Mubi Podcast: Voci Italiane Contemporanee is the debut podcast from Mubi Italia, produced in collaboration with Chora Media. Written and hosted by journalist Gianmaria Tammaro, it is inspired by the series Italian Voices of Today, now showing on Mubi Italia. This week’s episode, "Buona La Prima," features:Filippo Scotti: After the great success of The Hand of God (2021) by Paolo Sorrentino, Filippo Scotti found himself in a unique and rare position: he had played the main character of one of the best-loved films of the season, directed by a master of Italian cinema, and he was ready, at such a young age, to take the next step in the movie industry. He is, by far, one of the most significant representatives of the new wave of Italian cinema, and this episode attempts to paint a portrait of one of the most vital Italian Voices of Today.Listen to...
- 10/18/2023
- MUBI
Exclusive: Darko Perić, the Serbian actor best known for his breakout role as Helsinki in Netflix’s award-winning Spanish series Money Heist, has signed with Artist International Group for management.
Created by Álex Pina, the critically acclaimed series known internationally as La casa de papel is one of Netflix’s most-watched of all time, with a Korean offshoot currently airing and a spinoff titled Berlin in the works. The show watches as an unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history—stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain. Perić’s character Helsinki is one of the eight people recruited by the enigmatic figure known as “The Professor” (Álvaro Morte) to pull the job off.
Perić has also starred in projects including Fernando León de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day alongside Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko, Creamatorio for Canal+...
Created by Álex Pina, the critically acclaimed series known internationally as La casa de papel is one of Netflix’s most-watched of all time, with a Korean offshoot currently airing and a spinoff titled Berlin in the works. The show watches as an unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history—stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain. Perić’s character Helsinki is one of the eight people recruited by the enigmatic figure known as “The Professor” (Álvaro Morte) to pull the job off.
Perić has also starred in projects including Fernando León de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day alongside Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko, Creamatorio for Canal+...
- 7/26/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Filippo Scotti, the Italian actor known for his critically acclaimed breakout role in the Paolo Sorrentino film The Hand of God, has signed with Artist International Group for management.
The 2021 drama set in 1980s Naples had Scotti playing Fabietto, a football-loving kid whose uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker is shaped when a family tragedy strikes. While the 22-year-old had merely a few credits when he was picked to star in Sorrentino’s autobiographical film for Netflix, the project propelled him into international recognition. When it made its world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival, he found himself recognized with the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Emerging Actor.
The up-and-coming actor is currently featured in Prada’s Men’s Fall Fashion 2022 campaign, alongside Oscar- and Emmy-winner Rami Malek, Jeff Goldblum, Damson Idris, Asa Butterfield and more.
CEO David Unger founded Artist International Group in 2017. Together with Aig...
The 2021 drama set in 1980s Naples had Scotti playing Fabietto, a football-loving kid whose uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker is shaped when a family tragedy strikes. While the 22-year-old had merely a few credits when he was picked to star in Sorrentino’s autobiographical film for Netflix, the project propelled him into international recognition. When it made its world premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival, he found himself recognized with the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Emerging Actor.
The up-and-coming actor is currently featured in Prada’s Men’s Fall Fashion 2022 campaign, alongside Oscar- and Emmy-winner Rami Malek, Jeff Goldblum, Damson Idris, Asa Butterfield and more.
CEO David Unger founded Artist International Group in 2017. Together with Aig...
- 7/15/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” and Gabriele Mainetti’s “Freaks Out” lead the pack at the David di Donatello Awards this year with 16 nominations each.
Here’s the complete list of nominees:
Picture
“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Leonardo Di Costanzo
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Ennio,” Giuseppe Tornatore
“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti
“Qui Rido Io” (The King of Laughter), Mario Martone
Director
“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Leonardo Di Costanzo
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Ennio,” Giuseppe Tornatore
“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti
“Qui Rido Io” (The King of Laughter), Mario Martone
Debut Director
“The Bad Poet,” Gianluca Jodice
“Maternal,” Maura Delpero
“Small Body,” Laura Samani
“Re Granchio” (The Legend of King Crab), Alessio Rigo De Righi, Matteo Zoppis
“Una Femmina” (The Code of Silence), Francesco Constabile
Producer
“A Chiara,” Jon Coplon, Paolo Carpignano, Ryan Zacarias, Jonas Carpignano (Stayblack Productions) — Rai Cinema
“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Carlo Cresto...
Here’s the complete list of nominees:
Picture
“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Leonardo Di Costanzo
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Ennio,” Giuseppe Tornatore
“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti
“Qui Rido Io” (The King of Laughter), Mario Martone
Director
“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Leonardo Di Costanzo
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Ennio,” Giuseppe Tornatore
“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti
“Qui Rido Io” (The King of Laughter), Mario Martone
Debut Director
“The Bad Poet,” Gianluca Jodice
“Maternal,” Maura Delpero
“Small Body,” Laura Samani
“Re Granchio” (The Legend of King Crab), Alessio Rigo De Righi, Matteo Zoppis
“Una Femmina” (The Code of Silence), Francesco Constabile
Producer
“A Chiara,” Jon Coplon, Paolo Carpignano, Ryan Zacarias, Jonas Carpignano (Stayblack Productions) — Rai Cinema
“Ariaferma” (The Inner Cage), Carlo Cresto...
- 4/30/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
In “The Hand of God,” the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino conjures memories of his formative years in picturesque Naples. Capturing both the sun-dappled summer days he passed in the company of his larger-than-life family and the profound tragedy that set him on a path toward filmmaking, this partly autobiographical drama focuses on Fabio Schisa (Filippo Scotti), a teenager growing up in southern Italy during the 1980s.
Both indulgent and incisive in its evocation of youth, “The Hand of God” departs from the baroque, cynically detached tone of Sorrentino’s best-known works.
Continue reading Paolo Sorrentino On ‘The Hand of God,’ Oscar Glory & Recreating 1980s Naples [Interview] at The Playlist.
Both indulgent and incisive in its evocation of youth, “The Hand of God” departs from the baroque, cynically detached tone of Sorrentino’s best-known works.
Continue reading Paolo Sorrentino On ‘The Hand of God,’ Oscar Glory & Recreating 1980s Naples [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 3/17/2022
- by Isaac Feldberg
- The Playlist
The upcoming Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion and Art Festival will be honoring Italian directors Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”) and Enrico Casarosa (“Luca”) as well as costume-designer Massimo Cantini Parrini (“Cyrano”) all of whom have scored nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards.
The 17th edition of the pre-Oscars event will be held March 20-26 at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre and also online.
This year’s opening ceremony will be hosted by veteran Italian-American actor Robert Davi, who is also this year’s president of the event. Sofia Milos (“CSI: Miami”) and Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller will co-host.
Consul General of Italy Silvia Chiave and Italian Institute of Culture chief Emanuele Amendola will also be introducing honorees both at the Chinese Theatre and during a separate March 25 event being held at the Italian Institute of Culture.
Other Los Angeles-Italia honorees this year are ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti actors Riccardo Scamarcio,...
The 17th edition of the pre-Oscars event will be held March 20-26 at Hollywood’s Tcl Chinese Theatre and also online.
This year’s opening ceremony will be hosted by veteran Italian-American actor Robert Davi, who is also this year’s president of the event. Sofia Milos (“CSI: Miami”) and Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller will co-host.
Consul General of Italy Silvia Chiave and Italian Institute of Culture chief Emanuele Amendola will also be introducing honorees both at the Chinese Theatre and during a separate March 25 event being held at the Italian Institute of Culture.
Other Los Angeles-Italia honorees this year are ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti actors Riccardo Scamarcio,...
- 3/16/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: The Nominees, this past weekend’s showcase of 24 Oscar-nominated films and their stars, creatives and craftspeople talking about their roads to the Academy Awards.
Click here to go to the site.
Saturday’s virtual panels ran the gamut from the cast of the Oscar Best Picture-nominated Coda to the star and director of Bhutan’s first Oscar-nominated film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, and pretty much everything in between.
Panelists included Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larraín from Spencer; Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds from Belfast; Guillermo del Toro with Nightmare Alley; Jessica Chastain from The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson from Summer of Soul; Jonas Poher Rasmussen from Flee; Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve from The Worst Person in the World; Ariana DeBose from West Side Story; Adam McKay and Nicholas Britell from Don’t Look Up; Paolo Sorrentino...
Click here to go to the site.
Saturday’s virtual panels ran the gamut from the cast of the Oscar Best Picture-nominated Coda to the star and director of Bhutan’s first Oscar-nominated film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, and pretty much everything in between.
Panelists included Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larraín from Spencer; Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds from Belfast; Guillermo del Toro with Nightmare Alley; Jessica Chastain from The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson from Summer of Soul; Jonas Poher Rasmussen from Flee; Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve from The Worst Person in the World; Ariana DeBose from West Side Story; Adam McKay and Nicholas Britell from Don’t Look Up; Paolo Sorrentino...
- 3/7/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Paolo Sorrentino won the Foreign Language Oscar, as it was known then, in 2014 with his film The Great Beauty. He returns to the frame this year with The Hand of God, perhaps his most personal picture, which is nominated for Best International Feature. This lightly fictionalized tale of Sorrentino’s own youth in Naples, as he grappled with family tragedy, celebrated Diego Maradona’s arrival at his local football team, and took his first steps into his love of cinema, stars newcomer Filippo Scotti as Fabi Schisa, a teenager struggling to find his place in the world.
Contenders Film: The Nominees — Full Coverage
For Sorrentino, that love of cinema is important now more than ever. Joining Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event with Scotti, Sorrentino said that cinema was a universal, accessible language that needed to be preserved. “Cinema has this big power to connect people and let them feel more united,...
Contenders Film: The Nominees — Full Coverage
For Sorrentino, that love of cinema is important now more than ever. Joining Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event with Scotti, Sorrentino said that cinema was a universal, accessible language that needed to be preserved. “Cinema has this big power to connect people and let them feel more united,...
- 3/5/2022
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Contenders Film: The Nominees, a one-stop-shop experience featuring a smörgåsbord of Oscar-nominated talent discussing their top-tier projects, kicks off Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. Pt as a virtual event, the latest in Deadline’s rapidly expanding Contenders series. Stars, creatives and craftspeople behind 24 films will take part in moderated panels discussing the roads that led them to the doorstep of the Academy Awards.
To sign up for and watch the livestream, click here.
If we’ve found a little silver lining to this Covid situation, it’s that it inspired us to stream our Contenders events since the earliest days of the pandemic. And we’ve not only reached a global audience in the comfort of their own homes, but we’ve also found a brave new world in which we screen chats with talent who couldn’t have made it to the stage in person anyway due to their schedules.
To sign up for and watch the livestream, click here.
If we’ve found a little silver lining to this Covid situation, it’s that it inspired us to stream our Contenders events since the earliest days of the pandemic. And we’ve not only reached a global audience in the comfort of their own homes, but we’ve also found a brave new world in which we screen chats with talent who couldn’t have made it to the stage in person anyway due to their schedules.
- 3/5/2022
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
As we enter the final countdown to the Feb. 8 Oscar nominations announcement, Isabella Rossellini is clearly rooting for Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” which is Italy’s candidate for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and among the shortlisted titles.
To help promote the pic with Academy voters, Rossellini engaged in an online chat with the director and young Italian actor Filippo Scotti, who plays Sorrentino’s alter-ego Fabietto in the pic. She also wore a gold horn amulet that belonged to her father, the late great Italian master Roberto Rossellini, for good luck.
Here are edited excerpts of the conversation, to which Variety has been given exclusive access.
Rossellini: So here we are. All the ghosts are coming [out] because this film has so many references to cinema. It’s such a love letter to Italy, and particularly to Naples. For us, Italians, they [the references] also have...
To help promote the pic with Academy voters, Rossellini engaged in an online chat with the director and young Italian actor Filippo Scotti, who plays Sorrentino’s alter-ego Fabietto in the pic. She also wore a gold horn amulet that belonged to her father, the late great Italian master Roberto Rossellini, for good luck.
Here are edited excerpts of the conversation, to which Variety has been given exclusive access.
Rossellini: So here we are. All the ghosts are coming [out] because this film has so many references to cinema. It’s such a love letter to Italy, and particularly to Naples. For us, Italians, they [the references] also have...
- 1/28/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
By any yardstick, Paolo Sorrentino has had a lot of good luck in his directing career. His first film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and the next six competed at Cannes, a residency that brought an Oscar nomination for 2013’s The Great Beauty. But Sorrentino does not take his good fortune for granted. In Netflix’s The Hand of God he reflects on the twist of fate that saved his life as a teenager in the 1980s, when a freak accident claimed the lives of both his parents. Starring Filippo Scotti as Fabietto, the film is a lightly fictionalized account of the artist as an introspective young man, with a Sony Walkman on his hip and an obsession with S.S.C. Napoli footballer Diego Maradona…
Deadline: When did you first decide you wanted to tell this story?
Paolo Sorrentino: I started to think about this movie 10 years ago,...
Deadline: When did you first decide you wanted to tell this story?
Paolo Sorrentino: I started to think about this movie 10 years ago,...
- 1/22/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
When Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reached his milestone 50th birthday, he decided the occasion was ripe with the potential to break away from many of the enduring ways he made distinctive, much lauded projects and experiment with new cinematic and storytelling techniques. And for his next film, The Hand of God, he decided to plumb the depths of his own past as well.
“Why now?” ponders Sorrentino. “I started to look at the past, without being too much involved. So in these past years, I’m able to see into my past with sort of an objective lens, and this is helpful to put in order the things in my life.”
“I had this story I was scared to do because it’s very personal, but because it’s a painful story...
“Why now?” ponders Sorrentino. “I started to look at the past, without being too much involved. So in these past years, I’m able to see into my past with sort of an objective lens, and this is helpful to put in order the things in my life.”
“I had this story I was scared to do because it’s very personal, but because it’s a painful story...
- 1/20/2022
- by Scott Huver
- Deadline Film + TV
To shoot “The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino returned to his roots and did a lot of things backwards.
“After 20 years of filmmaking I was perhaps a bit tired of the spot I was in,” he says. So in tackling the autobiographical story — which brought him back to his native Naples two decades after his debut “L’Uomo in Più” — he decided to proceed differently.
“Visually this film is the opposite of my other films,” Sorrentino notes, pointing out that in his other works, such as “The Great Beauty” and “Youth,” it was the choice of settings — the city of Rome and the Swiss Alps, respectively — and also the light, that had to “bend to an aesthetic idea that I had in mind.”
But in “Hand of God” “it’s exactly the reverse,” he says. “It’s the aesthetic aspects that had to adapt to the locations,” which were dictated by...
“After 20 years of filmmaking I was perhaps a bit tired of the spot I was in,” he says. So in tackling the autobiographical story — which brought him back to his native Naples two decades after his debut “L’Uomo in Più” — he decided to proceed differently.
“Visually this film is the opposite of my other films,” Sorrentino notes, pointing out that in his other works, such as “The Great Beauty” and “Youth,” it was the choice of settings — the city of Rome and the Swiss Alps, respectively — and also the light, that had to “bend to an aesthetic idea that I had in mind.”
But in “Hand of God” “it’s exactly the reverse,” he says. “It’s the aesthetic aspects that had to adapt to the locations,” which were dictated by...
- 1/15/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Hand of God Review — The Hand of God (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betty Pedrazzi, Lino Musella, Monica Nappo, Biagio Manna and Carmen Pommella. Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, The Hand of [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: The Hand Of God (2021): Interesting Coming of Age Drama is Bold, Provocative and, At Times, a Bit Odd...
Continue reading: Film Review: The Hand Of God (2021): Interesting Coming of Age Drama is Bold, Provocative and, At Times, a Bit Odd...
- 1/2/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
As 2021 draws to a close, the film aficionados who make up Deadline’s International Critics Line crew have each chosen their top three titles of the year to hail from abroad. Some were world premieres at Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice or Toronto, though not all are on the Oscar International Feature shortlist, nor are they each in a foreign language It’s also interesting to see some overlap, with a trio of films showing up more than once.
Here are Deadline critics’ top international films of 2021 (in alphabetical order by title):
Drive My Car
Since its premiere in Cannes, where it won writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi the screenwriting prize, to its recent honors as Best Film from critics groups in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and more, the Japanese-shortlisted entry for the Best International Film Oscar has become perhaps the one to beat at the Academy Awards. With a three-hour running time,...
Here are Deadline critics’ top international films of 2021 (in alphabetical order by title):
Drive My Car
Since its premiere in Cannes, where it won writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi the screenwriting prize, to its recent honors as Best Film from critics groups in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and more, the Japanese-shortlisted entry for the Best International Film Oscar has become perhaps the one to beat at the Academy Awards. With a three-hour running time,...
- 12/30/2021
- by Pete Hammond, Todd McCarthy, Valerie Complex, Anna Smith and Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hand of God Netflix Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Paolo Sorrentino Writer: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betti Pedrazzi, Biagio Manna, Ciro Capano, Enzo Decaro, Lino Musella, Sofya Gershevich Screened at: Netflix, LA, 12/15/21 Opened: December 15th, 2021 Teenagers are […]
The post The Hand of God Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post The Hand of God Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 12/27/2021
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
Director Paolo Sorrentino and his wife, Daniela D’Antonio, know how to celebrate his Oscar-buzzy film “The Hand of God.”
By throwing parties.
They recently hosted two dinners for friends at their Los Angeles Airbnb. And it’s not just any rental. Netflix has put up the couple, along with the movie’s young star Filippo Scotti and others from the “Hand of God” team, in a six-bedroom home that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, who lived there in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding.
D’Antonio prepared the poolside meals for guests using old family recipes for pasta e patate con la provola, paccheri al ragù, parmigiana di melanzane, timballo di maccheroni con melanzane and pasta e ceci. Desserts included pandoro farcito, zeppole fritte and sfogliatelle.
Among the guests were David O. Russell, Craig Gillespie, Julianne Nicholson, Sorrentino’s UTA agent Rich Klubeck and Silvia Chiave, consul general of Italy in Los Angeles.
By throwing parties.
They recently hosted two dinners for friends at their Los Angeles Airbnb. And it’s not just any rental. Netflix has put up the couple, along with the movie’s young star Filippo Scotti and others from the “Hand of God” team, in a six-bedroom home that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, who lived there in the 1950s with then-husband Michael Wilding.
D’Antonio prepared the poolside meals for guests using old family recipes for pasta e patate con la provola, paccheri al ragù, parmigiana di melanzane, timballo di maccheroni con melanzane and pasta e ceci. Desserts included pandoro farcito, zeppole fritte and sfogliatelle.
Among the guests were David O. Russell, Craig Gillespie, Julianne Nicholson, Sorrentino’s UTA agent Rich Klubeck and Silvia Chiave, consul general of Italy in Los Angeles.
- 12/21/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
Not a huge amount takes place at the beginning of Days. The opening exchanges are elemental: wind blows; rain patters; grass shivers; a boy in pink shorts plays with fire. But then not a huge amount happens after. The movie is the latest from director Tsai Ming-liang, a Malaysia-born filmmaker and master of slow burns; and a key figure in the second wave of Taiwanese New Cinema. What Tsai does do–and better than most–is long takes; beautiful compositions; urban bustle; gorgeous color; neon light–as well as capture touch, sexuality and the human body. – Rory O. (full review)
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days) (note: Tsai’s Afternoon is also streaming)
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
There is an uncomfortable,...
Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
Not a huge amount takes place at the beginning of Days. The opening exchanges are elemental: wind blows; rain patters; grass shivers; a boy in pink shorts plays with fire. But then not a huge amount happens after. The movie is the latest from director Tsai Ming-liang, a Malaysia-born filmmaker and master of slow burns; and a key figure in the second wave of Taiwanese New Cinema. What Tsai does do–and better than most–is long takes; beautiful compositions; urban bustle; gorgeous color; neon light–as well as capture touch, sexuality and the human body. – Rory O. (full review)
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days) (note: Tsai’s Afternoon is also streaming)
Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
There is an uncomfortable,...
- 12/17/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Director Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous new film, The Hand of God (“È stata la mano di Dio“), is an interesting piece of work in that it is a deeply emotional and autobiographical piece that unfortunately strays a little too much in its middle section before finding its way again in the final act.
The film follows a teenage boy named Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) in 1980s Naples. There, Fabietto lives with his parents Saverio and Maria (Toni Servillo and Teresa Saponangelo), brother, and sister (who spends a considerable portion of the film in the bathroom). The family is introduced via a much larger gathering including the extended family before switching over to the more intimate setting of the immediate Schisa family. Essentially a coming-of-age tale – albeit with an unfortunate intrusion of fate deciding how soon young Fabietto does, in fact, come of age – the film runs through a myriad of...
The film follows a teenage boy named Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) in 1980s Naples. There, Fabietto lives with his parents Saverio and Maria (Toni Servillo and Teresa Saponangelo), brother, and sister (who spends a considerable portion of the film in the bathroom). The family is introduced via a much larger gathering including the extended family before switching over to the more intimate setting of the immediate Schisa family. Essentially a coming-of-age tale – albeit with an unfortunate intrusion of fate deciding how soon young Fabietto does, in fact, come of age – the film runs through a myriad of...
- 12/15/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
In The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino tells an intimate story about growing up in Naples, Italy. The turbulent coming-of-age film, marking the director’s most personal and emotional work yet, concerns Diego Maradona joining the Napoli soccer team in 1986 and its cultural impact. The story is threaded with Sorrentino’s colorful, absurd family members, and held together with grief from the untimely loss of his parents.
Actor Filippo Scotti plays Fabietto, effectively a young Sorrentino. To insert himself in the film, the director stripped back familiar elements of his filmmaking: gone are the heightened irony and formal style, in their place is unadulterated storytelling with everyday characters rich in personality and love.
With Italy’s Oscar contender now playing in theaters and coming to Netflix on Wednesday, The Film Stage sat down with Sorrentino and Scotti to discuss their film.
The Film Stage: There’s a VHS copy of...
Actor Filippo Scotti plays Fabietto, effectively a young Sorrentino. To insert himself in the film, the director stripped back familiar elements of his filmmaking: gone are the heightened irony and formal style, in their place is unadulterated storytelling with everyday characters rich in personality and love.
With Italy’s Oscar contender now playing in theaters and coming to Netflix on Wednesday, The Film Stage sat down with Sorrentino and Scotti to discuss their film.
The Film Stage: There’s a VHS copy of...
- 12/14/2021
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
Filippo Scotti is the 21-year newcomer starring in Italy’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, “The Hand of God.” The film is written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, whose film “The Great Beauty” won the Oscar in this category eight years ago. The Netflix movie is Scotti’s breakout feature film and his newfound fame is still something he’s coming to terms with. Watch the exclusive interview above.
“One thing that I love the most about this job is definitely to meet new people,” Scotti says. “This movie now, with all the travel for the promotion, I’m meeting new people and I’m sharing a lot. That’s what has changed the most.” “The Hand of God” competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Scotti received the Marcello Mastroianni Award,...
“One thing that I love the most about this job is definitely to meet new people,” Scotti says. “This movie now, with all the travel for the promotion, I’m meeting new people and I’m sharing a lot. That’s what has changed the most.” “The Hand of God” competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Scotti received the Marcello Mastroianni Award,...
- 12/14/2021
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Given the titular allusion to footballing royalty Diego Maradona, it is fitting that The Hand of God plays out as a tale of two halves. Paolo Sorrentino’s latest – a deeply personal coming-of-age tale played out against a gorgeous Neapolitan canvas – pivots from a carefree opening hour into an altogether deeper, insular second half.
The set-up is fairly well trodden. Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) is grappling with teen angst; unsure of who he is, and what he could be. Sorrentino’s avatar therefore clings to his hometown football team, Napoli, for a sense of purpose. The talk of the city is that Diego Maradona may soon join the club, something which Fabietto takes hugely seriously.
Throw in some adolescent lusting over beguiling but troubled Aunt Patrizia (Luisa Ranieri) and the opening hour is layered with inter-familiar humour and a warmly comic script. When asked why the family doesn’t have a television remote,...
The set-up is fairly well trodden. Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) is grappling with teen angst; unsure of who he is, and what he could be. Sorrentino’s avatar therefore clings to his hometown football team, Napoli, for a sense of purpose. The talk of the city is that Diego Maradona may soon join the club, something which Fabietto takes hugely seriously.
Throw in some adolescent lusting over beguiling but troubled Aunt Patrizia (Luisa Ranieri) and the opening hour is layered with inter-familiar humour and a warmly comic script. When asked why the family doesn’t have a television remote,...
- 12/13/2021
- by Luke Walpole
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
After Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” debuted at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, media and attendees were buzzing about the film’s star, newcommer Filippo Scotti. The 21-year-old actor portrays Sorrentino at a crucial moment in the filmmaker’s life and has a natural charisma that had many referring to him as the “Italian Timothée Chalamet.” Speaking partially through a translator last month, Scotti appreciates the sentiment but is hoping the world takes him on his own merits.
Continue reading Filippo Scotti Doesn’t Want To Be Your Italian Timothée Chalamet [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Filippo Scotti Doesn’t Want To Be Your Italian Timothée Chalamet [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 12/8/2021
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Paolo Sorrentino said the experience of turning 50 two years ago helped encourage him to depict the experiences of his youth onscreen. That led to the Netflix film The Hand of God.
The Oscar-winning director of The Great Beauty reflected on the decision to look inward during a panel session at Deadline Contenders New York on Saturday. “The time was right,” he recalled feeling, because 50 is “an important moment in life in order to look back and not to look at the future. But at the same time, this movie is giving me a future.”
Returning to his hometown of Naples, writer-director Sorrentino draws from his own upbringing as the source for the Italian-language drama. Set in the ’80s, The Hand of God tells the story of Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti), whose tumultuous life is filled with unexpected highs and lows. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in September.
The Oscar-winning director of The Great Beauty reflected on the decision to look inward during a panel session at Deadline Contenders New York on Saturday. “The time was right,” he recalled feeling, because 50 is “an important moment in life in order to look back and not to look at the future. But at the same time, this movie is giving me a future.”
Returning to his hometown of Naples, writer-director Sorrentino draws from his own upbringing as the source for the Italian-language drama. Set in the ’80s, The Hand of God tells the story of Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti), whose tumultuous life is filled with unexpected highs and lows. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in September.
- 12/4/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders Film returns to New York this morning with a hybrid in-person and livestreamed showcase at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and a lineup of 23 films spotlighting the best motion pictures this awards season has to offer. The in-person event kicks off with a breakfast sponsored by United Artists Releasing at 8 a.m. Et, with panels and livestream coverage kicking off at 9:30 a.m.
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
While last year’s supply of movies during a Covid-embattled awards season may have slimmed down, this year, the studios aren’t holding back. This year’s lineup features films from A24, Amazon, Apple Original Films, Focus Features, MGM/United Artists, Netflix, Neon and Warner Bros, and a roster of panelists that includes stars Matt Damon, Mahershala Ali, Tessa Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Schumer, Andre Holland, Richard Jenkins, Ruth Negga, Oscar Isaac,...
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
While last year’s supply of movies during a Covid-embattled awards season may have slimmed down, this year, the studios aren’t holding back. This year’s lineup features films from A24, Amazon, Apple Original Films, Focus Features, MGM/United Artists, Netflix, Neon and Warner Bros, and a roster of panelists that includes stars Matt Damon, Mahershala Ali, Tessa Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Schumer, Andre Holland, Richard Jenkins, Ruth Negga, Oscar Isaac,...
- 12/4/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Whether you’re embracing the holidays or ignoring them this December, Netflix has options to keep you engrossed and entertained.
As the entertainment giant gets deep into its awards season strategy, a handful of top-tier contenders arrives this month, starting with Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” which is already streaming as of December 1 but still available to catch in select theaters if you prefer that experience.
Perhaps on a quieter path to awards season contention, but still no less deserving of their plaudits, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” and Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical “The Hand of God” make their way to the platform. Then there’s Adam McKay’s cosmically budgeted, star-packed end-times comedy “Don’t Look Up,” sure to be popular for families staying home who like a little apocalyptic doom au jus with their Christmas goose.
But looking for a throwback favorite? IndieWire has rounded...
As the entertainment giant gets deep into its awards season strategy, a handful of top-tier contenders arrives this month, starting with Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” which is already streaming as of December 1 but still available to catch in select theaters if you prefer that experience.
Perhaps on a quieter path to awards season contention, but still no less deserving of their plaudits, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” and Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical “The Hand of God” make their way to the platform. Then there’s Adam McKay’s cosmically budgeted, star-packed end-times comedy “Don’t Look Up,” sure to be popular for families staying home who like a little apocalyptic doom au jus with their Christmas goose.
But looking for a throwback favorite? IndieWire has rounded...
- 12/3/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
(l-r) Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo and Teresa Saponangelo, in The Hand Of God by Paolo Sorrentino. Photo by Gianni Fiorito. Courtesy of Netflix.
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, The Hand Of God is a coming-of-age tale about an awkward teenage boy growing up in 1980s Naples, a sun-splashed, gritty, quirky place where he is surrounded by loving family and colorful characters, a place where the mundane and the magical exist side-by-side. Soccer and cinema are his obsessions but fate or luck – the hand of God – steps in and shapes the direction of his life.
Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) lives with his parents Saverio Schisa (Toni Servillo) and Maria Schisa (Teresa Saponangelo), older brother Marchino Schisa (Marlon Joubert) and a sister we never see because she is always in the bathroom, sharing an apartment near the the port city’s old harbor.
Memory can be a powerful thing. The vivid autobiographical tale from Oscar-winning writer/director Paolo Sorrentino, The Hand Of God is a coming-of-age tale about an awkward teenage boy growing up in 1980s Naples, a sun-splashed, gritty, quirky place where he is surrounded by loving family and colorful characters, a place where the mundane and the magical exist side-by-side. Soccer and cinema are his obsessions but fate or luck – the hand of God – steps in and shapes the direction of his life.
Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) lives with his parents Saverio Schisa (Toni Servillo) and Maria Schisa (Teresa Saponangelo), older brother Marchino Schisa (Marlon Joubert) and a sister we never see because she is always in the bathroom, sharing an apartment near the the port city’s old harbor.
- 12/3/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Italian film-maker may owe his life to the footballer, as this vivid, autobiographical Neapolitan drama reveals
Paolo Sorrentino’s extravagantly personal movie gives us all a sentimental education in this director’s boyhood and coming of age – or at any rate, what he now creatively remembers of it – in Naples in the 1980s, where everyone had gone collectively crazy for Ssc Napoli’s new signing, footballing legend Diego Maradona. We watch as a family party explodes with joy around the TV when Maradona scores his handball goal in the 1986 World Cup. A leftwing uncle growls with pleasure at the imperialist English getting scammed.
This is a tribute to Sorrentino’s late parents, who in 1987 died together of carbon monoxide poisoning at their holiday chalet outside the city, where 16-year-old Paolo might himself also have been staying had it not been that he wanted to see Napoli playing at home.
Paolo Sorrentino’s extravagantly personal movie gives us all a sentimental education in this director’s boyhood and coming of age – or at any rate, what he now creatively remembers of it – in Naples in the 1980s, where everyone had gone collectively crazy for Ssc Napoli’s new signing, footballing legend Diego Maradona. We watch as a family party explodes with joy around the TV when Maradona scores his handball goal in the 1986 World Cup. A leftwing uncle growls with pleasure at the imperialist English getting scammed.
This is a tribute to Sorrentino’s late parents, who in 1987 died together of carbon monoxide poisoning at their holiday chalet outside the city, where 16-year-old Paolo might himself also have been staying had it not been that he wanted to see Napoli playing at home.
- 12/1/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Italy’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, “The Hand of God,” tells the story of a boy in the tumultuous city of Naples in the 1980s. For Oscar-winning director, writer and producer, Paolo Sorrentino, it’s a personal tale of fate and family, sports and cinema, love and loss. It is also the semi-autobiographical story of the filmmaker’s carefree childhood that was uprooted by the sudden loss of his parents.
“The movie is very close to reality,” Sorrentino says of the film mirroring his own life. “The feelings are fully authentic. I decided to tell this story now because, since I turned 50, I decided the time has come to take stock. There was the right distance to be able to tackle [the story], without too much rhetoric, such personal and private issues.”
Although the film is based on Sorrentino’s own experiences, the main character...
“The movie is very close to reality,” Sorrentino says of the film mirroring his own life. “The feelings are fully authentic. I decided to tell this story now because, since I turned 50, I decided the time has come to take stock. There was the right distance to be able to tackle [the story], without too much rhetoric, such personal and private issues.”
Although the film is based on Sorrentino’s own experiences, the main character...
- 12/1/2021
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. The eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and is subject to change.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
Updated: Nov 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: More to come…...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
Updated: Nov 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: More to come…...
- 11/25/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders Film: International kicks off this morning, offering up the opportunity to hear from filmmakers who have been making waves around the world in 2021. The second annual event spotlighting international feature films begins at 9 a.m. Pt and will showcase the cream of the crop from this year’s festival awards winners, box office hits and International Feature Oscar hopefuls as the teams behind them discuss their work and inspirations.
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
For Contenders Film: International, we’ve again pivoted to a virtual event, which will boast a robust lineup. In total, talent will appear to discuss 26 titles that will represent their home countries as the official submissions for the International Feature Film category at the 94th Academy Awards. A total of 19 studios, streamers and distributors be on hand with presentations including clips and Q&As moderated by Deadline’s crack crew...
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
For Contenders Film: International, we’ve again pivoted to a virtual event, which will boast a robust lineup. In total, talent will appear to discuss 26 titles that will represent their home countries as the official submissions for the International Feature Film category at the 94th Academy Awards. A total of 19 studios, streamers and distributors be on hand with presentations including clips and Q&As moderated by Deadline’s crack crew...
- 11/20/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” kicked off its theatrical rollout with a gala event Tuesday evening in the director’s native Naples, the city to which he returned after 20 years to shoot his most personal film.
“I am as excited as I was at my wedding,” said Sorrentino ahead of the red carpet screening in the central Cinema Metropolitan attended by some 400 guests including Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini and players from the 1980s Ssc Napoli soccer team, once led by late great champ Diego Maradona who, as the film reveals, involuntarily saved Sorrentino’s life.
Sorrentino underlined that he was particularly pleased, and also anxious, about the Naples premiere — which was followed by a reception at Naples’ Teatro San Carlo opera house — because “here the film can be understood in all its nuances; a test that is not easy to face.”
The city of Naples also took...
“I am as excited as I was at my wedding,” said Sorrentino ahead of the red carpet screening in the central Cinema Metropolitan attended by some 400 guests including Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini and players from the 1980s Ssc Napoli soccer team, once led by late great champ Diego Maradona who, as the film reveals, involuntarily saved Sorrentino’s life.
Sorrentino underlined that he was particularly pleased, and also anxious, about the Naples premiere — which was followed by a reception at Naples’ Teatro San Carlo opera house — because “here the film can be understood in all its nuances; a test that is not easy to face.”
The city of Naples also took...
- 11/17/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming feature from Paolo Sorrentino ‘The Hand of God.’
From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino comes the story of a boy, Fabietto Schisa, set in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s.
The Hand of God is a story full of unexpected joys, such as the arrival of football legend Diego Maradona, and an equally unexpected tragedy. Fate plays its part, joy and tragedy intertwine, and Fabietto’s future is set in motion. Sorrentino returns to his hometown to tell his most personal story, a tale of fate and family, sports and cinema, love and loss.
Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, the film stars Toni Servillo, Filippo Scotti, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri.
Also in trailers – “I’m Lucille Ball…” Full trailer drops for ‘Being the Ricardos’
The feature will be released in select cinemas in December and on...
From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino comes the story of a boy, Fabietto Schisa, set in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s.
The Hand of God is a story full of unexpected joys, such as the arrival of football legend Diego Maradona, and an equally unexpected tragedy. Fate plays its part, joy and tragedy intertwine, and Fabietto’s future is set in motion. Sorrentino returns to his hometown to tell his most personal story, a tale of fate and family, sports and cinema, love and loss.
Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, the film stars Toni Servillo, Filippo Scotti, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri.
Also in trailers – “I’m Lucille Ball…” Full trailer drops for ‘Being the Ricardos’
The feature will be released in select cinemas in December and on...
- 11/12/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I don't like reality anymore. Reality is lousy." Netflix has debuted the full official trailer for The Hand of God, the latest film made by acclaimed Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino. This premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize Silver Lion and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor. Sorrentino is telling his own story of growing up in Naples, as his desire to be a filmmaker grows. He shot this in Naples last year and it looks absolutely magical, showing the true power of cinema. The story of a boy in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s. Sorrentino's most personal film yet is a tale of fate and family, sports and cinema, love and loss. Starring Filippo Scotti, with Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, and Massimiliano Gallo. While I didn't end up loving this film ...
- 11/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Italy has submitted Paolo Sorrentino’s Venice Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand Of God to represent the country for the Oscars’ International Feature Film category. The selection marks a natural continuation on the lauded title’s trajectory. After debuting on the Lido, it went on to play at the Telluride and London Film Festivals, among others. The Netflix drama will release on the streaming service on December 15.
Sorrentino previously won the Oscar in this category with 2013’s The Great Beauty. This is the second time he will represent Italy which has taken the top prize 11 times (and also received three honorary awards from 1947-1950).
Sorrentino’s most personal work to date, The Hand Of God is the semi-autobiographical story of the filmmaker’s own youth and the tragedy of losing his parents as a teenager. Set in 1980s Naples, the film centers on Fabietto Schisa (newcomer Filippo Scotti who...
Sorrentino previously won the Oscar in this category with 2013’s The Great Beauty. This is the second time he will represent Italy which has taken the top prize 11 times (and also received three honorary awards from 1947-1950).
Sorrentino’s most personal work to date, The Hand Of God is the semi-autobiographical story of the filmmaker’s own youth and the tragedy of losing his parents as a teenager. Set in 1980s Naples, the film centers on Fabietto Schisa (newcomer Filippo Scotti who...
- 10/26/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Sorrentino was a winner in the category with ’The Great Beauty’ in 2014.
Italy has selected The Hand Of God, from Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2022 Academy Awards.
It was chosen by an 11-member committee representing directors, journalists, critics, distributors, festivals, government officials and market specialists, including Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera and former Mia Market head Lucia Milazzotto.
18 films were submitted to the committee by individual production companies. These included Jonas Carpignano’s Quinzaine title A Chiara, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Ennio Morricone documentary Ennio, and Nanni Moretti’s Cannes competition drama Three Floors.
Italy has selected The Hand Of God, from Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2022 Academy Awards.
It was chosen by an 11-member committee representing directors, journalists, critics, distributors, festivals, government officials and market specialists, including Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera and former Mia Market head Lucia Milazzotto.
18 films were submitted to the committee by individual production companies. These included Jonas Carpignano’s Quinzaine title A Chiara, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Ennio Morricone documentary Ennio, and Nanni Moretti’s Cannes competition drama Three Floors.
- 10/26/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Italy has picked Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical drama The Hand of God to represent the country at the 2022 Oscars in the best international film category.
Produced by Fremantle’s Italian subsidiary The Apartment for Netflix, Sorrentino’s film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the runner-up grand jury prize and lead Filippo Scotti took the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor. Newcomer Scotti plays Fabietto, a young man loosely based on Sorrentino, growing up in Naples in the late 1980s and dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. The film’s title refers to a notorious goal by Diego Maradona, the legendary soccer ...
Produced by Fremantle’s Italian subsidiary The Apartment for Netflix, Sorrentino’s film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the runner-up grand jury prize and lead Filippo Scotti took the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor. Newcomer Scotti plays Fabietto, a young man loosely based on Sorrentino, growing up in Naples in the late 1980s and dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. The film’s title refers to a notorious goal by Diego Maradona, the legendary soccer ...
- 10/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italy has picked Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical drama The Hand of God to represent the country at the 2022 Oscars in the best international film category.
Produced by Fremantle’s Italian subsidiary The Apartment for Netflix, Sorrentino’s film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the runner-up grand jury prize and lead Filippo Scotti took the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor. Newcomer Scotti plays Fabietto, a young man loosely based on Sorrentino, growing up in Naples in the late 1980s and dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. The film’s title refers to a notorious goal by Diego Maradona, the legendary soccer ...
Produced by Fremantle’s Italian subsidiary The Apartment for Netflix, Sorrentino’s film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the runner-up grand jury prize and lead Filippo Scotti took the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor. Newcomer Scotti plays Fabietto, a young man loosely based on Sorrentino, growing up in Naples in the late 1980s and dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. The film’s title refers to a notorious goal by Diego Maradona, the legendary soccer ...
- 10/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Deadline’s movie awards-season showcase The Contenders returned in-person this past weekend with Contenders Film: London, an all-day event that put 19 of the year’s buzziest movies from nine studios in the spotlight. A total of 44 panelists from George Clooney and Jennifer Hudson to Denis Villenueve, Dakota Johnson and Jonathan Majors participated.
Click here to go to the Contenders London streaming site.
Altitude, Amazon Studios, Apple Original Films, Focus Features, MGM, Neon, Netflix, Universal and Warner Bros/Legendary were the studios who took part in the hybrid event at the Ham Yard Hotel, bringing with them stars and creatives from films including Clooney and Grant Heslov for The Tender Bar, Hudson for Respect, Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson for Dune, and Johnson and Jessie Buckley for The Lost Daughter.
Other attendees included Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed and writer-director Michael Pearce; A Hero‘s Ashgar Farhadi; Coda...
Click here to go to the Contenders London streaming site.
Altitude, Amazon Studios, Apple Original Films, Focus Features, MGM, Neon, Netflix, Universal and Warner Bros/Legendary were the studios who took part in the hybrid event at the Ham Yard Hotel, bringing with them stars and creatives from films including Clooney and Grant Heslov for The Tender Bar, Hudson for Respect, Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson for Dune, and Johnson and Jessie Buckley for The Lost Daughter.
Other attendees included Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed and writer-director Michael Pearce; A Hero‘s Ashgar Farhadi; Coda...
- 10/12/2021
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Multi-award winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has been speaking openly about his most intimate film to date, “The Hand of God,” at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, where his upcoming Netflix film received its French premiere.
Speaking at a masterclass at the century-old Comédie Odéon theater, Sorrentino confided: “I am first and foremost an observer. It’s what I like doing. But at some point you have to move on from observation to narration. I start telling a story when reality becomes too chaotic. For me, telling a story is putting things in order. That’s the meaning of cinema: putting order into the disorder of reality.”
Questioned on his taste for order and symmetry in his filmmaking, he went on: “I am afraid of chaos and reality. That’s why it took me 20 years to make this film: Naples may be a very cinematic city, but it’s too chaotic.
Speaking at a masterclass at the century-old Comédie Odéon theater, Sorrentino confided: “I am first and foremost an observer. It’s what I like doing. But at some point you have to move on from observation to narration. I start telling a story when reality becomes too chaotic. For me, telling a story is putting things in order. That’s the meaning of cinema: putting order into the disorder of reality.”
Questioned on his taste for order and symmetry in his filmmaking, he went on: “I am afraid of chaos and reality. That’s why it took me 20 years to make this film: Naples may be a very cinematic city, but it’s too chaotic.
- 10/12/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
With Venice Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand Of God, Paolo Sorrentino wanted to make a change. “For 20 years, I did a precise kind of movie and I was a little bit tired about that… When I turned 50, I thought it was the right moment to change everything, to change the producer, the crew, the tone, the style. Even the cinema can run the risk to be a routine,” he told Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event today.
The Great Beauty Oscar laureate ultimately turned back to his own youth and the tragedy of losing his parents as a teenager for The Hand Of God, which is his most personal work to date. Sorrentino said, “I had this story I was scared to do because it’s very personal, but because it’s a painful story — even if there is a part of comedy — I thought it was a good...
The Great Beauty Oscar laureate ultimately turned back to his own youth and the tragedy of losing his parents as a teenager for The Hand Of God, which is his most personal work to date. Sorrentino said, “I had this story I was scared to do because it’s very personal, but because it’s a painful story — even if there is a part of comedy — I thought it was a good...
- 10/9/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
After a pandemic-hobbled 2020 awards season that was fittingly capped off by a numbingly dull Oscarcast, it really is wonderful to be back with an in-person Contenders Film: London event that for many of us portends a much-hoped-for return to normalcy. This year’s event, featuring 44 panelists repping 19 movies from nine studios and streamers, gets underway today at 8 a.m. London time for our in-person event at the Ham Yard Hotel.
For those who cannot attend, the Contenders London livestream starts at 9:35 a.m. local time (1:35 a.m. Pt).
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
A look at the films participating in this year’s event gives a sense of escalating creative ambitions as audiences slowly return to theaters, even as windows continue to shrink and more of us consume quality content from home.
This year, we’ve got almost all of the films that electrified the Telluride,...
For those who cannot attend, the Contenders London livestream starts at 9:35 a.m. local time (1:35 a.m. Pt).
Click here to register and watch the livestream.
A look at the films participating in this year’s event gives a sense of escalating creative ambitions as audiences slowly return to theaters, even as windows continue to shrink and more of us consume quality content from home.
This year, we’ve got almost all of the films that electrified the Telluride,...
- 10/9/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline Contenders Film: London, our annual awards-season kickoff that is gearing up for its hybrid in-person/virtual edition this weekend, has finalized its lineup of panelists for this year’s showcase, which will put the spotlight on 19 of the year’s buzziest films and their filmmakers, actors and below-the-line talent for BAFTA, AMPAS and guild voters.
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
The list of participants for the all-day event Saturday, October 9 at the Ham Yard Hotel, which kicks off at 8 a.m. London time (a virtual edition begins at 9:30 a.m.), features a who’s who of actors and creators behind this year’s top films from nine participating studios and streamers.
Among the 44 confirmed attendees will be The Tender Bar‘s George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Respect‘s Jennifer Hudson; Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve and star Rebecca Ferguson; Palme d’Or winner Titane‘s Julia Ducournau; Encounter‘s Riz Ahmed; A Hero‘s...
- 10/5/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Paolo Sorrentino, fresh off his Grand Jury Prize win in Venice for “The Hand of God,” in which he decided to tell his own story, picked up another statuette at Zurich Film Festival.
“It comes as a bit of a surprise as I am such a young Italian director,” joked the 51-year-old. “I am honored to receive this award for the first part of my career. I hope I will receive another one in about 20 years.”
During his masterclass, conducted in Italian, “The Great Beauty” helmer opened up about latest film, which saw him return to his hometown of Naples. A Netflix production, it delves into his family, the tragedy that ripped it apart but also soccer legend Diego Maradona, unveiled as a Napoli player in 1984.
“For me, and for many people from Naples, he represented a moment of joy, of sudden freedom after years of difficult times. His arrival had given us hope,...
“It comes as a bit of a surprise as I am such a young Italian director,” joked the 51-year-old. “I am honored to receive this award for the first part of my career. I hope I will receive another one in about 20 years.”
During his masterclass, conducted in Italian, “The Great Beauty” helmer opened up about latest film, which saw him return to his hometown of Naples. A Netflix production, it delves into his family, the tragedy that ripped it apart but also soccer legend Diego Maradona, unveiled as a Napoli player in 1984.
“For me, and for many people from Naples, he represented a moment of joy, of sudden freedom after years of difficult times. His arrival had given us hope,...
- 10/1/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
HappeningIn Competition(Jury: Bong Joon-ho, Saverio Costanzo, Virginie Efira, Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Gadon, Alexander Nanau, Chloé Zhao)Golden Lion – Happening (Audrey Diwan) | Read our reviewSilver Lion (Grand Jury Prize) – The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino) | Read our reviewSilver Lion (Best Director) – Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) | Read our reviewCoppa Volpi for Best Actress – Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) | Read our reviewCoppa Volpi for Best Actor – John Arcilla (On The Job: The Missing 8)Best Screenplay – Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)Special Jury Prize – The Hole (Michelangelo Frammartino) | Read our reviewMarcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Filippo Scotti (The Hand of God)Orizzonti(Jury: Jasmila Žbanić, Mona Fastvold, Shahram Mokri, Josh Siegel, Nadia Terranova)Orizzonti Award for Best Film – Pilgrims (Laurynas Bareisa)Orizzonti Award for Best Director – Éric Gravel (A Plein Temps)Special Orizzonti Jury Prize – El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo) | Read our reviewOrizzonti Award for Best Actress...
- 9/13/2021
- MUBI
Jane Campion has won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for The Power of the Dog.
The auteur’s first feature in 12 years, based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, premiered at the festival to a four-minute standing ovation.
An Australian-New Zealand co-production, it has been hailed by critics, and is already generating Oscar buzz.
Set in the 1920s, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons play brothers Phil and George Burbank, who own the biggest ranch in the Montana valley.
When George secretly marries local widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst), a shocked and angry Phil wages a relentless war to destroy her, using her effeminate son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as a pawn.
Campion is the only the second woman to have ever won Venice’s director prize since it was introduced in 1990 and given annually since 1998; the first being Shirin Neshat in 2009 for Women Without Men.
The auteur’s first feature in 12 years, based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, premiered at the festival to a four-minute standing ovation.
An Australian-New Zealand co-production, it has been hailed by critics, and is already generating Oscar buzz.
Set in the 1920s, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons play brothers Phil and George Burbank, who own the biggest ranch in the Montana valley.
When George secretly marries local widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst), a shocked and angry Phil wages a relentless war to destroy her, using her effeminate son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as a pawn.
Campion is the only the second woman to have ever won Venice’s director prize since it was introduced in 1990 and given annually since 1998; the first being Shirin Neshat in 2009 for Women Without Men.
- 9/12/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Updated with full winners list: French-Lebanese filmmaker Audrey Diwan has become the sixth female director to win the Venice Film Festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, with her 1963-set abortion drama L’Evénement (Happening). She’s also the second in a row after Chloé Zhao took last year’s Lion with Nomadland.
An emotional Diwan said Saturday: “I did this movie with anger. I did it with desire, also my heart and my head. I wanted Happening to be an experience, a journey in the skin of this young woman.”
In the film, Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she becomes pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain,...
An emotional Diwan said Saturday: “I did this movie with anger. I did it with desire, also my heart and my head. I wanted Happening to be an experience, a journey in the skin of this young woman.”
In the film, Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she becomes pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain,...
- 9/11/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Female filmmakers ruled the 2021 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, as a trio of women took home the top honors awarded by this year’s jury.
“L’Evénement,” a timely French abortion drama from director Audrey Diwan, won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, making Diwan the first woman to receive the award since Sofia Coppola for 2010’s “Somewhere.”
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to “The Power of the Dog” filmmaker Jane Campion, who is now just the second woman to win Best Director from the Venice Film Festival and first since 2009. Even at this early point in the season, Campion is widely considered an Oscars favorite in the Best Director category (and her film is the top choice for Best Picture); she’s one of only seven women to ever receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and previously won an Oscar for screenwriting for 1993’s “The Piano.
“L’Evénement,” a timely French abortion drama from director Audrey Diwan, won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, making Diwan the first woman to receive the award since Sofia Coppola for 2010’s “Somewhere.”
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to “The Power of the Dog” filmmaker Jane Campion, who is now just the second woman to win Best Director from the Venice Film Festival and first since 2009. Even at this early point in the season, Campion is widely considered an Oscars favorite in the Best Director category (and her film is the top choice for Best Picture); she’s one of only seven women to ever receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and previously won an Oscar for screenwriting for 1993’s “The Piano.
- 9/11/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The Venice Film Festival unveiled its award winners on Saturday night, and Jane Campion, Penélope Cruz and Maggie Gyllenhaal are among the award winners for the top prizes.
“Happening,” a French abortion drama from director Audrey Diwan, won the Golden Lion, and Paolo Sorrentino’s film “The Hand of God” won the second place prize, or the Silver Lion.
In the acting categories, Penélope Cruz won Best Actress for Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers,” and John Arcilla won Best Actor for “On the Job: The Missing 8.” Jane Campion won the Silver Lion for Best Director for her film “The Power of the Dog.”
Among some of the other winners, Maggie Gyllenhaal won Best Screenplay for her adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel “The Lost Daughter.” Gyllenhaal praised Campion and spoke about how watching “The Piano” inspired her as a storyteller. “The Hand of God” star Filippo Scotti also won the...
“Happening,” a French abortion drama from director Audrey Diwan, won the Golden Lion, and Paolo Sorrentino’s film “The Hand of God” won the second place prize, or the Silver Lion.
In the acting categories, Penélope Cruz won Best Actress for Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers,” and John Arcilla won Best Actor for “On the Job: The Missing 8.” Jane Campion won the Silver Lion for Best Director for her film “The Power of the Dog.”
Among some of the other winners, Maggie Gyllenhaal won Best Screenplay for her adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel “The Lost Daughter.” Gyllenhaal praised Campion and spoke about how watching “The Piano” inspired her as a storyteller. “The Hand of God” star Filippo Scotti also won the...
- 9/11/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
On a strong night for female filmmakers and Netflix releases, the Venice Film Festival has come to a close with a curveball, as breakout French director Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama “Happening” beat big-name competition to the Golden Lion for best film. Diwan received the award from a jury presided over by Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.
Also on the jury, significantly, was last year’s Golden Lion champ, “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao. Diwan is only the sixth woman ever to take the festival’s top award; never before has the prize gone to female directors two years in a row. Coming on the heels of her compatriot Julia Ducournau’s groundbreaking Palme d’Or win at Cannes for “Titane,” Diwan’s triumph further points to an exciting new generation of female auteurs seizing the spotlight.
Among the films Diwan’s film beat to the punch were Netflix’s three big hopefuls from the competition,...
Also on the jury, significantly, was last year’s Golden Lion champ, “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao. Diwan is only the sixth woman ever to take the festival’s top award; never before has the prize gone to female directors two years in a row. Coming on the heels of her compatriot Julia Ducournau’s groundbreaking Palme d’Or win at Cannes for “Titane,” Diwan’s triumph further points to an exciting new generation of female auteurs seizing the spotlight.
Among the films Diwan’s film beat to the punch were Netflix’s three big hopefuls from the competition,...
- 9/11/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.