Disney+ has greenlit The Lions of Sicily, an Italian series based on Stefania Auci’s The Florios of Siciliy from Paolo Genovese.
The eight-parter tells the story of the Florio family. It follows brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past and in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourish business activity that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire.
The series stars Michele Riondino, Miriam Leone, Donatella Finocchiaro, Vinicio Marchioni, Eduardo Scarpetta, Paolo Briguglia, Ester Pantano and Adele Cammarata.
The show is the latest to come from Disney+ Italy, which was also behind The Ignorant Angels.
“The Lions of Sicily confirms Disney+’s commitment to create Italian contents that enrich and make the already wide and varied offer of the platform unique,” said Daniel Frigo,...
The eight-parter tells the story of the Florio family. It follows brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past and in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourish business activity that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire.
The series stars Michele Riondino, Miriam Leone, Donatella Finocchiaro, Vinicio Marchioni, Eduardo Scarpetta, Paolo Briguglia, Ester Pantano and Adele Cammarata.
The show is the latest to come from Disney+ Italy, which was also behind The Ignorant Angels.
“The Lions of Sicily confirms Disney+’s commitment to create Italian contents that enrich and make the already wide and varied offer of the platform unique,” said Daniel Frigo,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Disney+ has commenced production on Italian original series “The Lions of Sicily,” a family saga based on Stefania Auci’s bestseller “The Florios of Sicily.”
Principal photography has started in Rome and will take place between there and Sicily. It is directed by Paolo Genovese (“Superheroes”).
Set between 1800 and 1861, the eight-part series follows the Florio family where brothers Paolo and Ignazio are two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past and in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourish business activity that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire. However, overwhelming Vincenzo’s life and that of the entire family is the disruptive arrival of Giulia, a strong and intelligent woman who is in contrast with the rigid rules of the society of the time.
The series is...
Principal photography has started in Rome and will take place between there and Sicily. It is directed by Paolo Genovese (“Superheroes”).
Set between 1800 and 1861, the eight-part series follows the Florio family where brothers Paolo and Ignazio are two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past and in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourish business activity that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire. However, overwhelming Vincenzo’s life and that of the entire family is the disruptive arrival of Giulia, a strong and intelligent woman who is in contrast with the rigid rules of the society of the time.
The series is...
- 7/6/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
"He is my love. My first love." Netflix has unveiled the first official trailer for an Italian young love romance titled Caught by a Wave (originally known as Sulla Stessa Onda), marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Massimiliano Camaiti. In a sunny summer in Sicily, Sara and Lorenzo meet for the first time. Their young love is born in between the waves but, soon, it will prove stronger than any obstacle. A summer fling in Sicily develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly as the deal with the reality of her life. The cast includes newcomers Elvira Camarrone and Roberto Christian as Sara and Lorenzo, along with Vincenzo Amato, Donatella Finocchiaro, Corrado Invernizzi, and Manuela Ventura. This looks very cute and charming, nothing like summer love. And boy Italy looks nice. Here's the first trailer (+ poster) for Massimiliano Camaiti's Caught by a Wave,...
- 2/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jeff Lipsky’s Glass Half Full Media has acquired all U.S. rights for Emma Dante’s “The Macaluso Sisters,” which world premiered in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Represented in international markets by Charades, the movie is also being featured in the Flash Forward section of the Busan Film Festial.
“The Macaluso Sisters” opened in Italian theaters on Sept. 10 and has reached over 68,000 admissions to date. Glass Half Full plans to release the ensemble drama in theaters next spring.
The film tells the story of a tight-knit family of five orphaned sisters living in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily. The film follows them at three different stages of their lives: as they holiday together, grow apart, and ultimately reconnect at just the right moments.
“While only Ms. Dante’s second film, ‘Macaluso’ is the work of an exquisitely mature filmmaker. I was utterly swept away by...
Represented in international markets by Charades, the movie is also being featured in the Flash Forward section of the Busan Film Festial.
“The Macaluso Sisters” opened in Italian theaters on Sept. 10 and has reached over 68,000 admissions to date. Glass Half Full plans to release the ensemble drama in theaters next spring.
The film tells the story of a tight-knit family of five orphaned sisters living in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily. The film follows them at three different stages of their lives: as they holiday together, grow apart, and ultimately reconnect at just the right moments.
“While only Ms. Dante’s second film, ‘Macaluso’ is the work of an exquisitely mature filmmaker. I was utterly swept away by...
- 10/26/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Title: Capri-Revolution Director: Mario Martone Cast: Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Eduardo Scarpetta, Jenna Thiam, Ludovico Girardello, Lola Klamroth, Maximilian Dirr, Donatella Finocchiaro. The poetic film director, Mario Martone, provides an insight in the boot-shaped land at the beginning of the 20th century, within the bewitching island of Capri. […]
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- 9/7/2018
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for FX. For this season, the cable network has returning Emmy contenders “Atlanta” (Donald Glover), “The Americans” and “Baskets” (Zach Galifianakis), newcomer “Trust” (Donald Sutherland) and limited series “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” (Darren Criss) as part of their 2018 campaign.
Below, the list of FX lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedy, drama and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
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Limited Series
Movie/Limited Series Actress – Sarah Paulson
Movie/Limited Series Actor – Evan Peters
Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress – Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Alison Pill, Adina Porter
Movie...
Below, the list of FX lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedy, drama and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
SEEWill ‘The Americans’ make an Emmy comeback for Best Drama Series like ‘Homeland’ did?
“American Horror Story: Cult”
Limited Series
Movie/Limited Series Actress – Sarah Paulson
Movie/Limited Series Actor – Evan Peters
Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress – Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Alison Pill, Adina Porter
Movie...
- 5/7/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
YouTopia centres a young woman who makes money through videochat stripping shows.
Italian sales company Tvco has announced two additions to its line-up: the long-gestating Gianni Versace biopic that Billie August will direct, and Youtopia.
August was preparing to direct the film about the murdered Italian fashion icon with Antonio Banderas before the star dropped out last year. Oberon Productions and Tvco are producing and casting is underway.
“To me, as an outsider – a non-Italian – Versace seemed to capture everything I admire about Italy,” August said. “Its warmth and colour. Its culture and history. Its drama and gutsy zest for life. That ineffable ‘thing’ that is Italy seemed to be bound up in everything that was the Versace persona. But Versace is also an enigma. And enigmas make the best stories.”
Tvco is also kicking off sales on Youtopia, a drama centered on this year’s Berlinale Shooting Star Matilda De Angelis (Italian Race) that stars Donatella Finocchiaro (The Wedding...
Italian sales company Tvco has announced two additions to its line-up: the long-gestating Gianni Versace biopic that Billie August will direct, and Youtopia.
August was preparing to direct the film about the murdered Italian fashion icon with Antonio Banderas before the star dropped out last year. Oberon Productions and Tvco are producing and casting is underway.
“To me, as an outsider – a non-Italian – Versace seemed to capture everything I admire about Italy,” August said. “Its warmth and colour. Its culture and history. Its drama and gutsy zest for life. That ineffable ‘thing’ that is Italy seemed to be bound up in everything that was the Versace persona. But Versace is also an enigma. And enigmas make the best stories.”
Tvco is also kicking off sales on Youtopia, a drama centered on this year’s Berlinale Shooting Star Matilda De Angelis (Italian Race) that stars Donatella Finocchiaro (The Wedding...
- 2/18/2018
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Marco Bellocchio at the 2013 Open Roads: New Italian Cinema for Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata): "So the issue, the theme of awakening back to life is very present." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Museum of Modern Art and Luce Cinecittà organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator in the Department of Film at MoMA, and Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Luce Cinecittà are presenting Marco Bellocchio: A Retrospective running from April 16 - May 7, 2014. This is the third collaboration, following exhibitions for Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Il Gattopardo luncheon for Marco Bellocchio in New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The opening night screening of The Wedding Director (Il Regista di matrimoni) starring Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, and Sami Frey was introduced by Marco Bellocchio. Tonight, Bellocchio and Maya Sansa will introduce Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata) which stars Isabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwacher, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio and Sansa at MoMA.
At...
The Museum of Modern Art and Luce Cinecittà organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator in the Department of Film at MoMA, and Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Luce Cinecittà are presenting Marco Bellocchio: A Retrospective running from April 16 - May 7, 2014. This is the third collaboration, following exhibitions for Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Il Gattopardo luncheon for Marco Bellocchio in New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The opening night screening of The Wedding Director (Il Regista di matrimoni) starring Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, and Sami Frey was introduced by Marco Bellocchio. Tonight, Bellocchio and Maya Sansa will introduce Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata) which stars Isabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwacher, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio and Sansa at MoMA.
At...
- 4/17/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
On the small island of Linosa, not far from Sicily, fishing has become a dying occupation. Elderly Ernesto (Mimmo Cuticchio) seems to be the only holdout still attempting to make money in that field. When Ernesto’s boat is badly damaged, his son Nino (Giuseppe Fiorello) urges him to sell the boat and start a new life instead of wasting his time in repairing it. But it’s his daughter-in-law Giuletta (Donatella Finocchiaro) who convinces him to sell the boat when she takes charge of their lives, along with that of her son Filippo (Filippo Pucillo), after the three-year anniversary memorial service for her husband’s death at sea.
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- 4/11/2014
- by John Keith
- JustPressPlay.net
Title: War Story Director: Mark Jackson Starring: Catherine Keener, Hafsia Herzi, Vincenzo Amato, Donatella Finocchiaro, Ben Kingsley A title like War Story would seem to imply that a film would take place during a war. Instead, this movie documents the aftermath of a photographer’s experience at war that resulted in the death of her partner. Details are not explicitly given, and it takes a while for Lee (Catherine Keener) to speak aloud the truth of what has happened. She checks herself into a hotel in Italy and, despite telling others that she will soon be back in the United States for the funeral, clearly has no plans to do so, [ Read More ]
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- 1/29/2014
- by abe
- ShockYa
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival is right around the corner, and the Sundance Institute has released the full line-up for the competition films that will be premiering!
This year there were 12,218 total submissions, and 117 films were accepted from 37 countries around the world. It looks like there's a lot of good selection of films this year.
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 runs from January 16th to the 26th, and the GeekTyrant team will be there to cover as many movies as we possibly can.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are world premieres and, unless otherwise noted, are from the U.S.
“Camp X-Ray” — Directed and written by Peter Sattler. A young female guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria, John Carroll Lynch.
“Cold in July” — Directed by Jim Mickle, written by Nick Damici.
This year there were 12,218 total submissions, and 117 films were accepted from 37 countries around the world. It looks like there's a lot of good selection of films this year.
The Sundance Film Festival 2014 runs from January 16th to the 26th, and the GeekTyrant team will be there to cover as many movies as we possibly can.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
The 16 films in this section are world premieres and, unless otherwise noted, are from the U.S.
“Camp X-Ray” — Directed and written by Peter Sattler. A young female guard at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria, John Carroll Lynch.
“Cold in July” — Directed by Jim Mickle, written by Nick Damici.
- 12/5/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Sundance Film Festival continues to be one of the most popular, and arguably one of the most important, events on the industry calendar, launching as it does some of the most prominent independent films at the start of each year.
This year will be no different, with Sundance announcing last night the initial line-up of films screening in competition, led by Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart; Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana; Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, and Swanberg himself; The Skeleton Twins, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell; Life After Beth, with Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and John C. Reilly; Listen Up Philip, with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss; Whiplash, starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and many, many more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films,...
This year will be no different, with Sundance announcing last night the initial line-up of films screening in competition, led by Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart; Infinitely Polar Bear, with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana; Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas, starring Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, and Swanberg himself; The Skeleton Twins, with Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell; Life After Beth, with Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, and John C. Reilly; Listen Up Philip, with Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss; Whiplash, starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons; and many, many more.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films,...
- 12/5/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
God’S Pocket
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”
For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. 97 feature films at...
Sundance Institute announced today the films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Robert Redford, President & Founder of Sundance Institute said, “That the Festival has evolved and grown as it has over the past 30 years is a credit to both our audiences and our artists, who continue to find ways to take risks and open our minds to the power of story. This year’s films and artists promise to do the same.”
For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. 97 feature films at...
- 12/5/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rolling out it’s fifth edition and growing beyond just Park City (Los Angeles hosted a summer event this year) the Next section has grown in size, has found plenty of distrib buyer interest and has a strong voice of its own. Becoming a home for low budget indie we like: smaller budgets sometimes bring out impressive creative outputs, in 2011 we had Sound of My Voice, Restless City and Bellflower. 2012 saw Compliance, I’m Not a Hipster and Sleepwalk With Me, while last year we were impressed by the likes of It Felt Like Love and Blue Caprice. This year we have eleven, instead of ten selections – the plus one bump might have to do with Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins – she got to show off her film this summer in the Next Weekend L.A event (we mentioned above). In the coming-of-agers working with a different vibe and...
- 12/4/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competition lineups for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival were announced today and just below I have featured pictures from the 16 films that will be competing in the U.S. Dramatic competition and they feature a lot of names you're going to recognize. The titles begin with Camp X-Ray, which stars Kristen Stewart as a guard in Guantanamo Bay, where she forms an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. Jim Mickle made an impact earlier this year with We Are What We Are and he returns with Michael C. Hall with Cold in July. Fishing Without Nets looks to tell a story similar to that of Captain Phillips, only this time from the Somali side of things; God's Pocket is "Mad Men" star John Slattery's writing and directorial debut and he's lined up an impressive cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins,...
- 12/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Festival top brass announced on December 4 the Us and world cinema dramatic and documentary competition entries as well as 11 Next titles for the upcoming 30th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, set to run in Utah from January 16-26 2014.
The Us dramatic strand features work from independent auteurs Joe Swanberg and Jim Mickle as well as the feature directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery, Anne Hathaway in Song One and Rinko Kikuchi in Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter.
Several titles including Kat Cander’s Hellion and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash – a Day One Film – previously screened at Sundance as shorts.
Festival director John Cooper and director of programming Trevor Groth said genre was no longer the sole preserve of the Park City At Midnight section and had percolated into the broader selection. Cooper added that genre was often a good device for film-makers to hook audiences on a story.
World cinema...
The Us dramatic strand features work from independent auteurs Joe Swanberg and Jim Mickle as well as the feature directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery, Anne Hathaway in Song One and Rinko Kikuchi in Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter.
Several titles including Kat Cander’s Hellion and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash – a Day One Film – previously screened at Sundance as shorts.
Festival director John Cooper and director of programming Trevor Groth said genre was no longer the sole preserve of the Park City At Midnight section and had percolated into the broader selection. Cooper added that genre was often a good device for film-makers to hook audiences on a story.
World cinema...
- 12/4/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Solid Ground: Crialese’s Heartfelt Message Movie
In his fourth feature film, Emanuele Crialese tackles issues of immigration and the inhumanity that transpires from man-made laws in Terraferma, a film that just as scrappily begs one to look past the heavy-handed message to be moved at the plight of the individuals it depicts. And, for those sentimentally inclined, those moments may be quite easy to forgive, even if they’re increasingly hard to ignore in its final lead up to the grand finale. Fortunately, there’s a poetic rhythm to the arresting visual compositions that couch on magical realism, and its bittersweet melancholic tone, no matter how bluntly delivered, is still an effectively realized portrait of tenuous humanity.
On Linosa, a small island off the coast of Italy, Filippo (Filippo Pucillo) is the third generation of a family of fishermen, and the industry has slowly dwindled into nothing, leaving his remaining family beleaguered.
In his fourth feature film, Emanuele Crialese tackles issues of immigration and the inhumanity that transpires from man-made laws in Terraferma, a film that just as scrappily begs one to look past the heavy-handed message to be moved at the plight of the individuals it depicts. And, for those sentimentally inclined, those moments may be quite easy to forgive, even if they’re increasingly hard to ignore in its final lead up to the grand finale. Fortunately, there’s a poetic rhythm to the arresting visual compositions that couch on magical realism, and its bittersweet melancholic tone, no matter how bluntly delivered, is still an effectively realized portrait of tenuous humanity.
On Linosa, a small island off the coast of Italy, Filippo (Filippo Pucillo) is the third generation of a family of fishermen, and the industry has slowly dwindled into nothing, leaving his remaining family beleaguered.
- 8/5/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Save them, or let them drown? This is the question facing a fisherman on the tiny Italian island of Linosa, whose waters have become an arrival point for North African refugees seeking asylum. In this subtle-as-a-brick issue picture from director Emanuele Crialese (Respiro), an old fisherman (Mimmo Cuticchio) and his 20-year-old grandson, Filippo (Filippo Pucillo), rescue Sara (Timnit T.), a pregnant Ethiopian woman, and her son from the sea, and sneak them home, where Filippo's mother, Giulia (Donatella Finocchiaro), delivers Sara's baby. From here, Crialese shifts ungracefully between scenes of the locals bickering among themselves, partying tourists ravaging the shoreline, and policemen hauling—in slow motion—weakened refugees off to jail (as the tourists snap pho...
- 7/24/2013
- Village Voice
Director Marco Tulio Giordana's Romanzo Di Una Strage has landed 16 nominations for Italy's David di Donatello Awards just two weeks after the film's release.
The stirring movie, which chronicles the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Producer nods, while leading man Valerio Mastandrea was nominated among the Best Actor hopefuls.
The film was released in Italy on 30 March to huge national acclaim.
Close behind Giordana's film among the nominees announced on Thursday, were Nanni Moretti's comedy Habemus Papam (15 nods) and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place (14 nods), which features Sean Penn as a fallen rock star.
Also up for Best Film: Cesare deve moriere and Terraferma, while Mastandrea will fight it out with Frenchman Michel Piccoli (Habemus Papam), Elio Germano (Magnifica presenza), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Scialla!) and Marco Giallini (Posti in piedi in paradiso) for the Best Actor award.
The Best Actress nominees are: Donatella Finocchiaro (Terraferma), Micaela Ramazzoti (Posti in piedi in paradiso), Claudia Gerini (Il mio domani), Valeria Golino (La kryptonite nella borsa) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Io sono Li).
Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Melancholia, Le Havre, Oscar winner The Artist and Intouchables are all up for the Best European Union film trophy, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Ides of March, The Tree of Life and Asghar Farhadi’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner A Separation will compete for the Best Foreign Film prize.
The awards will be announced on 4 May.
The stirring movie, which chronicles the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Producer nods, while leading man Valerio Mastandrea was nominated among the Best Actor hopefuls.
The film was released in Italy on 30 March to huge national acclaim.
Close behind Giordana's film among the nominees announced on Thursday, were Nanni Moretti's comedy Habemus Papam (15 nods) and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place (14 nods), which features Sean Penn as a fallen rock star.
Also up for Best Film: Cesare deve moriere and Terraferma, while Mastandrea will fight it out with Frenchman Michel Piccoli (Habemus Papam), Elio Germano (Magnifica presenza), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Scialla!) and Marco Giallini (Posti in piedi in paradiso) for the Best Actor award.
The Best Actress nominees are: Donatella Finocchiaro (Terraferma), Micaela Ramazzoti (Posti in piedi in paradiso), Claudia Gerini (Il mio domani), Valeria Golino (La kryptonite nella borsa) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Io sono Li).
Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Melancholia, Le Havre, Oscar winner The Artist and Intouchables are all up for the Best European Union film trophy, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Ides of March, The Tree of Life and Asghar Farhadi’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner A Separation will compete for the Best Foreign Film prize.
The awards will be announced on 4 May.
- 4/13/2012
- WENN
Woody Allen’s next film, heretofore known as ‘Nero Fiddled’, was officially re-titled yesterday and given a new name that should see it resonate better in its international territories, and so from here on out we’ll know it as ‘To Rome With Love’.
We now have the first eleven images to share with you, some images of the film itself and others including Allen on set, as well as the full cast line-up (which is excellent) and the full soundtrack details (which are just a little bit impeccable).
The romantic-comedy is made up of four vignettes, two of which revolving around American characters and two around Italian characters, with the main cast including the likes of Allen himself, Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Greta Gerwig, and Alison Pill.
The newly re-titled To Rome With Love will open in Italy on 20th April...
We now have the first eleven images to share with you, some images of the film itself and others including Allen on set, as well as the full cast line-up (which is excellent) and the full soundtrack details (which are just a little bit impeccable).
The romantic-comedy is made up of four vignettes, two of which revolving around American characters and two around Italian characters, with the main cast including the likes of Allen himself, Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Greta Gerwig, and Alison Pill.
The newly re-titled To Rome With Love will open in Italy on 20th April...
- 3/20/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Emanuele Crialese’s small but powerful new feature, set against the background of the influx of African boat people on the tiny Italian islands of Lampedusa and Linosa, is extra-textual: the fact that Timnit T, who plays an illegal immigrant woman given reluctant refuge by an island family, was one of only five survivors of a boatload of 70 immigrants that washed up on Lampedusa while the director was working on the treatment for the film." Lee Marshall in Screen: "The fact that Terraferma itself makes no mileage out of this is credit to Crialese, but it’s all of a piece with his unfussy approach, which is simply to tell a strong story in a way which, though it occasionally comes across as a little naïf in its liberal simplification of the issue, wins through thanks to a Ken-Loach-like combination of heart-on-sleeve commitment and elegantly succinct dramatic structure.
- 9/10/2011
- MUBI
#20. Terraferma Director: Emanuele Crialese Cast: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Mimmo Cuticcho, Giuseppe Fiorello, Timnit T. Distributor: Rights Available Buzz: Using a familiar backdrop of his native Sicily (sun-bleached islands plus rhythmic aqua blues) this appears (see trailer) less epic in scope than his 2006 film The Golden Door and less fable like than 2002's Respiro -- but Emanuele Crialese still works with the same obsession: free spirit status of the individual. Perhaps more telling, less romantic and more complex within this format, along with Kaurismäki's Le Havre, this Venice selected title only confirms that immigration migration due to the despairing differences between rich and poor and climate change is more than just a trendy topic. The Gist: Two women, an Island dweller and a foreigner: one dramatically influences the life of the other. But they both share the same desire for a different future, a better life for their children and the dream of the mainland.
- 9/3/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, The Ides of March Tomas Alfredson – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy UK, Germany, 127' Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt Andrea Arnold – Wuthering Heights UK, 128' Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, Steve Evets, Oliver Milburn Ami Canaan Mann – Texas Killing Fields USA, 109' Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan George Clooney – The Ides Of March [Opening Film] USA, 98' Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood Cristina Comencini – Quando La Notte Italy, 116' Claudia Pandolfi, Filippo Timi, Michela Cescon, Thomas Trabacchi Emanuele Crialese – Terraferma Italy, France, 88' Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Claudio Santamaria David Cronenberg – A Dangerous Method Germany, Canada, 99' Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel Abel Ferrara – 4:44 Last Day On Earth USA, 82' Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta, Natasha Lyonne William Friedkin – Killer Joe USA, 103' Matthew McConaughey,...
- 7/28/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
A teaser trailer for Giovanni Veronesi’s Manual of Love 3 (Manuale d’amore 3), which is an anthology of love stories set in Italy, starring Robert De Niro and Monica Bellucci, has gone online.
The film has received attention because it’s managed to land De Niro and Bellucci in one of the storylines. As we previously reported, De Niro will play a divorced American professor living in Rome and his role will partially be spoken in Italian. Bellucci will play his love interest.
Also stars Michele Placido, Laura Chiatti, Valeria Solarino, and Donatella Finocchiaro.
Manual of Love 3 will hit theaters in Italy on February 25th, 2011. No word if it will ever be released in the Us.
In an interview with Variety, producer Aurelio De Laurentiis said that the first two movies have been successful in Europe making a combined total of $45 million at the Italian box office.
But now, he...
The film has received attention because it’s managed to land De Niro and Bellucci in one of the storylines. As we previously reported, De Niro will play a divorced American professor living in Rome and his role will partially be spoken in Italian. Bellucci will play his love interest.
Also stars Michele Placido, Laura Chiatti, Valeria Solarino, and Donatella Finocchiaro.
Manual of Love 3 will hit theaters in Italy on February 25th, 2011. No word if it will ever be released in the Us.
In an interview with Variety, producer Aurelio De Laurentiis said that the first two movies have been successful in Europe making a combined total of $45 million at the Italian box office.
But now, he...
- 1/5/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Giovanni Veronesi, writer and director of the first two "Manuale d'amore" films, throws a third one into the ring with "Manuale d'amore 3." Today the first official trailer for the Italian romantic comedy leaps online.The film centers on four different love stories that all take place at the same time. Robert De Niro plays Adrian, a divorced university professor. The rest of the cast includes Monica Bellucci, Laura Chiatti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valeria Solarino and Donatella Finocchiaro."Manuale d'amore 3" will be released in Italy on February 25th. No word on when it will be released in the States. Go on, check out the trailer below. Source: CinemaNotizie...
- 1/4/2011
- LRMonline.com
When do a lot of people start to care about the third film in an Italian romance series? When one of the stories within features Robert De Niro as a divorced American professor romancing Monica Bellucci during a stay in Rome. We talked about Manual of Love 3 when the two actors were cast in the film [1], and now there's a trailer featuring their characters. See it after the break. As in the first two installments of this series, the film is built out of a small collection of standalone stories, so don't worry about not having caught the previous installments. Neither of the first two films got theatrical distribution in the Us, and I'm not sure they've ever been on DVD here. With Robert De Niro and Monica Bellucci involved in this one, however, there's a much better chance that it'll hit our shores. Italian audiences will see it on...
- 1/4/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
It has been another great year of film. I still have but seven movies left to watch before I complete my “Best of the Year List” but we are already looking towards 2011.
The 57 feature films selected for the four competition programs of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, and the titles include some exciting works from returning filmmakers. While the lineup isn’t has loaded with big names it does feature the return of James Marsh whose documentary Man on Wire won the Grand Jury Prize at the fest in 2008. Some interesting movies we should mention that appear on the list are Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos), Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) Rashaad Ernesto Green‘s Gun Hill Road, Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean‘s On the Ice, Dee Rees...
The 57 feature films selected for the four competition programs of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, and the titles include some exciting works from returning filmmakers. While the lineup isn’t has loaded with big names it does feature the return of James Marsh whose documentary Man on Wire won the Grand Jury Prize at the fest in 2008. Some interesting movies we should mention that appear on the list are Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos), Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) Rashaad Ernesto Green‘s Gun Hill Road, Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean‘s On the Ice, Dee Rees...
- 12/2/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
It's the first day in December, and whether you want to recognize it or not, January isn't too far away. Today the awesome folks at the Sundance Film Festival unveiled their first list of films, international and domestic, which will be presented at the festival. Check it out, and yes there are more to come. Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.For the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 115 feature-length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films.
- 12/1/2010
- LRMonline.com
As we’re getting ready to wrap up another great year of film, some are already looking to 2011 and what it will have to offer and what better way to look a head than with the first round of titles for the year’s first big festival: Sundance.
The list of festival titles isn’t as loaded with as many big name titles as have made the cut in previous years but there’s are definitely some interesting film in the competition line-up including Mike Cahill’s Another Earth which takes place on the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth (wicked!), Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos) about a guy who finds a pile of dead bodies in the middle of his crops, Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) along with the Canadian/Japanese co-production Vampire.
Loads of great stuff on the line-up.
The list of festival titles isn’t as loaded with as many big name titles as have made the cut in previous years but there’s are definitely some interesting film in the competition line-up including Mike Cahill’s Another Earth which takes place on the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth (wicked!), Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos) about a guy who finds a pile of dead bodies in the middle of his crops, Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) along with the Canadian/Japanese co-production Vampire.
Loads of great stuff on the line-up.
- 12/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The announcement of the movies playing the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is like looking into our film futures. It's December and most movie fans are looking back at the last 12 months, picking out award winners, writing top ten lists, and chances are we haven't even heard of the Sundance films. They're just titles, people, words on a computer screen. Then in January they unspool on screens across Park City, Utah and become something more. Finally, months later, these are the movies we discuss with our friends and choose on ballots at awards parties. Yet we get to read about them now, a year in advance. Last year at this time, who had heard of Four Lions, Catfish, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Blue Valentine, The Kids Are All Right, Winter's Bone, Restrepo or Animal Kingdom? Sundance, that's who. All those films screened at the 2010 festival and now many have become not only personal favorites,...
- 12/1/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
The Sundance Film Festival has announced the films in competition for the awesome and cold film festival running January 20th through January 30th 2011 in Park City, Utah.
This will be my third year attending the festival, and I'm really excited for it! There's a great line-up of films this year! Check out the list below!
From the press release:
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.
This will be my third year attending the festival, and I'm really excited for it! There's a great line-up of films this year! Check out the list below!
From the press release:
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.
- 12/1/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Park City, Ut . Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at http://www.sundance.org/.
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.S. and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival said, .The Festival is a challenge to narrowly define. It is all at once exciting, fun, crazy, engaging, visceral, and sometimes even painful. We can explain storylines,...
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.S. and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival said, .The Festival is a challenge to narrowly define. It is all at once exciting, fun, crazy, engaging, visceral, and sometimes even painful. We can explain storylines,...
- 12/1/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here's the first Sundance line-up announcement, of the fiction and nonfiction feature competitions, both U.S. and world. A few things of interest, on first scan: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut "Higher Ground," in which she also stars; "The Ledge," which sounds like this year's try for "Buried"; Iñupiaq Arctic thriller "On the Ice"; "Terri," the new film from "Momma's Man" director; Michael Rapaport's doc on A Tribe Called Quest "Beats, Rhymes and Life"; doc about the beloved Muppet "Being Elmo"; "If A Tree Falls," a new film from "Street Fight"'s Marshall Curry; Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut "Tyrannosaur"; and "Vampire," the new film from Japan's Shunji Iwai, a favorite of mine.
Descriptions courtesy of the festival:
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) - On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy...
Descriptions courtesy of the festival:
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) - On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy...
- 12/1/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
HollywoodNews.com: The 2011 Sundance Film Festival has just announced its lineup for January. John Cooper, director of Sundance Film Festival, said, “With more than 10,000 films submitted this year, we have had to make some very tough choices. Yet in the end, I’m excited about the way the program has come together. It’s an incredible honor to introduce these films and filmmaker…these are the stories that will define not only our Festival, but also the cultural year ahead.”
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will...
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will...
- 12/1/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Film Stage is headed to Sundance this year and the festival has just announced its line-up. With over 10,00 entries here is what they narrowed it down to. Most initially notable is Vera Farmiga‘s directorial debut, Higher Ground (pictured above). There is a clear lack of stars as NYTimes notes, so the excitement of discovery is back in full swing. The fest will also announce 6 more out-of-competition categories tomorrow. Check out the full list below via the official site.
Us Dramatic
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) – On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love affair. Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Flint Beverage.
Benavides Born (Director: Amy Wendel; Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel) – A high school senior in a forgotten town...
Us Dramatic
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) – On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love affair. Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Flint Beverage.
Benavides Born (Director: Amy Wendel; Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel) – A high school senior in a forgotten town...
- 12/1/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Well, here they are – the Sundance Film Festival class of 2011, split up into 4 categories as indicated by the headers below. In future posts, I’ll be going over the complete list, highlighting titles that need to be, taking into consideration this blog’s specific interests.
Of note, some titles that I listed on my list of 2011 black films on our radar… Gun Hill Road, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s debut feature (which I actually saw a cut of over the weekend, and gave a thumbs up to; but I’ll talk more about it in detail when the time comes), Dee Rees’ Pariah, and Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda. Further, titles we’ve previously covered here… Beats, Rhymes and Life, Michael Rapaport’s documentary on hip-hop legends, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary on the Liberian warlord turned evangelist.
One film I’m surprised isn...
Of note, some titles that I listed on my list of 2011 black films on our radar… Gun Hill Road, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s debut feature (which I actually saw a cut of over the weekend, and gave a thumbs up to; but I’ll talk more about it in detail when the time comes), Dee Rees’ Pariah, and Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda. Further, titles we’ve previously covered here… Beats, Rhymes and Life, Michael Rapaport’s documentary on hip-hop legends, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary on the Liberian warlord turned evangelist.
One film I’m surprised isn...
- 12/1/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Tomorrow will see the announcement of the six out-of-competition sections, which will all screen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival which runs from January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
For the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 115 feature-length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films. 92 films at the Festival will be world premieres.
The films featured in the U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary Competition are listed directly below and I've gone through and highlighted a few of the bigger known names to check out. However, Sundance has been introducing us to a...
For the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 115 feature-length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films. 92 films at the Festival will be world premieres.
The films featured in the U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary Competition are listed directly below and I've gone through and highlighted a few of the bigger known names to check out. However, Sundance has been introducing us to a...
- 12/1/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
And finally it started! The 67th Venice Film Festival, one of the most prestigious, and, by the way, the oldest film festival in the world, kicked off tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Palazzo del Cinema featuring impressive Opening ceremony, hosted by the Italian actress Isabella Ragonese.
Black Swan made its world premiere as the opening film, bringing the American director Darren Aronofsky back to the Lido, where he won the top Golden Lion prize with The Wrestler (2008).
Of course, we already have some interesting reviews to share with you, for example this one (that comes from Variety):
“A wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating study of a young dancer’s all-consuming ambition, “Black Swan” serves as a fascinating complement to Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler,” trading the grungy world of a broken-down fighter for the more upscale but no less brutal sphere of professional ballet.”
Let us remind...
Black Swan made its world premiere as the opening film, bringing the American director Darren Aronofsky back to the Lido, where he won the top Golden Lion prize with The Wrestler (2008).
Of course, we already have some interesting reviews to share with you, for example this one (that comes from Variety):
“A wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating study of a young dancer’s all-consuming ambition, “Black Swan” serves as a fascinating complement to Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler,” trading the grungy world of a broken-down fighter for the more upscale but no less brutal sphere of professional ballet.”
Let us remind...
- 9/2/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Two new posters for epic tale Baaria have just released.
Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, Everybody’s Fine, Malèna) directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in a small town in Sicily. The Torrenuovas are a family of peasant shepherds who have lived and worked in Bagheria though many generations. In the years before the rise of Mussolini, the family often found themselves working for Don Giacinto (Lollo Franco), a local tycoon who often used his power and position to take advantage of others. Young Peppino Torrenuova senses a profound injustice in the way Don Giacinto treats his elders, and as the years pass the young man becomes a passionate advocate for social change.
Once he grows to be a man, Peppino (Francesco Scianna) falls in love with beautiful Mannina (Margareth Made) and they get married, starting a family of their own over the objections of Mannia’s parents,...
Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, Everybody’s Fine, Malèna) directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in a small town in Sicily. The Torrenuovas are a family of peasant shepherds who have lived and worked in Bagheria though many generations. In the years before the rise of Mussolini, the family often found themselves working for Don Giacinto (Lollo Franco), a local tycoon who often used his power and position to take advantage of others. Young Peppino Torrenuova senses a profound injustice in the way Don Giacinto treats his elders, and as the years pass the young man becomes a passionate advocate for social change.
Once he grows to be a man, Peppino (Francesco Scianna) falls in love with beautiful Mannina (Margareth Made) and they get married, starting a family of their own over the objections of Mannia’s parents,...
- 3/26/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
This week, there's a nice little Italian place opening on the Upper West Side -- Lincoln Center, which kicks off the annual festival "Open Roads: New Italian Cinema" starting tonight.
The opening-night feature, "Brave Men," stars Donatella Finocchiaro as a deputy head of an organized crime outfit (the Godmother?)
Posing as a perfume company exec, she attracts the attention of her childhood best friend, now a judge (Fabrizio Gifuni) who is returning to the southern city of Lecce after years up north. Time has passed, but he's never let go of her in his mind.
The opening-night feature, "Brave Men," stars Donatella Finocchiaro as a deputy head of an organized crime outfit (the Godmother?)
Posing as a perfume company exec, she attracts the attention of her childhood best friend, now a judge (Fabrizio Gifuni) who is returning to the southern city of Lecce after years up north. Time has passed, but he's never let go of her in his mind.
- 6/4/2009
- by By KYLE SMITH
- NYPost.com
Rome -- Paolo Sorrentino’s bio-pic “Il Divo” and “Gomorra,” the organized crime thriller from Matteo Garone, dominated the nominations for Italy’s David dei Donatello awards, it was announced Thursday, with a total 27 noms between them.
The two films have combined to win multiple awards over the last year, starting with the 2008 Festival de Cannes, where they won the Special Jury Award and Grand Prix prize, respectively.
“Gomorra” has earned more notoriety internationally, earning a Golden Globe nomination for Foreign Film and being selected as Italy’s official candidate for the Oscars. But it is “Il Divo” that can boast the most nominations for Italy’s highest film honor with 16, compared to 11 for “Gomorra.” The maximum number of categories an Italian film is eligible for is 19.
Both films were nominated in the best film category, with Fausto Brizzi’s romance “Ex,” Paolo Virzi’s comedy “Tutta la Vita Davanti...
The two films have combined to win multiple awards over the last year, starting with the 2008 Festival de Cannes, where they won the Special Jury Award and Grand Prix prize, respectively.
“Gomorra” has earned more notoriety internationally, earning a Golden Globe nomination for Foreign Film and being selected as Italy’s official candidate for the Oscars. But it is “Il Divo” that can boast the most nominations for Italy’s highest film honor with 16, compared to 11 for “Gomorra.” The maximum number of categories an Italian film is eligible for is 19.
Both films were nominated in the best film category, with Fausto Brizzi’s romance “Ex,” Paolo Virzi’s comedy “Tutta la Vita Davanti...
- 4/10/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- "Resolution 819," Giacomo Battiato's dramatic exploration of the Balkans conflict, took home the top prize Friday at the third annual Rome International Film Festival.
The Marcus Aurelius prize, which includes a 75,000 euro ($97,000) cash award, is selected by a popular vote from festivalgoers weighted in proportion to the number of tickets sold for each of the 20 competition films. The festival said that nearly two-thirds of the viewers voted on the films they saw.
It was the first time the prize went to a film at least partially produced in Italy. "Resolution 819" is a French-Polish-Italian co-production and Battiato is Italian.
The previous two winners were Jason Reitman's comic hit "Juno," which won the prize in 2007, and the cerebral "Izobrajaya Zhertvy" (Playing the Victim) from Russia's Kirill Serebrennikov, which won the inaugural Marcus Arelius prize.
A second jury award -- which does not carry a cash prize -- went to "Opium War" from Siddiq Barmak.
The Marcus Aurelius prize, which includes a 75,000 euro ($97,000) cash award, is selected by a popular vote from festivalgoers weighted in proportion to the number of tickets sold for each of the 20 competition films. The festival said that nearly two-thirds of the viewers voted on the films they saw.
It was the first time the prize went to a film at least partially produced in Italy. "Resolution 819" is a French-Polish-Italian co-production and Battiato is Italian.
The previous two winners were Jason Reitman's comic hit "Juno," which won the prize in 2007, and the cerebral "Izobrajaya Zhertvy" (Playing the Victim) from Russia's Kirill Serebrennikov, which won the inaugural Marcus Arelius prize.
A second jury award -- which does not carry a cash prize -- went to "Opium War" from Siddiq Barmak.
- 10/31/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A hard-hitting new movie about the Bosnia War's Srebrenica massacre has won the top prize at the Rome Film Festival in Italy.
Resolution 819, directed by Italian Giacomo Battiato, won the Best Film Award on Friday.
The film chronicles the true story of the police investigation surrounding the 8,000 Muslims from Srebrenica after it fell to Bosnian Serb forces.
The Rome Film Festival's Critics Award went to Afghan film Opium War.
Ukrainian Bohdan Stupka claimed the Best Actor prize for his part in Polish comedy With a Warm Heart and Italy's Donatella Finocchiaro took home the Best Actress honour for her role in Galantuomini.
Resolution 819, directed by Italian Giacomo Battiato, won the Best Film Award on Friday.
The film chronicles the true story of the police investigation surrounding the 8,000 Muslims from Srebrenica after it fell to Bosnian Serb forces.
The Rome Film Festival's Critics Award went to Afghan film Opium War.
Ukrainian Bohdan Stupka claimed the Best Actor prize for his part in Polish comedy With a Warm Heart and Italy's Donatella Finocchiaro took home the Best Actress honour for her role in Galantuomini.
- 10/31/2008
- WENN
Venice International Film Festival
VENICE, Italy -- Andrea Porporati's "The Sweet and the Bitter" is a curiously hybrid story about a young man caught up in the organized crime of Sicily that combines ugly murders with robberies out of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight."
It presents an amoral view of Saro Scordia Luigi Lo Cascio), who enters the world of mobsters even though his hoodlum father is killed while in prison. The lead character is also the narrator as the film sees Saro grow from teenaged petty criminal to all-out thug.
Lo Cascio is good in the role but the film leaves a nasty taste as it appears to sympathize with the character's unregenerate self-pity when events inevitably conspire against him. Screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, boxoffice prospects do not appear great outside of Italy.
Saro is the kind of gullible delinquent who mistakes fear for respect, so that when the local mafia don Gaetano Butera (Tony Gambino) offers him work, he goes for it. Butera's son Mimmo (Gaetano Bruno) is his best friend and together they graduate from strong-arm stuff to actually killing someone, although Saro is better at it than the don's son.
Meanwhile, Saro has fallen in love with a good woman named Ada (Donatella Finocchiaro) who knows she shouldn't go out with a hoodlum but cannot resist. When she finally dumps him for another man named Massirenti (Fabrizio Gifuni), Saro beats him to a pulp. He respects him, however, because while Massirenti doesn't fight back, he doesn't back down.
There are the expected mafia-movie scenes of grizzled men in collarless shirts stirring pasta sauce and muttering about honor. At the ceremony in which Saro and Mimmo enter into the underworld society, however, the senior dons deliberately cause insult to Don Gaetano, and to Saro.
It doesn't bode well, as it turns out these people aren't to be trusted. They may, in fact, have had something to do with the death of Saro's father. Disillusioned by his Cosa Nostra experience, the young man decides to head north in search of Ada and some witness protection. He even gets help from Massirenti, who is now a judge, but as we know these things rarely end well.
THE SWEET AND THE BITTER
Medusa, Sciarlo
Director: Andrea Porporati
Writers: Andrea Porporati, Annio Gioacchino Stasi
Producer: Francesco Tornatore
Director of photography: Alessandro Pesci
Music: Ezio Bosso
Costume designer: Mary Montalto
Editor: Simona Paggi
Cast:
Saro Scordia: Luigi Lo Cascio
Ada: Donatella Finocchiaro
Gaetano Butera: Tony Gambino
Mimmo Butera: Gaetano Bruno
Saro at 14: Gioacchino Cappelli
Antonia: Ornella Giusto
Lady in wig: Emanuela Muni
Saro's father: Vincenzo Amato
Vicari: Renato Carpentieri
Stefano Massirenti: Fabrizio Gifuni
No MPAA rating, running time 98 minutes...
VENICE, Italy -- Andrea Porporati's "The Sweet and the Bitter" is a curiously hybrid story about a young man caught up in the organized crime of Sicily that combines ugly murders with robberies out of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight."
It presents an amoral view of Saro Scordia Luigi Lo Cascio), who enters the world of mobsters even though his hoodlum father is killed while in prison. The lead character is also the narrator as the film sees Saro grow from teenaged petty criminal to all-out thug.
Lo Cascio is good in the role but the film leaves a nasty taste as it appears to sympathize with the character's unregenerate self-pity when events inevitably conspire against him. Screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, boxoffice prospects do not appear great outside of Italy.
Saro is the kind of gullible delinquent who mistakes fear for respect, so that when the local mafia don Gaetano Butera (Tony Gambino) offers him work, he goes for it. Butera's son Mimmo (Gaetano Bruno) is his best friend and together they graduate from strong-arm stuff to actually killing someone, although Saro is better at it than the don's son.
Meanwhile, Saro has fallen in love with a good woman named Ada (Donatella Finocchiaro) who knows she shouldn't go out with a hoodlum but cannot resist. When she finally dumps him for another man named Massirenti (Fabrizio Gifuni), Saro beats him to a pulp. He respects him, however, because while Massirenti doesn't fight back, he doesn't back down.
There are the expected mafia-movie scenes of grizzled men in collarless shirts stirring pasta sauce and muttering about honor. At the ceremony in which Saro and Mimmo enter into the underworld society, however, the senior dons deliberately cause insult to Don Gaetano, and to Saro.
It doesn't bode well, as it turns out these people aren't to be trusted. They may, in fact, have had something to do with the death of Saro's father. Disillusioned by his Cosa Nostra experience, the young man decides to head north in search of Ada and some witness protection. He even gets help from Massirenti, who is now a judge, but as we know these things rarely end well.
THE SWEET AND THE BITTER
Medusa, Sciarlo
Director: Andrea Porporati
Writers: Andrea Porporati, Annio Gioacchino Stasi
Producer: Francesco Tornatore
Director of photography: Alessandro Pesci
Music: Ezio Bosso
Costume designer: Mary Montalto
Editor: Simona Paggi
Cast:
Saro Scordia: Luigi Lo Cascio
Ada: Donatella Finocchiaro
Gaetano Butera: Tony Gambino
Mimmo Butera: Gaetano Bruno
Saro at 14: Gioacchino Cappelli
Antonia: Ornella Giusto
Lady in wig: Emanuela Muni
Saro's father: Vincenzo Amato
Vicari: Renato Carpentieri
Stefano Massirenti: Fabrizio Gifuni
No MPAA rating, running time 98 minutes...
Marriage is not necessarily forever, especially if you Knock Off the groom at the ceremony. That's the plotting march in this dark and convoluted descent into premarital distress in "The Wedding Director" (Il Registra di Matrimoni), a filmic being whose overriding deceptions and flaws give ample cause for an early annulment with discerning viewers.
Centered on unsavory film director Franco Elica (Sergio Castellitto) whose professional ethics have warranted charges of sexual misconduct, the film is populated by an array of tawdry, self-absorbed jerks who not only make it impossible to root for anyone but also further muddle any course of thematic comment.
Depressed because his daughter has married a traditional Catholic and distressed by the downsliding course of his hack career, Franco detaches himself to a small village, where he is commissioned by a pompous prince to film his princess daughter's wedding. Not surprisingly, the predatory Franco becomes immediately infatuated with the princess (Donatella Finocchiaro) who, no surprise here, is depressed about her upcoming marriage. A callous opportunist, Franco decides to sabotage the marriage, rationalizing that he is saving her from an arranged union.
Along the way, he stumbles upon a rival director who has staged his own death as a good career move, thus winning the big film award that eluded him all his life. While this sideshow into the political shenanigans of the film-award universe is wonderful satire, it too is ground down by filmmaker Marco Bellocchio's heavy, gloomy hand. Once again, the "deceased" director is such a drunken lout that we're not even sympathetic with his high ruse.
Shot in somber tones of dark and darker, the film grinds along in a series of talky, static scenes. Sporadically, Bellocchio drowns out these leaden moments with bursts of clamorous piano or out-of-whack sounds. In essence, there is no aesthetic consistency to this hodgepodge and only vile characters to spend our time with.
Saddled with their individual odious roles, the cast's performances of venality and self-deception are ultimately monotonous, though Sami Frey's overarched histrionics as the Prince of Palagonia is unintentionally amusing for its camp dimension.
In a similar vein, director of photography Pasquale Mari deserves praise for his dimly lit compositions, nearly sparing us the ordeal of seeing this monstrosity.
THE WEDDING DIRECTOR
Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema, Dania Film, Surf Film in co-production with Filmtel with the support of Eurimages present a film by Marco Bellocchio
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio; Producers: Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Pelone; Executive producer: Luigi Lagrasta; Director of photography: Pasquale Mari; Art director: Marco Dentici; Editor: Francesca Calvelli; Costume designer: Sergio Ballo; Music: Riccardo Giagni.
Cast: Franco Elica: Sergio Castellitto; Bona Gravina: Donatella Finocchiaro; Prince of Palagonia: Sami Frey; Smamma: Gianni Cavina; Micetti: Maurizio Donadoni.
No MPAA rating, running time 100 minutes.
Centered on unsavory film director Franco Elica (Sergio Castellitto) whose professional ethics have warranted charges of sexual misconduct, the film is populated by an array of tawdry, self-absorbed jerks who not only make it impossible to root for anyone but also further muddle any course of thematic comment.
Depressed because his daughter has married a traditional Catholic and distressed by the downsliding course of his hack career, Franco detaches himself to a small village, where he is commissioned by a pompous prince to film his princess daughter's wedding. Not surprisingly, the predatory Franco becomes immediately infatuated with the princess (Donatella Finocchiaro) who, no surprise here, is depressed about her upcoming marriage. A callous opportunist, Franco decides to sabotage the marriage, rationalizing that he is saving her from an arranged union.
Along the way, he stumbles upon a rival director who has staged his own death as a good career move, thus winning the big film award that eluded him all his life. While this sideshow into the political shenanigans of the film-award universe is wonderful satire, it too is ground down by filmmaker Marco Bellocchio's heavy, gloomy hand. Once again, the "deceased" director is such a drunken lout that we're not even sympathetic with his high ruse.
Shot in somber tones of dark and darker, the film grinds along in a series of talky, static scenes. Sporadically, Bellocchio drowns out these leaden moments with bursts of clamorous piano or out-of-whack sounds. In essence, there is no aesthetic consistency to this hodgepodge and only vile characters to spend our time with.
Saddled with their individual odious roles, the cast's performances of venality and self-deception are ultimately monotonous, though Sami Frey's overarched histrionics as the Prince of Palagonia is unintentionally amusing for its camp dimension.
In a similar vein, director of photography Pasquale Mari deserves praise for his dimly lit compositions, nearly sparing us the ordeal of seeing this monstrosity.
THE WEDDING DIRECTOR
Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema, Dania Film, Surf Film in co-production with Filmtel with the support of Eurimages present a film by Marco Bellocchio
Credits: Director-screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio; Producers: Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Pelone; Executive producer: Luigi Lagrasta; Director of photography: Pasquale Mari; Art director: Marco Dentici; Editor: Francesca Calvelli; Costume designer: Sergio Ballo; Music: Riccardo Giagni.
Cast: Franco Elica: Sergio Castellitto; Bona Gravina: Donatella Finocchiaro; Prince of Palagonia: Sami Frey; Smamma: Gianni Cavina; Micetti: Maurizio Donadoni.
No MPAA rating, running time 100 minutes.
- 5/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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