a drama series based on the film along with Raphaël Rocher at Empreinte Digitale, a company with a strong line in genre and sci-fi which produced “Missions,” a TV Critics Award winner at the 2017 MipDrama Screenings.
Federation Entertainment’s Lionel Uzan is understood to have clinched the remake rights in a competitive bidding situation from Guido Rud’s FilmSharks-owned the Remake Co. and Enrique Cerezo’s Video Mercury.
The move opens up a whole new front for rights-holders to exploit the commercial and artistic value of past movies. Further movie-to-series deals in the Spanish-speaking world look set to...
Producer of “The Bureau,” “Marseille,” “Bad Banks” and “Hostages,” Federation Entertainment will produce a drama series based on the film along with Raphaël Rocher at Empreinte Digitale, a company with a strong line in genre and sci-fi which produced “Missions,” a TV Critics Award winner at the 2017 MipDrama Screenings.
Federation Entertainment’s Lionel Uzan is understood to have clinched the remake rights in a competitive bidding situation from Guido Rud’s FilmSharks-owned the Remake Co. and Enrique Cerezo’s Video Mercury.
The move opens up a whole new front for rights-holders to exploit the commercial and artistic value of past movies. Further movie-to-series deals in the Spanish-speaking world look set to...
- 2/22/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lucas Akoskin’s (On The Milky Road) Aliwen Entertainment and Jay Weisleder (Hands Of Stone) and Ben Silverman (The Office) of Fuego Films have optioned U.S. remake rights to hit Argentine rom-com A Boyfriend For My Wife (Un Novio Para Mi Mujer).
Juan Taratuto’s Spanish-language original, about a husband who hires a professional Cassanova to seduce his unhappy wife, was the highest-grossing Argentine film of 2008. The film has had remakes in South Korea, Mexico and Italy and was previously on the development slate at Warner Bros.
The U.S remake deal was struck with Argentine sales outfit FimSharks, whose label The Remake Company has also struck a redo pact for Spain with Arcadia Motion Pictures (Aloft).
Akoskin is executive producer on upcoming drama Bonded with Jason Patric. Fuego’s development slate also includes baseball movie Clemente.
Separately, FilmSharks has also signed remake sales rights from Enrique Cerezo...
Juan Taratuto’s Spanish-language original, about a husband who hires a professional Cassanova to seduce his unhappy wife, was the highest-grossing Argentine film of 2008. The film has had remakes in South Korea, Mexico and Italy and was previously on the development slate at Warner Bros.
The U.S remake deal was struck with Argentine sales outfit FimSharks, whose label The Remake Company has also struck a redo pact for Spain with Arcadia Motion Pictures (Aloft).
Akoskin is executive producer on upcoming drama Bonded with Jason Patric. Fuego’s development slate also includes baseball movie Clemente.
Separately, FilmSharks has also signed remake sales rights from Enrique Cerezo...
- 9/6/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Barcelona-based sales agency Filmax announced today at Argentina’s Ventana Sur market, that it has acquired the rights to the film adaptation of Rtve’s preschool children’s part-puppet, part-live action and part-animated kids’ show “The Lunnis,” titled “The Lunnis and the Great Fairy Tales Adventure.”
The announcement was made with an accompanying trailer for the film, slated to release theatrically in Spain on Jan 18. The acquisition is in line with Filmax’s declared directive to make a concerted push into the world of high-quality, family-oriented cinema, as it did in previously acquiring “The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure,” or the animated feature “The Nut Job.”
“Los Lunnis” has scored generations of fans in Spain since first broadcasting in 2003. The series has seen plenty of changes in its 15 years, but has always featured morally-based, educational content, and plenty of puppets. It has often used music to aid in delivering its messages as well.
The announcement was made with an accompanying trailer for the film, slated to release theatrically in Spain on Jan 18. The acquisition is in line with Filmax’s declared directive to make a concerted push into the world of high-quality, family-oriented cinema, as it did in previously acquiring “The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure,” or the animated feature “The Nut Job.”
“Los Lunnis” has scored generations of fans in Spain since first broadcasting in 2003. The series has seen plenty of changes in its 15 years, but has always featured morally-based, educational content, and plenty of puppets. It has often used music to aid in delivering its messages as well.
- 12/10/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Salvador Calvo is currently filming the historical adventure about the final days of a Spanish colony in the Philippines.
Film Factory has been talking to worldwide buyers here about new slate addition 1898, Our Last Men In The Philippines.
Enrique Cerezo (Witching & Bitching, My Big Night) is producing the historical adventure and director Salvador Calvo is currently shooting in Guinea, the Philippines and the Canary Islands.
1898, Our Last Men In The Philippines recounts the final days of the Spanish Empire’s last colony as 50 soldiers in the Philippines barricade themselves inside a church and resist a force of native Tagalogs for nearly a year.
Javier Gutiérrez stars with Luis Tosar, Álvaro Cervantes, Eduard Fernández, Karra Elejalde, and Ricardo Gómez. Alejandro Hernández wrote the screenplay.
“I plan on making an action-adventure movie with great characters,” said Calvo. “A movie like those of the old school, the ones that invited you into the theatre to escape reality for a couple...
Film Factory has been talking to worldwide buyers here about new slate addition 1898, Our Last Men In The Philippines.
Enrique Cerezo (Witching & Bitching, My Big Night) is producing the historical adventure and director Salvador Calvo is currently shooting in Guinea, the Philippines and the Canary Islands.
1898, Our Last Men In The Philippines recounts the final days of the Spanish Empire’s last colony as 50 soldiers in the Philippines barricade themselves inside a church and resist a force of native Tagalogs for nearly a year.
Javier Gutiérrez stars with Luis Tosar, Álvaro Cervantes, Eduard Fernández, Karra Elejalde, and Ricardo Gómez. Alejandro Hernández wrote the screenplay.
“I plan on making an action-adventure movie with great characters,” said Calvo. “A movie like those of the old school, the ones that invited you into the theatre to escape reality for a couple...
- 5/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Asia Argento, Unax Ugalde, Miriam Giovanelli, Rutger Hauer, Maria Cristina Heller, Augusto Zucchi, Franco Ravera, Giovanni Franzoni | Written by Dario Argento, Enrique Cerezo, Stefano Piani, Antonio Tentori | Directed by Dario Argento
As a reviewer I tend not to follow the opinion’s of others – no matter how many people share the same opinion or how many times I’m told said opinion is true. I know that, for the most part, my taste in movies is more aligned to the audience that reads my reviews than my fellow bloggers and critics… Which is why I was willing to part with my hard-earned money to discover the truth about Dario Argento’s take on Dracula for myself.
I kind of wish I’d listened to everyone else.
When Tania (Asia Argento), a young woman, is attacked and killed by a mysterious dark shadow in the woods...
As a reviewer I tend not to follow the opinion’s of others – no matter how many people share the same opinion or how many times I’m told said opinion is true. I know that, for the most part, my taste in movies is more aligned to the audience that reads my reviews than my fellow bloggers and critics… Which is why I was willing to part with my hard-earned money to discover the truth about Dario Argento’s take on Dracula for myself.
I kind of wish I’d listened to everyone else.
When Tania (Asia Argento), a young woman, is attacked and killed by a mysterious dark shadow in the woods...
- 10/1/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Winners have been announced! See below.
The First Edition of the Platinum Awards, a gala presentation in Panama April 5th, sponsored by Egeda and Fipca was an idea born two years ago in Panama at the Festival'sl Forum with Iberoamerican filmmakers and the Iberoamerican Producers Association (Fipca). Panama's Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce offered to pay for the first edition which is being held now. Jose Pacheco, the Deputy Minister and also the President of the Panama Film Commission, along with Arianne Marie Benedetti, then had to convince their government that the investment in the awards, along with the investment in cinema would further the country's extraordinary influx of capital and would help establish the Premios Platinos as the most important global event promoting and supporting the Iberoamerican film industry. Everyone here for the 4th Annual Panama Film Festival was quite excited and it was an extraordinary affair. Twenty-two Spanish speaking countries in the Americas as well as Brazil, Portugal and Spain gathered along with world press (John Hopewell of Variety and I myself of SydneysBuzz/ LatinoBuzz and Indiewire were the only gringo press around) and producers, directors, actors, cinematographers and writers to pay homage to the great talent arising out of the Iberoamerican countries whose potential audience exceeds that of the United States.
This was pointed out with great enthusiasm by Javier Camára, the actor nominated for Best Male Actor for his role in David Trueba's Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados). He plays a high-school English/ Latin teacher in 1966 Spain who drives to Almeria in hopes of meeting his hero, John Lennon. Along the way, he picks up two runaways. The movie title, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed, comes from a line in Lennon's song Strawberry Fields Forever which he wrote while filming How I Won the War in Almeria. (Camára is also a fan of Real Madrid.)
In this first edition 701 films have participated. Of these, each of the countries made a pre-selection of their candidates through their representatives Fipca and national film academies. Subsequently, a jury of prominent industry professionals has selected the winners just announced at the gala on April 5 in Panama. The Directors of the event are Adrian Solar Lozier for Fipca and one of Chili's most recognized producers and Enrique Cerezo Torres, one of the founders of Egeda twenty-five years ago, its chief executive for the past seventeen years, President of the Madrid Film Commission and President of the Madrid School of Cinema. (He is also the President of the Athletic Football Club of Madrid.)
Mexican singer and actress, Alessandra Rosaldo, and Colombian journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas whose TV show on film is featured on CNN Latino, co-hosted the televised event. Canal Plus of Spain and others representing television across the Americas were present.
The winners in each of the eight categories were named to a huge audience of the most important Latin American cinema talent who sat on pins and needles waiting to hear the winners.
Accepting the Platinum Award of Honor, Sonia Braga, known to U.S. audiences from the 1976 breakout Brazilian film, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, and again in 1985 and 1988 with Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Milagro Beanfield War respectively, was elegant and eloquent in her acceptance.
The most nominated films were The German Doctor: Wakolda, Gloria and Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. The surprise was that Living is Easy did not win a single award. Already the winner of 11 Awards and nominated for 5 other awards, David Trueba definitely can not hide behind the loser category. The Spanish film Living is Easy with Eyes Closed won six Goya Awards including Best Director.
And The Winners are:
Best Iberoamerican Fiction Film: Gloria (Chile). Nominated were The German Doctor: Wakolda (Argentina), Heli (Mexico), Witching and Bitching (Spain), La jaula de oro (The Golden Cage) (Mexico), Roa (Colombia) and Living is Easy with Eyes Closed Spain) compete for the title of Best Latin American Film of the Year.
Best Female Performance: Paulina García (Gloria). Nominated were Karen Martínez (The Golden Cage), Laura De la Uz (Ana's Film), Marian Álvarez (Wounded), Nashla Bogaert (Who's the Boss?), Natalia Oreiro (Wakolda). You can read Gloria's review and interview with Sebastian Lelio and Paulna Garcia here: Review by Carlos Aguilar and Interview with Sebastian Lelio and Paulina Garcia by Sydney Levine. You can soon read more about upcoming Dominican Republic's Nashla Bogaert whom I met and interviewed in Panama. She is my choice of the one to keep an eye on.
Best Male Performance: Eugenio Derbez (Instructions Not Included). The equivalent of the Platinos, our own Academy Award usually steers clear of comedy in the best actor category, as if comedy were not as difficult as drama. But this was well deserved in terms of popularity as this film's huge success in both U.S. and Mexico shows. U.S.$44 million in U.S. and U.S.$ 41 million in Mexico are not to be ignored. This major hit hit a major nerve in U.S. and Mexico. Also nominated were Antonio de la Torre (Cannibal), , Javier Cámara (Living is Easy with Eyes Closed), Ricardo Darín (Thesis on a Homicide) and Víctor Prada (The Cleaner).
Platinum Award For Best Director: Amat Escalante (Heli). Nominated were Sebastian Lelio (Gloria), David Trueba (Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed), Lucia Puenzo (The German Doctor: Wakolda). You can read Heli's Review by Carlos Aguilar and the Interview with Amat Escalante by Carlos Aguilar.
Platinum Best Screenplay Award: Sebastian Lelio, Gonzalo Maza (Gloria). Also nominated were Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Great Spanish Family), David Trueba (Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed), Lucia Puenzo (The German Doctor-Wakolda)
Platinum Award For Best Original Score: Emilio Kauderer for Foosball (Football). Also nominated were Karin Zielinski for El Limpiador (The Cleaner) -- you can read its Review by Carlos Aguilar , Joan Valent (Zugarramurdi Witches)
Platinum Award For Best Animated Film: Foosball (Football). Nominated were Anina -- you can read Anina's Review by Carlos Aguilar , The Secret Of Jade Medallion, Justin And The Sword Of Value, Uma History Of Love And Fury
Platinum Award For Best Documentary: Con la Pata Quebrada (With a Broken Leg). Nominated were: Cuates de Australia (Friends from Australia), Eternal Night Of The Twelve Moons, The Day That Lasted 21 Years from Brazil about the U.S. instigated coup d’etat in 1964, Still Being.
Camilo Vives (recently deceased, head of production for Icaic) Platinum Award for Best Iberoamerican co-production, in memory of his Presidency of Fipca for over 10 years and co-chair of the Forum Egeda / Fipca was The German Doctor Wakolda which beat out Anina, Esclavo de Dios and La jaula de oro. Read more on The German Doctor Wakolda here: Review by Carlos Aguilar and Case Study by Sydney Levine.
See more on the Platinum Award website: www.premiosplatino.com.
Alessandra Rosaldo stated: "These Awards will be the most valuable Iberoamerican Film Excellence Awards, something this industry needs and demands to reward the creativity and talent of our film industry.
Juan Carlos Arciniegas said: "The Platinum Awards are pioneers, transcend borders and put our countries in a fair competition that will highlight the diversity of the region cinematically. These awards will write the history of the participating films."
Eugenio Derbez, Blanca Guerra, Victoria Abril and Patricia Velasquez were some of the presenters.
The First Edition of the Platinum Awards, a gala presentation in Panama April 5th, sponsored by Egeda and Fipca was an idea born two years ago in Panama at the Festival'sl Forum with Iberoamerican filmmakers and the Iberoamerican Producers Association (Fipca). Panama's Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce offered to pay for the first edition which is being held now. Jose Pacheco, the Deputy Minister and also the President of the Panama Film Commission, along with Arianne Marie Benedetti, then had to convince their government that the investment in the awards, along with the investment in cinema would further the country's extraordinary influx of capital and would help establish the Premios Platinos as the most important global event promoting and supporting the Iberoamerican film industry. Everyone here for the 4th Annual Panama Film Festival was quite excited and it was an extraordinary affair. Twenty-two Spanish speaking countries in the Americas as well as Brazil, Portugal and Spain gathered along with world press (John Hopewell of Variety and I myself of SydneysBuzz/ LatinoBuzz and Indiewire were the only gringo press around) and producers, directors, actors, cinematographers and writers to pay homage to the great talent arising out of the Iberoamerican countries whose potential audience exceeds that of the United States.
This was pointed out with great enthusiasm by Javier Camára, the actor nominated for Best Male Actor for his role in David Trueba's Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados). He plays a high-school English/ Latin teacher in 1966 Spain who drives to Almeria in hopes of meeting his hero, John Lennon. Along the way, he picks up two runaways. The movie title, Living is Easy With Eyes Closed, comes from a line in Lennon's song Strawberry Fields Forever which he wrote while filming How I Won the War in Almeria. (Camára is also a fan of Real Madrid.)
In this first edition 701 films have participated. Of these, each of the countries made a pre-selection of their candidates through their representatives Fipca and national film academies. Subsequently, a jury of prominent industry professionals has selected the winners just announced at the gala on April 5 in Panama. The Directors of the event are Adrian Solar Lozier for Fipca and one of Chili's most recognized producers and Enrique Cerezo Torres, one of the founders of Egeda twenty-five years ago, its chief executive for the past seventeen years, President of the Madrid Film Commission and President of the Madrid School of Cinema. (He is also the President of the Athletic Football Club of Madrid.)
Mexican singer and actress, Alessandra Rosaldo, and Colombian journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas whose TV show on film is featured on CNN Latino, co-hosted the televised event. Canal Plus of Spain and others representing television across the Americas were present.
The winners in each of the eight categories were named to a huge audience of the most important Latin American cinema talent who sat on pins and needles waiting to hear the winners.
Accepting the Platinum Award of Honor, Sonia Braga, known to U.S. audiences from the 1976 breakout Brazilian film, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, and again in 1985 and 1988 with Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Milagro Beanfield War respectively, was elegant and eloquent in her acceptance.
The most nominated films were The German Doctor: Wakolda, Gloria and Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. The surprise was that Living is Easy did not win a single award. Already the winner of 11 Awards and nominated for 5 other awards, David Trueba definitely can not hide behind the loser category. The Spanish film Living is Easy with Eyes Closed won six Goya Awards including Best Director.
And The Winners are:
Best Iberoamerican Fiction Film: Gloria (Chile). Nominated were The German Doctor: Wakolda (Argentina), Heli (Mexico), Witching and Bitching (Spain), La jaula de oro (The Golden Cage) (Mexico), Roa (Colombia) and Living is Easy with Eyes Closed Spain) compete for the title of Best Latin American Film of the Year.
Best Female Performance: Paulina García (Gloria). Nominated were Karen Martínez (The Golden Cage), Laura De la Uz (Ana's Film), Marian Álvarez (Wounded), Nashla Bogaert (Who's the Boss?), Natalia Oreiro (Wakolda). You can read Gloria's review and interview with Sebastian Lelio and Paulna Garcia here: Review by Carlos Aguilar and Interview with Sebastian Lelio and Paulina Garcia by Sydney Levine. You can soon read more about upcoming Dominican Republic's Nashla Bogaert whom I met and interviewed in Panama. She is my choice of the one to keep an eye on.
Best Male Performance: Eugenio Derbez (Instructions Not Included). The equivalent of the Platinos, our own Academy Award usually steers clear of comedy in the best actor category, as if comedy were not as difficult as drama. But this was well deserved in terms of popularity as this film's huge success in both U.S. and Mexico shows. U.S.$44 million in U.S. and U.S.$ 41 million in Mexico are not to be ignored. This major hit hit a major nerve in U.S. and Mexico. Also nominated were Antonio de la Torre (Cannibal), , Javier Cámara (Living is Easy with Eyes Closed), Ricardo Darín (Thesis on a Homicide) and Víctor Prada (The Cleaner).
Platinum Award For Best Director: Amat Escalante (Heli). Nominated were Sebastian Lelio (Gloria), David Trueba (Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed), Lucia Puenzo (The German Doctor: Wakolda). You can read Heli's Review by Carlos Aguilar and the Interview with Amat Escalante by Carlos Aguilar.
Platinum Best Screenplay Award: Sebastian Lelio, Gonzalo Maza (Gloria). Also nominated were Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Great Spanish Family), David Trueba (Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed), Lucia Puenzo (The German Doctor-Wakolda)
Platinum Award For Best Original Score: Emilio Kauderer for Foosball (Football). Also nominated were Karin Zielinski for El Limpiador (The Cleaner) -- you can read its Review by Carlos Aguilar , Joan Valent (Zugarramurdi Witches)
Platinum Award For Best Animated Film: Foosball (Football). Nominated were Anina -- you can read Anina's Review by Carlos Aguilar , The Secret Of Jade Medallion, Justin And The Sword Of Value, Uma History Of Love And Fury
Platinum Award For Best Documentary: Con la Pata Quebrada (With a Broken Leg). Nominated were: Cuates de Australia (Friends from Australia), Eternal Night Of The Twelve Moons, The Day That Lasted 21 Years from Brazil about the U.S. instigated coup d’etat in 1964, Still Being.
Camilo Vives (recently deceased, head of production for Icaic) Platinum Award for Best Iberoamerican co-production, in memory of his Presidency of Fipca for over 10 years and co-chair of the Forum Egeda / Fipca was The German Doctor Wakolda which beat out Anina, Esclavo de Dios and La jaula de oro. Read more on The German Doctor Wakolda here: Review by Carlos Aguilar and Case Study by Sydney Levine.
See more on the Platinum Award website: www.premiosplatino.com.
Alessandra Rosaldo stated: "These Awards will be the most valuable Iberoamerican Film Excellence Awards, something this industry needs and demands to reward the creativity and talent of our film industry.
Juan Carlos Arciniegas said: "The Platinum Awards are pioneers, transcend borders and put our countries in a fair competition that will highlight the diversity of the region cinematically. These awards will write the history of the participating films."
Eugenio Derbez, Blanca Guerra, Victoria Abril and Patricia Velasquez were some of the presenters.
- 4/6/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Review written by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com
Dario Argento’s Dracula (2012)
Director: Dario Argento
Screenplay: Dario Argento, Enrique Cerezo, Stefano Piani, Antonio Tentori, Bram Stoker
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula), Marta Gastini (Mina), Asia Argento (Lucy), Unax Ugalde (Jonathan), Rutger Hauer (Van Helsing)
It took me a while to warm up to Francis Ford Coppola’s take on Dracula from 1992. No cape, and morphing from an old guy in a geisha outfit to one of the Doobie Brothers in a Victorian pimp suit. I was accustomed to the refined stylings of Christopher Lee and Frank Langella. I’m glad, because even more takes on the classic vampire tale would follow, and being a purist just isn’t conducive to having an open mind.
There have been Italian vampire tales before, but never by the master of the giallo himself. I’ve got a good friend who summed up Italian horror cinema perfectly.
Dario Argento’s Dracula (2012)
Director: Dario Argento
Screenplay: Dario Argento, Enrique Cerezo, Stefano Piani, Antonio Tentori, Bram Stoker
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula), Marta Gastini (Mina), Asia Argento (Lucy), Unax Ugalde (Jonathan), Rutger Hauer (Van Helsing)
It took me a while to warm up to Francis Ford Coppola’s take on Dracula from 1992. No cape, and morphing from an old guy in a geisha outfit to one of the Doobie Brothers in a Victorian pimp suit. I was accustomed to the refined stylings of Christopher Lee and Frank Langella. I’m glad, because even more takes on the classic vampire tale would follow, and being a purist just isn’t conducive to having an open mind.
There have been Italian vampire tales before, but never by the master of the giallo himself. I’ve got a good friend who summed up Italian horror cinema perfectly.
- 2/5/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Dracula 3D
Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Dario Argento, Enrique Cerezo, Stefano Piani, Antonio Tentori
Italy, 2012
More than his fellow giallo maestros (Bava, Fulci, Martino, and others), Dario Argento has had to live and work in the burdensome shadow of his earlier successes. After nearly two decades of exceptional films boasting glorious cinematic artistry and blood-soaked thrills, Argento established quite the reputation. In recent years, though, since 1993′s Trauma, these prior landmarks of genre perfection have become a distressing caveat added to nearly every negative criticism of his newest release: “Ah, Argento, how far he’s fallen. Remember when….” His latest offering, Dracula 3D, now available on an American-issued 3D Blu-ray (an Italian disc, still playable in the Us, has been out for while), is no exception. Does it rank with Suspiria, Tenebre, Deep Red, or Opera? No. But is it as bad as some detractors would suggest? Certainly not.
Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Dario Argento, Enrique Cerezo, Stefano Piani, Antonio Tentori
Italy, 2012
More than his fellow giallo maestros (Bava, Fulci, Martino, and others), Dario Argento has had to live and work in the burdensome shadow of his earlier successes. After nearly two decades of exceptional films boasting glorious cinematic artistry and blood-soaked thrills, Argento established quite the reputation. In recent years, though, since 1993′s Trauma, these prior landmarks of genre perfection have become a distressing caveat added to nearly every negative criticism of his newest release: “Ah, Argento, how far he’s fallen. Remember when….” His latest offering, Dracula 3D, now available on an American-issued 3D Blu-ray (an Italian disc, still playable in the Us, has been out for while), is no exception. Does it rank with Suspiria, Tenebre, Deep Red, or Opera? No. But is it as bad as some detractors would suggest? Certainly not.
- 1/31/2014
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
In a world plagued by fashion ad vampires, horror icon Dario Argento is going back to the classic days of movie monsters, and injecting the blood and sex of contemporary society with Dracula 3D. The first trailer and poster for the film have just arrived with King Kong star Thomas Kretschmann playing the title vampire and Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Hobo with a Shotgun) hunting him as Van Helsing. This looks pretty silly and cheap, but that also seems to add to the charm of a film that wouldn't seem out of place in the 80s. At the very least, this has to be more entertaining than anything from The Twilight Saga, right? Here's the first trailer for Dario Argento's Dracula 3D, originally from Apple: And here's the poster that harkens back to a classic artistic style: Horror icon Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera) directs Dracula 3D from a script he wrote with Antonio Tentori,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Some fun news is coming out of Spain via Variety... Alex de la Iglesia, Spain’s most prominent black comedy helmer, has teamed with powerful Spanish producer Enrique Cerezo on horror laffer Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi (Witching and Bitching).
The flick centers on a band of thieves trying to flee to France after purloining 25,000 gold rings from a Spanish city. A curse is placed on them, and they fall into the clutches of the witches of the Navarrese town of Zugarramurdi.
Witching's ensemble cast boasts some of Spain’s biggest film and TV stars, such as Mario Casas (I Want You), Hugo Silva (Sex, Parties and Lies) and Carmen Maura, who earned a Best Actress award at San Sebastian in 2000 for her role in Commonwealth. Further cast members are Terele Pavez, Carolina Bang, Secun de la Rosa, Pepon Nieto and Jaime Ordonez.
According to De la Iglesia, Witching and Bitching...
The flick centers on a band of thieves trying to flee to France after purloining 25,000 gold rings from a Spanish city. A curse is placed on them, and they fall into the clutches of the witches of the Navarrese town of Zugarramurdi.
Witching's ensemble cast boasts some of Spain’s biggest film and TV stars, such as Mario Casas (I Want You), Hugo Silva (Sex, Parties and Lies) and Carmen Maura, who earned a Best Actress award at San Sebastian in 2000 for her role in Commonwealth. Further cast members are Terele Pavez, Carolina Bang, Secun de la Rosa, Pepon Nieto and Jaime Ordonez.
According to De la Iglesia, Witching and Bitching...
- 10/2/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Miami, Nov 8 (Ians/Efe) Spain will provide its films to Us libraries and educational institutions to promote teaching of the language.
Spain's Foreign Trade Institute, known as Icex, and Egeda, the Spanish audiovisual producers copyright association, have reached an accord by which they will provide Spanish films to Us libraries and educational institutions.
Icex said Monday that the agreement has been signed here by Egeda president Enrique Cerezo and the economic and trade counselor of the Spanish Consulate in Miami, Mario Buisan.
The accord 'answers to the common interest on both sides to disseminate and.
Spain's Foreign Trade Institute, known as Icex, and Egeda, the Spanish audiovisual producers copyright association, have reached an accord by which they will provide Spanish films to Us libraries and educational institutions.
Icex said Monday that the agreement has been signed here by Egeda president Enrique Cerezo and the economic and trade counselor of the Spanish Consulate in Miami, Mario Buisan.
The accord 'answers to the common interest on both sides to disseminate and.
- 11/8/2011
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
A week or so ago we reported the rather wonderful news Rutger Hauer had signed up to star as Abraham van Helsing in Dario Argento’s Dracula adaptation. The film is shooting in 3D and is likely to start filming imminently.
Talking to EW, Hauer commented on the potentially exciting project:
“That could be really, really exciting,” said the star of The Hitcher and Blade Runner. “I’m flying to London and when I get there I want to have a talk [with] The Master about what he thinks he gets from me, to see where he lives. I can see 3-D working really well and he’s experimenting with it.”
The Italian horror maestro recently secured funding from a Spanish source (media magnate Enrique Cerezo) which essentially gave the film the green light. If you haven’t seen the promo video with Argento discussing the project, you can here.
Rutger Hauer...
Talking to EW, Hauer commented on the potentially exciting project:
“That could be really, really exciting,” said the star of The Hitcher and Blade Runner. “I’m flying to London and when I get there I want to have a talk [with] The Master about what he thinks he gets from me, to see where he lives. I can see 3-D working really well and he’s experimenting with it.”
The Italian horror maestro recently secured funding from a Spanish source (media magnate Enrique Cerezo) which essentially gave the film the green light. If you haven’t seen the promo video with Argento discussing the project, you can here.
Rutger Hauer...
- 3/4/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Legendary horror director Dario Argento ('Suspiria', 'Mother of Tears: The Third Mother', 'Demons', 'Trauma', 'Tenebre') continues to try and revitalise his unique genre style in his new 'Dracula 3D' project. The flick, currently in pre-production that recently found major investment from Spaniard Enrique Cerezo, is set to star his sexy Italian daughter Asia Argento and now it appears that 'Blade Runner's Rutger Hauer ('The Hitcher') is set to star in the reVAMPed Bram Stoker tale as Van Helsing. Shooting in Hungary is expected to kick off very very soon.
- 2/22/2011
- Horror Asylum
Rutger Hauer is a class actor. He’s been in some right shit but he’s also been in enough classic pictures to warrant not only respect but admiration. Hobo With A Shotgun is bound to win him a legion of new fans but another role in a horror project has recently come to light.
Hauer, it’s reported, has signed up to play none other than Abraham van Helsing in Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D. The film is meant to be shooting round about now after the Italian horror maestro secured funding from a Spanish source. If you haven’t seen the promo video with Argento discussing the project, you can here.
Argento is a director close to my heart and yes, he’s not made a knockout picture for a while, but there’s always points of interest in his work to mull over. Anyway, Rutger Hauer as...
Hauer, it’s reported, has signed up to play none other than Abraham van Helsing in Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D. The film is meant to be shooting round about now after the Italian horror maestro secured funding from a Spanish source. If you haven’t seen the promo video with Argento discussing the project, you can here.
Argento is a director close to my heart and yes, he’s not made a knockout picture for a while, but there’s always points of interest in his work to mull over. Anyway, Rutger Hauer as...
- 2/22/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Personally I think Italian horror maestro Dario Argento ('Suspiria', 'Mother of Tears: The Third Mother', 'Demons', 'Trauma', 'Tenebre') lost his filmmaking mojo a long time ago. I think truly long gone are the good times of Giallo and it's about time writer/director Argento adapted somewhat. Perhaps his reinvention will come in the form of 'Dracula 3D', his new adaption of the Bram Stoker penned classic novel? The new production that is expected to kick off next February in Hungary has just gotten itself a wealthy new investor in the form of Spaniard Enrique Cerezo. Best thing to come out of this news? Well Daddy Dario will probably cast his smoking hot 35-year old Italian daughter Asia Argento (below) in it. Check out Asia and her hot ass tattoo with nothing clinging to it other than a string thin thong!
- 12/24/2010
- Horror Asylum
There’s been plenty written recently about the legal dispute between Adrien Brody and the producers of Giallo regarding non-payment of the actor’s services. I haven’t yet seen Dario Argento’s movie but imagine it isn’t very good. Mother Of Tears depressed me beyond tablets (to quote Brass Eye) but hope springs eternal with Argento. Sleepless was alright but I’d have to go back to 1996′s The Stendhal Syndrome to find an Argento film I actually like.
So will Argento’s 3D Dracula project be a ‘return to form’? The seventy year old directing legend is heading into production next February according to Variety. The trade paper reports a Spanish media magnate Enrique Cerezo has bought into the film and provided some funds to get it secured. Reported budget for Dracula 3D is rumoured to be ten million euros.
It’s always good to hear the...
So will Argento’s 3D Dracula project be a ‘return to form’? The seventy year old directing legend is heading into production next February according to Variety. The trade paper reports a Spanish media magnate Enrique Cerezo has bought into the film and provided some funds to get it secured. Reported budget for Dracula 3D is rumoured to be ten million euros.
It’s always good to hear the...
- 12/24/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
I love Dario Argento, but the man has not made a great film in a long time. Other than Pelts and Jenifer, his two Masters of Horror episodes, he has churned out one mediocre movie after another. Here is hoping Dracula 3D can change that. I have to admit I am excited to see what Argento can do with 3D.
Source: Fangoria
“Variety reports that Cerezo has joined the Italy-France-Spain co-production led by Roberto Di Girolamo and Gianni Paolucci at Rome-based shingle Multimedia Film Prods. Dracula 3D also teams French producer Sergio Gobbi’s Les Films de l’Astre. The English-language pic, set to go into production in February in Hungary, is budgeted at Euro 10 million ($13.2 million in U.S. dollars).
His Madrid-based shingle, Enrique Cerezo Prods., will bring to the table three Spanish thespians—two actresses and one actor—plus part of the tech crew and co-financing. Argento’s...
Source: Fangoria
“Variety reports that Cerezo has joined the Italy-France-Spain co-production led by Roberto Di Girolamo and Gianni Paolucci at Rome-based shingle Multimedia Film Prods. Dracula 3D also teams French producer Sergio Gobbi’s Les Films de l’Astre. The English-language pic, set to go into production in February in Hungary, is budgeted at Euro 10 million ($13.2 million in U.S. dollars).
His Madrid-based shingle, Enrique Cerezo Prods., will bring to the table three Spanish thespians—two actresses and one actor—plus part of the tech crew and co-financing. Argento’s...
- 12/24/2010
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
Dario Argento is in need of a good movie. With Mother of Tears and Giallo bombing with most fans, it's getting harder and harder to keep the faith. Still, we do as we're not ready to write the maestro off just yet, and next on his plate will be a 3D version of Dracula.
According to Variety Spanish film-tv businessman Enrique Cerezo has taken a minority co-production stake in Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's stereoscopic 3D adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
An Italy-France-Spain co-production led by Roberto Di Girolamo and Gianni Paolucci at Rome-based shingle Multimedia Film Prods., Dracula 3D also teams French producer Sergio Gobbi's Les Films de l'Astre.
The English-language pic is set to go into production from February in Hungary.
"My Dracula will be a film full of feeling because Dracula is also sentimental," Argento previously said. "Dracula loves, hates with strength, appeal and resolution,...
According to Variety Spanish film-tv businessman Enrique Cerezo has taken a minority co-production stake in Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's stereoscopic 3D adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
An Italy-France-Spain co-production led by Roberto Di Girolamo and Gianni Paolucci at Rome-based shingle Multimedia Film Prods., Dracula 3D also teams French producer Sergio Gobbi's Les Films de l'Astre.
The English-language pic is set to go into production from February in Hungary.
"My Dracula will be a film full of feeling because Dracula is also sentimental," Argento previously said. "Dracula loves, hates with strength, appeal and resolution,...
- 12/23/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We didn't really believe it when we told you about the news coming out of the Cannes Film Fest earlier this year, but it looks like Dario Argento's 3D imagining of Dracula is indeed a go. Full details below. According to Variety, 'Spanish film-tv businessman Enrique Cerezo has taken a co-production stake (pardon the pun) in Argento's stereoscopic 3D adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.' the story continues, 'The English Language pic is set to go in production this Feb in Hungary with a 13.2M budget. No actors have been announced as of yet, but we're banking on Adrian Brody as the title character...or not.
- 12/23/2010
- FEARnet
Madrid -- Flanked by top brass from Spain's Culture Ministry and Foreign Trade Institute, Pedro Perez, president of Spanish producers federation Fapae, presented the lineup for this year's Madrid de Cine Spanish Film Screenings on Thursday.
Set to run June 7-9, the fourth annual event will showcase more than 50 recent Spanish productions to 132 buyers from 31 countries, including 11 confirmed acquisition executives from the U.S.
"There is a strong recognition of Spanish cinema's quality in the international marketplace," the Fti's Angel Martin Acebes said.
Perez, who was joined by Enrique Cerezo, president of producers' rights management body Egeda, announced that this year's screenings will offer a prize to "the film with the greatest international impact," to be decided by Fapae's member associations.
Operating on a €560,000 ($779,000) budget -- slightly down from last year's €600,000 -- the screenings aim to provide a platform for international sales.
"Without an international market, as well as a domestic one,...
Set to run June 7-9, the fourth annual event will showcase more than 50 recent Spanish productions to 132 buyers from 31 countries, including 11 confirmed acquisition executives from the U.S.
"There is a strong recognition of Spanish cinema's quality in the international marketplace," the Fti's Angel Martin Acebes said.
Perez, who was joined by Enrique Cerezo, president of producers' rights management body Egeda, announced that this year's screenings will offer a prize to "the film with the greatest international impact," to be decided by Fapae's member associations.
Operating on a €560,000 ($779,000) budget -- slightly down from last year's €600,000 -- the screenings aim to provide a platform for international sales.
"Without an international market, as well as a domestic one,...
- 5/28/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madrid -- The 12th Malaga Spanish Film Festival will stay true to its roots as the premiere showcase for the Spanish film industry, offering a bevy of directorial debuts, when it runs April 17-25, organizers said Tuesday.
But as new festival director Carmelo Romero takes the reins from Solomon Castiel for the first preview of this year’s Spanish film production stressing continuity, he also has added some ingredients to spice things up.
Native son Antonio Banderas will attend the festival for the first time to present the Malaga Award to Juan Diego, whom he directed in his Spanish-language, Malaga-based film “Summer Rain.” The festival will offer a “making of” section dedicated to Banderas’ “Rain.”
Cult director Alex de la Iglesia will preside over the official jury, comprising director Sergio Cabrera; actors Jose Manuel Cervino, Ruben Ochandiano and Emma Suarez; as well as writers Lucia Etxebarria and Juan Madrid.
But the meat of the festival,...
But as new festival director Carmelo Romero takes the reins from Solomon Castiel for the first preview of this year’s Spanish film production stressing continuity, he also has added some ingredients to spice things up.
Native son Antonio Banderas will attend the festival for the first time to present the Malaga Award to Juan Diego, whom he directed in his Spanish-language, Malaga-based film “Summer Rain.” The festival will offer a “making of” section dedicated to Banderas’ “Rain.”
Cult director Alex de la Iglesia will preside over the official jury, comprising director Sergio Cabrera; actors Jose Manuel Cervino, Ruben Ochandiano and Emma Suarez; as well as writers Lucia Etxebarria and Juan Madrid.
But the meat of the festival,...
- 4/1/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- In a bid to facilitate the legal downloading of their products, Spanish producers on Tuesday announced the launch of an Internet portal that will offer a wide-ranging catalog of Spanish cinema.
The portal, Filmotech.com, offers users the opportunity to download the films in a "legal and safe way, with guaranteed quality," said Enrique Cerezo, president of the sponsoring organization, Spanish producers' rights management organization EGEDA.
The portal, which includes features, documentaries and animation, charges €1 ($1.34) for rentals and €5.80 ($7.74) for the sale of such library titles as Alejandro Amenabar's "The Others" and "The Sea Inside", Julio Medem's "Sex and Lucia" or classics like Luis Garcia Berlanga's "Welcome Mr. Marshall".
"It's gratifying that an initiative like this comes at such a complicated and critical time for the future of Spanish cinema," said Pedro Perez, president of the Federation of Spanish Producers.
Christopher Forax, spokesman for EC Commissioner for Information, Society and Media Viviane Reding, said the new project will create "an enormous opportunity to adapt to digital technology, which is going to change the film business."...
The portal, Filmotech.com, offers users the opportunity to download the films in a "legal and safe way, with guaranteed quality," said Enrique Cerezo, president of the sponsoring organization, Spanish producers' rights management organization EGEDA.
The portal, which includes features, documentaries and animation, charges €1 ($1.34) for rentals and €5.80 ($7.74) for the sale of such library titles as Alejandro Amenabar's "The Others" and "The Sea Inside", Julio Medem's "Sex and Lucia" or classics like Luis Garcia Berlanga's "Welcome Mr. Marshall".
"It's gratifying that an initiative like this comes at such a complicated and critical time for the future of Spanish cinema," said Pedro Perez, president of the Federation of Spanish Producers.
Christopher Forax, spokesman for EC Commissioner for Information, Society and Media Viviane Reding, said the new project will create "an enormous opportunity to adapt to digital technology, which is going to change the film business."...
- 3/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Mad Love (Juana La Loca), veteran Spanish writer-director Vicente Aranda subjects a remote historical figure to modern-day psychological treatment. Joan of Castile (1479-1555) has gone down in history as "Joan the Mad." Obsessively jealous of her husband -- and we can pretty much guess what the problem was when we learn he was known as Philip the Handsome -- Joan was devastated by his early death. Behaving erratically before and after Philip's death, Joan was confined for the remainder of her life in a castle by her father and later her son.
To Aranda, all this smacks of "mad love," an unbridled passion we moderns know all too well. So he portrays Joan as something of a spoiled Beverly Hills wife, unfortunate to love her husband excessively but none too wisely. Newcomer Pilar Lopez de Ayala won a Goya for her portrayal of Mad Joan, and the film was Spain's entry for this year's foreign language film Oscar. Yet the distant subject matter and the unavoidably gloomy tale that engulfs these characters probably doom the Sony Pictures Classics release to a limited audience.
Aranda's script takes pains to contemporize its medieval characters. There are only passing references to the religious austerity of the Spanish court and its persecution of non-Catholics. Otherwise, Joan and Philip (Italian actor Daniele Liotti, who is dubbed) are like any dysfunctional couple. He barely troubles to conceal his love affairs with other women, while she suffers jealous rages within the royal apartments. Apparently, Joan has an insatiable need for the pleasures of the marital bed. Even breast-feeding her children -- the only maternal act we witness in the movie -- sends her into ecstasy.
Upon her unexpected ascension to the Castilian throne because of the deaths of an older brother, sister and finally her mother in 1504, Joan ignores her duties as a monarch to pursue evidence of her husband's transgressions. Egged on by his supporters, Philip decides to have his wife declared mad so he can seize the throne. Only his sudden death delays this action.
The trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than, as was more likely, a victim of mental illness. It's hard to sympathize with a ruler who has so little regard for her own subjects, children or the role history has thrust upon her.
The two main actors do fine jobs of humanizing their characters, but the time leaps make them struggle to ascribe motives and subtleties to ever-shifting behavior patterns. Courtiers come off as a conniving lot, as is common in costume dramas, but the actors do create vivid personalities. Especially noteworthy is Manuela Arcuri, who manages to be sensual yet hugely vulnerable as Philip's Moorish mistress.
Aranda sometimes drifts into cliches. A heavy downpour accompanies the announcement of the death of Joan's mother. Joan's father is seen eating like a pig while conspiring with her husband to make certain we really don't like him. A voice-over narration turns the film into a history lesson rather than a tale of doomed love.
The pomp and circumstance, art direction, elegant lighting and cinematography evoke the medieval world well. Jose Nieto's orchestrations are in a restrained classical mode. But the milieu on display, not quite medieval and not quite modern , never comes to life.
MAD LOVE
Sony Pictures Classics
An Enrique Cerezo PC/Production Group/Take 2000 production in association with TVE, Canal Plus, TeleMadrid
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Enrique Cerezo
Director of photography: Paco Femenia
Production designer: Josep Rosell
Music: Jose Nieto
Costume designer: Javier Artinano
Editor: Teresa Font
Cast:
Joan: Pilar Lopez de Ayala
Philip: Daniele Liotti
Aixa: Mannuela Arcuri
Alvaro de Estuniga: Eloy Azorin
Elvira: Rosana Pastor
De Vere: Guiliano Gemma
Admiral: Roberto Alvarez
Ines: Caroline Bona
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
To Aranda, all this smacks of "mad love," an unbridled passion we moderns know all too well. So he portrays Joan as something of a spoiled Beverly Hills wife, unfortunate to love her husband excessively but none too wisely. Newcomer Pilar Lopez de Ayala won a Goya for her portrayal of Mad Joan, and the film was Spain's entry for this year's foreign language film Oscar. Yet the distant subject matter and the unavoidably gloomy tale that engulfs these characters probably doom the Sony Pictures Classics release to a limited audience.
Aranda's script takes pains to contemporize its medieval characters. There are only passing references to the religious austerity of the Spanish court and its persecution of non-Catholics. Otherwise, Joan and Philip (Italian actor Daniele Liotti, who is dubbed) are like any dysfunctional couple. He barely troubles to conceal his love affairs with other women, while she suffers jealous rages within the royal apartments. Apparently, Joan has an insatiable need for the pleasures of the marital bed. Even breast-feeding her children -- the only maternal act we witness in the movie -- sends her into ecstasy.
Upon her unexpected ascension to the Castilian throne because of the deaths of an older brother, sister and finally her mother in 1504, Joan ignores her duties as a monarch to pursue evidence of her husband's transgressions. Egged on by his supporters, Philip decides to have his wife declared mad so he can seize the throne. Only his sudden death delays this action.
The trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than, as was more likely, a victim of mental illness. It's hard to sympathize with a ruler who has so little regard for her own subjects, children or the role history has thrust upon her.
The two main actors do fine jobs of humanizing their characters, but the time leaps make them struggle to ascribe motives and subtleties to ever-shifting behavior patterns. Courtiers come off as a conniving lot, as is common in costume dramas, but the actors do create vivid personalities. Especially noteworthy is Manuela Arcuri, who manages to be sensual yet hugely vulnerable as Philip's Moorish mistress.
Aranda sometimes drifts into cliches. A heavy downpour accompanies the announcement of the death of Joan's mother. Joan's father is seen eating like a pig while conspiring with her husband to make certain we really don't like him. A voice-over narration turns the film into a history lesson rather than a tale of doomed love.
The pomp and circumstance, art direction, elegant lighting and cinematography evoke the medieval world well. Jose Nieto's orchestrations are in a restrained classical mode. But the milieu on display, not quite medieval and not quite modern , never comes to life.
MAD LOVE
Sony Pictures Classics
An Enrique Cerezo PC/Production Group/Take 2000 production in association with TVE, Canal Plus, TeleMadrid
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Enrique Cerezo
Director of photography: Paco Femenia
Production designer: Josep Rosell
Music: Jose Nieto
Costume designer: Javier Artinano
Editor: Teresa Font
Cast:
Joan: Pilar Lopez de Ayala
Philip: Daniele Liotti
Aixa: Mannuela Arcuri
Alvaro de Estuniga: Eloy Azorin
Elvira: Rosana Pastor
De Vere: Guiliano Gemma
Admiral: Roberto Alvarez
Ines: Caroline Bona
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/27/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In "Mad Love" (Juana La Loca), veteran Spanish writer-director Vicente Aranda subjects a remote historical figure to modern-day psychological treatment. Joan of Castile (1479-1555) has gone down in history as "Joan the Mad". Obsessively jealous of her husband -- and we can pretty much guess what the problem was when we learn he was known as Philip the Handsome -- Joan was devastated by his early death. Behaving erratically before and after Philip's death, Joan was confined for the remainder of her life in a castle by her father and later her son.
To Aranda, all this smacks of "mad love," an unbridled passion we moderns know all too well. So he portrays Joan as something of a spoiled Beverly Hills wife, unfortunate to love her husband excessively but none too wisely. Newcomer Pilar Lopez de Ayala won a Goya for her portrayal of Mad Joan, and the film was Spain's entry for this year's foreign language film Oscar. Yet the distant subject matter and the unavoidably gloomy tale that engulfs these characters probably doom the Sony Pictures Classics release to a limited audience.
Aranda's script takes pains to contemporize its medieval characters. There are only passing references to the religious austerity of the Spanish court and its persecution of non-Catholics. Otherwise, Joan and Philip (Italian actor Daniele Liotti, who is dubbed) are like any dysfunctional couple. He barely troubles to conceal his love affairs with other women, while she suffers jealous rages within the royal apartments. Apparently, Joan has an insatiable need for the pleasures of the marital bed. Even breast-feeding her children -- the only maternal act we witness in the movie -- sends her into ecstasy.
Upon her unexpected ascension to the Castilian throne because of the deaths of an older brother, sister and finally her mother in 1504, Joan ignores her duties as a monarch to pursue evidence of her husband's transgressions. Egged on by his supporters, Philip decides to have his wife declared mad so he can seize the throne. Only his sudden death delays this action.
The trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than, as was more likely, a victim of mental illness. It's hard to sympathize with a ruler who has so little regard for her own subjects, children or the role history has thrust upon her.
The two main actors do fine jobs of humanizing their characters, but the time leaps make them struggle to ascribe motives and subtleties to ever-shifting behavior patterns. Courtiers come off as a conniving lot, as is common in costume dramas, but the actors do create vivid personalities. Especially noteworthy is Manuela Arcuri, who manages to be sensual yet hugely vulnerable as Philip's Moorish mistress.
Aranda sometimes drifts into cliches. A heavy downpour accompanies the announcement of the death of Joan's mother. Joan's father is seen eating like a pig while conspiring with her husband to make certain we really don't like him. A voice-over narration turns the film into a history lesson rather than a tale of doomed love.
The pomp and circumstance, art direction, elegant lighting and cinematography evoke the medieval world well. Jose Nieto's orchestrations are in a restrained classical mode. But the milieu on display, not quite medieval and not quite modern, never comes to life.
MAD LOVE
Sony Pictures Classics
An Enrique Cerezo PC/Production Group/Take 2000 production in association with TVE, Canal Plus, TeleMadrid
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Enrique Cerezo
Director of photography: Paco Femenia
Production designer: Josep Rosell
Music: Jose Nieto
Costume designer: Javier Artinano
Editor: Teresa Font
Cast:
Joan: Pilar Lopez de Ayala
Philip: Daniele Liotti
Aixa: Mannuela Arcuri
Alvaro de Estuniga: Eloy Azorin
Elvira: Rosana Pastor
De Vere: Guiliano Gemma
Admiral: Roberto Alvarez
Ines: Caroline Bona
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
To Aranda, all this smacks of "mad love," an unbridled passion we moderns know all too well. So he portrays Joan as something of a spoiled Beverly Hills wife, unfortunate to love her husband excessively but none too wisely. Newcomer Pilar Lopez de Ayala won a Goya for her portrayal of Mad Joan, and the film was Spain's entry for this year's foreign language film Oscar. Yet the distant subject matter and the unavoidably gloomy tale that engulfs these characters probably doom the Sony Pictures Classics release to a limited audience.
Aranda's script takes pains to contemporize its medieval characters. There are only passing references to the religious austerity of the Spanish court and its persecution of non-Catholics. Otherwise, Joan and Philip (Italian actor Daniele Liotti, who is dubbed) are like any dysfunctional couple. He barely troubles to conceal his love affairs with other women, while she suffers jealous rages within the royal apartments. Apparently, Joan has an insatiable need for the pleasures of the marital bed. Even breast-feeding her children -- the only maternal act we witness in the movie -- sends her into ecstasy.
Upon her unexpected ascension to the Castilian throne because of the deaths of an older brother, sister and finally her mother in 1504, Joan ignores her duties as a monarch to pursue evidence of her husband's transgressions. Egged on by his supporters, Philip decides to have his wife declared mad so he can seize the throne. Only his sudden death delays this action.
The trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than, as was more likely, a victim of mental illness. It's hard to sympathize with a ruler who has so little regard for her own subjects, children or the role history has thrust upon her.
The two main actors do fine jobs of humanizing their characters, but the time leaps make them struggle to ascribe motives and subtleties to ever-shifting behavior patterns. Courtiers come off as a conniving lot, as is common in costume dramas, but the actors do create vivid personalities. Especially noteworthy is Manuela Arcuri, who manages to be sensual yet hugely vulnerable as Philip's Moorish mistress.
Aranda sometimes drifts into cliches. A heavy downpour accompanies the announcement of the death of Joan's mother. Joan's father is seen eating like a pig while conspiring with her husband to make certain we really don't like him. A voice-over narration turns the film into a history lesson rather than a tale of doomed love.
The pomp and circumstance, art direction, elegant lighting and cinematography evoke the medieval world well. Jose Nieto's orchestrations are in a restrained classical mode. But the milieu on display, not quite medieval and not quite modern, never comes to life.
MAD LOVE
Sony Pictures Classics
An Enrique Cerezo PC/Production Group/Take 2000 production in association with TVE, Canal Plus, TeleMadrid
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Enrique Cerezo
Director of photography: Paco Femenia
Production designer: Josep Rosell
Music: Jose Nieto
Costume designer: Javier Artinano
Editor: Teresa Font
Cast:
Joan: Pilar Lopez de Ayala
Philip: Daniele Liotti
Aixa: Mannuela Arcuri
Alvaro de Estuniga: Eloy Azorin
Elvira: Rosana Pastor
De Vere: Guiliano Gemma
Admiral: Roberto Alvarez
Ines: Caroline Bona
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/27/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From John Huston's "The Dead" to Thomas Vinterberg's "The Celebration", large family gatherings on special occasions have been potent subject matter in the hands of an accomplished moviemaker. While rookie writer-director Hope Perello is a little woozy in her direction, the low-budget U.S. indie "St. Patrick's Day" is a satisfying mix of comedy and drama with excellent performances by headliners Piper Laurie and Joanne Baron.
St. Patrick's Day the holiday, the tradition, is a time for singing and wailing, lovemaking and fighting, drinking and praying. These activities and more occur in Perello's mostly gentle, civilized film that has no shocking family secrets like in Huston and Vinterberg's more ambitious but gloomier films.
But the payoffs in "St. Patrick's Day" are well worth spending 105 minutes with the Donnellys and McDonoughs, Irish-Americans who are not far removed from the immigrant experience. Life has been good to the dozen or so characters in the film, but in the tradition of such scenarios, many big and little crises and epiphanies occur. Perello opts for matter-of-fact portraits of individuals, their talents and failings, with some wonderfully intimate moments and singing performances.
Second cousins surrender to their lustful desires, a married couple of 15 years announce their pending divorce, the matriarch of the family declares at the start of dinner that she has taken the "pledge" and forbids any drinking of alcohol, an unpopular but cheerfully honored restriction that is eventually resolved in favor of the imbibers.
Perello keeps the pace moving along nicely but allows the actors to have many unhurried moments where the characters come into focus. The most endearing and satisfying story line relates the long-overdue coming together of widow Mary Pat (Laurie) and gentlemanly Thomas (Redmond M. Gleeson), two great friends who in a exquisitely filmed scene, the film's best, become great lovers.
Both actors are thoroughly engaging in their roles thanks more to Perello's writing than often too-conservative directing. Baron is likewise terrific as Mary Pat's daughter, who is in the middle of breaking up with her husband (Jim Metzler). He delivers a heart-felt and eloquent farewell to the assembled family in another splendid scene.
Working out the story's constraints of time and locale, Perello overall gets the job done nicely. The all-around superb cast includes David Ault, Herta Ware and Colleen Fitzpatrick.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Sceneries International
Sceneries Euorpe, Enrique Cerezo Producciones
Cinematograficas, Marvel Movies
Writer-director: Hope Perello
Producers: Hope Perello, Kindra Anne Ruocco
Executive producers: Philippe Diaz, Philippe Lenglet
Director of photography: Denise Brassard
Production designer: Timothy Bride Keating
Editor: Ann Nervin Job
Music: Michael Muhlfriedel
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mary Pat: Piper Laurie
Priss: Joanne Baron
Adam: Jim Metzler
Thomas: Redmond M. Gleeson
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
St. Patrick's Day the holiday, the tradition, is a time for singing and wailing, lovemaking and fighting, drinking and praying. These activities and more occur in Perello's mostly gentle, civilized film that has no shocking family secrets like in Huston and Vinterberg's more ambitious but gloomier films.
But the payoffs in "St. Patrick's Day" are well worth spending 105 minutes with the Donnellys and McDonoughs, Irish-Americans who are not far removed from the immigrant experience. Life has been good to the dozen or so characters in the film, but in the tradition of such scenarios, many big and little crises and epiphanies occur. Perello opts for matter-of-fact portraits of individuals, their talents and failings, with some wonderfully intimate moments and singing performances.
Second cousins surrender to their lustful desires, a married couple of 15 years announce their pending divorce, the matriarch of the family declares at the start of dinner that she has taken the "pledge" and forbids any drinking of alcohol, an unpopular but cheerfully honored restriction that is eventually resolved in favor of the imbibers.
Perello keeps the pace moving along nicely but allows the actors to have many unhurried moments where the characters come into focus. The most endearing and satisfying story line relates the long-overdue coming together of widow Mary Pat (Laurie) and gentlemanly Thomas (Redmond M. Gleeson), two great friends who in a exquisitely filmed scene, the film's best, become great lovers.
Both actors are thoroughly engaging in their roles thanks more to Perello's writing than often too-conservative directing. Baron is likewise terrific as Mary Pat's daughter, who is in the middle of breaking up with her husband (Jim Metzler). He delivers a heart-felt and eloquent farewell to the assembled family in another splendid scene.
Working out the story's constraints of time and locale, Perello overall gets the job done nicely. The all-around superb cast includes David Ault, Herta Ware and Colleen Fitzpatrick.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Sceneries International
Sceneries Euorpe, Enrique Cerezo Producciones
Cinematograficas, Marvel Movies
Writer-director: Hope Perello
Producers: Hope Perello, Kindra Anne Ruocco
Executive producers: Philippe Diaz, Philippe Lenglet
Director of photography: Denise Brassard
Production designer: Timothy Bride Keating
Editor: Ann Nervin Job
Music: Michael Muhlfriedel
Color/stereo
Cast:
Mary Pat: Piper Laurie
Priss: Joanne Baron
Adam: Jim Metzler
Thomas: Redmond M. Gleeson
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/17/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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