Cannes Ends with…Awards — 3rd of 3
The heightened security with machine gun armed soldiers and policemen constantly patrolling was intensified after the Manchester Massacre. With a pall over the festival, one minute of silence was observed for the 22 murdered and flags hung at half-mast. In addition to that, the sudden death at 57 of the Busan Film Festival deputy director Kim Ji-seok and that of the James Bond star Roger Moore brought the film world into a new perspective as we join the larger world to face the random indications of human mortality. High security vs. cinema as a sanctuary of freedom is highlighted this year like no other time that I can recall in my 31 years here.President of the jury, Pedro Almodovar
But life does go on, the jury judges, the stars get press attention on the red carpet and the rest of us continue to wait patiently in...
The heightened security with machine gun armed soldiers and policemen constantly patrolling was intensified after the Manchester Massacre. With a pall over the festival, one minute of silence was observed for the 22 murdered and flags hung at half-mast. In addition to that, the sudden death at 57 of the Busan Film Festival deputy director Kim Ji-seok and that of the James Bond star Roger Moore brought the film world into a new perspective as we join the larger world to face the random indications of human mortality. High security vs. cinema as a sanctuary of freedom is highlighted this year like no other time that I can recall in my 31 years here.President of the jury, Pedro Almodovar
But life does go on, the jury judges, the stars get press attention on the red carpet and the rest of us continue to wait patiently in...
- 5/29/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
John Wick is back. He didn’t want to be back. But, he is.
John Wick: Chapter 2 is the sequel to the surprise movie hit in 2014’s John Wick.
Keanu Reeves reprises his role as the vengeful and determined assassin hellbent to punish who did wrong to him.
However, in the sequel, the assassins’ world significantly expanded with more lore, kung-fu, gun-fu and even car-fu.
Here’s the official synopsis:
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
Ian McShane, Lance Riddick, John Leguizamo, Bridget Moynahan and Thomas Sadoski also returned to this sequel. The cast also expanded with Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, Common, Laurence Fishburne and Claudia Gerini.
Lrm had an...
John Wick: Chapter 2 is the sequel to the surprise movie hit in 2014’s John Wick.
Keanu Reeves reprises his role as the vengeful and determined assassin hellbent to punish who did wrong to him.
However, in the sequel, the assassins’ world significantly expanded with more lore, kung-fu, gun-fu and even car-fu.
Here’s the official synopsis:
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
Ian McShane, Lance Riddick, John Leguizamo, Bridget Moynahan and Thomas Sadoski also returned to this sequel. The cast also expanded with Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, Common, Laurence Fishburne and Claudia Gerini.
Lrm had an...
- 2/9/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Italian outfit Napoli will hold out for the full £54 million stipulated by Edinson Cavani’s release clause after rejecting yet another offer from Chelsea, according to the Independent.
It is understood the Premier League club have had a second bid worth £42.8 million plus Fernando Torres rejected, sources close to Napoli said last night, though that remains unconfirmed.
Last month, the Blues saw their opening bid of £40 million plus Thibaut Courtois knocked back by the Italians, and have, as expected at the time, made an improved offer for the Uruguayan striker.
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis is only interested in a straight cash offer with the club rejecting two player-plus-cash offers now, while the inclusion of Torres in the latest proposal put forward by Chelsea would appear to confirm the uncertainty surrounding the Spaniard’s future at Stamford Bridge.
Torres collected the Golden Boot Award at this summer’s Confederations Cup...
It is understood the Premier League club have had a second bid worth £42.8 million plus Fernando Torres rejected, sources close to Napoli said last night, though that remains unconfirmed.
Last month, the Blues saw their opening bid of £40 million plus Thibaut Courtois knocked back by the Italians, and have, as expected at the time, made an improved offer for the Uruguayan striker.
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis is only interested in a straight cash offer with the club rejecting two player-plus-cash offers now, while the inclusion of Torres in the latest proposal put forward by Chelsea would appear to confirm the uncertainty surrounding the Spaniard’s future at Stamford Bridge.
Torres collected the Golden Boot Award at this summer’s Confederations Cup...
- 7/2/2013
- by Joseph Dempsey
- Obsessed with Film
Roberto Benigni, To Rome with Love According to English-language reports, Italian critics have given a mixed reception to Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (formerly known as Nero Fiddled and Bop Decameron, and currently known as A Roma con amore in Rome itself). They've reportedly complained that writer-director Allen presents a view of Rome and Italians that is both idealized and stereotyped. At the To Rome with Love press conference held earlier today, Allen provided quite a bit of idealization ("Rome is a city unlike any other in the world…"), while one of the film's stars, Roberto Benigni, provided a defense of the filmmaker's portrayals. As an example of how real-life Italians are just like Italians in American movies, Benigni claimed that during the shoot, an ambulance whizzing by came to an abrupt halt. Its occupants got out, asked to pose for pictures with Benigni, and then rushed out...
- 4/14/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hollywood Before the Code: Nasty-Ass Films for a Nasty-Ass World! runs from today through Thursday at the Roxie in San Francisco and Dennis Harvey has a fun preview in the Bay Guardian. A snippet: "March 4 offers a shocking double dose of pure white femininity finding themselves in, ahem, 'Yellow Peril' — miscegenation being something Hollywood could only begin to embrace a few decades later. Frank Capra's atypically erotic The Bitter Tea of General Yen, with Barbara Stanwyck alllllmost surrendering the white flag to a 'charismatic Chinese warlord' (Swede Nils Asther, eyes narrowed), has become a minor classic since flopping in 1933. No such luck for The Cheat (1931), a remake of Cecil B DeMille's 1915 shocker that was part of Paramount's brief, failed attempt to make stage sensation Tallulah Bankhead a movie star. Her gambling-addicted socialite gets branded (literally) in lieu of repayment not by the original's Far East businessman (dashing Sessue Hayakawa...
- 3/2/2012
- MUBI
Rome — Lucio Dalla, an Italian singer-songwriter who sold millions of records worldwide, died Thursday in Switzerland during a European concert tour, his management company said.
Dalla, 68, apparently died of a heart attack in a Montreux hotel after eating breakfast, according to Ph.D srl Music Management, which is based in his native city of Bologna, Italy.
Dallas, whose musical genres ranged from folk to jazz to classical, gave a concert Wednesday in the Swiss city known for its music and "was in fine form," said Pascal Pellegrino, the director of Montreux's "culture season." Pellegrino said the performance was warmly applauded and Dalla stayed on to chat with fans.
Dalla's haunting melody "Caruso" sold 9 million copies worldwide and was sung by the late opera great Luciano Pavarotti with Dalla at a 1992 concert in Modena.
Dalla toured abroad frequently, including in the United States, sometimes with another famed Italian folksong writer, Francesco De Gregori.
Dalla, 68, apparently died of a heart attack in a Montreux hotel after eating breakfast, according to Ph.D srl Music Management, which is based in his native city of Bologna, Italy.
Dallas, whose musical genres ranged from folk to jazz to classical, gave a concert Wednesday in the Swiss city known for its music and "was in fine form," said Pascal Pellegrino, the director of Montreux's "culture season." Pellegrino said the performance was warmly applauded and Dalla stayed on to chat with fans.
Dalla's haunting melody "Caruso" sold 9 million copies worldwide and was sung by the late opera great Luciano Pavarotti with Dalla at a 1992 concert in Modena.
Dalla toured abroad frequently, including in the United States, sometimes with another famed Italian folksong writer, Francesco De Gregori.
- 3/1/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
#53. Nero Fiddled Director/Writer: Woody AllenProducers: Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum, Giampaulo Letta and Faruk AlatanDistributor: Sony Pictures Classics The Gist: Loosely inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a collection of 100 bawdy novellas written in the 14th century, the film is expected to feature four vignettes, two stories involving Italian characters in Italian and two in English involving American characters in Rome...(more) Cast: Ellen Page, Woody Allen, Jesse Eisenberg, Alison Pill, Penélope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Ornella Muti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Carol Alt, Isabella Ferrari, Maricel Álvarez, Flavio Parenti List Worthy Reasons...: We never get tired of Woody and Woody never gets tired of making movies. These extended euro-vacation has definitely given us plenty to cheer about with Vicky Cristina Barcelona being his best so far we can hope that a bit of Penelope Cruz and a bit of everyone else (international cast plus...
- 1/6/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
[1] Al Pacino is in talks to star in Imagine, playing an aging rocker who "decides to change his life after discovering a letter written to him by John Lennon." The note inspires him to reach out to his biological son, whom he's never met. Imagine will be the directorial debut of Dan Fogelman, the screenwriter behind Tangled and the upcoming Crazy Stupid Love. Fogelman has written the script for Imagine as well. At one point, Steve Carrell was attached to play the son. He's since dropped out of the role, though he remains involved as a producer. Which means we get to talk about who might be a good fit to fill the part -- who do you think could play Pacino's son? [Variety [2]] After the jump, Olivia Munn shacks up with Paul Schneider and a trio of Italians join Woody Allen's Italian movie. Whether or not you think Olivia Munn is funny,...
- 6/7/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
The Double Hour is a well-crafted thriller from Italy, holding our attention, while often keeping us guessing as we get plunged into the cold. The exhilarating second act of the film is the equivalent of waking up in a bathtub full of ice with your kidney missing. To say that nothing is what it seems assumes you are looking for the truth. The Double Hour is as temporarily deceptive as its title implies.
Sonia (Kseniya Rappoport) is a Slovenian immigrant who works as a chambermaid at the type of hotel Dominique Strauss-Kahn would stay at. After witnessing a suicide, she takes to the speed-dating scene (this is precisely what I mean about the rapid transitions that plunge us in cold). While at an event she meets Guido (Filippo Timi), a former police officer who is a star in the speed-dating scene. In ritual he takes women home and refuses to give them his number.
Sonia (Kseniya Rappoport) is a Slovenian immigrant who works as a chambermaid at the type of hotel Dominique Strauss-Kahn would stay at. After witnessing a suicide, she takes to the speed-dating scene (this is precisely what I mean about the rapid transitions that plunge us in cold). While at an event she meets Guido (Filippo Timi), a former police officer who is a star in the speed-dating scene. In ritual he takes women home and refuses to give them his number.
- 5/29/2011
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
This is the Pure Movies trailer for Loose Cannons, directed by Ferzan Ozpetek and starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini, Lunetta Savino, Ilaria Occhini, Elena Sofia Ricci, Bianca Nappi, Massimiliano Gallo, Paola Minaccioni and Crescenza Guarnieri. Celebrated award-winning director Ferzan Özpetek’s outrageous family comedy lifts the lid on a multi-generational household coming to terms with a rapidly modernising world, and the broadening social acceptance that comes with it. No other nationality respects their food and family gatherings with the fervour and zest of the Italians, but when it comes to the Cantone family, some things are better left well away from the dinner table and in the closet!
- 10/16/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
Say what you want about the Italians - what they do, they do in style. The sheer orgy of beautiful people, succulent food, luxurious clothing and romantic vistas that populates Loose Cannons (Mine vaganti), the latest from Italian-Turk Ferzan Ozpetek is enough to make anyone want to hop on a plane to Rome. Or, more appropriately, Lecce, the southern Italian town where Loose Cannons takes place. An emotionally wrought family drama of the first degree, Loose Cannons revolves around a pasta-magnate family dealing with two gay sons - one out of the closet (Alessandro Preziosi) and banished, the other still closeted (Riccardo Scamarcio) and taking over the family business. Once his older brother is kicked out, the younger gay brother, Tommaso, must confront his own sexuality and determine what course of action to take with his family. He especially fears for his father, who had a heart attack after learning...
- 4/27/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Rome -- The percentage of the Italian film market controlled by local productions is on pace to contract in 2009, reversing a six-year trend that has seen home-grown films' share of the total boxoffice steadily grow. But the boxoffice as a whole held steady compared to last year.
According to information released by cinema monitoring company Cinetel on Wednesday, Italian films accounted for 28.2% of the total boxoffice over the first four months of the year, sharply lower than 34.2% of the market over the January-to-April period in 2008. The first part of the year is traditionally a strong one for Italian films, which captured 27.7% of the Italian boxoffice for 2008 as a whole.
There were just three Italian films in the top 10 so far this year, compared to five of the top 10 after the first four months of last year. The year's top grossing film --- Giovanni Veronesi's comedy "Italians" -- is a local film,...
According to information released by cinema monitoring company Cinetel on Wednesday, Italian films accounted for 28.2% of the total boxoffice over the first four months of the year, sharply lower than 34.2% of the market over the January-to-April period in 2008. The first part of the year is traditionally a strong one for Italian films, which captured 27.7% of the Italian boxoffice for 2008 as a whole.
There were just three Italian films in the top 10 so far this year, compared to five of the top 10 after the first four months of last year. The year's top grossing film --- Giovanni Veronesi's comedy "Italians" -- is a local film,...
- 5/13/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- The Italians apparently do it better. Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo grabbed 5 nominations each with Toni Servillo getting nominated as best actor (see above) for his parts in both films. Two films that I thought were worthy contenders in several categories in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys and Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain were shut out while Steve McQueen’s Hunger got two noms but failed to grab a Best Film nom. Last year’s The Orphanage and Waltz With Bashir both receive four nominations. This year’s Palme d'Or winner walked away with noms for best film and best director. Other well represented films include Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, Joe Wright's Atonement, Andreas Dresen's Cloud 9 and Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree. Winners will be announced on December 6th in Copenhagen. Here are the categories.: European
- 11/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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