’The Night Porter’ director and ’In The Mood For Love’ actor to receive awards at this year’s festival.
The Venice Film Festival will present Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement to Liliana Cavani, the Italian director of The Night Porter and Ripley’s Game; and to Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, whose credits include In The Mood For Love and Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Cavani’s Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy won the Lion of San Marco for best documentary at Venice in 1965. Her films Francis of Assisi (1966), Galileo (1968), The Year of the Cannibals,...
The Venice Film Festival will present Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement to Liliana Cavani, the Italian director of The Night Porter and Ripley’s Game; and to Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, whose credits include In The Mood For Love and Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Cavani’s Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy won the Lion of San Marco for best documentary at Venice in 1965. Her films Francis of Assisi (1966), Galileo (1968), The Year of the Cannibals,...
- 3/27/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Liliana Cavani, one of the key directors of the New Italian Cinema movement and recognized internationally for The Night Porter, and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the acclaimed Hong Kong actor known for his numerous collaborations with Wong Kar-wai, are set to receive Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
“I am very happy and grateful to the Biennale di Venezia for this wonderful surprise”, said Cavani, who first made a name for herself in Venice in 1965 with with Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy, followed by Francis of Assisi (1966), Galileo (1968), I cannibali (The Year of the Cannibals, 1970), Il gioco di Ripley (Ripley’s Game, 2002) and Clarisse (2012).
“I am overwhelmed and honoured with the news from the Biennale di Venezia. I hope to celebrate this award with all the filmmakers I have worked with. This award is a tribute to all of them as well,” said Leung Chiu-wai, who...
“I am very happy and grateful to the Biennale di Venezia for this wonderful surprise”, said Cavani, who first made a name for herself in Venice in 1965 with with Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy, followed by Francis of Assisi (1966), Galileo (1968), I cannibali (The Year of the Cannibals, 1970), Il gioco di Ripley (Ripley’s Game, 2002) and Clarisse (2012).
“I am overwhelmed and honoured with the news from the Biennale di Venezia. I hope to celebrate this award with all the filmmakers I have worked with. This award is a tribute to all of them as well,” said Leung Chiu-wai, who...
- 3/27/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – In one of the most amazing stories in film history, rising movie star Dolores Hart (“King Creole,” “Where the Boys Are”) decided at the apex of her career at age 24, to give up Hollywood and become a nun. She just released her book “The Ear of the Heart: An Actresses’ Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows.”
Mother Dolores Hart was born Dolores Hicks, and spent most of her developmental years in Chicago, but was not raised Catholic. She went to the local Catholic School for neighborhood convenience, and converted to the faith when she was ten years old. She was raised with the help of her grandparents, and her grandfather was the projectionist at the Drake Theater in Chicago, which spurred her interest in becoming an actor.
Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B., at Her Consecration in 1970
Photo credit: Valerie Imbleau for Ignatius Press
Her family moved to Beverly Hills,...
Mother Dolores Hart was born Dolores Hicks, and spent most of her developmental years in Chicago, but was not raised Catholic. She went to the local Catholic School for neighborhood convenience, and converted to the faith when she was ten years old. She was raised with the help of her grandparents, and her grandfather was the projectionist at the Drake Theater in Chicago, which spurred her interest in becoming an actor.
Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B., at Her Consecration in 1970
Photo credit: Valerie Imbleau for Ignatius Press
Her family moved to Beverly Hills,...
- 5/27/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hannibal Season 2, Episode 8 “Su-zakana”
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Written by Scott Nimerfro
Airs Thursdays at 10pm Et on NBC
Hannibal’s “Su-zakana” is pretty much a palate cleanser; an episode representing a new start in the relationship between Dr. Lecter and Will Graham. Now halfway through season two, the series seems to be entering a new phase in which Will slowly lures Hannibal by using himself as live bait. Hannibal has never been subtle, and if you didn’t already guess based on the episode’s title alone (which refers to a palate-cleansing-Japanese-dish), this week is all about the concept of rebirth.
Vincent Natali (Splice) directs his first episode of Hannibal, and the results are stunning. The level of macabre imagery was amped up several fold this week with elaborately staged crime scenes that will have viewers sinking down in their seats. If the starling trapped inside a woman sewn...
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Written by Scott Nimerfro
Airs Thursdays at 10pm Et on NBC
Hannibal’s “Su-zakana” is pretty much a palate cleanser; an episode representing a new start in the relationship between Dr. Lecter and Will Graham. Now halfway through season two, the series seems to be entering a new phase in which Will slowly lures Hannibal by using himself as live bait. Hannibal has never been subtle, and if you didn’t already guess based on the episode’s title alone (which refers to a palate-cleansing-Japanese-dish), this week is all about the concept of rebirth.
Vincent Natali (Splice) directs his first episode of Hannibal, and the results are stunning. The level of macabre imagery was amped up several fold this week with elaborately staged crime scenes that will have viewers sinking down in their seats. If the starling trapped inside a woman sewn...
- 4/21/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The pope depicts art as an enterprise as important as prayer. Does he see the church – or himself – reflected in his top picks?
The wide-ranging and audacious interview given by Pope Francis to 16 Jesuit journals worldwide is already making waves for its frank talk about social issues and its argument that the church should be a "home for all". But Francis's big interview has another important component: it features extensive discussion of culture, as it figures in Francis's own life and as a portal into Christian thought.
The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation? Well, there's no overarching link among the many cultural touchstones – art, music, literature, cinema – that Francis drawn on in the interview. That pluralism is in itself a statement,...
The wide-ranging and audacious interview given by Pope Francis to 16 Jesuit journals worldwide is already making waves for its frank talk about social issues and its argument that the church should be a "home for all". But Francis's big interview has another important component: it features extensive discussion of culture, as it figures in Francis's own life and as a portal into Christian thought.
The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation? Well, there's no overarching link among the many cultural touchstones – art, music, literature, cinema – that Francis drawn on in the interview. That pluralism is in itself a statement,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Jason Farago
- The Guardian - Film News
Comedian Russell Brand was kicked out of the 2013 GQ Men of the Year Awards after he made jokes about one of the event's sponsors, Hugo Boss, and the brand's connection to the Nazi party as he accepted the Oracle Award. In light of the event, and his subsequent boot from the rest of the evening, Brand is opening up about his side of the story ... and it's an interesting, highly intelligent, at times hilarious, and most times brutally honest long-read.
"It must have been a while since I've attended a fancy, glitzy event, because as soon as I got to the GQ awards I felt like something was up," Brand says in his essay on The Guardian. "The usual visual grammar was in place -- a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if...
"It must have been a while since I've attended a fancy, glitzy event, because as soon as I got to the GQ awards I felt like something was up," Brand says in his essay on The Guardian. "The usual visual grammar was in place -- a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if...
- 9/14/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Pope Movies (photo: Anthony Quinn in ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’) [See previous post: "Pope Francis Movie in the Works?"] Now, do we need another Pope Movie? Well, actually there haven’t been that many. Most notable among the Pope Movies of decades past are Michael Anderson’s widely lambasted The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), with Anthony Quinn as what one pundit called "Zorba the Pope," and Nanni Moretti’s widely acclaimed comedy-drama We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli as a cardinal who reluctantly is elected chief of the Catholic Church. Here are a few more: Rex Harrison hammed it up as Pope Julius II to Charlton Heston’s equally risible Michelangelo in Carol Reed’s The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); Liv Ullmann played the title role in Michael Anderson’s critically massacred Pope Joan (1972), about the alleged medieval female pope; and Finlay Currie reverentially incarnated the official first pope, St. Peter, in Mervyn LeRoy’s dreary (and...
- 4/29/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Us punk rocker Patti Smith shook hands with Pope Francis at a general audience in St Peter's Square on Wednesday, saying afterwards she found the new pontiff "very interesting" and "liked him a lot".
Wearing a black beanie hat and an oversize brown coat, Smith and the pope appeared to exchange a few words in the square and the pope was seen laughing.
Smith, who is not a Catholic but followed the conclave in the news, said the pope had shown courage in naming himself after St Francis of Assisi.
The singer, who is in Rome for a series of concerts, said the saint represented humility, the renunciation of materialism and a love of nature.
Smith became a leading member of the New York punk rock movement following the release of her debut album "Horses" in 1975.
She is well known also for her social activism, as well as her work...
Wearing a black beanie hat and an oversize brown coat, Smith and the pope appeared to exchange a few words in the square and the pope was seen laughing.
Smith, who is not a Catholic but followed the conclave in the news, said the pope had shown courage in naming himself after St Francis of Assisi.
The singer, who is in Rome for a series of concerts, said the saint represented humility, the renunciation of materialism and a love of nature.
Smith became a leading member of the New York punk rock movement following the release of her debut album "Horses" in 1975.
She is well known also for her social activism, as well as her work...
- 4/10/2013
- by Agence France Presse
- Huffington Post
Ken Loach's film The Spirit of '45 looks at how the postwar Labour government sought to address the relationship between capitalism and poverty – principles that politicians today seem to have forgotten
In Ken Loach's new documentary about the postwar Labour government, The Spirit of '45, a few witnesses to the 1930s recall how hard life was. "Everything was run by rich people for rich people," says a retired Gp. "We slept five to a bed [that was] full of vermin," says an old Liverpool docker. "Bugs, fleas … behind the wallpaper, inside the skirting boards … at school we got the cane for dirty knees." Someone else remembers that they didn't have a carpet on the floor, and another that all they had to eat was bread and jam.
Until they were beaten into silence by mockery or cut short by mortality, memories such as these were once a commonplace in British family life,...
In Ken Loach's new documentary about the postwar Labour government, The Spirit of '45, a few witnesses to the 1930s recall how hard life was. "Everything was run by rich people for rich people," says a retired Gp. "We slept five to a bed [that was] full of vermin," says an old Liverpool docker. "Bugs, fleas … behind the wallpaper, inside the skirting boards … at school we got the cane for dirty knees." Someone else remembers that they didn't have a carpet on the floor, and another that all they had to eat was bread and jam.
Until they were beaten into silence by mockery or cut short by mortality, memories such as these were once a commonplace in British family life,...
- 3/16/2013
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
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